Five Lines is a collection of writings about music in Aotearoa New Zealand by Elizabeth Kerr. It features short articles, artist profiles and reviews of concerts, operas and albums. You can subscribe - it’s free - at the bottom of any story.
NZSO’s Mahler 5: brilliance and insight
The NZSO’s Mahler 5 concert showed off the orchestra under the brilliant conducting of Gemma New in a programme celebrating exciting composers and musicians of a younger generation.
In Bed With Schoenberg: notes from a musical scandal
Writer Dave Armstrong and his violinist brother Donald have boldly created a play about the revolutionary composer Arnold Schoenberg. Could the world be ready for the atonal compositions of this leader of the so-called 2nd Viennese School?