Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

April 27, 2022 / Concert Reviews - Archive

State Theatre, April 11 7/10 There’s a particular warmth in the room. One that exceeds affection for the songs or for George’s singing and guitar-playing. Might it be that many of the couples in the packed State Theatre first kissed, danced or had sex to George’s music? Because this is…

April 25, 2022 / Concert Reviews - Archive

City Recital Hall, April 6 8.5/10 The trick, of course, was not to copy, but to reinvent. So arrangers Matt McMahon and Bernard Rofe, the ACO and trumpeter Phil Slater made Solea their own. The work is the pinnacle of a masterpiece of 20th-century music: Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain…

March 7, 2022 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Phoenix Central Park, February 17 8/10 At one point it ceased to be three pianos, and sounded more like a mighty choir or a vast orchestra of harps. If you closed your eyes the galaxies of notes seemed infinite, generating a formidable density of sound, while still being shot through…