“How many Aloys Fleischmanns were there? Well, there was the one who became professor of music at University College Cork in 1934, at the tender age of 24. There was the one who founded the Cork Symphony Orchestra a year later and would enter the Guinness Book of Records for the length of his tenure as its conductor – he stayed at its helm until he died in 1992 …” (more)
[Michael Dervan, Irish Times, 19 April]