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From the Listener archive: Arts & Books

June 17-23 2006 Vol 204 No 3449

Arts & Music

  • Culture Nature’s volume by Ian Wedde
    MY HI-FI MY SCI-FI, City Gallery, Wellington, June 18 – September 24

  • Art Videodrome by Andrew Paul Wood
    DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE, Pete Wheeler, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch (until June 17)
    5.30AM … WHAT I SAW, Philip Trusttum, Ng Gallery, Christchurch

  • CDs Milligan’s fantasia by Nick Bollinger
    MR PHUDD AND HIS NOVELTY ACT, Phil Judd (www.philjudd.com)
    THE HUNT BRINGS US LIFE, Samuel Flynn Scott (Loop) and more...

  • Classical Vulcanalia by Ian Dando
    Ruaumoko, Gareth Farr. NZSO/Kenneth Young. Trust MMT2042
    Taurangi. Bridget Douglas (flute), Rachel Thomson (piano). MMT2053-4. 2CDs and more...

  • Film Junkyard by Philip Matthews
    CANDY, directed by Neil Armfield

  • Music No more heroes by Rod Biss
    Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra with Madeleine Pierard (mezzo-soprano) and Feng Ning (violin), conducted by Bundit Ungrangsee, Auckland Town Hall

  • Theatre Songlines by Natasha Hay
    MUM’S CHOIR, by Alison Quigan; directed by John Callen; ATC, Skycity Theatre (until June 24)

  • Theatre Full throttle by Ian Dando
    Christchurch Symphony, conducted by Marc Taddei, Christchurch Town Hall.


Books

  • Reconsider the 1830s by Gavin McLean
    FATAL FRONTIERS, by Paul Moon (Penguin, $39.95)
    WHITE CHIEF, by John Nicholson (Penguin, $39.95)

  • Reading aloud by David Larsen
    Woolvs in the Sitee (Viking, $29.95)
    Dimity Duck (HarperCollins, $19.99) and more...