The Sound Lounge, December 10 9/10 Had Lady Macbeth penned ballads rather than sleepwalking she may have bequeathed us some bonny wee ditties of daggers, ghosts and bloody hands. Happily others filled that particular need across the centuries, and these traditional English and Scottish ballads were collected in their hundreds…
Category: Concert Reviews
Kindlehill Performance Space, December 4 8/10 Not that I was there, but it’s safe to say that the Alleluias – modal sacred songs – of the Byzantine Church didn’t sound like this in the sixth century. Pieces created for unaccompanied voices were being realised by Adam Simmons’ soprano saxophone and…
Foundry 616, December 3 8/10 All music that is not idle display is a dialogue of sorts. Across this night came dialogues between music and room, music and audience, players and compositions, players and their instruments, improvisers and their collaborators and even between the first act and the second. In…