Frank Corcoran in CRANE-BAG . June 1984 .
Irish music is being written by Irish composers on this island. It has the same right to attention as the other irish arts… Irish composers must work ( Groan ! Groan! ) for more performances, a major pedagogic effort directed at creating an audience and helping it to come with them down the long road since 1911. We can reverse the massive bias against the art of music. Against, really, all music. What I am really advocating is the art of listening.