After a week of horrific acts, frightening industrial accidents and international sabre rattling, there was a short clip on the news that brought music to the ears.
In essence, a musicologists dream. The only symphony composed in Ireland, written almost two hundred years ago, had portions missing presumed destroyed or lost. Click link for symphony news clip
The beautiful symphony ... was written by .... hmmhmmm ... a Frenchman, but of course we'll claim him as our own. Recently to the joy of the music world, a musicologist discovered the missing sheets of music in the National Libraries Uncatalogued collection. It must have sat there for many years. The joy of finding such a cultural artefact must have been immense, a real claim to fame.
The main Irish news carried the story and informed the viewers that soon the first recital of the complete symphony would be talking place. It was fantastic to see such a good news story, which was culturally educational and showed the value of our cultural institutions which has such gems still to be uncovered.
Lets just hope the Irish government sees the value in adequately funding such institutions.
In that same week, unfortunately another piece of information made the main Irish News, the theft of four rhinoceros heads from National Museum storage facility (which by the way is the size of two football pitches). The thieves, faced the daunting task of tying up the massive security presence at the relatively new national storage facility.... a hmm hmm... one security guard. Then used the excellently concise and detailed cataloguing system to quickly locate the rhinoceros heads and exit stage left. Click link for rhino news clip
Lets hope the lovely music discovered in the library does not get catalogued on such a good system as the one used by the National Museum.
Dare I guess what music the security guard was listening to in the National Museum at the time.... mission impossible !
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