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
2022
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HOST
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
NOV
DEC
January
SESSIONS IN RED ARE ZOOM MEETINGS
01
No session today
29
Jim
Ken
08
Roy
Ken
Note: 1:30 start. Theme: Operetta, Musicals, Film, World
15
Ken
David
22
Séamus
Séamus
ANNIVERSARIES
3rd Kevin Puts, 50th | 4th Grace Bumbry, 85th | 5th Doreen Carwithen, 100b + Maurizio Pollini, 80th
6th Alexander Scriabin, 150b | 7th Jean-Pierre Rampal, 100b + Sándor Végh, 25d
8th Alexis Weissenberg, 10d | 16th Gustav Leonhardt, 10d | 18th John O'Conor, 75th
23rd Igor Kipnis, 20d | 25th Paavo Berglund, 10d | 27th Michael Collins (clarinet), 60th
28th Reynaldo Hahn, 75d | 31st Philip Glass, 85th + FRANZ SCHUBERT, 225b
February
26
Jim
Roy
05
Jim
C A N C E L L E D
12
Roy
Jim
SCHUBERT DAY
19
Tom
Tom
ANNIVERSARIES
1st Renata Tebaldi, 100b | 8th John Williams (film composer), 90th
15th John Adams, 75th + Robert Fuchs, 175b + Theodor Uhlig, 200b
16th Geraint Evans, 100b + Philipp Scharwenka, 175b | 18th Eric Fenby, 25d | 24th Leo Ornstein, 20d
25th Maurice André, 10d | 27th Marian Anderson, 125b + Gidon Kremer, 75th
March
05
No session today
26
Roy
Éamon
12
Séamus
Séamus
19
Tom
David
ANNIVERSARIES
4th Jan Garbarek, 75th | 5th Alfredo Casella, 75d | 6th Knudåge Riisager, 125b | 13th Wolfgang Rihm, 70th 24th Benjamin Luxon, 85th | 28th Samuel Ramey, 80th | 30th Johann Wilhelm Wilms, 250b
April
02
Jim
Dermot
BRAHMS DAY
09
Dermot
Roy
April Concert
16
No session today
[Easter]
23
No session today (General unavailability)
30
Roy
Séamus
ANNIVERSARIES
3rd JOHANNES BRAHMS, 125d + Ferde Grofé, 50d | 4th Elmer Bernstein, 100b + Stefan Wolpe, 50d
17th Harald Sæverud, 125b | 19th Murray Perahia, 75th | 23rd Eileen Farrell, 20d |27th Gerald Barry, 70th
28th Nicola LeFanu, 75th | 29th Eyvind Alnæs, 150b
May
28
Roy
Dermot
07
Jim
Jim
14
Dermot
Roy
21
Séamus
David
ANNIVERSARIES
1st Hugo Alfvén, 150b | 3rd Evgeny Svetlanov, 20d + Narciso Yepes, 25d | 8th Felicity Lott, 75th
11th Emmanuelle Haïm, 60th | 18th Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 10d | 27th Joachim Raff, 200b
29th ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD, 125b + Iannis Xenakis, 100b
June
04
No session today
[Holiday weekend]
25
Ken
Ken
18
Éamon
Éamon
11
Jim
Tom
ANNIVERSARIES
1st Paco Peña, 80th | 2nd Mark Elder, 75th | 5th Johann Kuhnau, 300b | 7th Neeme Järvi, 85th
12th Alexandre Tansman, 125b | 14th Lang Lang, 40th | 18th Paul McCartney, 80th
21st Lalo Schifrin, 90th | 25th E.T.A. Hoffmann, 200d + Leopold Koželuch, 275b | 27th George Szell, 125b 30th Jiři Antonín (Georg) Benda, 250b
July
02
No session today (General unavailability)
09
Séamus
Séamus
16
No session today (Covid alert)
30
Jim
Dermot + Jim
July Concert
23
Roy
Éamon
ANNIVERSARIES
1st Evelyn Lear, 10d | 6th Vladimir Ashkenazy, 85th | 8th Benjamin Grosvenor, 30th
11th Herbert Blomstedt, 95th | 13th Per Nørgård, 90th | 18th Julius Fučík, 150b
20th Déodat de Séverac 150b | 22nd Nan Merriman, 10d | 23rd Alain Lefèvre, 60th
August
27
Éamon
Séamus
06
Dermot
Roy
13
Tom
Tom
20
Jim
Jim
ANNIVERSARIES
1st Sviatoslav Richter, 25d | 6th Ruggiero Ricci, 10d |10th Alexander Goehr, 90th + Conlon Nancarrow, 25d 14th Oscar Levant, 50d | 15th Lukas Foss, 100b | 19th Gerard Schwarz, 75th
26th RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, 150b | 29th René Leibowitz, 50d | 30th Regina Resnik, 100b
September
24
Roy
Jim
03
Tom
David
10
Séamus
Séamus
17
Jim
Éamon
ANNIVERSARIES
4th Vlado Perlemuter, 20d | 9th Georg Solti, 25d | 19th Robert Casadesus, 50d | 25th Jean Françaix, 25d
October
01
Dermot
Dermot
08
Jim
David
15
No session today
22
Séamus
Séamus
29
SPECIAL EVENT – 'The Turn of the Screw' in Tom's. Meet at 6:30 pm.
ANNIVERSARIES
6th Leevi Madetoya, 75d | 10th George Malcolm, 25d | 13th Loris Tjeknavorian, 85th
14th Kaija Saariaho, 70th | 27th Hans Werner Henze, 10d
November
26
Jim
05
Jim
Séamus
MENDELSSOHN DAY
12
Ken
Ken + A.N. Other
November Concert
19
Dermot
ANNIVERSARIES
4th FELIX MENDELSSOHN, 175d | 5th Elliott Carter, 10d | 6th Heinrich Schütz, 350d
12th Karl Marx, 125b | 15th Daniel Barenboim, 80th | 17th Torleif Thedéen, 60th | 18th Philip Ledger, 10d 20th René Kollo, 85th | 21st Robert Simpson, 25d | 22nd Nikolai Kapustin, 85th + Meredith Monk, 80th
28th William Havergal Brian, 50d | 29th GAETANO DONIZETTI, 225b
December
03
10
Jim
17
Roy
Theme: Christmas Music
24
No session today
31
No session today
ANNIVERSARIES
1st Stéphane Grappelli, 25d + Galina Vishnevskaya, 10d | 5th Dave Brubeck, 10d + José Cura, 60th
6th Sebastian Fagerlund, 50th | 9th Charles Rosen, 10d | 10th CÉSAR FRANCK, 200b
11th Ravi Shankar, 10d | 16th Rodion Shchedrin, 90th 23rd Hans Abrahamsen, 70th
24th Richard Rodney Bennett, 10d | 30th June Anderson, 70th | 31st Jennifer Higdon, 60th
PRESENTER / SPECIAL EVENT / NOTE
HOST