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	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Percussionist Currie dazzles in brilliant NZSO concert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindis Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Appalachian Spring Suite (Copland), Percussion Concerto (Jennifer Higdon), I paesaggi dell’anima (Lyell Cresswell), Symphony No 6 ‘Pastoral’ (Beethoven)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Shelley with Colin Currie (percussion)
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 3 September, 6.30pm
Are Wellington audiences losing their taste for adventure? What was it that led to so many empty seats at Friday’s concert, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Gaynor opens National Organ Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindis Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pieces by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Lemare, Bonnet, Widor and Vierne
Thomas Gaynor - Organ
Cambridge Terrace Congregational Church, Wellington
Thursday 2 September, 12.45pm
September is National Organ Month and Wellington organists have filled the first fortnight with performances on several of the city’s most interesting organs.
Though there had been a recital on Tuesday the 31st, on the organ at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memorable and commanding Schumann and Shostakovich string quartets</title>
		<link>http://middle-c.org/2010/08/memorable-and-commanding-schumann-and-shostakovich-string-quartets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindis Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Zealand String Quartet
Schumann: String Quartets Nos 1 in A minor and 2 in F; Shostakovich: Nos 13 in B flat and 7 in F sharp minor
Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria University
Tuesday 31 August, 7.30pm 
This was an important series of ten concerts by the New Zealand String Quartet, in five centres nationwide; it included two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Zealand String Quartet:  Schumann put in the shade by Shostakovich&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://middle-c.org/2010/08/new-zealand-string-quartet-schumann-put-in-the-shade-by-shostakovich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Mechen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SCHUMANN AND SHOSTAKOVICH
The New Zealand String Quartet : Helene Pohl, Douglas Beilman (violins) / Gillian Ansell (viola) / Rolf Gjelsten (&#8217;cello)
SCHUMANN - String Quartet in A Major Op.41 No.3
SHOSTAKOVICH - String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat Major Op.92 / String Quartet No.9 in E-flat Major Op.117
St.Mary of the Angels Church, Boulcott St., Wellington
Saturday 28th August, 2010
Poor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Taste in the Art of Musick: Geminiani at St Paul&#8217;s Lutheran</title>
		<link>http://middle-c.org/2010/08/good-taste-in-the-art-of-musick-geminiani-at-st-pauls-lutheran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindis Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Songs and sonatas from Scotland, by Geminiani
Musica Lyrica: Dougals Mews, Rowena Simpson, Kamala Bain, Brendan O&#8217;Donnell, Shelley Wilkinson, Peter Walls, Ann Goodbehere
St Paul’s Lutheran Church, King Street, Mount Cook 
Sunday 29 August 5pm
This concert was advertised as part of St Paul’s Lutheran Church’s regular concerts, many of them associated with the church’s normal vespers services, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piers Lane entertains at the piano at Waikanae</title>
		<link>http://middle-c.org/2010/08/piers-lane-entertains-at-the-piano-at-waikanae/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rosemary Collier</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Piers Lane (piano) - Waikanae Music Society
Schubert: 12 German Dances, Ländler &#38; Valses Sentimentales, D779, D783 &#38; D790
Brahms: Intermezzi in B minor, E minor, C; Rhapsody in E flat; Op.119
Beethoven: Sonata no.31 in A flat, Op.110
Chopin: Ballade no.1 in G minor, Op.23; Four Nocturnes,  Op.27, Op.48 &#38; Op. Posth.
Schulz-Evier: Arabesques on the Beautiful Blue Danube
Waikanae [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great liturgical works from the Bach Choir</title>
		<link>http://middle-c.org/2010/08/great-liturgical-works-from-the-bach-choir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindis Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[choral]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Bach Choir conducted by Stephen Rowley
Frank Martin: Mass for Double Choir; Cherubini: Requiem Mass in C minor (1815)
St Mark’s Church, Basin Reserve
Sunday 29 August, 2pm
The Bach Choir has a distinguished history in Wellington since 1968, when it was founded by the gifted organist and musical scholar Anthony Jennings. Like all choirs, its fortunes have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday evening with Moky Gibson-Lane - a &#8216;cello and piano recital</title>
		<link>http://middle-c.org/2010/08/sunday-evening-with-moky-gibson-lane-a-cello-and-piano-recital/</link>
		<comments>http://middle-c.org/2010/08/sunday-evening-with-moky-gibson-lane-a-cello-and-piano-recital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Mechen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mok-hyun Gibson-Lane (&#8217;cello)
with Catherine McKay (piano)
JS BACH - Suite No.1 in G Major, for Solo &#8216;Cello / GYORGY LIGETI - Suite for Solo &#8216;Cello
LUIGI BOCCHERINI - Sonata for &#8216;Cello and Piano in C Major
MAX BRUCH - Kol Nidrei Op.47 / DAVID POPPER - Elfentanz (Dance of the Elves) Op.39
Central Baptist Church, Boulcott St., Wellington
Sunday 29th August 2010
Moky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Houstoun in recital - in Wellington!</title>
		<link>http://middle-c.org/2010/08/michael-houstoun-in-recital-in-wellington/</link>
		<comments>http://middle-c.org/2010/08/michael-houstoun-in-recital-in-wellington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Mechen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Houstoun (piano)
JS BACH - Prelude No.1 in C Major BWV 846 / SCHUMANN - Arabeske Op.18 / Kreisleriana Op.16
CHOPIN - Sonata in B-flat minor (&#8221;Funeral March&#8221;) Op.35 / Two Nocturnes Op.37 / Four Etudes Op.25 Nos 1, 5, 7, and 12
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall, Wellington
Sunday 29th August 2010
Who says piano recitals can&#8217;t pack &#8216;em in any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Youth Orchestra in brilliant form</title>
		<link>http://middle-c.org/2010/08/national-youth-orchestra-in-brilliant-form/</link>
		<comments>http://middle-c.org/2010/08/national-youth-orchestra-in-brilliant-form/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindis Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams), Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (Stravinsky), The Chairman Dances (Adams), Symphonic Dances (Rachmaninov)
NZSO National Youth Orchestra conducted by Rossen Milanov with Jason Bae (piano)
Michael Fowler Centre
Thursday 26 August, 7.30pm
The habit of reviewers reporting, in mock wonderment, that the concert by the current incarnation of the [...]]]></description>
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