REVIEWS

Same sounds, different ears: The universal joy of classical music

by Anna Knox

Orchestral music performance is an art form, but how do you engage with something you’ve never experienced before? Samiyah Alghamdi and Anna Knox attend NYO Celebrates in Wellington and unpack what they hear.

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Classical review: NYO Celebrates

The coming together of the NZSO National Youth Orchestra and the New Zealand Youth Choir was a just celebration of our country’s finest young musicians – a fitting culmination of a century’s nurturing, marking the orchestra’s 60th anniversary and the choir’s 40th.

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Excellent choral concert from three young Wellington choirs and the New Zealand Youth Choir

By Lindis Taylor

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Review by Hanno Fairburn for the Daily Post, Rotorua of the New Zealand Youth Choir

Rotorua was fortunate to have such a renowned choir, here for workshops and concerts.

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Middle C – Sounds and Sweet Airs: Songs of Shakespeare Review

Middle C Review

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NZYC Christchurch Concert Review

The Press Review

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Concert Review: Spirit of Anzac

Last Thursday’s Spirit of Anzac concert came with Trans-Tasman connections, being played by Sydney Symphony Orchestra a day before the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra delivered it to us.

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Anzac symphony is powerful without a hint of triteness

This is the third time the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra has marked the importance of Anzac Day with a concert and, thankfully, on the 100th anniversary of Gallipoli, a sizeable audience was in attendance. And they were very well rewarded, as this concert was centred on two new works – one New Zealand, one Australian – of real quality and power.

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Peter Hoar: APO Child of Our Time review

Peter reviews the Auckland Festival production of Tippet’s Child of Our Time performed by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Voices NZ and the NZ Youth Choir

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Auckland Arts Festival review: A Child of our time, Auckland Town Hall

In festival’s homegrown highlight, orchestra and voices give rich offering of oratorio’s message of peace.

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Choristers revel in celebration of light

In a nutshell, as the Festival brochure put it, Ata Reira promised an evening of award-winning choirs, majestic voices and Te Reo Maori in song. Both separately and together, Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir and the New Zealand Youth Choir delivered all this in a choral celebration of light … and much more.

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NZ Youth Choir and the Rolling Stones

NZ Youth Choir with the Rolling Stones at Mt Smart Stadium, Saturday, 22 November.

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NZ Festival Review. Sounds and Sweet Airs: Songs of Shakespare

Dominion Post Review

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Auckland Arts Festival

Radio NZ Podcasts

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WAR REQUIEM

New Zealand Herald

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Little Britten – Auckland Arts Festival

New Zealand Herald

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A Child of our Time – CBS Canterbury Arena

The Press

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NZYC at Hawke’s Bay Opera House, Hastings

Hawke’s Bay Today

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