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Article: Violinist, leader of orchestras and Joyce devotee
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- July 18, 2009
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John Ronayne: JOHN RONAYNE, who has died aged aged 77, was an
outstanding violinist, initially in Ireland and subsequently in
London. He toured Russia withthe London Philharmonic and was leader
of the RTE Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra.For
the first 18 years of his life, John Ronayne lived in two rooms in
Capel Street with his parents and two sisters. His father, a van-
driver at Eason's and keen amateur violinist, bought him a little
tin fiddle from Woolworths when he was aged four.
His enthusiasm for the instrument soon waned, but a year or two
later he asked his father to teach him to play. Money was short, but
his father bought him a quarter-sized violin and taught ...