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FILM MUSIC, Bizet’s Carmen Medley, Irish tunes, Saint Saen’s Danse Macabre, and a new work by John Buckley, will be entertaining Galway children’s ears next week.

WITH ITS instantly recognisable score and a love story bristling with thwarted passions, Georges Bizet’s Carmen is undoubtedly among the most popular operas in existence.

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The WhistleBlast Quartet – Ken Edge (saxophones and clarinet), Mary Curran (French horn), Síle Daly (oboe and cor anglais) and Andrew Synnott (piano) – return for the new school year with another series of three-day outreach/recital programmes in Mayo. The quartet has been successful in applying for a Arts Council Travel and Training grant to bring internationally acclaimed music facilitator Tim Steiner to Mayo to work with the quartet in providing secondary school and youth in-training. Tim Steiner will also be joining the quartet for its first programme of the school year with the pupils of Ballinrobe Community School.

As part of Ballina Arts Centre’s summer camp programme this year, there will be a music summer camp with the acclaimed WhistleBlast Quartet. Running from Monday, July 30 to Friday, August 3, the camp is open to children with or without musical ability. Children will have an opportunity to explore many musical concepts including composition, performance, and listening – all with an emphasis on fun and confidence-building.

The WhistleBlast Quartet – Kenneth Edge (saxophones and clarinet), Mary Curran (French horn), Andrew Synnott (piano) and Nicola Cleary (regular violinist with the National Symphony Orchestra) – will be hosting a great new music summer school for children aged seven to nine and 10 to 13 years, with or without previous musical experience or ability. The school will run from July 30 to August 3 and costs €85 per child or €75 if there are two or more. For seven to nine-year-olds it will run from 10am to 1pm, and for 10 to 13-year-olds it will run from 2pm to 5pm.

OPERA THEATRE Company – Ireland’s national touring opera company – come to the Town Hall on Thursday June 12 at 8pm with Monteverdi’s powerful and memorable masterpiece, Orfeo.

The WhistleBlast Quartet – Brendan Doyle (saxophones and clarinet), Mary Curran (French horn), Matthew Manning (oboe and cor anglais) and Andrew Synnott (piano) – is returning to Mayo on May 8, 9 and 10 to provide three days of concerts and workshops for the children of Behy National School, Ballina.

The WhistleBlast Quartet – Ken Edge (saxophone and clarinet), Mary Curran (French horn), Síle Daly (oboe and cor Anglais), and Andrew Synnott (piano) – start off their 2012 series of outreach/recital programmes with a three-day concert/workshop project with the children of Culleens National School, Ballina, on January 11, 12, and 13.