Katherine Waters
Articles By Katherine Waters
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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...
Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela took the Barbican by storm last night with a thrilling account of Mahler’s...
![Jenůfa (Corinne Winters) and her stepmother the Kostelnička (Karita Mattila) in the second act](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/webimage-6827C556-C3CE-4593-830A7F92FC1D4C1E.png?itok=tTQeX2Sr)
This was always going to be Jakub Hrůša’s night, his first at the...
![Wayne Marshall directing 'Rhapsody in Blue' from the piano](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/GermanYO5%20res.jpg?itok=qxg-4W-H)
This concert was an effusion of pure joy. Billed as the German National Orchestra, the Bundesjugendorchester (Federal Youth Orchestra), all of...
![Chris McCausland talks about his life and career](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/ChrisMcCausland_56149_RT_Small.jpg?itok=Wx1rzr0o)
By all accounts Chris McCausland had to be persuaded to take part in the most recent series of Strictly Come Dancing, which he won with...
![The Weather Station's 'Humanhood': about its ebb and flow](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/The%20Weather%20Station%20-%20Humanhood.jpg?itok=7IqO8uFh)
Four of Humanhood’s 13 tracks are short, impressionistic mood pieces. Between 48 seconds and just-over a minute-and-a-half long, they...
![The gang's all here: Oliver's fellow residents at the workhouse](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Oliver%21%202024%20%284%29%20Credit%20Johan%20Persson-2.jpg?itok=TcBWVzAc)
Into a world of grooming gangs, human trafficking and senior prelates resigning over child abuse cases comes Oliver!, Lionel...
![Still searching: Tony Slattery](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Slattery%20MAIN%3F.jpg?itok=rG5G9ZvR)
In the late Eighties and Nineties, Tony Slattery became one of the most ubiquitous faces on television, appearing regularly on Whose Line Is...
!['Perverts': dark and experimental](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Ethel%20cain%20-%20PERVERTS%20TAD.jpg?itok=A2lX0Co9)
Ethel Cain’s Perverts is a dark and experimental follow-up to her debut album, Preacher’s Daughter. It takes listeners on a...
![Fjords and islands: Leif Ove Andsnes](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/ands%201.jpg?itok=mjVoW6Dp)
Forthright and upright, powerful and lucid, the frank and bold pianism of Leif Ove Andsnes took his Wigmore Hall audience from Norway to Poland (...