Public lecture, 10 October 18:30, the Long Room Hub
The reputation of composer Frederick May (1911 – 1985) has just received a major boost. A key piece of his work, the long-lost Symphonic Ballad, has been unearthed from the archives in the Library of Trinity College Dublin by musicologist and Long Room Hub Visiting Fellow Dr Mark Fitzgerald of DIT. It received the full National Concert Hall treatment this September.
A public lecture about his research will be given by Dr Fitzgerald in the Hub on Monday 10 October at 18:30. The story of Frederick May’s life, as a musician and an outsider – being gay, Protestant, and Republican – casts new light on narratives of Irishness and modernity in Irish culture.