The week beginning 19 November 2012
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Eckehard Stier
2:00 PM.Tim Dodd talks to the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Music Director and Chief Conductor, a man of prodigious energy who also holds positions at Görlitz Opera and the Neue Lausitz Philharmonic… Read more Audio
Monday: Composer of the Week - Music Migrations
(1) Megan Collins introduces her series on the musical journeys of migrant New Zealanders. Taking a broad historical approach to the term migrant, Collins includes her own family’s European colonial history alongside the music of Serbian, Cambodian, Samoan and Iranian immigrants to Aotearoa (RNZ)
Wednesday: Eckehard Stier
Tim Dodd talks to the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s Music Director and Chief Conductor. He’s a man of prodigious energy who also holds positions at Görlitz Opera and the Neue Lausitz Philharmonic Orchestra. His performances with the APO of symphonies by Mahler, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich and the operas Salome, Elektra and Das Rheingold have been among the most exciting musical events in the city in recent memory (RNZ)
Thursday: How will opera survive?
John Drummond presents four programmes considering The Future of Opera in the contemporary world of mass popular culture, digital technology and global financial crisis. He draws on results from a current research project called Sustainable Futures for Musical Cultures based at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music
(3) Challenges and opportunities (RNZ)
Friday: The Critic's Chair
Kenneth Young reviews recent releases (RNZ)
