Benedict Schlepper Connolly
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Get a musical fix with 20 Shots of Opera
- Music
- December 12, 2020, 05:00
“If I wanted to do this I wouldn’t have started from here.” It’s such an obvious point that nobody has actually yet bothered to make it to me about an(...)

Roger Doyle: Aosdána’s newest Saoi is a champion of Irish composers
- Music
- August 28, 2019, 05:00
Composer Roger Doyle, a member of Aosdána since 1986, has been been awarded the organisation’s highest honour. He was elected a Saoi earlier this year(...)

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(...)