Sandra Bates will step down as Ensemble Theatre’s artistic director at the end of 2015, having clocked up 30 years in the job. Her successor, the current co-artistic director Mark Kilmurry, will be only the third incumbent since Hayes Gordon founded the company 1958. Bates is primarily quitting because she…
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In the best Gypsy fashion Stochelo Rosenberg is in his caravan when we speak on the telephone. The caravan is in the little French town of Samois-sur-Seine, which, being where the great Gypsy (or Roma) jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt died, holds an annual festival in his honour. Rosenberg is there…
As bed fellows go, traditional Greek music and jazz might have seemed as likely as Mahler and Abba. But then Charles Lloyd, one of jazz’s most revered saxophonists, heard one of Greece’s most cherished contraltos, Maria Farantouri, and she affected him the same way that Billie Holiday had done when…