John Shand | Music & Other Spheres Posts

July 29, 2017 / Concert Reviews - Archive

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…

July 27, 2017 / Off The Cuff

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…

July 24, 2017 / Album Reviews - Archive

OF OTHER NARRTIVES VOLUME 6: and So…too (feeling-to-thought) 9.5/10 The final volume in Phil Treloar’s mammoth retrospective of a significant part of his life’s work, Of Other Narratives – Tracings in the Ground of Collective Autonomy, is almost like a snapshot of the series as a whole. The music occurs…