The Baroque Room, November 21 7/10 The shapeshifting composer Kurt Weill went from jobbing pianist to become, in partnership with Berthold Brecht, the toast of the Weimar Republic. Having fled the horrors of Nazism, he slotted firstly into Paris, and then into American popular song via musicals and film, influenced…
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City Recital Hall, November 5 7/10 We were well into the concert when Jacqui Dark barely breathed “Ne me quitte pas.” Suddenly, after five months, you remembered why live music beats recorded music: you were no longer just another lost soul in a room, but part of a community of…
Johnston St Jazz, September 23 7.5/10 This was a cunning solution. With most streamed concerts during lockdowns seeming to amplify the absence of an audience, Ben Hauptmann and Aaron “Baz” Flower headed outdoors. Central Coast residents, they picked locations around Pearl Beach and Macmasters Beach that they thought would be…