David Benedict
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First Person: pianist Danny Driver on teaching online and th...
There’s an old saying that goes: if life deals you lemons, make lemonade. To say that the COVID-19 pandemic is a lemon would be a huge and trivial...
An Evening with an Immigrant, Bridge Theatre review – poetic...
When the history of British theatre’s response to COVID-19...
Miss Juneteenth review - a ray of Texan sunshine
Beauty queen pageants have long been ripe for parody, from their plastic glamour to the Machiavellian competitiveness. Miss Juneteenth...
Hold Still, National Portrait Gallery review - snapshots fro...
A digital exhibition for digital times – and just right: as a reproductive medium,...
Castalian Quartet/Elizabeth Llewellyn, Simon Lepper, Wigmore...
Songs of the beyond versus the profundity of the here and now struck very different depths in the Castalians’ evening concert at the...
Album: Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
This is a musical homecoming for Róisín Murphy, both geographically and figuratively. She may have been raised in Dublin and spent her gig-going...
Finley, LPO, Gardner, Royal Festival Hall (p)review - specia...
There was a rainbow over the Royal Festival Hall...
Monsoon review - like something almost being said
Building very promisingly on the achievement of his ...
Album: Corey Taylor - CMFT
The graveyard of tedious musical vanity projects – and the bargain bins of many record shops – is filled with solo albums by the lead vocalists of...
