NZ Classical Music

Streaming in C minor: How classical music survived Covid-19

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As New Zealand’s musicians return to the concert hall, Richard Betts checks in with our classical music organisations for reasons to be cheerful. For a country that’s been shut since March, we’ve been surprisingly well-served by the performing arts. Most impressive was NZ Opera convincing TVNZ to broadcast a 2015 production of Puccini’s Tosca. So … Read more

The World of Hearable Art: Some of NZ’s best composers talk about each other’s work

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As part of this year’s World of Wearable Arts Award Show, musical director Paul McLaney has brought six of New Zealand’s best and most acclaimed composers together and commissioned a new work from each of them. Here they comment on each other’s work – not just for WoW, but across their careers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwMqdLxaFoM Tane Upjohn … Read more