Upbeat for Friday 14 March 2014
12:15 Stuart Maunder
We meet and announce NZ Opera's new General Director
12:40 Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut
French-based Vietnamese writer-in-residence at Wellington's Randell Cottage
1pm Raewyn White
Review of Muscle Mouth's New Zealand Festival performance of Age
1:15 Jonathon Hendry
Review of An Iliad at the New Zealand Festival
Music played in this show
VERDI: La Traviata, Prelude to Act I
Royal Opera House Orch / Georg Solti
Decca 458 274
BARTOK: String Quartet No 4 Sz91,
Cuarteto Casals
Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2062
SALONEN: Violin Concerto, Pulse 2
Leila Josefowicz (vln), Finnish Radio SO / Esa-Pekka Salonen
DG 479 0628