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Heaven’s gate

Reaching for an apotheosis.

By Lindis Taylor In Classical, Culture

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7th April, 2011
Apotheosis, the first subscription concert in this year’s New Zealand Symphony Orchestra season, was well named, featuring as it did Beethoven’s heaven-storming last piano concerto and Mahler’s symphony that follows a child’s progress towards heaven. An overture with a difference opened the programme: Lilburn’s Processional Fanfare, now used for Victoria University’s graduation ceremonies. Its central theme is the ubiquitous student song Gaudeamus Igitur, to which nothing very interesting happens, but its performance was as opulent as you could hope for. Pianist ...

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