Irish Examiner view: Recognition of music as a way of life

Bequest of €2m for UCC's Department of Music announced just as UCC’s new sound studio was unveiled

Sidney V Regan, who died in 2017, left €2m to UCC's Department of Music which is located at St Vincents in Sundays Well, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan 

The pandemic's impact on face-to-face concerts has reminded professional musicians of how very precariously they live. 

That has always been the case. Those who choose a career in music, at least if they do so exclusively as performers, understand that reality.