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For the centenary of the death of Dublin composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Music for Galway’s artistic director and pianist Finghin Collins has arranged a celebration.

Ray O’Donnell, cathedral organist and director of the concert series, says large screens will allow the audience to watch organists at work, conveying all the action from the gallery to the pews below.

MUSIC FOR Galway’s midwinter festival, Stanford, takes place this weekend, and all shows in the Town Hall Theatre will be live streamed as well as in person.

THE MUSIC Of Charles Villiers Stanford is “dramatically significant, as well as beautiful in itself. It has, moreover, that quality so rare among modern composers – style.”

WITH THE return of live music and concerts, there is a sense of optimism and possibility again, not to mention a determination to make up for the lost time enforced by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The best choristers from Galway and Wales will perform a special Christmas concert later this month.