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Whakatipu Festival 2022 Young Artist Recitals #4
8 Dec 2023This festival was created to give early-career NZ musicians a performance opportunity during COVID. In this concert you’ll hear music by violinist Hazuki Katsukawa, viola player Zephyr Wills, and cellist Begonia Chan.
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Spectacular meteor shower over Aotearoa next week
7 Dec 2023While meteor showers are not uncommon, Tuesday night's event promises to be unique. Audio
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Taylor Swift named Time Magazine's person of the year
Time editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs said the US pop icon was "the rare person who is both the writer and hero of her own story", adding that Swift had "found a way to transcend borders and be a source of light".
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How to eat, drink and be merry without overdoing it
16 Nov 2023Is it really possible to enjoy the delights of the festive season without compromising your health? Yes, says nutritionist Claire Turnbull, but it takes planning, preparation and breaking old patterns. Here's how to do it. Audio
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Music Alive: APO - Dvořák Cello Concerto
7 Dec 2023LISTEN: Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and French cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière perform Dvořák, the bracing Concerto for Orchestra by Witold Lutosławski and a gorgeous work for strings by American composer George Walker.
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Snoopy's Christmas an enduring hit - only in NZ
7 Dec 2023American band The Royal Guardsmen's song has been loved in Aotearoa since 1967 when it first topped our music charts. But what is it's particular appeal to kiwis? Emma Ricketts asks the question that has baffled many for decades. Audio
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The hazard monitoring centre that never sleeps
7 Dec 2023Our Changing World goes behind the scenes at the National Geohazard Monitoring Centre, where a team of analysts are on alert 24/7 for earthquakes, volcanic activity, tsunamis and landslides. Audio
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At The Movies: The Old Oak
6 Dec 2023The Old Oak is 87-year-old director Ken Loach's latest film about a clash of cultures in a northern English village, it's one of the best films of the year, writes Dan Slevin. Audio
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Cultivating the space where the art gets in
5 Dec 2023Bryan Crump speaks with pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi ahead of his stint judging and performing in the Lewis Eady International Piano Festival. Video, Audio
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NZSO: The Art of Fugue
7 Dec 2023Bach's 'The Art of Fugue' is an incomplete work written in the last decade of Bach's life, the culmination of his experimentation with the form. His development of musical ideas influenced composers for centuries after his death.
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Review: End Times by Rebecca Priestley
7 Dec 2023Rebecca Priestley’s new memoir explores the complications of living in a world under threat across two parallel timelines, writes Sam Finnemore.
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Music professor hands over the baton
4 Dec 2023Peter Adams, a stalwart of the Dunedin music scene, is retiring as Music Professor at Otago University after more than 30 years with the institution. Audio
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Auckland composer on capital assignment
1 Dec 2023Aucklander Eve de Castro-Robinson is Orchestra Wellington's Composer-in-Residence for 2024, and she won't even have to move south, she tells Bryan Crump. Video, Audio
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Auckland composer on capital assignment
1 Dec 2023Aucklander Eve de Castro-Robinson is Orchestra Wellington's Composer-in-Residence for 2024, and she won't even have to move south. Video, Audio
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Christmas conundrums, from gifts to parties to avoiding Covid: What you need to know
6 Dec 2023Explainer - The approaching holiday season is a time of joy. But it also involves a few tricky questions. From family gatherings to avoiding Covid and even navigating grief, RNZ is here to help. Audio
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Fifty best films: Rear Window
6 Dec 2023Widescreen - Up from number 54 to 38 in the 2022 Sight & Sound 2022 Top 50, Hitchcock's Rear Window is almost flawless entertainment, says Dan Slevin.
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Local talents PollyHill and Samara Alofa join forces
2 Dec 2023The Sampler - The Tāmaki Makaurau pair reveal a sonic landscape on new release Aquaries that alternates between spiky and smooth, writes Tony Stamp. Video, Audio
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Short film: Our Aotearoa
6 Dec 2023Our Aotearoa is an animated documentary that speaks to immigrants’ personal experiences living in Aotearoa, exploring themes of racism, discrimination, loss, loneliness, and maintaining cultural ties.
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'I'm friggin' lucky to be able to do this'
2 Dec 2023Turning the creative taps back on was like "the sweetest liquid you've ever tasted", Strawpeople singer Fiona McDonald says. Video, Audio
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Finding Frank: A deer hunting legend
Country Life - Frank Erceg was victim of New Zealand's first helicopter hunting accident, but now his story, and that of the deer culling industry has come to life through his niece, Louise Maich. Audio
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‘Although we're brilliant at killing, we're even better at breeding’
3 Dec 2023Three decades after the publication of global best-seller Birdsong, British author Sebastian Faulks is back with a new book inspired by a tweet. Audio
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'Acute and invisible'
3 Dec 2023Arts media coverage is teetering on the brink of collapse, a new report commissioned by Creative New Zealand says. The authors talked to Culture 101 about what has gone wrong and why we need arts journalism. Audio
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'Cheese is sexy'
2 Dec 2023Brother and sister duo Sam and Ellie Studd's new book The Best Things In Life Are Cheese aims to help us understand and appreciate cheese in all its many forms. Audio
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Martinborough Music Festival 2023: Françaix, Fisher, Mozart and Schumann
5 Dec 2023Charm, colour and brilliance are on offer in this concert of a trio for oboe, bassoon and piano by French neo-classicist Jean Françaix, a work by New Zealand composer Salina Fisher for string trio, a charming work for oboe and strings by Mozart, and the dazzling Piano Quintet by Robert Schumann.