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Hace 6 días · In his colourful 2022 autobiography, The Road to Riverdance, Whelan wrote of how, in the 1960s, traditional music was gasping for breath beneath the weight of church and State, when protectionism...
- Riverdance: The Music of Bill Whelan
Riverdance has embedded itself within our psyche, for good...
- Bill Whelan and guests
Abba. . Whelan must be one of the few people in the wordy...
- Riverdance: The Music of Bill Whelan
29 de oct. de 2022 · Bill Whelan’s memoir is an entertaining account of the seismic changes in Irish society during the second half of the 20th century and a colourful testament to an extraordinary life that helped...
22 de may. de 2012 · Riverdance has embedded itself within our psyche, for good or ill, yet it goes nowhere near defining where Bill Whelan, as a composer, has travelled over the past three decades.
18 de ene. de 2010 · Abba. . Whelan must be one of the few people in the wordy world of popular music ever to have had a big say purely in the language of notes. He describes his secret simply as “taking trad music,...
The composer wrote a piece of music inspired by the tale of a Tudor nobleman who took on the English, and many of the work’s themes would appear in the Irish dancing phenomenon that shook up ...
Siobhán Long interviews Bill in advance of the concert of his music with the National Symphony Orchestra at the National Concert Hall on Friday 5th July, conducted by Gavin Maloney and hosted by Aedín Gormley.
William Michael Joseph Whelan (born 22 May 1950) is an Irish composer and musician. He is best known for composing a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest . The result, " Riverdance ", was a seven-minute piece of original music accompanying a new take on traditional Irish stepdance that became a full-length stage production ...
