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KALEIDOSCOPE. JOHN MATHESON - CONDUCTOR

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Year
1989
Reference
F196340
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1989
Reference
F196340
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Series
KALEIDOSCOPE
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Television
Duration
0:25:19
Broadcast Date
24/09/1989
Production company
10AM, Television New Zealand
Credits
Producer: John Whitwell
Director: Peter Coates
Presenter: Sandra Burt
Programme Co-Ordinator: Judy Turner
Cameras: Chris Terpstra
Cameras: Leo Shelton
Sound: John Neil
Sound: Malcolm Bremner
Sound Mix: Malcolm Bremner
Film Editor: Clive Bayliss

Profile of New Zealand born conductor John Matheson, Musical director of Lyric Opera in Brisbane.

Includes footage of him working and an interview where he remembers people he worked with such as Callas, Sutherland, Kiri Te Kanawa, his philosophy, responds to his critics, critical of state of Arts in New Zealand, “relentless conservatism of New Zealand way of life”, chances of him working in New Zealand.

Also features interviews with Malvina Major and Donald McIntyre, their opinions of Matheson.