Allegro Largo Scherzo Finale

I haven’t exactly been thrilled with the way that the art music side of the New Zealand Festival of the Arts has been handled (which was probably fairly evident from my post about the lineup). Of course, I really have no idea about the kind of pressures involved in a running an event like this, [...]

Actually, that’s a bit harsh. After all, Nelson ostensibly has an orchestra (or did that finish up with that thieving conductor?), and yet I was still astonished early last month to discover that Winnipeg not only has an orchestra, but that orchestra is running a new music festival (which started on the 6th of this [...]

Amongst a number of other things during the summer break I’ve been trying (and largely failing) to make my way through a couple of volumes of a now reasonably old series entitled Man (and here my mother frowns) & Music. For whatever reason the editors decided to create a series of books about music that [...]

I managed to mix up the programmes for the final NZSO tour, which meant that I missed the concert with the premiere of Leif Segerstam’s Symphony No. 191 Presumably it will turn up on RNZ Concert sometime, but right now I can only comment on the attention that the concert has received in the Dominion [...]

1 November at Wesley Church

Traditional, arranged by Carol Shortis: Polskie Kwiaty
Simon Eastwood: Jericho: Walls Will Fall
Henryk Górecki: Three Pieces in Olden Style
Witold Lutoslawski: Melodie Ludowe
Krzysztof Penderecki: Allegro Moderato from Sextet
Henryk Górecki: Totus Tuus
Karol Szymanowski: Rymy Dzieciece  – Children’s Rhymes Op. 49
Karlo Margetic: Hommage  à W.L.
Carol Shortis: Tesknota [...]