Scouting a car-boot sale an 11-year-old Yaron Hallis found an LP by someone with his father’s name: Leonard Cohen. Highly amused, he bought it, beginning a life-long love affair that has seen Hallis’s band, Monsieur Camembert, play an annual tribute to this other Leonard Cohen since 2005. The 2017 event…
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The Australian cabaret singer and pianist Janet Seidel died August 7 after succumbing to cancer at the age of 62. Seidel, who released 18 albums across two decades, enjoyed substantial success overseas as well as in Australia. Her trademark was a girlish voice and her ability to blend the ingenue…
You can’t accuse Ellen Kirkwood of lacking ambition. She describes her new large-scale composition [A]part, to be premiered on Saturday, as being about “all the major issues in the world at the moment”. These include climate change and the refugee crisis, with the cryptic title reflecting our feeling of being…