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December 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Orchestra Wellington NEW WORLD (December 1, Wgtn)
Orchestra Wellington NEW WORLD MFC Saturday, December 1 The closing event in Orchestra Wellington’s 2018 program was a suitably epic closer to the “Great and Noble” season, featuring a guest conductor for one piece, a guest soloist in regular concert master Amalia Hall, a world premiere and some stately performances of the classical music world’s […]Archive
March 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Anne Sofie von Otter w/ NZSO (March 15, Wgtn)
Anne Sofie von Otter w/ NZSO MFC Thursday, March 15 Anne Sofie von Otter is one of the great operatic singers of her generation. A master. Such lightness – but strength. There’s a great joy she conveys, in the very act and art of singing. And of course she’s capable of the full range of […]Archive
March 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant & The Aaron Diehl Trio (March 13, Wgtn)
Cécile McLorin Salvant & The Aaron Diehl Trio MFC Tuesday, March 13 This was always likely to be one of the festival highlights – Miami-born, New York-based jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant and backing band The Aaron Diehl Trio.Archive
March 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
NZ Festival Writers & Readers: A C Grayling – Democracy In Crisis
A C Grayling: Democracy in Crisis Renoulf Foyer, MFC Sunday, March 11 This Writers & Readers session was a straight-up lecture by British author, philosopher, public intellectual A C Grayling. The topic Democracy in Crisis coming from his latest work, Democracy And Its Crisis. He also spoke the previous night, although I missed that on […]Archive
March 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
NZ Festival Writers & Readers: Teju Cole – Favourite Photographers
Teju Cole: Favourite Photographers Renoulf Foyer, MFC Friday, March 9 This Writers & Readers session was a lecture/presentation by Teju Cole where he talked about his favourite photographers. Teju Cole is a writer and photographer – an essayist, novelist and critic. He has a role at the New York Times as Photography Critic and has […]Archive
March 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
NZ Festival Writers & Readers: Lloyd Jones – The Cage
Lloyd Jones: The Cage Renouf Foyer, MFC Friday, March 9 For this Writers & Readers event it was Lloyd Jones in conversation with Australian writer Charlotte Wood. The discussion centring around Jones’ new novel, The Cage. He was there under slight duress, a head-cold or some such, but he battled on and through it – […]Archive
March 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Alison Moyet To Play Three NZ Shows: World Tour (Oct, 2017)
Alison Moyet’s just announced World Tour in support of her new album will see her visiting New Zealand for the first time in many years – with three shows, Wellington’s MFC, October 13, Auckland’s ASB Theatre, October 14 and Christchurch’s Isaac Theatre, October 16. It’s been 30 years since the former Yazoo member and solo […]Archive
January 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: PJ Harvey (January 25, Wgtn)
PJ Harvey MFC Wednesday, January 25 No opening act – thankfully! – and at just after 8pm PJ Harvey and the all-male 9-piece backing band of multi-instrumentalists take to the stage with side-drummers shuffling them on in a near-funereal march. Backlit, save for a spotlight on the star, it’s to half a dozen songs straight […]Archive
March 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Uri Caine with The New Zealand String Quartet (March 20, Wgtn)
Uri Caine w/ The New Zealand String Quartet MFC Sunday, March 20 I had looked forward to this – but as soon as the show started, the pairing of Uri Caine (piano) with The New Zealand String Quartet seemed like an odd mismatch, a pointless exercise. I feel cheated too that we didn’t get one […]Archive
March 15, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: A Night With Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis (March 12, Wgtn)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra w/ Wynton Marsalis MFC Saturday, March 12 Thursday’s Swing Symphony with the NZSO was impressive but it was really a curtain-raiser for this – the chance to see Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra do their thing, that being jazz – no strings attached, rather a deep, […]Archive
March 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman