Maynooth Music School

20/01/2014

Very sad to hear the passing of Claudio Abbado.

Here he is rehearsing with the Berlin Philharmonic back in 1996.

Full-length video available at http://www.digitalconcerthall.com/concert/74/ The documentary "Claudio Abbado -- The silence that follows the music" from the ...

12/01/2014

This is worth watching!

In this fun, 3-min performance from the World Science Festival, musician Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale to reveal one surprising result of the way our brains are wired.

23/12/2013

An interview with the great András Schiff who turned 60 a few days ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25450716

Pianist Andras Schiff tells the BBC's Tim Franks why he gave his 60th birthday performance in London, and not in his homeland, Hungary

21/12/2013

Oscar Peterson (piano) plays 'Jingle Bells' from his Christmas album.

16/12/2013

Happy birthday Beethoven!

Flashmob Flash Mob - Ode an die Freude ( Ode to Joy ) Beethoven Symphony No.9 classical music

27/11/2013

How many of these composers have you listened to?

Find your score on this list by clicking each item that you have completed. This is a list of important classical composers from the Medieval period through the 20th Century.

23/11/2013

This is pretty funny.

In this clip from the 1950's-60s British comedy group "Beyond the Fringe," Dudley Moore plays a very funny but also very musically well-done parody of a Beet...

22/11/2013

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) was born a hundred years ago today. He's best known today for works like the opera Peter Grimes, the War Requiem and Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, which you can watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vbvhU22uAM

If you'd like to find out more about Britten, you can watch a documentary about him here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NvhhZG4IBA

Kölner Philharmonie - WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln Benjamin Britten: The young people's guide to the orchestra conducted by: Jukka Pekka Saraste (Chefdirigent)

14/11/2013

Today would have been F***y Mendelssohn's birthday. Like her brother Felix, she showed prodigious musical ability as a child but sadly, being a woman in the 19th century, she wasn't encouraged in the same way Felix was. She still managed to compose around 460 pieces of music and here is two of them. (I couldn't decide which to pick.)

Enjoy!

Notturno in G minor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti1eZ2B63Ro

Piano Trio in D minor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMxPMXODpU

(Interesting to note today is also the birthdays of Leopold Mozart, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Aaron Copland!)

F***y Mendelssohn - Hensel Piano: Heather Schmidt

12/11/2013

RIP John Tavener.

(Read about his music here: http://tinyurl.com/o2buwhg)

Revision aid for AS Music Developing Musical Understanding John Tavener The Lamb

07/11/2013

Wow!

Watch another great Yuja Wang concert here: http://www.medici.tv/ #!/yuja-wang-schumann-scriabin-prokofiev Watch all our concerts from the Verbier Festival he...

06/11/2013

Our very own Stephanie Abe (Piano) is performing tomorrow at the Thursday's Lunch Time Concert hosted by NUI Maynooth Music Department.

Stephanie will be performing with Eoin Kenny (Cello).
The programme will include works by Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Ben McHugh.

Pop along to Riverstown, South Campus, NUI Maynooth at 1:10pm for a treat on a Thursday afternoon.