What do you think about when joining an ensemble?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE You may have seen Campbell Banks’ byline in CutCommon in the past. The brutally honest critic often writes philosophical musings as […]
Campbell Banks
Campbell Banks breathes new life into this music
BY KIERAN WELCH “The cello needs to play many roles,” Campbell Banks says. The musician is commenting on Zoltan Kodály’s Sonata for Solo Cello, […]
Death and the Ravin’
BY CAMPBELL BANKS This concert has me stumped. My fingers have been poised on the keyboard for ages now, stuck like a sprinter with […]
Still Oblique to the Pathétique
BY CAMPBELL BANKS A confession: sometimes, when I am moping along a footpath through an oncoming rush of rage-inducing text-walkers, the gaudy jackets of […]
No parking: A Play On experience
BY CAMPBELL BANKS Play On v_4 Collingwood Underground Carpark, November 25 I couldn’t see the cobwebs in the dark. Even much of the […]
Don’t leave me alone
BY CAMPBELL BANKS It had been a rough week, if you remember. On the Monday, Leonard Cohen added his name to 2016’s long list […]
O Bratsche, Where Art Thou?
BY CAMPBELL BANKS Let them eat cake. And drink coffee. And let it be free, too. This will help entice them to come to […]
The Sound of One Penny Dropping
BY CAMPBELL BANKS The eyes gave him away. They’re hidden on the back wall of the hall, in amongst the cartographic wood panelling of […]
Nostalgia Ascending
BY CAMPBELL BANKS Lark Ascending Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Richard Tognetti Hamer Hall, 20 August After seeing the program for this Melbourne Symphony […]
Hey you, dishwasher heart
BY CAMPBELL BANKS At the back of a stage dense with seated bodies, a man in fancy dress wanders sheepishly, paper in hand. He […]