From the opening bar vitality spilt from this music like beer from a jug. The piece was the standard My Shining Hour, and it was certainly part of the shiniest hour I heard in this year’s Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival. If the purpose of arts festivals is to expose…
Category: Concert Reviews
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 –…
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…