Better living through music
Music isn’t just an art form: it’s a route to health and wellbeing, which is why a new nationwide programme of concerts, orchestras and other initiatives from the National Concert Hall is here for your playing and listening enjoyment
Frank Loughran hadn’t played the trumpet in years. Forty years, in fact. A sales representative by trade, Loughran first began learning the trumpet when he was 12, as a boy growing up in Trim in Co Meath. But when adulthood intervened, Frank put the trumpet away and moved on with his life. In 1971, he married Pauline, an administrator with Enterprise Ireland who also loved music, and they had two children together. Now ...
