Monday Miscellany

Various events and other items that have landed in my inbox:

• The West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Ireland has a good line-up of performers and works, both in person and online, and if you're attending in person, you can see "their own neighboring ancient circle of standing stones [Kealkill Stone Circle in this case.]" Sounds good to me! (My long-ago visit to Orkney included both standing stones and the St. Magnus Festival, featuring music of the late Peter Maxwell Davies.)
• The Merola Opera Program's season starts...er, started on July 3. Watch their web site for information about upcoming live performances. It's very abbreviated compared to most years, owing to the pandemic.
• Pianist Ursula Oppens, whose long and distinguished career has been dedicated to new and recent music, has a new CD out, of music by composer Laura Kaminsky. I've very much enjoyed Kaminsky's chamber music and her opera As One.
• Speaking of distinguished pianists who focus on new and recent music, Sarah Cahill has a great program at Old First Church on July 16, 2021, at 8 a.m. She'll play the following:
  Anna Bon: Sonata No. 6 (1757)
  Leokadiya Kashperova: selections from Au sein de la Nature (1910)
  Ági Jámbor: Sonata (1949)
  Zenobia Powell Perry: Rhapsody (1960)
  Madeleine Dring: excerpts from Colour Suite (1963)
  Frangiz Ali-Zadeh: Music for Piano (1989/1997)
  Hannah Kendall: On the Chequer’d Field Array’d (2013)