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		<title>Letter from Hon Kris Faafoi: a turn-around on RNZ Concert?</title>
		<link>https://middle-c.org/2020/03/letter-from-hon-kris-faafoi-a-turn-around-on-rnz-concert/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 18:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After a couple of weeks silence from the Government and Radio NZ itself, this letter seemed to bring us the result that we&#8217;d hoped for. Or has it really? Though the Prime Minister had announced earlier that an unused FM frequency was in fact available, which meant that Concert could continue to use its existing <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2020/03/letter-from-hon-kris-faafoi-a-turn-around-on-rnz-concert/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>RNZ Chief plans to destroy RNZ Concert</title>
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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>Chamber Music Hutt Valley to submit a winding-up motion at the 2019 AGM</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chamber Music in Hutt Valley at risk Friday 15 March 2019 The agenda of Chamber Music Hutt Valley’s AGM on Wednesday 27 March includes a motion that would wind up the society and bring its history of forty years of chamber music concerts in Lower Hutt to an end. The motion reads: “That the Executive <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2019/03/chamber-music-hutt-valley-to-submit-a-winding-up-motion-at-the-2019-agm/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Il Corsaro &#8211; a New Zealand premiere, but not the Australasian one</title>
		<link>https://middle-c.org/2013/09/il-corsaro-a-new-zealand-premiere-but-not-the-australasian-one/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 05:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A post-script to the New Zealand School of Music&#8217;s production of Verdi&#8217;s Il Corsaro In reference to the reviews published in this website on 26 July. In the review I sent to Opera magazine (London) of the New Zealand School of Music’s production of Il Corsaro in July, I wrote not only that was it <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2013/09/il-corsaro-a-new-zealand-premiere-but-not-the-australasian-one/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Elizabeth Hudson steps down as director of the NZSM</title>
		<link>https://middle-c.org/2013/08/elizabeth-hudson-steps-down-as-director-of-the-nzsm/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following is a press release from the New Zealand School of Music, dated 21 August, that has only just crossed our path. Professor Hudson has, reportedly, declined an offer to renew her contract as director of the school, but will return after a sabbatical, next July, as Professor of Musicology. Thursday 29 August 2013  Professor <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2013/08/elizabeth-hudson-steps-down-as-director-of-the-nzsm/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Old Saint Paul&#8217;s lunchtime concerts</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 06:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here is the just released list of Tuesday lunchtime concerts at Old St Paul&#8217;s. May 29        Paul Rosoman – organ June 5          NZSM Guitars June 12        David Trott &#8211; organ June 19        Megan Corby &#8211;  VoxBox vocal group June 26        TBA July 3          Capital Harmony Chorus July <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2012/05/old-saint-pauls-lunchtime-concerts-2/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Singing for Children: Young Angel Voices at St Mary of the Angels</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An invitation from Robert Oliver We’re looking for children aged between 8 and 12 years old, who are looking for a group to sing in. Young Angel Voices started a year ago, and is always welcoming new members. It’s open to all comers, there is no audition. The only qualification is the desire to sing. <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2012/04/singing-for-children-young-angel-voices-at-st-mary-of-the-angels/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Christopher Doig</title>
		<link>https://middle-c.org/2011/10/christopher-doig/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rosemary Collier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the review of the second Brahms concert from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Rosemary included a few paragraphs about Christopher Doig who had died that morning. The concert master had dedicated the concert to his memory. Concertmaster Vessa-Matti Lepännen spoke to the audience before the conductor entered, dedicating the evening’s concert to the memory <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2011/10/christopher-doig/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A new element in the ‘Live in Cinemas’ phenomenon – orchestral concerts</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 03:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following note has just been posted in the first part of our Coming Events schedule. Both the BBC Proms and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra have this year entered the ‘Live in Cinemas’ market. In New Zealand we got three of the Proms concert – the first and last nights, plus one from the middle <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2011/09/a-new-element-in-the-%e2%80%98live-in-cinemas%e2%80%99-phenomenon-%e2%80%93-orchestral-concerts/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wellington Orchestra&#8217;s funding secure through 2013</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[arts funding]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On 15 December 2010 we published an article about the Arts Council of New Zealand (Creative New Zealand)’s proposals to introduce changes to the criteria and the pattern of ‘multi-year’ funding provided to arts organizations. On 1 September the council announced the results of its review and the consequent funding decisions. For Wellington, the most <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2011/09/wellington-orchestras-finding-secure-through-2013/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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