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		<title>Delicious, profound and adventurous &#8211; an irresistible orchestral feast from the Wellington City Orchestra</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[WELLINGTON CITY ORCHESTRA Justus Rozemond (conductor with Sophia Acheson (viola ) Nicolai –  Overture “The Merry Wives of Windsor” Rachmaninov – Tone-Poem “Isle of the Dead” Berlioz – “Harold in Italy” – Symphony with Viola obbligato St,Andrew’s-on-The-Terrace, Wellington Saturday, 5th April 2025 Concert viewed via video – thanks to Nick Baldwin (camera) and Angus Webb <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2025/04/delicious-profound-and-adventurous-an-irresistible-orchestral-feast-from-the-wellington-city-orchestra/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wellington City Orchestra – heartily home-grown with Lilburn and Anthony Ritchie and gloriously global with Inbal Megiddo in Shostakovich</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Donald Maurice (conductor) and Inbal Megiddo (&#8216;cello) rehearse Shostakovich with the Wellington City Orchestra, December 2024, at St.Andrew&#8217;s Church, Wellington DOUGLAS LILBURN – Overture “Aotearoa” (1940) DMIYTRI SHOSTAKOVICH – Concerto for ‘Cello and Orchestra No. 1 Op. 107 (1959) ANTHONY RITCHIE – Symphony No. 5 “Boum” Op.59 (1993) Inbal Megiddo (‘cello) Wellington City Orchestra Donald <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2025/01/wellington-city-orchestra-heartily-home-grown-with-lilburn-and-anthony-ritchie-and-gloriously-global-with-inbal-megiddo-in-shostakovich/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A new film commemorates the 1941 Babiy Yar Massacre of Ukraine Jews by the Nazis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[LACRIMOSA DIES ILLA – a 2020 film Featuring excerpts from “Requiem – The Holocaust” by Israeli composer Boris Pigovat, a work for orchestra and viola soloist. Narrator – Valentyna Bugrak Composer – Boris Pigovat Viola soloist – Xi Liu Conductor – Martin Riseley New Zealand School of Music Orchestra Designer and Producer – Donald Maurice <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2021/02/a-new-film-commemorates-the-1941-babiy-yar-massacre-of-ukraine-jews-by-the-nazi/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Following last year&#8217;s NZ Opera production, another local &#8220;take&#8221; on Henry James&#8217; famous ghost story &#8220;The Turn of the Screw&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2020 12:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[THE TURN OF THE SCREW – A film (2020) by Alex Galvin  after the novella by Henry James (1898) Cast: Greer Phillips (Julia/Governess) / Ralph Johnson (Richard) / Ben Fransham (Uncle/Peter Quint) / Jane Waddell (Mrs Grose) / Ella Olssen (Flora) / Alex Usher (Miles) / Sarah Munn (Miss Jessel) Writer – Alex Galvin Producers <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2020/08/following-last-years-nz-opera-production-another-local-take-on-henry-james-famous-ghost-story-the-turn-of-the-screw/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Forbidden Voices: Documentary film on German/Jewish composer Richard Fuchs, also neglected in New Zealand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2014 23:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Zealand School of Music: Conference: Recovering Forbidden Voices 2014 Film: The Third Richard An 80-minute documentary of the life of Richard Fuchs, made by Danny Mulheron and Sara Stretton Embassy Theatre, Wellington Sunday 24 August “Richard Fuchs was a composer believed by his father to be &#8216;the third Richard&#8217;, successor to Strauss and Wagner. He <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2014/08/forbidden-voices-documentary-film-on-germanjewish-composer-richard-fuchs-also-neglected-in-new-zealand/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cathedral&#8217;s festival celebrated by satanism and the supernatural in film and music</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Phantom of the Opera – silent film accompanied by organ A Cathedral Jubilee Festival Event Barry Brinson &#8211; organ, Hannah Catrin Jones &#8211; soprano Cathedral of Saint Paul Saturday 26 July, 7:30 pm How satisfying is the experience of a silent film? As part of the Cathedral’s 50th anniversary, a famous silent film made <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2014/07/cathedrals-festival-celebrated-by-satanism-and-the-supernatural-in-film-and-music/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>SMP Ensemble plays Contag for &#8220;The Crowd&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 22:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Forty-second Wellington Film Festival 2013 presents: The Crowd Silent Film with live score performed by SMP Ensemble Composer: Johannes Contag SMP Ensemble conducted by Karlo Margetic Paramount Theatre,  Courtenay Place, Wellington Sunday 11 August 2013 This film dates from 1928 and is in the timeless tradition of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. It was written <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2013/08/smp-ensemble-plays-contag-for-the-crowd/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tribute to Kurt Sanderling from ICA Classics</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[KURT SANDERLING (1912-2011)  &#8211; a great maestro BRUCKNER &#8211; Symphony No.3 in D Minor (CD) Kurt Sanderling (conductor) / BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (recorded Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1978 &#8211; the disc also includes an interview with Kurt Sanderling) CD ICAC 5005 SCHUMANN &#8211; Symphony No.4 in D Minor / MAHLER &#8211; Das Lied von der Erde (DVD) Kurt Sanderling (conductor) / BBC <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2012/01/tribute-to-kurt-sanderling-from-ica-classics/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Flawed silent film, Metropolis, with original score in splendid NZSO realisation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Metropolis – silent film by Fritz Lang, accompanied by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra playing the reconstructed score by Gottfried Huppertz, conducted by Frank Strobel Michael Fowler Centre Saturday 5 November, 6.30pm The first thing that struck me about the otherwise excellent programme notes was the absence of any direct comment about the thrust of <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2011/11/flawed-silent-film-metropolis-with-original-score-in-splendid-nzso-realisation/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>More on Wells&#8217;s &#8220;brilliant&#8221; (Dom Post) doco on the NZSO tour</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 05:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[But the New Zealand Herald didn&#8217;t see eye to eye with the Dominion Post&#8217;s Linda Burgess who reviewed it as television on Monday 1 August. See William Dart&#8217;s admirable, clear-sighted comment in today’s paper: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/movies/news/article.cfm?c_id=200&#38;objectid=10743356 Subsequent to this post, we&#8217;ve been told that the Herald is being pressured to remove Dart&#8217;s review. In case that <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2011/08/more-on-wellss-brilliant-dom-post-doco-on-the-nzso-tour/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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