Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

State Theatre, August 25  Where instrumentalists have a device to hide behind, singers are naked. Fearing this, most of them wrap themselves in artifice and histrionics, or seek to impress with hellish shrieking and vowels mangled into unintelligibility. A precious few surmount the fear and relish a nakedness wherein lies…

City Recital Hall, July 19  Had Jacques Brel been alive and well and living in Sydney, and had he attended Amanda McBroom and Michelle Brourman’s concert entitled Let’s Fall In Love, he may have died a man content. McBroom’s delivery of his dazzling Carousel, about being unable to step off…