Yellow House, Sydney 7/10 It was hard to know where to look, what with a stark naked composer disporting himself, a significant artist sketching him on a wall, and a string quartet sawing away. To cap it off, Clementine Robertson was lying on a plinth the height of an upright…
Category: Concert Reviews
505, August 4 9.5/10 Wisely it came last, because it couldn’t be trumped. The late Ornette Coleman’s Lonely Woman is one of the 20th century’s masterpieces; a sonic equivalent of the shattering sadness of Picasso’s Weeping Woman. Here it was played with almost frightening intensity, spawning a dialogue between Peter…
The Studio, August 1 7.5/10 The three finalists for this year’s Freedman Jazz Fellowship shared a keen feel for making silence as profound a musical ingredient as any notes. The compositions of pianists Joseph O’Connor and Luke Sweeting and drummer James McLean all used space to enhance moods and germinate…