Giles Terera and Dan Poole
Articles By Giles Terera And Dan Poole
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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
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Ro first saw Fat Dog, before anyone had heard of them, at the Windmill in Brixton in front of a crowd of about 25 people. Their manic energy blew...
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George Gershwin called one of his early classic songs, first created by Fred and Adele Astaire, “Fascinating Rhythm”. It was that mesmeric pull...
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I always advocate in favour of more sci-fi plays, and over the past decade there have been a gratifying number of them. But one essential element...
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Park Jiha is a super-talented and gloriously inspired Korean multi-instrumentalist. Her new album follows Philos (2018) and The Gleam...
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In his first weeks in office, Harrison Ford’s US president survives an assassination attempt inside the White House, goes to war with Japan and...
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Russia.
It’s impossible to be ambivalent towards that word, that country, indeed that idea, one so very similar to...
![Rebecca Lea, Emma Tring, Sofi Jeannin, Andrew Barclay, BBC Singers and National Youth Voices at the start of MacMillan's 'Ordso Virtutum'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/BBC%20Singers%201.jpg?itok=3o_oDS-T)
Does any living composer write better for choirs, or more demandingly when circumstances allow, than James MacMillan? Admirable as it is to have...
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Ridley Scott’s 2001 film Black Hawk Down was a technically superb blockbuster bristling with thunderous action sequences and famous...
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Having recently watched the charming animation Marcelle The Shell With Shoes On with my nine-year-old son, I was going to suggest for our...