Foundry 616, November 10 Ellen Kirkwood’s first foray into fusing music and spoken word was Theseus and the Minotaur. For her follow-up she bolted to the polar-opposite end of literature, and conjured up the weird, fantastic worlds of China Mieville, for whose work the term “fantasy” is risibly inadequate –…
Category: Concert Reviews – Archive
Glebe Town Hall, November 7 Here was a concert to eliminate perceptions of the koto being an inherently limited instrument. The models ranged from five strings to the conventional 13 strings and the 17-string bass koto, the ensemble sizes extended from one to 16 and the compositions dated from 1630…