‘I would now identify as Irish rather than British. It was a very proud day when my Irish passport showed up’ – The Irish Times

There’s a sense of a circle fully turned for Stephen McNeff about the concert this month that includes the first Irish performance of his orchestral song cycle The Celestial Stranger. The concert, with the National Symphony Orchestra under the Colombian-American conductor Lina Gonzalez-Granados, opens with Debussy’s languorous Prélude à l’Après-midi d’une Faune (Prelude to the … Read more