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		<title>Resounding Huia calls and Tui songs from pre-1950 New Zealand composers</title>
		<link>https://middle-c.org/2021/12/resounding-huia-calls-and-tui-songs-from-pre-1950-new-zealand-composershuia-and-tui/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 12:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SONG OF THE TUI The third of a three-part presentation of early New Zealand art-songs (1892-1953) Researched and curated by Michael Vinten Previous 2021 presentations: THE CALL OF THE HUIA (12th February) THE GOLDEN KOWHAI (4th May) Singers: Jenny Wollerman (soprano), Sarah Court (m-soprano), Amelia Berry (soprano), Oliver Sewell (tenor), Robert Tucker (baritone) Pianists: Bruce <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2021/12/resounding-huia-calls-and-tui-songs-from-pre-1950-new-zealand-composershuia-and-tui/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Camus&#8217;s La Peste &#8230; our Covid-19 &#8230; the sterility of opera &#8230; and &#8230;</title>
		<link>https://middle-c.org/2020/07/camuss-la-peste-our-covid-19-the-sterility-of-opera-and/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 09:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Camus’s novel La Peste: the production in Oran, Algeria, of Gluck&#8217;s Orphée. A metaphor for the static, morbid condition of opera … and of our civilisation? I subscribe to Opera News, the magazine published by the Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York. It is the United States’ principal opera magazine. The August 2020 issue is, unsurprisingly, <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2020/07/camuss-la-peste-our-covid-19-the-sterility-of-opera-and/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A comprehensive update on the Concert FM crisis; courtesy New Zealand Opera News</title>
		<link>https://middle-c.org/2020/04/a-comprehensive-update-on-the-concert-fm-crisis-courtesy-new-zealand-opera-news/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2020 10:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following is an article from the February-March issue of New Zealand Opera News The Plight and Future of RNZ Concert A report and comment on what were the proposed changes to this important Public Service Radio Broadcast Medium RNZ Concert to be Gutted On 5 February 2020 this announcement hit the headlines immediately before <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2020/04/a-comprehensive-update-on-the-concert-fm-crisis-courtesy-new-zealand-opera-news/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The composer of Kopernikus, Claude Vivier: interview with conductor Vladimir Jurowski</title>
		<link>https://middle-c.org/2020/04/the-composer-of-kopernikus-claude-vivier-interview-with-conductor-vladimir-jurowski/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2020 08:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why Quebec composer Claude Vivier was ahead of his time In the absence of real concerts that Middle C can review, why not publish things of musical interest that might in small part make up for the deprivations we all suffer at present?  Here is an article that appeared in 2018 in the Montreal Globe <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2020/04/the-composer-of-kopernikus-claude-vivier-interview-with-conductor-vladimir-jurowski/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is the Government paralysed by timidity? An update on the RNZ Concert crisis and a mass protest concert at Parliament</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2020 10:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An update on the RNZ Concert crisis A protest concert on Parliament’s steps News website Scoop has published details of a concert involving hundreds of musicians performing in Parliament Grounds to voice their opposition to plans to axe RNZ Concert, the country’s only classical and jazz music station. A massed choir and orchestra, conducted by Wellington’s Brent <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2020/02/is-the-government-paralysed-by-timidity-an-update-on-the-rnz-concert-crisis-and-a-mass-protest-concert-at-parliament/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>RNZ Chief plans to destroy RNZ Concert</title>
		<link>https://middle-c.org/2020/02/rnz-chief-plans-to-destroy-rnz-concert/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 21:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Crisis in our intellectual and cultural life! We reproduce below a report on Stuff website about the unbelievably barbaric plans of Radio New Zealand to sack all RNZ Concert staff, broadcast music without presenters, either live or recorded, transmit on only AM radio which is virtually defunct in New Zealand and throughout the world. We <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2020/02/rnz-chief-plans-to-destroy-rnz-concert/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Offenbach&#8217;s anniversary year: Jewish, German, and essentially French; painstaking emergence and eventual triumph</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2019 04:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Offenbach turns 200 today, Thursday 20 June. If you look hard enough, interesting anniversaries generally show up every year. But few recent years have been as interesting as this, especially for one who ranks the two best-known, French birthday celebrants right at the top of their class. It’s the 150th anniversary of Berlioz’s death (on <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2019/06/offenbachs-anniversary-year-jewish-german-and-essentially-french-painstaking-emergence-and-eventual-triumph/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rebranding strikes academia: Victoria University victim of corporate-style image-making</title>
		<link>https://middle-c.org/2018/07/rebranding-strikes-academia-victoria-university-victim-of-corporate-style-image-making/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rebranding strikes academia In a radical break from the knitting pattern that Middle C usually follows, I am driven to raise my voice to protest about the planned rebranding of my alma-mater, Victoria University of Wellington, or simply ‘Vic’ as it has always been universally known. Music in Wellington has its most important educational institution <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2018/07/rebranding-strikes-academia-victoria-university-victim-of-corporate-style-image-making/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Musical anniversaries: composers and music</title>
		<link>https://middle-c.org/2018/06/musical-anniversaries-composers-and-music/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2018 06:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Composer Anniversaries Composer-related dates interest me This bit of pointless research began as an appendix to my review of Supertonic’s concert on Sunday 20 May in the Pipitea Marae. It was prompted in that review by the death in 1918 of Lili Boulanger, one of whose songs was performed there. In an appendix to that <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2018/06/musical-anniversaries-composers-and-music/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lower Hutt Little Theatre gets new Steinway, but several much cheaper improvements still needed</title>
		<link>https://middle-c.org/2014/05/lower-hutt-little-theatre-gets-new-steinway-but-several-much-cheaper-improvements-still-needed/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2014 11:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new Steinway for Lower Hutt Welcome reception and concert for the new piano at the Lower Hutt Little Theatre Sunday 4 May, 2014 On Sunday friends of the piano were invited to see and hear the new Steinway that had been bought for the Lower Hutt Little Theatre. Replacing the earlier Steinway which had <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2014/05/lower-hutt-little-theatre-gets-new-steinway-but-several-much-cheaper-improvements-still-needed/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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