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22 The Sydney Morning Herald ARTS Wednesday, October 20, 1993 Proud Tina keeps on turning Work's the key ROCK TINA TURNER Sydney Entertainment Centre, October 18 BRUCE ELDER TINA Turner is one of the seven wonders of the human world. Only a month away from her SSth birthday, she has more vitality, panache and sheer onstage personality than most performers half her age. Her appeal is a potent mixture of youthfulness, a fine and subtle sense of the absurdity of her own position, a superb voice in the soulgospel shouting tradition and a natural sense of style and attitude. Tina Turner has become one of the enduring role models of the baby-boom generation. She is the triumph of modern feminism made flesh, a woman who is sexy, feisty, amusing and talented, a person who has lived a full and complex life and remained unbowed by her personal travails.

Thus a Tina Turner show is great fun and a lot of genuine rock 'n' roll excitement. She has surrounded herself with youth, and she delights in her successful attempts to match their every move. Decked out in an impossibly short dress and ridiculously high heels, she rubs herself seductively against her guitarist and variations of her three great early hits Proud Mary, Nutbush City Limits and River Deep, Mountain High the last of which, although it is one of the half dozen greatest rock songs ever recorded, is unfortunately not included in this tour. The style of Turner's material a kind of in-your-face rock 'n' roll with enormous dance appeal matches her stage presence perfectly. The audience's familiarity with the material leads to endless sing-alongs.

Not surprisingly, the sing-along with accompanied The Best was the most impressive, a full-on performance. Ultimately, a Tina Turner concert is a celebration of a remarkable and wonderful human being. She has had more careers than the average cat has lives and she's done it with style, humour and resilience. Measured against the crassness of Cher and the manufactured vulgarity of Madonna, Tina Turner is a powerful demonstration that real presence and talent will always triumph, even in an industry which is driven by hype and self-promotion. in Salzburg, "a quiet city where I can recharge my Had he ever played on Mozart's piano which, being on show in Mozart's birthplace, must be gazed at by more tourists than any other musical instrument in the world? Yes.

"I am very privileged because not many people play on it, he said. "Maybe I am the only one. I go there quite often and record every year in the room where he was composing. "You cannot re-create Mozart on a modern piano. His piano has a different sound, a different pitch, a different sonority, certainly a very different concept of pedalling, and much clearer articulation.

You have to try to achieve the same articulation on a modern piano, but a concert grand has a much heavier action. Schiff described the relation between a pianist and his piano as Ma risky business. Pianos, he said, "dont travel well. He owns two at home and in Vienna, where he does most of his recording. Did Schiff think that gestures had a musical function that By MICHAEL DAVIE ANDRAS SCHIFF, wear-ing an open-necked shirt and and carrying a bright blue umbrella, entered a cafe in Salzburg, Austria, looking far too cherubic for a man of 40 and far too healthy for a celebrated pianist notorious for never resting.

Schiff, who lives in Salzburg, had been spending a few weeks ferforming in New York, Ans-ach, Salzburg, Edinburgh, Mon-treux, Vienna and Berlin. Australia is next. Schiff has been to Australia before, to the Adelaide Festival in 1988. But, he says, he knows practically nobody in the country and saw little of it on his last visit; he wished he had seen more. Why, then, does he work so hard? "I like it.

I am a Sagittarian, and they are supposed to be hard workers. But 1 don't do anything I dont enjoy." A Hungarian by birth, Schiff lived in New York and London in earlier days, but now bases himself performers could or even should use them to draw attention to certain moments in the music? "I am not aware of my gestures," he said. "I make less as I get older and become more and more economical. Pianists should play not in order to be watched, but to be listened to. However, in a live performance, the physical appearance is vitally important "Most musicians today look like bank clerks.

When I see a player who mimics the drama of the music, I get very disgusted." Was it important for a musician to pursue interests outside music? "Vitally. You cannot be one-sided. I heard Mr GySrgy Ligeti giving a lecture; he was amazingly impressive. -He is a wonderful composer, but how much else he knows. He knows everything.

That's true of all the great creators. How can you play like Beethoven if all you are reading is the Daily Mail Andras Schiff performs Brahms 's Piano Concerto No 1 tonight at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. does exhausting dance routines with her youthful backing singers. The one incongruous note is' the presence of Turner's saxkeyboards player, Tim Capello. Looking like a refugee from Manpower or the Chippendales, and looking as though his rehearsals involve pumping up and applying oceans of baby oil to his sculptured pecs, he is far too serious for these proceedings.

While Tina laughs and mocks, he preens and ripples. Musically, the concert is a reminder that Tina Turner's recent career has been built on a heraldic, slightly over-the-top style of catchy poprock. It is hardly surprising that when her hits are performed back-to-back We Don't Need Another Hero, What You Get is What You See. Addicted to Love, The Best, What's Love Got to do With It? -they sound like minor variations on a single theme. The new songs are, in a way, 11 h.

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