8 Aug 2018

Upbeat for Wednesday 8 August

From Upbeat, 12:00 pm on 8 August 2018
Osmo Vänskä Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra

Osmo Vänskä Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra Photo: Joel Larson

12pm

Osmo Vänska takes the Minnesota Orchestra to South Africa, and we celebrate International Cat Day (no, we’re not making this up…)

 

1pm Auckland Art Gallery and Gordon Walters curator Julia Waite takes five

Gordon Walters installation Auckland Art Gallery

Gordon Walters installation Auckland Art Gallery Photo: Supplied

Julia Waite, co-curator of Gordon Walters: New Vision, a major retrospective of one of New Zealand’s foremost modern artists at Auckland Art Gallery; she plays five pieces of music to illustrate different phases of Walter’s six decades of work.

 

Gordon Walters installation Auckland Art Gallery

Gordon Walters installation Auckland Art Gallery Photo: Supplied

2pm Another Ballet score today: Les Demoiselles de la Nuit by Jean Françaix. It translates as “The Ladies of the Night”, subtitled “a ballet for cats”.