5 work trends

Local singers take the stage

Singer-songwriters Inch Chua and Art Fazil might be better known for their music, but the pair are taking on the theatre scene with their newest works. The Straits Times speaks to Chua, whose music-driven theatre production, ‘Til The End Of The World, We’ll Meet In No Man’s Land, opens on Wednesday; and Art, whose play, […]

Diverse piano showcase of heroism and mortality

It is often interesting to attempt to discern the thought processes that go into a pianist’s art of crafting a recital programme. For Russian-American pianist Kirill Gerstein’s debut at the Singapore International Piano Festival, he chose the works of six composers from lands as diverse as Germany, France and Hungary (the usual suspects) to England, […]

Brilliant homage to master of bossa nova

JAZZ GETZ/GILBERTO (EXPANDED EDITION) Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto Verve 5 stars Brazilian musician Joao Gilberto died last Saturday at the age of 88. The singer-guitarist, along with composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and saxophonist Stan Getz, launched the bossa nova craze with their landmark 1964 album Getz/Gilberto. While the original had just eight tracks, I […]