COMES A TIME (Treasure House Music) 7/10 Does where a musician lives affect the music that he or she makes? The evidence comes down pretty thoroughly in the affirmative: compare the ponderousness of Russian opera with the flightiness of French, or the intensity of New York jazz in the 1950s…
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Wentworth Falls School of Arts, July 13 8/10 It is six years since Lulo Reinhardt was last here – much too long when it comes to one of the most gifted musicians alive. That he deserves inclusion in such rarefied company is not due to his phenomenal virtuosity on an…
This is a somewhat shameless use of this website, but hell, it’s mine, so why not? For forty-three years I have been churning out writing of every known sort: plays, arts criticism, journalism, fiction, non-fiction, children’s fiction, poetry, song-lyrics and librettos. Yes, the odd book has been published, the odd…