John Shand Posts

January 16, 2016 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Riverside Theatre, January 8 7.5/10 When Salvador Dali thundered on to the world stage in the 1920s he confronted us with images neither seen nor dreamed of before. The singularity of his grotesques, his placid beauty, his demented sexuality and his classicism set him apart from his surrealist peers. So…

January 15, 2016 / Features - Archive

In late February Stu Hunter will try making music on destroyed guns. By comparison his Sydney Festival premiere of The Migration looks quite conventional, being performed by Hunter and his dream team on piano, horns, guitar, bass and drums. But in fact this concert is just as improbable in its…

January 12, 2016 / Concert Reviews - Archive

1 Eric Harland’s Voyager 505, June 3 Eric Harland’s daring music was like a glimpse of jazz circa 2020. A once-in-a-generation drummer, he is also a composer of sufficient breadth to transcend idiom, presenting his collaborators with diverse challenges and distinctive fields upon which to loose their highly focused improvising.…