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2002 Playlist

On all MPR music stations
Friday, March 15, 11 a.m.-noon | Sunday, March 17, 3-4 p.m.

Listen now to the entire program. Find music from this program at PRMS.org.

Listen to part 1
CAROLAN: "Carolan's Concerto"
James Galway w/ the Chieftans (RCA 5798 In Ireland)

T.C. KELLY: O'Carolan Suite in Baroque Style: III "Planxty McGuire"
Irish Chamber Orchestra/Fionnuala Hunt (Black Box BBM1003 Silver Apples of the Moon)

TRADITIONAL: "Roche's Favorite"
James Galway and the Chieftans (RCA 5798 In Ireland)

Listen to part 2
INTERVIEW: James Galway

DEVIENNE: Flute Concerto #8: III
James Galway, fl & cond/London Mozart Players (RCA 63701 Homage á Rampal)

BREAK—music
CAROLAN: "Carolan's Quarrel with the Landlady"
James Galway and the Chieftans (RCA 60424 Over the Sea to Skye)

Listen to part 3
FEATURE: Killaloe Festival

CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in D, op.6 No. 7
Irish Chamber Orchestra/Nicholas McGegan
(rec. in concert July 2001 at the Killaloe Festival by Lyric FM)

INTERVIEW: Nicholas McGegan

BREAK—music
BRITTEN: Portrait No. 2 for Orch ("B.B.")
Irish Chamber Orchestra/Nicholas McGegan
(rec. in concert July 2001 at the Killaloe Festival by Lyric FM)

Listen to part 4
INTERVIEW: Máire Ní Chathasaigh

CAROLAN: Máire Dhall ("Blind Mary")
Máire Ní Chathasaigh, harp; Old Bridge (OBMCD06 The Carolan Albums)

Listen to part 5
INTERVIEW: Brian Keenan

CAROLAN: "Carolan's Cup"
Andrew Lawrence-King and the Harp Consort (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 05472-77375 Carolan's Harp)

CAROLAN: Ta me 'mo chodladh ("I am asleep")
Andrew Lawrence-King and the Harp Consort (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 05472-77375 Carolan's Harp)

CAROLAN: Mr. James Betagh & a Jig to the above
Andrew Lawrence-King and the Harp Consort (MPR 205 SPS: Wish List)

Listen to part 6
"A Pint for Patrick in the New Ireland"—Maeve Binchy

A.J. POTTER: "Finnegan's Wake"
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland/Robert Houlihan (Marco Polo 8.225158)

About the Participants

James Galway, one of Ireland's most acclaimed flutists, has had a long and distinguished career. (Photo © Dorothy Low)

Nicholas McGegan, born in England and trained at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, is Baroque Series Director of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. (Photo © St. Paul Chamber Orchestra)

Brian Keenan, a Northern Irish teacher, was kidnapped by Shi'ite terrorists and held hostage in Beirut in the '80s. (Photo © Caroline Forbes)

Find music from this program at PRMS.org.