TOM GREALY,
Sir, - I was among an appreciative audience at the National Concert Hall on May 4th, 2002, for a performance of Dvorak's Requiem by the RTÉCO, Our Lady's Choral Society and four soloists under the conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn. This was a Saturday evening performance of a major and magnificent work, perhaps performed only once before in Ireland and that 32 years ago. I was disappointed that I managed to miss the review of the event in your newspaper. I now see from April Cronin's letter of May 17th that there was none.
Aside altogether from whoever your music critics are meant to serve, this is nothing less than insulting to two musical groupings - the RTÉCO and Our Lady's Choral Society, who have performed so well for so many years (and the latter practise and perform in their spare time) as well as to the soloists and perhaps most of all to Proinnsías Ó Duinn, who has probably contributed more than anyone to orchestral and choral music in Ireland, in the National Concert Hall and well beyond it. - Yours, etc.,
TOM GREALY, Threadneedle Road, Salthill, Galway.