Classical notes

A series of five lectures on the development of contemporary music begins at the Irish Museum of Modern Art next Thursday. The talks by the celebrated composer and pianist Kevin Volans will deal with European music in the late 1950s and 1980s, post modernism in European music and the works of the renowned German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen whose electronic experiments in the 1960s influenced rock music probably more than it did classical. In ...