EVENT: NEW MUSIC DUBLIN
Ireland’s foremost contemporary music festival returns to the capital for four days of adventures in sound; highlights include Jean Cocteau’s The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d’un Poète), one of the greatest surrealist films ever made, presented with the world premiere of a new live score co-written and performed by Erik Friedlander and Matthew Nolan. Elsewhere, Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore debuts Guitar Explorations of Cloud Formations, a world premiere suite of nine works inspired by skies over Ireland, England, and Wales. Also: New Music Dublin’s flagship orchestral concert, under conductor Gavin Maloney, features the RTÉ…