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We gather there are several petitions out there that seek to protect Radio New Zealand Concert, its integrity, even its survival to all intents and purposes. Here is the one that’s recommended:
Crisis in our intellectual and cultural life! We reproduce below a report on Stuff website about the unbelievably barbaric plans of Radio New Zealand to sack all RNZ Concert staff, broadcast music without presenters, either live or…
Rebranding strikes academia In a radical break from the knitting pattern that Middle C usually follows, I am driven to raise my voice to protest about the planned rebranding of my alma-mater, Victoria University of Wellington, or simply…
Because we have been unable to carry out certain functions on this website, our mast-head still bears our acknowledgement of sponsorship by the Adam Foundation which gave us greatly appreciated support in the early years. Late last year we…
Debussy: Book II of Images for piano and L’Île joyeuse ; Jack Body: Five melodies for piano ; Eve de Castro Robinson: And the garden was full of voices ; Gao Ping: Outside the window ; Takemitsu: Rain Tree Sketch and Rain Tree Sketch II
Wednesday 25 May, 7.30pm This was the final round of the School of Music’s annual concerto competition, reduced now to four finalists. Each is accompanied by piano – a pianist of their choice.
Nelson School of Music, Sunday 6 February 2011 The evening concert offered no further obeissance to the national day. Instead, it was given over to two rather contrasting parts, returning the the universal instead of the parochial. In the…
Mozart: Divertimento in E flat, K 563; Brigid Bisley: Unbound for String Quartet; Strauss: Metamorphosen for string septet
Most of our readers will be aware of the announcement a week ago by the Minister of Broadcasting, Dr Jonathan Coleman, that Radio New Zealand would have to sustain cuts; and he eyed especially RNZ Concert.
The main reason for setting up Middle C was to compensate for the steady reduction by The Dominion Post in the number and classes of music reviews it would accept, and readers will be aware of that. It had made my job as a reviewer…
Among other things in the Coming Events section of our Middle-C website is the complete schedule of music in the New Zealand International Arts Festival.
The arrival on our desk of the two-monthly English magazine, Opera Now , prompts thoughts about the satisfactions and delights that are to be gained from real magazines, alongside the easy immediacy of the Internet.
What’s happening with the Wellington Orchestra? 15 September 2009 Perhaps the major news story of Wellington music in the past month has been the announcement that longtime general manager of the Vector Wellington Orchestra, Christine…