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*Below is the full list of Music Concerts for this year: 2008 Raymond Lennon*	Latest events at the top

MUSIC AT CLONARD Tuesday April 29th - Queens University Orchestral Group Concert at 8.00pm.Tchaikovsky's Symphony Number 4, Rossini's Thieving Magpie Overture andKarl Jenkins' Palladio. All proceeds go to SERVE, a charity which provides opportunities for young people to have missionary experience in different parts of the world, run by the Irish Redemptorists. Admission £3, pay at door. City of Belfast Youth Orchestra Symphonic Brass Youth Chorale St Aidan’s CBS Whistles Clonard Monastery Friday 7 March 2008 at 8.00pm Admission £5 (all children free) ALL WELCOME Attended Parking
PAST EVENTS 2007
Down & Connor Folk Group
Sunday, December 9th - 7.30pm Christmas Carol Service with Clonard Choirs and Guests. Wednesday, December 12th - 7.30pm Concert with University of Ulster Choir Details to be announced. Friday December 14th - 7.30pm Concert of Chamber Music with Michael Trainor, leader of the Ulster Youth Orchestra and friends. Tickets can be obtained at the door .Adults £6, Concession £4 , Under 14’s Free. All proceeds go to N. Ireland Hospice Care. Nov 23rd (Fri) 7:30pm – Capella Ceciliana concert - conducted by Donal McCriskin tickets are on sale at Clonard reception, Matchetts and at the door.
Anniversary Concert Celebrating 25 Years Sunday 18th November 2007 7:30pm Clonard Monastery Admission £10 Concession £5 (Cheques made payable to Down & Connor Folk Group) New DCF CD “Journey” Available at the concert £10 (All proceeds to Clonard Ministries) For further information or to purchase tickets contact: Pauline Dowd DCF Events Manager pauline@dcfmusic.co.uk c /o Youthcom Berry Street Belfast click here to visit web site http://www.dcfmusic.co.uk/
Sun 4th Nov , 8pm Bach's Mass in B Minor is undoubtedly his most spectacular choral work. Its combination of sizzling choruses and solo numbers covering the gamut of Baroque vocal expression render it one of the most joyous musical experiences in the classical tradition. This performance of the Mass in the magnificent surroundings of Clonard Monastery will be given by the Edinburgh-based Dunedin Consort, conducted by John Butt, an established scholar of Bach's music. Dunedin is one of the most vibrant baroque consorts to have joined the European scene in recent years. They will perform with forces similar in size and format to those of Bach's own practice, with two singers to a part, natural trumpets, baroque woodwinds and strings. "Dunedin Consort is in a different league from other choirs or vocal ensembles. The precision of their singing, the perfect blend of sound, the ability to bring out a solo part and merge back into the ensemble [is] second nature to them" - PRESS AND JOURNAL Price: £14.50 - £17.50 Box Office Information Festival Box Office (all events)*: Mon - Fri (9am-5.30pm) Tel: (028) 9097 119 PLEASE NOTE: Owing to the Postal Strike all tickets will not be posted, but rather collected at the performance Venue, on the night until further notice. Bach B Minor Mass Clonard Monastery Sun 4th Nov , 8pm
PAST EVENTS
Oct 12th (Frid) – Ulster Orchestra Concert –Mozart, Bax and Vaughan Williams conducted by Vernon Handley-Conductor Laureate.
Sept 2nd (Sun) - Ulster Youth Choir 7.30
Aug 31st (Fri) –BBC - Recording of the Ulster Orchestra from Clonard for BBC Radio 3 – Mozart, Stravinsky and others conducted by Kenneth Montgomery.
Aug 17th (Frid) –The Ulster Youth Orchestra conducted by Andre de Ridder.NDRE DE RIDD Visit their web site CLICK HERE
Aug 7th (Tues) Feile an Phobail (Peoples’ Festival)- Concert with Internationally acclaimed pianist -Barry Douglas - also St Agnes Choral Society Raymond Lennon with Barry Douglas
Feb 9th – Mary Black and supporting artists in Concert (Tickets £10 from the Feile Office, Falls Road, Culturlann and the Belfast Wecome Centre Donegall Place) ---------------------------------------------------- “AND STILL I RISE” CELEBRATING WOMEN WHO INSPIRE THE WORLD FRID DEC 15TH AT 8PM 2006
Tuesday 11th April 2006, 8p.m. Reflection for Holy Week 2006 in words and music Rosemary and McQuiston Memorial Presbyterian Church Choirs and Fortwilliam Musical Society Tuesday 11th April 2006, 8p.m. Clonard Monastery,Belfast Music by Handel, Mozart, Stainer, Rutter etc Celebrating 25 years of Combined Choral Music for Easter

