Upbeat

The Nelson Arts Festival is well underway, and within it includes talks and diffusions from publishers and authors. Publisher Bridget Williams knows all too well about how difficult the industry is… Read more Audio

Rachel Hyde reviews Orchestra Wellington’s final concert in the Last Words themed series. Saturday’s concert featured two pieces from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, and Bartok’s last musical love letter… Read more Audio

Jennifer Shennan gives an overview of the interesting, the insightful and the invigorating at the Tempo Dance Festival. The festival includes more than 700 artists from all walks of life and 50… Read more Audio

Making music with sharp tools is not for the faint of heart, but the rewards are beyond measure. Just ask Dr John Egenes, Lecturer in Contemporary Music at the University of Otago. He’s hosting a… Read more Audio

Cacti usually are usually a bit spikey, and probably not the best bed-fellows on stage, but they represent more than just plants in a dark, whimsical show opening at the Basement tomorrow. Director… Read more Audio

The Auckland Shakespeare Company is taking a step in a new direction with their very first professional show Lucrece, based on Shakespeare’s darkest narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece. Director Rita… Read more Audio

Wellington ukulele group Free and Frank is putting the rock into bureaucracy with their catchy covers about the capital and working in central government. The group consists of public servants… Read more Audio

Auckland Art Gallery is celebrating stories told through Gottfried Lindauer’s brush strokes. Gallery principal conservator Sarah Hillary talks about gathering Lindauer’s works, the techniques that… Read more Audio

Manifesto 2083 is an insight into the mind of someone who killed 77 people and injured more than 2000. The play, on during the Nelson Arts Festival, addresses how Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik… Read more Audio

Elizabeth Kerr reviews two significant concerts from the past week. The Bold Worlds concert from the NZSO last weekend featured top violinist Anne Akiko Meyers playing a work written for her by… Read more Audio

Michael Houstoun takes to the stage tomorrow to perform Bartok’s Piano Concerto No 3 with Orchestra Wellington. Conducted by Marc Taddei, the work was written by Bartok in the final stages of his… Read more Audio

One trombone is great, but eight is magnificent according to Aucktet founder Grant Sinclair. The octet includes the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s Principal Trombonist Tak Chun Lai. Read more Audio