Take Five: Including Zephyr and On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

Zephyr; On First Looking into Chapman's Homer; and Flowers from my Mother's Garden.

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8th September, 2012

1 Featuring 19 musicians, NZSO IN MINIATURE is not a test run for what the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra might look like after the Ministry for Culture and Heritage’s review of the orchestral sector (just joking, Mr Finlayson, we heard you loud and clear when you said the NZSO is sacrosanct), but rather a nifty mini-tour in which the miniorchestra performs a mini-concert. Taking the audience around the world in 60 minutes, the players offer brief introductions to the musical characteristics of a bunch of countries, followed by live orchestral examples. They’ll ...

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