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David Benedict

Articles By David Benedict

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'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...
Heartbreak and soaring beauty on Chrissie Hynde & Pals...

A key part of Chrissie Hynde’s brilliance and longevity has always been her ability to keep multiple musical personas going at once. She’s the...

Ragdoll, Jermyn Street Theatre review – compelling and emoti...

Oh yes, I actually do remember Patty Hearst. She was the American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter, who, at the age of...

The Last Dinner Party's 'From the Pyre' is as...

Before we get into it, reader, can you accept that The Last Dinner Party are a band born of privilege and high academic study? Of poshness,...

Kempf, Brno Philharmonic, Davies, Bridgewater Hall, Manchest...

Dennis Russell Davies and his musicians from the Czech...

Moroccan Gnawa comes to Manhattan with 'Saha Gnawa...

A mix of tradition and Afrofuturism, acoustic and electronic, east and west fumigating in a cauldron of rhythms, chants, solo explorations and...

Albert Herring, English National Opera review - a great come...

Britten’s Albert Herring is one of the great 20th century comic operas; only Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Barry’s The...

Iron Ladies review - working-class heroines of the Miners...

The enduring image of the 1984-1985 Miners' Strike is that of men standing arm in arm against police and of mass protests devolving into mayhem –...

Blu-ray: The Man in the White Suit

The best Ealing comedies are surely the three...