Allegro Largo Scherzo Finale

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 [...]

Take a look at the brochure I’m actually quite flabbergasted by the dullness of the NZSO’s subscription programme for next year. There is very little New Zealand music on display – and less that I really want to hear. Of course, if you’re the kind of person looking out exclusively for repertoire symphonies, then you’re [...]

Simon Dickson: Partial Aspects Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsy: Violin Concerto Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 Soloist: Ben Morrison (violin); Conductor: Ken Young This New Zealand School of Music concert at St Andrews on the Terrace opened with a piece by NZSM graduate student Simon Dickson, written for the Jenny McLeod Composition Award (or something along [...]