Paragon, Katoomba, November 13 Like a perfect match between food and wine, there was an idyllic partnership between the elegant tango-based music of Alturas met the equally graceful art-deco decor of the Paragon, designed by Henry White, who was also responsible for the State and Capitol Theatres in Sydney. And…
Category: Concert Reviews
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…
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 –…