Kate Connolly
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Articles by Kate Connolly
theartsdesk in Dalarna: Skating through Vinterfest
Sunday, 26 February 2012
As concert venues go, this one is perfect – a barn-like structure, whose pine timbers emit a fragrance not unlike that of a sauna, whose long glass windows look out across oxon-red wooden Swedish... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Berlin: More Venezuelans, Even Younger
Sunday, 10 October 2010
Just seconds into a performance by the Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil Teresa Carreño it is immediately clear what Sir Simon Rattle meant when he said, “I have seen the future of music.” The passion and... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Berlin: Requiem for a Shaker-Upper
Saturday, 28 August 2010
It is tempting to playfully twist the German language a little to come up with a word that best describes the avant garde German theatre and film director Christoph Schlingensief. A “Wachrüttler”,... Read more... |
All Das Jazz: the Berlin Phil swing with Wynton Marsalis
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
"It was only on Monday afternoon that the final scores of three of the movements were put into my hands," says Sir Simon Rattle, chuckling at the memory and casting a mock glance of disapproval at... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Istanbul: Salzburg, Here We Come
Monday, 31 May 2010
At a sprawling car plant in the suburbs of north-eastern Istanbul mechanics are busy repairing camshafts and dynamos, applying blow torches to the undercarriages of a range of luxury cars and... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Günter Grass
Friday, 28 May 2010
The Nobel prize-winning writer, playwright and artist Günter Grass (b.1927) is arguably the best-known living German-language author. Born in the port city of Danzig in what is now Gdansk in Poland... Read more... |
theartsdesk at Savannah Music Festival
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Over four days I've gorged on some world-class music. If you take a pretty city in the full swing of spring, add a dose of Southern US hospitality, some exquisite venues, and a music promoter able to... Read more... |
