Exhibitions & Events
Programme of Alois Fleischmann's Turmmusik for brass quartets
Monday, 21 December
3.00p.m.: Quartet from The Butter Exchange Band Church of St. Anne, Shandon, Cork.
Friday, 25 December
11.40a.m.: James Fitzgerald Memorial Band: Steps of the Church of Our Lady, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork.
Friday, 25 December
12.00 noon: Ballincollig Concert Band: Church of St. Mary & St. John, Ballincollig, Co. Cork.
Wednesday, 6 January
7.00 p.m.: Quartet from First Southern Brigade, Collins Barracks Central Library, Grand Parade, Cork
Herr Alois Fleischmann arrived in Cork in 1906.
“Before he left Dachau Fleischmann arranged a number of folk melodies, old Christmas carols, for wind ensemble and organized for them to be played from the steeple of the parish church on Christmas Eve each year. This lovely custom, which gives good insight into the nature and quality of his imagination, continued annually until 1945. It is said that the players of the Turmmusik (steeple music), as it was called, were asked to direct the music towards his mother’s house as a special greeting from her son in Ireland. He undoubtedly found the move from his native place very difficult. ‘Since then’, he remarked towards the end of his life, ‘I have been living in the past, dreaming of the old times, of the shadow play of youth, of the distant sun of home’
Séamas de Barra: Aloys Fleischmann: Field day Publications, Dublin, 2006
Other useful links
CIT Cork School of Music
Cork International Choral Festival
Cork Folk Festival
Cork Gigs
Cork Opera House
Cork Orchestral Society
Cork Symphony Orchestra
Crawford Art Gallery
East Cork Early Music Festival 2008
Everyman Palace Theatre
Guinness Jazz Festival
Guinnes Jazz Festival Fringe Events
Triskel Arts Centre
West Cork Chamber Music Festival
Whazon
Aloys Fleischmann
Cork City Libraries celebrate the life of Aloys Fleischmann Jnr. at the Central Library, Grand Parade, Cork
Tuesday, 16 February 2010 at 7.00 pm
• Opening of exhibition “Fleischmann, Family, & Friends”
• Launch of book The Fleischmanns: A Remarkable Cork Family – A Companion to the Fleischmann Centenary Celebration published by Cork City Libraries 2010
• Launch of The Fleischmann Centenary Programme Brochure : published by Cork City Council Fleischmann Working Group.
Keynote address by Emeritus Professor John A. Murphy.
The 52-page book includes well illustrated biographies on Tilly, Aloys Snr and Professor Aloys Fleischmann with many rare photographs. Text by Séamas de Barra, Ruth Fleischmann, and Patrick Zuk. The book is on sale for €10.
The exhibition tells the story of Prof Aloys Fleischmann - his childhood, his parents Tilly & Aloys, his career in UCC and in the city and is illustrated with photographs and other images. Digital selections of his letters, diaries, photographs, Dachau paintings, recordings and manuscript scores will be available for viewing.
The exhibition will remain in the Central Library until April 2010 and then tour other libraries and venues in Cork and around the country.
The Fleischmann Centenary Programme Brochure
Aloys Fleischmann is without doubt one of the most important figures in music in Ireland in the last century and to mark his centenary celebration a host of concerts, recitals, exhibitions, dance performances, public lectures, conferences and special tributes are taking place in Ireland, Germany, England, America and China throughout 2010..
All Welcome