Full length Documentary on the creation of Behind the Closed Eye (2023)

Dissertations & Articles

ARTICLE : Seán Doherty’s detailed and illuminating analysis of Michael’s “O Maria” is the cover feature of the March/April issue of Choral Journal. The article is entitled “Toward ‘Transcendence’: Music and Meditation in Michael McGlynn’s O Maria”.

Doherty writes : “The term “transcendence” appears frequently in discourse regarding contemporary choral music. It is often used synonymously with its related adjectival forms of “transcendent” and “transcendental.”
An examination of these usages reveals that the term is seldom intended in its technical philosophical or theological definition in this discourse, but most often refers to music that induces a sense of meditation, reflection, and serenity in the listener.”

The making of “Maalaulu”

DISSERTATION : Doctoral dissertation at the University of Miami, Florida The Choral Music of Irish Composer Michael McGlynn (Dr. Stacie Rossow) available to download from their site in PDF format HERE.

DISSERTATION : Dissertation at the University of Louisiana An Overview of the Choral Music of Michael McGlynn with a Conductor’s Preparatory Guide to His Celtic Mass (Dr. Karen Marrolli) is available to download from HERE.

DISSERTATION : 합창작품에 나타난 대중적 켈틱 요소의 특징 연구 - 마이클 맥글린의 《켈틱 미사》를 중심으로 | 진형곤, 류현수 2022. The Study on Popular Elements of Celtic Music in Choir - Focusing on Celtic Mass by Michael McGlynn. "…This paper analyzes the first movement 'Kyrie' and the ninth movement 'Pater Noster' of 'Celtic Mass', a work by composer Michael McGlynn…Through this research, the aim is to publicise the popular value of Celtic music by examining the process of its new fusion in choral works through material utilisation, having only existed in instrumental music and traditional music. Michael McGlynn has harmonised and fused elements of Celtic music with medieval contrapuntal music elements, various contemporary compositional techniques, and created unique and popular modern choral music of Ireland. Such a work can spark a new interest in Celtic music among audiences familiar with Western European or American choral music, along with an exotic freshness.". Available from HERE.

DISSERTATION : Doctoral dissertation at the ASU, Arizona The Evolution of Choral Sound: in professional choirs from the 1970s to the twenty-first century” (Dr. Kira Zeeman Rugan) available to download from their site in PDF format HERE. A fascinating analysis and exploration that Michael contributed to alongside colleagues John Rutter, Harry Christophers, Charles Bruffy, Nigel Short, Craig Hella Johnson, Alice Parker, Michael McGlynn, Phillip Brunelle, Craig Jessop, Libby Larsen, Ola Gjeilo, Cecilia McDowall, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi and Stephen Paulus.

The Celtic Mass 30th Anniversary

The Choral Contrarians

DECEMBER 09, 2020 ERIC BARNUM AND MICHAEL MCGLYNN

Composing: An Ocean of Song. Feat. Michael McGlynn

NOVEMBER 18, 2020 ERIC BARNUM AND MICHAEL MCGLYNN

Anúna and Sean-nós. Feat. Michael McGlynn

Voces8 Live from London Interview

November 07, Interview with Barney Smith of Voces8

Chor Leoni INSIDE series

Ep 1 : Chor Leoni Inside with Michael McGlynn

Ep 2 : Chor Leoni Further Inside with Michael McGlynn

Interview 2008.

Articles