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MONDAY APRIL 15 will be a red letter day for Galway’s classical music aficionados as it sees the debut of the city’s new orchestra, Luminosa, at Galway Cathedral. The debut concert programme, Maestra, will feature works by female composers ranging from the 12th century Hildegard of Bingen to Galway’s own Jane O’Leary.

THE BAFTA winning and Oscar nominated actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, best known for this role in 12 Years A Slave, will star in one of English drama’s oldest plays - Everyman.

ON ONE day of the year, the teenagers were let run riot in the monastery, adolescent apprentice monks could dance, sing, clap their hands, shake their tonsures, boss around their elders, play cards in church, and stage a riotous show where an altar could explode, hide and seek games ran into the wee small hours, and the elders had no choice but to let them away with it.

A FEAST of fools, ticking clocks, apocalyptic visions, and a time warp - time is of the essence at the 20th Galway Early Music Festival which runs from Thursday May 14 to Sunday 17.

The Passion Play will take place on April 2, 3 and 4 at 9pm.

Tomorrow at 2pm, the way of the cross will be acted out by a cast from the community of the Good Shepherd parish in the children's playground. The event will take place in Doughiska Park, at the rear of Merlin Woods new school, on Doughiska Road.

GEORGE HARRISON sang “My sweet Lord”. St Augustine said: “To sing is to pray twice”, while Islamic Sufis and Native American holy men dance and sing themselves into trances, leading to religious ecstasy.