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		<title>Sonic Architecture and Musical Splendour at Wellington Cathedral of St.Paul</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sound Cathedral &#8211; assembled forces, Wellington Cathedral of St Paul &#8211; all photo images courtesy Nick George, Creative SOUND CATHEDRAL:  Almost 500 years of music and sound collaboration brings together Renaissance composer Orlande de Lassus’s Sibylline Prophecies from1550,  traditional Taonga Puoro from Aotearoa, and  present-day composer Michael Norris’s reconstructive configurations of Renaissance polyphonies. The Tudor <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2026/03/sonic-architecture-and-musical-splendour-at-wellington-cathedral-of-st-paul/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>SILVER STONE WOOD BONE a miracle of evocation from Rattle Records</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Mechen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SILVER STONE WOOD BONE Bridget Douglas (flutes) Al Fraser (taonga puoro) Instruments used: Putorino (3 -flute, trumpet, voice-enhancer) Karanga Manu (bird-caller) Purerehua (swung bull-roarer) Tumutumu (tapped percussive instruments) Flutes (3 – piccolo, C and alto) Audio acknowledgements: Grant Finlay (opening and closing Aroha Island crickets), Tim Prebble (rain), David Downes (birds), Dave Whitehead (Pureora dawn <a class="read-more" href="https://middle-c.org/2021/10/silver-stone-wood-bone-a-miracle-of-evocation-from-rattle-records/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
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