Dear Frank,
We have been invited to submit a collection from our digital archive to the Digital Repository Ireland’s new online platform, which will launch next week, and your works Three Pieces for Orchestra and Symphony No. 2 will be included in this collection.
Digital Repository Ireland (DRI) is a national trusted digital repository for Ireland’s social and cultural data, linking together and preserving both historical and contemporary data held by Irish institutions (see dri.ie).
The platform will bring together collections from a number of cultural institutions, and CMC is one of three institutions which is providing a music collection in time for the initial launch.
The collection which we are providing is entitled ‘Irish Orchestral Music – a selected list’, and brings together sample pages from the scores along with audio samples for a cross-selection of orchestral works contained in CMC’s library.
We have provided the DRI with a PDF of sample pages of the scores, along with an audio sample up to 1 minute. All materials will be clearly marked as being copyrighted by the relevant copyright holders.
We think that this is an important opportunity for the work of Irish composers to be part of an innovative platform for Irish cultural heritage, and their inclusion should help raise awareness of this important body of work among visitors to the platform.