Benedict Schlepper Connolly
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New Music Dublin manages to kick up a storm
- Music
- September 26, 2018, 05:00
You just can’t envy John Harris, the director of the New Music Dublin festival. At the beginning of March the so-called Beast from the East and Storm (...)
Director’s first full festival hoves into view
- Music
- January 24, 2018, 05:15
There’s a great, thought-provoking line by GK Chesterton in which he claims that “if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly”. I first came ac(...)
Ergodos Musicians: Songs
- Music
- August 15, 2014, 00:00
In the end, it all comes back to songs. Though we may turn an ambitious ear to a Beethoven symphony, a Seamus Ennis reel or a late Coltrane improvisat(...)
Pulling out the stops in Dún Laoghaire
- Culture
- June 11, 2013, 01:00
The organ series at St Michael’s Church in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin started its 40th series on Sunday, and Gerard Gillen, the man who began it all, wa(...)
