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September 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 276 – NZSO: Summer Pops – Music From The Movies, Wellington, 2018

It seemed a good idea to get some culture, the whole family. Music From The Movies was the name of the NZSO’s Summer Pops program for 2018 and, alas, it was a fucking snore-fest. It didn’t fire. Ever. Just some dated, monotonous, lifeless movie scores. No punch. No fire. No fun. All very boring. And […]

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April 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 220 – A Musical Menagerie, Wellington, 2018

I wonder why they continue on with these shows…I mean, it can’t be fun for the performers, it’s not fun for the audience – it’s a fucking ordeal. I’m talking, in this instance of A Musical Menagerie – a show featuring our NZSO with Chris Lam Sam as the narrator/MC. The aim was to present […]

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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 […]

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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 […]