Friday March 10th at 8.00 pm 2006	Music at Clonard West Befast Festival in conjunction with Clonard Monastery Sean Maguire Memorial Concert Friday March 10th at 8.00 pm Sean was born, reared and died in the shadow of Clonard Spires and throughout his life always held Clonard close to his heart. Contributing to this concert will be many of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians. £8 and £5 concession. Contact the Feile Office 9031 3440.
	Accordionist Joe Burke BORN in Kilnadeema, south of Loughrea in Co Galway in 1939, Joe Burke was introduced to music at an early age. His mother played the box in the old style. He toured England and Scotland regularly with the great Belfast fiddle player Sean Maguire and in the US with Andy McGann When the biography of Joe Burke comes to be written, the source notes will surely refer to the presentation given at Tionól Leo Rowsome by Charlie Lennon and Séamus Mac Mathúna when Joe received Gradam an Chomhaltais 2003 on the 11th September. The essence of the man that Joe Burke is came across very clearly in the numerous stories and anecdotes recounted by Séamus and Charlie. The passion for Traditional music, understanding of people and perhaps most of all his wonderful sense of humour was illustrated again and again by two men who obviously knew their subject very well and held him in high esteem
	At the age of seventeen, the prodigious Gavin was placed first in the All Ireland Uner-18 Fiddle and Flute competitions on the same day. Gavin soon developed a vast repertoire of tunes from the traditional music of the West of Ireland and the 78s US recordings of Michael Coleman and James Morrision. In the early '70s, Gavin began playing in a session with Alex Finn, Mickey Finn, Johnnie McDonagh and Charlie Piggott that eventually transformed into the renowned trad group, De Danann.

October 28th 2005(Friday The Ulster Orchestra - with music by Allen Hovhanness Alan Hovhaness, of Armenian and Scottish descent, was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 8, 1911. He began composing as soon as he could read music, at the age of four - a spontaneous act which seems to have had about it the inevitability of an unquestioned law of nature. Since that time he has been like a river flowing into every form of musical expression. From pieces for various solo instruments and chamber ensembles, including oriental instruments, his art expands nobly through large orchestras and choirs. His output is vast. as indeed are the giant melodies which characterize much of his work. At the time of the second world war, Hovhaness made the courageous decision to destroy almost his entire previous output - more than a thousand works. This oft quoted "legend" is true, his reasons being bound up in his ever expanding awareness of the potential of combining Eastern with Western influences, which cast feelings of strong dissatisfaction on his work prior to that time. A detailed analysis and study of 7th century Armenian religious music, classical music of South India, orchestral music of Tang Dynasty China, Ah-ak of Korea, and Gagaku of Japan, revolutionized Hovhaness's approach to his own composing. Since his "new beginning" he has composed more than 360 works to date, including orchestral pieces, concertos, oratorios, operas, chamber works, songs, and 52 symphonies (see Classified Index). All this is music of direct and exquisitely melodic nature, abounding in fascinating rhythmic invention, some of it using microtones (which, the composer feels, frees music from conventional Western restrictions, thereby allowing greater fluidity), and with a unity that touches on a sphere beyond the realm of mere orchestral sound.

Raymond LENNONMusic Advisor- Clonard

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