Upbeat for Monday 10 July 2017

1:50 PM.Translating English, and other languages into Spanish has been part of Madrid based New Zealand poet Charles Olsen’s creative journey. He’s only learnt Spanish since moving to Spain fourteen years… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Michael Houstoun played for a marathon 90 minutes, performing two concertos with Orchestra Wellington on Friday night. Peter Mechen reviews Houstoun’s performance of two concertos in D Minor: Mozart’s… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Composer and DJ Gabriel Prokofiev – the grandson of the composer Sergei – wants people to hear and open up to classical music as simply music. Part of his strategy is the Nonclassical record label and… Read more Video, Audio