Seán Ó Riada: his life and work
"Irish traditional music moved onto the international stage in the second half of the twentieth century. There were many reasons but one of the major influences was Sean O Riada who gave it a position and status it never had. He is one of the most fascinating and significant characters in twentieth-century Irish artistic life - composer, musician (jazz, classical & traditional), raconteur, film-maker and academic. In this wide-ranging account of his life and work a friend and colleague looks be…
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- Full title :Seán Ó Riada : his life and work / Tomás Ó Canainn.
Summary
"Irish traditional music moved onto the international stage in the second half of the twentieth century. There were many reasons but one of the major influences was Sean O Riada who gave it a position and status it never had. He is one of the most fascinating and significant characters in twentieth-century Irish artistic life - composer, musician (jazz, classical & traditional), raconteur, film-maker and academic. In this wide-ranging account of his life and work a friend and colleague looks behind the mask O Riada held up to the world and reveals the complex personality of a unique individual."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Publication Date:2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Collins
- Place of Publication:Wilton, Cork
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:vi, 214 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1903464404, 9781903464403
- oclc:ocm53822188
- LC Classification:ML410.O23
- Dewey Decimal:780/.92
Table of Contents
Early life in Adare -- To school in Cork -- Classicist or musician? -- Radio Éireann -- Gael Linn -- The Abbey Theatre and Ceoltóirí Cualann -- True love in hard times -- Ó Riada the composer -- Ó Riada and Irish traditional music -- Seán Ó Sé and Ó Riada -- Ó Riada as writer -- Cúil Aodha -- Ó Riada's film-making -- Death of Ó Riada -- Which Seán Ó Riada?
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