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Sláinte! Music, Music, Music Left: Ireland s most famous tin-whistler, Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains, circa 1970s. Right: Ancient harp, believed to be Brian Boru s, is housed in Trinity College, Dublin.
Edythe Preet writes that music defines Ireland’s identity.
For every country there is an iconic image that immediately brings the nation to mind. The United States has the Statue of Liberty. Dragons evoke thoughts of China. The Fleur de Lis is quintessentially French. While national symbols range the gamut from mythical beasts, crowns, and statues to insignias, monuments, buildings and more, music is conspicuously absent. Except in one case.
Steven Glovsky
Prepare to be surprised!
A college girlfriend first showed me Picasso’s Guernica at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). She knew it. I knew nothing.
I credit the power of its black-and-white imagery and wall mural size for a lifelong appreciation of art and museums. It still inhabits my memory.
Commissioned by Spain’s pre-Franco government in 1937, Picasso lodged it at MoMA until democracy was restored to his native land. I visited it several time in New York (including after that girlfriend). And when it finally returned to Spain in 1981, I only hoped there would be another opportunity.