... power of religion. Modesty, in the trappings of Poor Theatre, stands side by side with egotism, as Kantor is equated with Beethoven and Bums. Touches of the ridiculous appear in the sub lime. Finally, Kantor's ghost, appro priately played by a young actor ...

... In the House of the Black Spaniard Hill Street Theatre Ben Robertson, as the dying Beethoven, plunges at the start into a mighty Beethovian tantrum. This darkly brooding, excellent perfor mance is counterpointed by a mys terious presence called Maria ...

... register. For much of the afternoon he seemed somewhat disengaged. There were passing felicities the brooding quality of Beethoven's 'In questa tomba oscura', the lilt in the voice for col raggio dorato (with gilded rays) in a Scarlatti song, the way ...

... and launched into Nadine (Is It You). Then it was mainly uphill as the self-penned classics flowed, including Roll Over Beethoven, Johnny B Goode and You Never Can Tell. The lyrical content, sometimes lascivious, and the guitar picking, was almost as ...

... general effect was one lacking in focus. Continuing under the same banner, Charemaine Seet's Three Young Blades was set to Beethoven laid over noises traffic and heavy breathing and entertained imagery, often quite static, above choreographic velocity. Taking ...

... compositions with the same note, Chopin's lack of concentration, Andrew Lloyd Webber's alleged affection for Brahms and Beethoven and the packet of white powder which Liberg suggests might go some way towards explaining the lyric for Lennon and McCartney's ...

... newcomer: Chris Isaak; Colour Me Badd, Extreme, Harry Connick Jnr, Jellyfish, PM Dawn. Classical recording: Missa Solemnis (Beethoven) Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; Candide (Bernstein) London Symphony Orchestra ...

... really wanted to concentrate on. Sedaka has taken some of the most celebrated melodies written by composers such as Chopin, Beethoven and Puccini and matched his own original words to them. The result is painful beauti ful music combined with often bland ...

... became a pathetic figure, des perate to see food on her empty plate. Performed in the theatre's bar area to the strains of Beethoven's 5th Symphony, she eventually satisfied her desire by demolishing her own fingers. Boan's talents were more fully exposed ...

... tic. Sara Matthews' Passing Through boldly attempted to come to terms with the second movement of the probing depths of Beethoven's 'Ghost' piano trio. There was a strength of idealised human nature in the gentleness of her movement, in her sensitive ...

... the Big 0, Buddy Holly, Tina Turner, Jagger, Bowie, Acker Bilk, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson and rousers like Roll Over Beethoven, Putting on the Agony, Shake, Rattle and Roll, Pretty Woman, Da Doo Ron Ron and Space Odyssey. As relief from the ever-pre ...

... famous operas. A number of the segments fea tured, including the moment when prisoners have a glimpse at the free world in Beethoven's Fidelio, are very moving, but I could have heard a CD and had the same experience. Nothing Stewart said made me see the ...