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2 juil. 2024 · Having made his home in Roundstone, Co Galway, Whelan relishes the vibrant musical tradition of Connemara but isn’t afraid to play with it, just as he did with Riverdance and its predecessor,...
22 mai 2012 · Riverdance has embedded itself within our psyche, for good or ill, yet it goes nowhere near defining where Bill Whelan, as a composer, has travelled over the past three decades.
29 oct. 2022 · Bill Whelan’s memoir is an entertaining account of the seismic changes in Irish society during the second half of the 20th century and a colourful testament to an extraordinary life that...
William Michael Joseph Whelan (born 22 May 1950) is an Irish composer and musician. [2] He is best known for composing a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. The result, "Riverdance", was a seven-minute piece of original music accompanying a new take on traditional Irish stepdance that became a full-length ...
18 janv. 2010 · . Whelan must be one of the few people in the wordy world of popular music ever to have had a big say purely in the language of notes. He describes his secret simply as “taking trad music,...
Siobhán Long interviews Bill in advance of the concert of his music with the National Symphony Orchestra at the National Concert Hall on Friday 5th July, conducted by Gavin Maloney and hosted by Aedín Gormley.
24 juin 2014 · Whelan, celebrated over the weekend with concerts in Dublin and Limerick, unfailingly evokes Irish places, history and collective emotion by marrying the lone voice of the Irish folk tune and...
