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...JAMES GALWAY, FLUTE AND FRIENDS BankBoston Celebrity Series At Symphony Hall October...
...people of Boston, unfortunately, did not turn out in droves to see James Galway, perhaps the most well-known classical flautist of our time, perform an all-Baroque concert on Sunday afternoon with some of his longtime collaborators: harpsichordist Phillip Moll '66, violist Sarah Cunningham, baroque violinist Monica Huggett, and flautist Jeanne Galway, James Galway's wife. There were many empty seats at Symphony Hall, and at the beginning of the concert Galway apologized to the audience for keeping it in on such a beautiful day. He and his friends then proceeded to give a concert that was as wonderful...
...fled Ireland into self-imposed exile late in 1904, taking with him Nora Barnacle, a young woman from Galway who was working as a hotel chambermaid in Dublin when Joyce met her earlier that year. (On hearing that his son had run off with a girl named Barnacle, John Joyce remarked, playing on her last name, "She'll never leave him." And, proving puns can be prophetic, she never...
McDonagh may or may not be the greatest, but he is certainly the freshest, most confident new voice in the theater to come along in years. Beauty Queen, part of a trilogy set in the western Irish county of Galway, is a dark, beautifully crafted comedy-drama about the spiteful relationship between a fortyish spinster and her aged, acid-tongued mother, who thwarts the daughter's one chance at love. What makes the play so startling is its mix of old-fashioned dramaturgy--the plot hinges on an undelivered letter--and the chilling, unsentimental way in which it shows...
...many, McDonagh seems to have emerged from out of nowhere, for years leading the garret life, writing plays in isolation in the South London house he shared with his brother, until two theaters--the Royal Court and the Druid Theatre in Galway--finally showed an interest in his work. Much has been made in the British press about his never having lived for any length of time in the Ireland he writes about so critically and so lushly. The question of his national origin is something of a biographical crux: Is he Irish or English? Everyone wants to know...