“Soul Whisper” is the title of Tammy Weis’s most recent album, showcasing 11 songs inspired by the poetry of Portuguese literary icon Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). It proves to be a subtle and very apt description of the ethereal and intensely [...]
Ute Lemper brings her “extraordinarily fresh take on familiar songs” by Kurt Weill to London this Friday… Have you ever heard ‘Mack the Knife’? Well, of course you have. The swing classic, written in 1928 by Kurt Weill and Bertolt [...]
A strict filming ban is in force at the normally laid-back Soho Theatre, so I won’t be revealing the shockingly delicious visual gag which opens this show, marking Meow Meow’s return to the stage where she made her London debut [...]
Cécile McLorin Savant, Dan Tepfer, Thomas Enhco and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Three time Grammy winner, Cécile McLorin Salvant is an unlikely diva, in her billowy harlequin smock of fuschia, turquoise and lime and her retro spectacles; yet she instantly [...]
“What should a modern day jazz song look like?” was the conundrum Kazuo Ishiguro had to wrestle when Stacey Kent first asked him to pen some original lyrics. The genial Nobel and Booker laureate confessed his initial trepidation as he [...]
