Concert Hall, October 24 Pat Metheny has pursued a musical odyssey that, for sheer breadth of territory traversed, few artists can match. Along the way the guitarist has wandered into a few blind alleys as well as expanding possibilities for creative musicians of all stripes. Now he has arrived…
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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…
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…