Twenty-five years of the University of Limerick will be celebrated by its Irish World Music Centre at the weekend. Newly-commissioned pieces by Gerald Barry, for cinema organ, and John Buckley, for alto saxophone, will be performed on Saturday and Sunday night. The Irish Chamber Orchestra will perform Micheal O'Suilleabhain's score for the 1920's silent film, Irish Des- tiny. Tickets from 061-202917 . . .
The National Symphony Orchestra celebrates its late Conductor Laureate, Albert Rosen, in a tribute concert of Czech music at the NCH on Sunday, 8 p.m. All proceeds will be donated to the Irish Cancer Society. Tickets from 01-475 1572 . . . Fans of the Limerick novelist, Kate O'Brien, will be pleased to hear that the centenery of her birth is being marked by a series of Thomas Davis lectures, running on Mondays, RTE Radio 1, at 8.02 p.m. Speakers include John Logan, Lorna Reynolds, Ailbhe Smyth, Eibhear Walshe and Eavan Boland . . . The inventive, blackly comic Australian novelist Peter Carey, one of the many distinguished writers not included in the Booker shortlist this year, will be reading from his new novel, Jack Maggs, tomorrow night at Hodges Figgis, Dawson Street, Dublin, at 7.30 p.m.
