A dream come true ... This was true of the first opening of our beloved Town Hall and again when it reopened last year. The Christchurch Town Hall originally opened on 30 September 1972 - 48 years ago today. It's hard to overestimate the importance of the Christchurch Town Hall to Christchurch music lovers. This…
Deciphering the American presidential elections
Bernice researches the complex process that leads to the US selecting its President and finds there are plenty of books about the US political landscape.
Lili Kraus – honoured guest of New Zealand
Lili Kraus was possibly the greatest pianist ever to live in this country, and made a big impact on the musical world in New Zealand in the years after World War Two. She was born in Budapest in 1903 in impoverished circumstances, but her mother was musical and she taught her piano from the age…
Make your own New Zealand music
Experimental musicians love their self created instruments. I once listened to a composer on National Radio describing how he used all the glasses in his house to create three octaves of notes which he then used to create a fragile sounding theme for a composition. However, long before the experimental movement, making your own instrument…
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