8 Apr · 2021 · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen
Thursday 8 th April, 2021 Throughout the first half of Canadian-based New Zealand-born composer Juliet Palmer’s work Buzzard, I was enraptured, totally enthralled by Palmer’s self-proclaimed “digestion” of Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird . I…
4 Nov · 2017 · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen
Saturday 4 th November, 2017 Audiences can be curiously unpredictable, on occasions exhilarating and galvanizing masses of energy to be part of, caught up in the excitement of either enthusiastic or rapt responses to some performances,…
5 Aug · 2017 · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor
Saturday 5 August, 7:30 pm Orchestra Wellington continued its 2017 series theme that focuses on the great impresario Sergei Diaghilev, the genius behind the Ballets Russes which changed the face of ballet before the First World War, and…
15 Oct · 2016 · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor
Arohanui Strings: arrangements of music by Purcell, Tchaikovsky (Serenade for Strings and the waltz from Sleeping Beauty )