7.00pm at Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese Street Brunswick
PROGRAM Stuart GREENBAUM String Quartet No. 3 Linda KOUVARAS Piano Quartet Linda KOUVARAS String Quartet Andrián PERTOUT Piano Quintet Michael BAKRNČEV String Quartet Katherine RAWLINGS Takayna Caerwen MARTIN String Quartet
Past performance: 17th February 2023 Classics: From Operatic Arias to Broadway
A concert at the De Bortoli Rutherglen Estate
The Crossing Machine performed at the beautiful De Bortoli Rutherglen Estate in an unforgettable evening of fine food, fine wine and fine music. We welcomed highly acclaimed soprano, Rada Tochalna and tenor, Asher Reichman.
7.00pm at Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese Street Brunswick
The Crossing Machine’s first live concert since lockdown.
Schubert – Rosamunde Quartet No. 13 in A minor Stuart Greenbaum – Light From Distant Stars Borodin String Quartet No. 2, 3rd movement
Enjoy The Crossing Machine’s recorded performance from Melbourne lockdown: Stuart Greenbaum’s String Quartet No. 5 (Light From Distant Stars)
Stuart Greenbaum String Quartet No.5 played by The Crossing Machine
In 1993, Elvis Costello stunned critics and audiences alike with his gorgeous and ambitious album and song cycle, The Juliet Letters, recorded with The Brodsky Quartet. Against all predictions, the live-recorded classically leaning album, comprised of imaginary letters to Juliet Capulet climbed the charts worldwide.
Elvis Costello described The Juliet Letters as “a song sequence for string quartet and voice and it has a title. It’s a little bit different. It’s not a rock opera. It’s a new thing.”
“In The Juliet Letters, Elvis Costello has crafted a series of dramatic ballads in which passages written by male and female characters of varying ages and degrees of sanity tell stories of love, betrayal and death. Shakespeare’s most famous tragic heroine serves as a metaphor for the disillusionment they all experience in some way.”
Rolling Stone Magazine
The Juliet Letters in 2022
On 25th May 2022, The Crossing Machine presented The Juliet Letters along with some original compositions by Adam Starr as well as Rosie Luby at the Brunswick Ballroom.
The Juliet Letters in 2020
The Crossing Machine played The Juliet Letters on 15 and 16th February at the 2020 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Three amazing musicians joined us:
Kat Stevens on violin (originally from Adelaide, now in Melbourne)
Jason Thomas on viola from Adelaide and a member of The Zephyr Quartet who have kindly lent him to us for 2 afternoons in February.
Janet Butler on cello from Melbourne who was a member of the Bournemouth Symphony.
The Juliet Letters in 2019
On 25 – 27th September 2019, The Crossing Machine played The Juliet Letters with Asher Reichman at the Melbourne Fringe Festival at The Melba, Sawtooth Studio, 35 Johnston Street Collingwood.
Following on from a successful 2018 season, The Crossing Machine and tenor Doug Kelly returned to the Butterfly Club, Melbourne, 29th April – 4th May 2019 for another highly successful season.
The Crossing Machine along with Doug Kelly and Asher Reichman performed The Juliet Letters at their inaugural Butterfly Club season, 3rd – 8th September, 2018.
