“If I can make it there/I’ll make it anywhere,” sang Frank Sinatra about New York, the world’s jazz Mecca. Since Frank sang that jazz ceased to be a style so much as a language common to improvising musicians from Mumbai to Rio. Sydney’s annual inundation of artists from Melbourne’s International…
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Rodrigo and Gabriela love going to extremes. Even their success is an extreme of sorts, the duo being the first acoustic rock act without a singer to storm the charts and pack concert halls. Ever. Long before that, when they tired of playing heavy metal in their native Mexico they…
John Shand talks to STC artistic director Andrew Upton about his forthcoming production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, starring Hugo Weaving as Hamm, Tom Budge as Clov, Bruce Spence as Nagg and Sarah Peirse as Nell. JS: The current fashion of not just reinterpreting but reinventing the classics is denied to…