Kate Connolly

Articles By Kate Connolly

theartsdesk Q&A: Günter Grass Tuesday, 14 April 2015 Read more...	theartsdesk in Dalarna: Skating through Vinterfest Sunday, 26 February 2012 Read more...
theartsdesk in Berlin: More Venezuelans, Even Younger Sunday, 10 October 2010 Read more...	theartsdesk in Berlin: Requiem for a Shaker-Upper Saturday, 28 August 2010 Read more...
All Das Jazz: the Berlin Phil swing with Wynton Marsalis Tuesday, 15 June 2010 Read more...	theartsdesk in Istanbul: Salzburg, Here We Come Monday, 31 May 2010 Read more...
theartsdesk at Savannah Music Festival Wednesday, 31 March 2010 Read more...

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

There’s nothing like an anodyne new(ish) work to give a masterpiece an even higher profile. Rachel Portman‘s Tipping Points, promising to...

A gem for me this year has been the collaborative project between the veteran minimalist composer Chihei Hatakeyama and jazz...

The descending refrain opening the song isn’t unusual but attention is instantly attracted as it’s played on a harpsichord. Equally instantly, an...

RaMell Ross’s feature debut follows his poetic documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) in again observing black...

The destruction of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988 was one of the ghastliest events in what would become known as the War on...

Does absolutely everything have to get more difficult with each passing year? Apparently so. The amount of time I’ve spent deciding which of the...

In one sense it was a New Year’s Day “nearly”, just stopping short of giving us the already great Irish lyric-dramatic soprano Jennifer Davis in...

Mk.gee has been an unexpected thread in a year of music that’s pulled me in many different directions, punctuating the need for unique, sonically...

Having carved a swathe of terror and destruction through the Axis forces in North Africa, the SAS return for a second series (again written by...