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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
Gig Review: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra w/ Wynton Marsalis and NZSO: Swing Symphony (March 10, Wgtn)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra w/ Wynton Marsalis and NZSO: Swing Symphony (Symphony No.3) MFC Thursday, March 10 In a long programme the first half featured our New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Matthew Coorey. The opening rendition of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Swing was polite, if lengthy. Lovely to hear the instruments, the […]Archive
March 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman