Category Archives: Music
Chinese New Year with NZSO
With Postcards from Exotic Places, the NZSO brings back conductor Perry So, and pairs him with pianist John Chen and soprano Jenny Wollerman.
175 East (November 18, 2011)
The Auckland-based music ensemble’s latest concert of selected works by New Zealand composers.
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Cav and Pag
New Zealand Opera present Pietro Mascagani and Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci.
The NZTrio: Kiwi Sampler 2
A recent concert performed by the NZTrio, featuring homegrown works from their repertoire.
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Xerxes
New Zealand Opera present Handel’s Xerxes at the Auckland Arts Festival.
Magda Mayas and Tony Buck, with support from Daniel Beban
The Berlin-based experimental pianist and prolific Australian drummer/percussionist perform for a Wellington audience.
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How to Make Gravy
Australian musician Paul Kelly’s “mongrel memoir”.
Macbeth
New Zealand Opera present Verdi’s Macbeth.
The Complete Fourmyula
The complete works of unheralded New Zealand band The Fourmyula.
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An Interview with the NZTrio
The NZTrio—comprising violinist Justine Cormack, cellist Ashley Brown and pianist Sarah Watkins—is soon to play the third concert in their Museum series. The Trio talks about their recent work and post-University life.
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A Chat with Anna Kaye
Singer-songwriter and poet Anna Kaye Forsyth discusses the release of her first EP, Little Bonfire, getting a band together, and what inspires her as an artist.
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Ode to Joy
For much of its recent history, Vienna has been something of a musical incubator, a fact celebrated in the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s current concert series Splendour of Vienna. The focus of the series is, understandably, the Classical and Romantic mainstays of Mozart, Beethoven and Mahler, though it is a pity that a substantial work from [...]
The Marriage of Figaro
New Zealand Opera present Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.
The NZTrio
A recent Chamber Music concert performed by the NZTrio.
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St. Vincent
At the New Zealand International Arts Festival, Annie Clark captivates.
100 Essential New Zealand Films;
100 Essential New Zealand Albums
Hamish McDouall and Nick Bollinger explore the history of film and music in two new ‘list’ books from AWA Press.
Mahler’s Symphony No. 8
At the New Zealand International Arts Festival, Mahler’s Eighth.
A Kind of Homecoming: 13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests
Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, formerly of Luna, play to thirteen of Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests at the New Zealand International Arts Festival this March.
Music Round-up: Bon Iver, Death Cab for Cutie, First Aid Kit