Mara! meets Marais
The Marais Project presents MARA! meets MARAIS CD Launch at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Jennifer Eriksson, Director of The Marais Project, writes: One of the frustrating things about being a musical performer outside the all pervasive popular or rock genres is that invariably one gets stuck with the label ‘classical musician’ with all the negativity this can entail. The US music critic Alex Ross commences his book LISTEN TO THIS with the following sentences: ” I hate ‘ classical music’ : not the thing but the name. It traps a tenaciously living art in the theme park of…