Parihaka residents have joined forces with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra to tell the story of their Taranaki settlement.
Composer Steven Matthews has adapted a poem by Robert Sullivan of Ngapuhi on the 1881 invasion of Parihaka into a work for an orchestra and a chorus of kotiro and kaumatua.
Witnessing Parihaka will be performed at Aotea centre in Auckland on Wednesday.
