Take Five: Including Reading Room and the New Zealand Art Show

Reading Room, the New Zealand Art Show; and Under the Rose.

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4th August, 2012

1 I’ll let you into an ill-disguised secret: what I know about classical music you could write on the spine of a concert programme. That’s why we employ Rod Biss, Ian Dando, et al. Ask me about the wondrousness of the new Frank Ocean album and I could talk for hours; ask me about the awfulness of the new Coldplay album (any Coldplay album) and I could talk for even longer. Is there a new Coldplay album? I try not to know. The will is there when it comes to classical music but the sensibility and background knowledge are missing. It’s for people like me that Graham Abbott’s ...

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