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THE BIRTH of Modern Music is the title for this year’s Music for Galway mid-winter festival which runs from Friday January 17 to Sunday 19 at the Town Hall Theatre.

“I WILL sit right down, waiting for the gift of sound and vision,” David Bowie declared on his 1976 single ‘Sound + Vision’, and Galway audiences are about to do the same.

CAN YOU play a stringed instrument? Perhaps it has been gathering dust for a while or maybe you want to challenge yourself and get some new ideas.

PREMIERES OF new music, Handel’s Messiah, and the revolutionary sounds of Debussy, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky all form part of Music For Galway’s 33rd concert programme series.

World, European, and Irish premieres in theatre and dance, leading international rock bands, the best in Irish comedy, and an array of international street theatre will all feature in this year’s Galway Arts Festival which takes place from Monday July 15 to Sunday 28.

THE SONGS of Franz Schubert, one of the leading composers of the Romantic era, will bring the curtain down on Music for Galway’s 32nd International Concert Season.

THE GALWAY Baroque Singers and the ConTempo Quartet will perform Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ in the Augustinian Church, Middle Street.

A MEDITATION on Christ’s final words on the Cross and a homage to the patron saint of music, St Cecilia, will form part of a pre-Easter concert of sacred contemporary music in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.

POETRY AND classical music will join forces for an event taking place tomorrow at 1.10pm in the Galway City Museum.

A CONCERT featuring Lynda Lee, one of Ireland’s leading sopranos, and an album launch by clarinettist Paul Roe, both take place next week.