DGMG Online

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).

2021

FOR NORMAL TIMES
See the weekly
schedule sheet for
host-contact
information

 

View or download the 2021 Anniversaries summary sheet

FOR PANDEMIC TIMES
Zoom Hosts / Presenters

HOST

JAN

FEB

MAR

APR

MAY

JUN

JUL

AUG

SEP

OCT

NOV

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 : RON

06

Ken

Séamus

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : JIM

13

Roy

David

FC : ÉAMON

Theme: Love & Romance

20

Dermot

Roy

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : DERMOT

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

Ken

Éamon

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : JIM

06

Séamus

Ron

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : KEN

13

Dermot

Dermot

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : DAVID

 

20

Roy

Ken

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : ROY

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

24

Roy

Jim

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : DAVID

17

Ken

Roy

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : KEN

10

Jim

David

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : DERMOT

03

Séamus

Séamus

[Easter]

FC : ÉAMON

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

Séamus

Séamus

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : KEN

01

Dermot

Ron

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : ROY

08

Jim

Dermot

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : JIM

15

Roy

Ken

22

Ken

Éamon

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : DERMOT

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : ÉAMON

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

Ken

Dermot

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : JIM

05

Dermot

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : ROY

David

19

Séamus

Jim

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : ÉAMON

12

Jim

Roy

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : DAVID

ANNIVERSARIES
5th Martha Argerich, 80th | 8th Tomaso Albinoni, 350b | 20th André Watts, 75th

July

31

Ken

David

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : ROY

03

Roy

Ken

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : ÉAMON

17

Jim

Éamon

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : KEN

24

Séamus

Séamus

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : DAVID

10

Dermot

Ron

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : DERMOT

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

Jim

07

 

Jim

 

Tom

14

Roy

Ken

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : ÉAMON

21

Jim

Roy

FIRST CONTRIBUTOR : JIM

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

Séamus

04

Tom

David

11

Jim

Éamon

18

Tom

Tom

ANNIVERSARIES
1st Vagn Holmboe, 25d | 3rd Thurston Dart, 100b | 5th Marc-André Hamelin, 60th
7th Jean-Yves Thibaudet, 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

Tom

Tom + Jim

 October Concert

02

Éamon

Dermot

16

Roy

Roy

23

Séamus

Jim

09

Jim

Séamus

BRUCKNER DAY : Bring up to 12 minutes of music

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 Sweelinck, 400d | 18th Wynton Marsalis, 60th + Proinnsias Ó Duinn, 80th 21st Malcolm Arnold, 100b | 24th Sofia Gubaidulina, 90th + Sena Jurinac 100b + Carl Ruggles, 50d
25th Midori, 50th | 27th Håkan Hardenberger, 60th

November

06

Dermot

Éamon

13

Roy

David

20

Jim

Dermot

27

No session today

 

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 | 22nd Stephen Hough, 60th
25th Virgil Thomson, 125b | 30th Carl Loewe 225b

December

11

Séamus

Séamus

SAINT-SAËNS DAY

04

Jim

Tom

18

Roy

Roy

Theme: Christmas Music

25

No session today — I wonder why?

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
24th Gerard Victory, 100b | 25th Hans Huber, 100d | 28th Roger Sessions, 125b

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