Love theme is Galway festival’s lure

Sarah-Jane Brandon, the South African soprano

Next weekend’s Galway Midwinter Festival provides a wonderful opportunity not just for local music fans, but for short break weekend trippers to the west.

This festival at Town Hall Theatre (January 19-21) is the very first of 2018. It was successfully launched last year by Music For Galway, with pianist Finghin Collins as artistic director.

The inaugural theme of Prodigies received much media attention, and this year’s follow-up, Composers In Love, will be ...