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On 21 May the Culwick Choral Society will present a very maritime-inspired evening of music at the National Concert Hall.
The highlight of the show will be a performance of 'A Sea Symphony' by Ralph Vaughan Williams, with vocals provided by soprano Cara O'Sullivan, baritone Paul Carey Jones and the New Dublin Voices chamber choir.
The programme - supported by RTÉ Lyric FM – will also include Mendelssohn's 'Hebrides Overture' and Beethoven's 'Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage'.
Tickets begin at €15 and are available from the National Concert Hall box office at 01 417 0000 or online at www.nch.ie.

On 21 May the Culwick Choral Society will present a very maritime-inspired evening of music at the National Concert Hall.

The highlight of the show will be a performance of 'A Sea Symphony' by Ralph Vaughan Williams, with vocals provided by soprano Cara O'Sullivan, baritone Paul Carey Jones and the New Dublin Voices chamber choir.

The programme - supported by RTÉ Lyric FM – will also include Mendelssohn's 'Hebrides Overture' and Beethoven's 'Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage'.

Tickets start at €15 and are available from the National Concert Hall box office at 01 417 0000 or online at www.nch.ie.

 

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago