St Stephen’s Uniting Church, City, September 27 Writing liturgical music in the Tudor age obliged a certain flexibility. Thomas Tallis was England’s preeminent composer as the state faith flicked back and forth between Catholicism and Protestantism, and burning archbishops was much in vogue. Andrew Robson exhibited a flexibility of his…
Category: Concert Reviews
Campbelltown Arts Centre, September 14 Mujing expresses the idea of two trees that grow in close proximity entwining and merging into one visual entity, while maintaining separate root systems. So several sections of this hour-long improvisation conceived by Simon Barker (drums, percussion) grew out of duets, while the title was…
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…