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Anthony Ritchie’s Symphony No 6: love, death and the afterlife
Anthony Ritchie’s Symphony No 6, performed by the NZSO, is released by Rattle. The composer reflects on personal and global events in a dark-hued work full of deep emotions.
STROMA: Dream Architects
STROMA’s recent Wellington concert, Dream Architects, featured New Zealand composers in a global context alongside the modernist master Xenakis on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Reimagining Cinderella: sumptuous, enchanting and high camp
Choreographer Loughlan Prior, composer Claire Cowan and designer Emma Kingsbury have reimagined Cinderella’s rags-to-riches story as a 21st century “happily ever after”.
Stroma celebrates its 20th anniversary
An interview with composer Michael Norris, co-director of Stroma, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a concert of music from Aotearoa New Zealand and the world.
The virtual concert hall
With audiences and musicians in lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis, musicians resorted to the virtual concert hall to bring their music into our homes.