Lennox Theatre, October 5 To hear a concert of Jacques Brel songs less than two days after witnessing Sondheim On Sondheim was to relish the differences between these two dazzling lyricists and resourceful composers who were born a year apart. Where Sondheim’s songs are all refinement, wit and wistfulness, Brel’s…
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Reginald Theatre, October 3 What an idea James Lapine had. Stephen Sondheim’s collaborator conceived of a show in which arguably the cleverest song-writer and lyricist of the last 60 years would be filmed talking about writing this song or that show, about his childhood and his art. Between snatches of…
St Stephen’s Uniting Church, City, September 27 Writing liturgical music in the Tudor age obliged a certain flexibility. Thomas Tallis was England’s preeminent composer as the state faith flicked back and forth between Catholicism and Protestantism, and burning archbishops was much in vogue. Andrew Robson exhibited a flexibility of his…