Category: Church and Culture Radio Interviews 2017
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Composer John Kinsella talks about his life as a composer and why he rejected serialism
Obituary from the Irish Times, January 15, 2022 John Kinsella Born: April 8th, 1932 Died: November 9th, 2021 John Kinsella, one of Ireland’s foremost composers and a former head of music at RTÉ, has died aged 89. Deemed to be the most prolific Irish symphonist to date, the Dublin-born self-taught composer wrote 11 symphonies, several […]
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John Kinsella plays and discusses his 6th Symphony, Prelude and Toccata, and lovely Homage a Clarence
JOHN KINSELLA WAS Born in Dublin in 1932, He studied viola at the College of Music (now the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama) in Dublin. He had early success with a. number of works written in the style of serial tone poems, accepted for performance by RTÉ ensembles, including A Selected Life (1973), a […]
Deal W. Hudson 