Upcoming concert
Thursday 9th April 2026 at 8.00pm
On Thursday 9th April 2026, The Crossing Machine presented a program of exciting new music at Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese Street, Brunswick.
The program will include:
Tim DARGAVILLE String Quartet
Stuart GREENBAUM String Quartet No. 5
Katherine RAWLINGS
Setting Sail
Takayna
Caerwen MARTIN London Quartet
and
Excerpts from The Juliet Letters by Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet (for string quartet)
Upcoming concert
Friday 1st May 2026 at 7.30pm
Melbourne string quartet The Crossing Machine (violinists Marianne Rothschild and Matthew Rigby, violist Margaret Butcher and cellist Charlotte Jacke) will be joined by vocalist Jordan Z to perform The Juliet Letters, the genre-defying song cycle created by Elvis Costello in collaboration with The Brodsky Quartet. Originally released in 1993, The Juliet Letters is a sequence of letters written to Shakespeare’s Juliet, revealing a gallery of fractured lives, longing, regret, and dark wit. Since beginning this project in 2018, The Crossing Machine has been breathing new life into the work, approaching it with deep respect for the score while bringing a distinctly contemporary energy and emotional clarity.