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		<title>Tafelmusik &#8211; festive Baroque splendour from Canada</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[THE GALILEO PROJECT &#8211; Music of the Spheres (New Zealand International Festival of the Arts 2012) Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra / Jeanne Lamon (Music Director) Shaun Smyth (narrator) / Alison McKay (Concept, Script and Programme) Wellington Town Hall Friday, 16th March 2012 It was all a bit too much at first &#8211; I confess I found the <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2012/03/tafelmusik-festive-baroque-splendour-from-canada/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Great enthusiasm at Jenny McLeod&#8217;s &#8220;Hōhepa&#8221; premiere</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[JENNY McLEOD &#8211; HŌHEPA (opera) &#8211; World premiere performance New Zealand International Festival of the Arts / NBR New Zealand Opera Cast: Phillip Rhodes (Hōhepa) / Jonathan Lemalu (Te Kumete) / Deborah Wai Kapohe (Te Rai) Jane Mason (Jenny Wollerman) / Nicky Spence (Thomas Mason) / Martin Snell (Governor George Grey) Narrator (Te Tokotoko /Te Waha): <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2012/03/great-enthusiasm-at-jenny-mcleods-hohepa-premiere/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Words, music &#8211; and film : Jenny McLeod and Serge Prokofiev</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Zealand International Festival of the Arts presents: JENNY McLEOD &#8211; The Emperor and the Nightingale SERGE PROKOFIEV  &#8211; Peter and the Wolf Helen Medlyn (narrator &#8211; &#8220;The Emperor and the Nightingale&#8221;) Suzie Templeton (director, Breakthru Films, UK &#8211; &#8220;Peter and the Wolf&#8221;) Hamish McKeich (conductor) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington Friday <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2012/03/words-music-and-film-jenny-mcleod-and-serge-prokofiev/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Strength, delicacy and deep feeling &#8211; the New Zealand String Quartet with Jonathan Lemalu</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[POWER AND PASSION &#8211; New Zealand International Festival of the Arts The New Zealand String Quartet &#8211; Helene Pohl, Douglas Beilman (violins), Gillian Ansell (viola), Rolf Gjelsten (&#8216;cello) &#8211; with Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone) ROSS HARRIS &#8211; Variation 25 for String Quartet GAO PING &#8211; Three Poems by Mu Xin SAMUEL BARBER &#8211; String Quartet Op.11 / Dover <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2012/03/strength-delicacy-and-deep-feeling-the-new-zealand-string-quartet-with-jonathan-lemalu/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Sixteen&#8217;s second concert, a cappella, a benchmark performance</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Zealand International Arts Festival The Sixteen  conducted by Harry Christophers A cappella music by Tallis, Morley, Gibbons, Byrd, Sheppard, Tippett, Britten and James MacMillan The Town Hall, Wellington Saturday 3 March 7.30pm The second concert by The Sixteen was devoted to music by composers born in Britain, not simply one who spent most of <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2012/03/the-sixteens-second-concert-a-cappella-a-benchmark-performance/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>New Zealand String Quartet revelatory with second group of Beethoven&#8217;s Opus 18</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindis Taylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Zealand International Arts Festival Beethoven: String Quartets, Op 18 Nos 4, 5 and 6 New Zealand String Quartet (Helene Pohl, Douglas Beilman, Gillian Ansell, Rolf Gjelsten) Church of St Mary of the Angels Sunday 26 February, 7.30pm In her brief introductory comments at the first of these two concerts Gillian Ansell had observed how <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2012/02/new-zealand-string-quartet-revellatory-with-second-group-of-beethovens-opus-18/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Exhilarating first of two concerts of Beethoven&#8217;s Quartets Op 18</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rosemary Collier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Zealand International Arts Festival Beethoven: String quartets Op.18, nos. 3, 2, 1 New Zealand String Quartet (Helene Pohl and Douglas Beilman, violins; Gillian Ansell, viola; Rolf Gjelsten, cello) St. Mary of the Angels church Saturday, 25 February 2012, 6pm The New Zealand String Quartet will play all Beethoven’s string quartets this year, in chronological <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2012/02/exhilarating-first-of-two-concerts-of-beethovens-quartets-op-18/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stravinsky at the Festival: Distinguished performances of powerful works heard by too few</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rosemary Collier]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Zealand International Arts Festival Stravinsky:   Symphony of Psalms and Oedipus Rex New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Chapman Tripp Opera Chorus (Michael Vinten, chorus master), Joana Carneiro (conductor), Stuart Skelton (Oedipus, tenor), Margaret Medlyn (Jocasta, mezzo-soprano), Daniel Sumegi (Creon; Messenger, bass-baritone), Martin Snell (Tiresias, bass), Virgilio Marino (shepherd, tenor), Rawiri Paratene (narrator, speaker) Michael Fowler Centre <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2012/02/stravinsky-at-the-festival-distinguished-performances-of-powerful-works-heard-by-too-few/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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