Category: Concert Reviews

October 30, 2019 / Concert Reviews - Archive

City Recital Hall, October 18 6/10 The idea was enticing. Take the 15th-century Japanese writer Zeami Motokiyo’s concept of the seven ages of the artist, and depict them in music while incorporating taiko-style drumming. Three of Zeami’s “seven flowers”, as he calls these ages, are clustered in childhood, three between…

October 28, 2019 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Wentworth Falls School of Arts, October 12 7.5/10 If you can make sound tell a story it becomes music, and were Daniel Weltlinger not a musician, he would still be a story-teller. You hear it in the way he devised his recent Szolnok album, named for the Hungarian town where…

October 10, 2019 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Hayes Theatre, October 2 8/10 For some they come true. When Nancye Hayes was in her teens she used to sing and dance along to records of Broadway shows; to dream of playing starring roles. Now here she was, 58 years after her professional debut (My Fair Lady) and 52…