Welcome to the online home of the Dublin Gay Music Group. Here you'll find information about the Group, beginning on this page with the schedule for our sessions this month. You can also view other months, which is an ideal way to spot gaps which you can fill by offering to host or taking a Presenter spot (just send an email, or add changes to the printed version at one of our sessions).
DGMG Online
2021
FOR NORMAL TIMES
See the weekly
schedule sheet for
host-contact
information
View or download the 2021 Anniversaries summary sheet
FOR PANDEMIC TIMES
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DEC
January
30
Jim
Éamon
FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : ROY
02
Jim
Jim
FC : RON
Theme: Operetta, Musicals, Film, World
09
Ken
Dermot
FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : JIM
16
Roy
Ron
FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : KEN
23
Dermot
Ken
FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : DAVID
ANNIVERSARIES
5th Alfred Brendel, 90th | 13th Renato Bruson, 85th + Henri Tomasi, 50d | 18th Katia Ricciarelli, 75th
21st Plácido Domingo, 80th | 23rd Cecile Ousset, 85th | 26th Gustavo Dudamel, 40th
28th Margaret Price, 10d | 29th Milton Babbitt, 10d + Matthias Pintscher, 50th | 31st Mario Lanza, 100b
February
27
Jim
Jim
FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : DERMOT
06
Ken
Séamus
FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : JIM
13
Roy
David
FC : ÉAMON
Theme: Love & Romance
20
Dermot
Roy
FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : RON
ANNIVERSARIES
4th Iannis Xenakis 20d | 5th John Pritchard, 100b
7th Wilhelm Stenhammar 150b + Boris Tchaikovsky, 25d 12th Ambroise Thomas, 125d
13th Colin Matthews, 75th | 15th Michael Praetorius, 400d | 16th Eliahu Inbal, 85th
18th Dimitri Mitropoulos, 125b | 19th Hamilton Harty, 80d + György Kurtág, 95th + Gil Shaham, 50th
20th Toru Takemitsu, 25d | 21st Morton Gould, 25d | 26th Mieczysƚaw Weinberg, 25d
March
27
Dermot
Éamon
06
Séamus
Ron
13
Ken
Dermot
20
Roy
Ken
ANNIVERSARIES
1st Thomas Adès, 50th | 2nd Robert Simpson, 100b | 6th Thurston Dart, 50d | 11th Astor Piazzolla, 100b 17th Michael Finnissy, 75th | 21st Arthur Grumiaux, 100b | 23rd Bertrand Chamayou, 40th
24th Déodat de Séverac, 100d
April
03
No session today. Easter.
24
Jim
17
10
Jim
April Concert
ANNIVERSARIES
6th Igor Stravinsky, 50d | 8th Franco Corelli, 100b | 16th Pēteris Vasks, 75th
20th Giuseppe Sinopoli, 20d | 21st Alceo Galliera, 25d | 23rd Peter Lieberson, 10d
24th John Williams (guitarist), 80th | 29th Zubin Mehta, 85th
May
29
01
Jim
08
15
22
Jim
ANNIVERSARIES
8th Barbara Hannigan, 50th | 12th Daniel Auber, 150d + Eugène Ysaÿe, 90d | 17th Dennis Brain, 100b 20th Clara Schumann, 125d | 30th Marcel Dupré, 50d | 31st Diana Damrau, 50th
June
26
05
19
Jim
12
ANNIVERSARIES
5th Martha Argerich, 80th | 8th Tomaso Albinoni, 350b | 20th André Watts, 75th
July
31
03
17
24
10
Jim
July Concert
ANNIVERSARIES
9th David Zinman, 85th | 12th Gottfried von Einem, 25d | 13th Arnold Schoenberg, 70d
18th Pauline Viardot, 200b | 23rd Franz Berwald, 225b
24th Alan Rawsthorne, 50d + Giuseppe Di Stefano, 100b | 28th Riccardo Muti, 80th
August
28
Jim
07
Jim
14
21
ANNIVERSARIES
1st Jordi Savall, 80th | 2nd Enrico Caruso, 100d | 5th Havelock Nelson, 25d | 11th Rafael Kubelik, 25d 13th Louis Frémaux, 100b | 14th Sergiu Celibidache, 25d | 27th Josquin des Préz, 500d
31st Vadim Repin, 50th
September
25
Jim
04
11
18
ANNIVERSARIES
1st Vagn Holmboe, 25d | 3rd Thurston Dart, 100b | 5th Marc-André Hamelin, 60th
18th Anna Netrebko, 50th | 22nd Isaac Stern, 20d + John Tomlinson, 75th + Anna Tomowa-Sintow, 80th
25th Roberto Gerhard, 125b | 26th Salvatore Accardo, 80th | 27th Engelbert Humperdinck, 100d
28th Michael Praetorius, 450b
October
30
02
16
Jim
October Concert
23
09
BRUCKNER DAY
ANNIVERSARIES
3rd Seán Ó Riada, 50d + Ruggero Raimondi, 80th + Steve Reich, 85th | 10th Evgeny Kissin, 50th
11th ANTON BRUCKNER, 125d | 14th Alexander Zemlinsky, 150b | 15th Suzanne Murphy, 80th
16th Granville Bantock, 75d + Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, 400d | 18th Wynton Marsalis, 60th
21st Malcolm Arnold, 100b | 24th Sofia Gubaidulina, 90th + Sena Jurinac 100b + Carl Ruggles, 50d
25th Midori, 50th
November
27
06
13
Jim
20
ANNIVERSARIES
2nd Giuseppe Sinopoli, 75b| 5th Georges Cziffra 100b
6th James Bowman + François-Xavier Roth, 50th | 7th Gwyneth Jones, 85th
13th Joonas Kokkonen, 100b | 14th Manuel de Falla, 75d | 19th Geza Anda, 100b | 21st Idil Biret, 80th 24th Stéphane Denève, 50th + Edison Denisov 25d | 25th Virgil Thomson, 125b 30th Carl Loewe 225b
December
11
SAINT-SAËNS DAY ?
04
Jim
18
Roy
Theme: Christmas Music
25
No session today
ANNIVERSARIES
4th Deanna Durbin, 100b | 5th José Carreras, 75th | 13th Arthur Jacobs, 25d
16th Trevor Pinnock, 75th + CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS, 100d | 22nd Giovanni Bottesini, 200b
23rd Edita Gruberová, 75th | 24th Gerard Victory, 100b | 25th Hans Huber, 100d
28th Roger Sessions, 125b
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