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Keith Lewis (Tenor) and Michael Houstoun (Piano) at the Wellington Town Hall Henry Purcell: So when the glittering Queen of night; Not all my torments; Cold Song; Evening Hymn Jenny McLeod: Peaks of Cloud Benjamin Britten: On this Island Samuel Barber: Three songs from Ten Early Songs; Three songs from Collected Songs; Two songs from [...]

Well, my hopes/predictions really could not have been further off the mark. The elephant in the room is the absence of any opera (unless you count Simon O’Neill’s Wagner recital). There is a reasonable amount of chamber music on hand – almost all on the weekend of the 6th-7th of March’, but nothing really outside [...]

Jenny McLeod: Cat Dreams Gillian Whitehead: Hineteiwaiwa David Downes: Bliss Mechanism Michael Norris: tesserae… interstices John Rimmer: Ring of Fire It’s a crying shame that Stroma plays only two concerts a year, because the amount of work done by both performers and composers for these concerts must be immense. This concert, part of New Zealand [...]