Upbeat for Wednesday 26 August 2015

Baiba Skride

Violinist Baibe Skride Photo: Marco Borggreve

Latvian violinist Baiba Skride talks to Eva ahead of her performances  of the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. She has just recorded the work for Orfeo Classics.

Horror Unleashed

New Zealand film maker David Blyth and script writer Michael Heath discuss Horror Unleashed, a retrospective of Blyth's controversial films showing at Nga Taonga, the New Zealand Film Archive.

Katherine Hebley

Katherine Hebley talks about her production of The Toys In Chouchou’s Corner at the Storylines Festival in Auckland this Sunday. Set to the music of Debussy’s Children's Corner Suite the children's show features a quintet of Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra players and pupils from an Auckland dance school.

Claude Debussy Photo: Supplied