The most ‘you’ you can be
Subscriber contentBy Elizabeth Kerr in Classical
Issue 3807 18th Apr 2013
Composing has been a singular experience for Claire Cowan.
Four guitars
Subscriber contentBy Elizabeth Kerr in Culture
Issue 3805 4th Apr 2013
Since 2010, New Zealand’s had a quartet with a difference.
Wu Man: The tale of the pied pipa
Subscriber contentBy Elizabeth Kerr in Classical
Issue 3799 21st Feb 2013
"The traditional spirit is in my blood, it will never go away, but what can I do to introduce this instrument to the next generation?”
Kronos Quartet: Responding to life as it happens
Subscriber contentBy Elizabeth Kerr in Classical
Issue 3799 21st Feb 2013
The Kronos Quartet are “looking for human musical expressions that can teach us more about ourselves”.
The martial plan: an interview with composer Tan Dun
Subscriber contentBy Elizabeth Kerr in Classical
Issue 3796 31st Jan 2013
As a salute to Wagner, the trilogy for which Oscar-winning composer Tan Dun is conducting the NZSO could soon be a quartet.
Going the distance with cellist Colin Carr
Subscriber contentBy Elizabeth Kerr in Classical
Issue 3794 17th Jan 2013
Running 10km and performing Bach’s six Cello Suites in the afternoon – it’s all in a day’s work for Colin Carr.
Stroma: Pierrot Lunaire
Subscriber contentBy Elizabeth Kerr in Classical
Issue 3785 24th Nov 2012
Stroma perform what Stravinsky regarded as the “solar plexus” of early 20th-century music.
Len Lye: The Opera, by Eve de Castro-Robinson and Roger Horrocks
By Elizabeth Kerr in Classical
Issue 3773 1st Sep 2012
Len Lye: The Opera is as striking and original as the artist deserves, says librettist Roger Horrocks.