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
2019
See the weekly
schedule sheet for
host-contact
information
View or download the 2019 Anniversaries summary sheet
HOST
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
January
26
David
David
05
Dermot
Theme: Operetta, Musicals, Film
Jim
12
Jim
Séamus
19
Derry
Jim
January Concert
ANNIVERSARIES
2nd Peter Eötvös, 75th | 15th George Cziffra, 25d | 17th Grazyna Bacewicz, 50d
20th Walter Piston, 125b
February
23
Roy
Peadar
02
Dermot
Roy
09
Ken
Ken
16
Jim
Tom
Theme: Love & Romance
ANNIVERSARIES
1st Lukas Foss 10d | 2nd Lisa Dela Casa, 100b | 7th Witold Lutoslawski, 25d | 13th Joyce DiDonato, 50th
14th Renée Fleming, 60th | 20th Ernest Ansermet, 50d | 23rd Constantin Silvestri, 50d
March
30
Roy
Séamus
02
Éamon
Dermot
09
Jim
No presentation today. Bring 15 mins of music.
BERLIOZ DAY
16
Ken
David
23
Tom
Jim
ANNIVERSARIES
4th Bernard Haitink, 90th + Kiri Te Kanewa, 75th | 8th HECTOR BERLIOZ, 150d
12th Yehudi Menuhin, 20d | 18th Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, 175b | 27th Poul Ruders, 70th
April
13
Ken
Ken + Dermot
April Concert
06
Dermot
Roy
20
No session today. Easter.
27
Jim
Jim
ANNIVERSARIES
4th Piotr Anderszewski, 50th | 5th Albert Roussel, 150b | 6th André Previn, 90b
18th Franz von Suppé, 200b | 20th Carl Loewe, 150d | 29th Julius Katchen, 50d
May
25
Jim
Tom
04
Éamon
Ken
11
Roy
Dermot
18
Séamus
Séamus
ANNIVERSARIES
5th Hans Pfitzner, 150b | 10th Peter Maag, 100b | 25th Beverly Sills, 90b
June
29
Tom
Tom
01
Dermot
No presentation today. Bring 15 mins of music.
08
Éamon
Séamus
15
Jim
Éamon
22
Roy
Peadar
ANNIVERSARIES
20th Jacques Offenbach, 200b
July
27
Ken
Roy
20
Roy
Jim
13
Jim
Éamon + Dermot
July Concert
06
Dermot
Ron
ANNIVERSARIES
3rd Brigitte Fassbaender, 80th | 5th Wilhelm Backhaus, 50d | 8th Ernst Haeflinger, 100b
10th Juliane Banse, 50th | 13th Norman Del Mar, 100b | 23rd Maria João Pires, 75th
August
31
Jim
Éamon
03
Jim
David
10
Séamus
Séamus
17
Ken
Ken
24
Roy
No presentation today. Bring 15 mins of music.
ANNIVERSARIES
6th Theodor Adorno, 50d | 7th Kim Borg, 100b | 9th Ruggero Leoncavallo, 100d
14th Armas Järnefelt, 150b | 27th Ann Murray, 70th | 28th Karl Böhm, 125b + Bohuslav Martinů, 60d
September
07
No session today. General unavailability.
28
Roy
Séamus
14
Tom
Tom
21
Jim
Ken
ANNIVERSARIES
9th Ádám Fischer, 70th | 10th Alfredo Kraus, 20d
13th Emmanuel Chabrier, 125d + Clara Schumann, 200b | 27th Adelina Patti, 100d
October
26
Séamus
Séamus
05
Dermot
Roy
19
Jim
Éamon
12
Tom
Tom + Jim
October Concert
ANNIVERSARIES
9th Irmgard Seefried, 100b | 18th Viktor Ullmann, 75d
November
02
No session today. Clashes with Tom & Ruud's big day.
30
Éamon
Éamon
09
Jim
Ken
16
Roy
Peadar
23
Dermot
Tom
ANNIVERSARIES
5th Vladimir Horowitz, 30d | 7th Hélène Grimaud 50th | 17th Heitor Villa-Lobos, 60d
27th Hlary Hahn, 40th
December
07
Jim
Jim
14
Derry
Séamus
21
Roy
Roy
Theme: Christmas Music
28
No session today
ANNIVERSARIES
8th James Galway, 80th + Mieczyslaw Weinberg, 100b
18th, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 150b + Antonio Stradivari, 375b | 27th Amy Beach, 75d
30th David Willcocks, 100b
PRESENTER / SPECIAL EVENT / NOTE
HOST