Upbeat is an arts programme broadcast nationally on RNZ Concert every weekday. The RNZ website promotes the programme as: What's going on in the world of music and the arts? From the concert hall to the cinema, we talk to musicians, composers, choreographers, dancers, actors, directors and artists - Upbeat finds out what makes them tick. In today's programme:
1.00 Singing MMM
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The Auckland Youth Choir is celebrating New Zealand Music Month by performing works by composers who's names start with M - Marshall, Matthews and Mealor. The NZ premiere of each piece is overseen by choir leaders Lachlan Craig and Grace Francis who explain what it takes to get youthful voices soaring.
1.20 A little birdy told me...
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Outrageously fabulous Auckland-based crossover artist Luke Bird on making musical theatre and opera accessible to the younger generation; the importance of performing at Big Gay Out; and where he gets his signature sequined tuxes from.
1.40 A successful experiment?
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Peter Mechen reviews US based Ensō String Quartet. The performance included works from Beethoven, Ravel, and a new piece by New Zealand composer Alex Taylor, A Coincidence of surfaces, which can be performed as a quartet or an octet. The quartet is currently traveling the length of the country in association with Chamber Music New Zealand.
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Singing MMM
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The Auckland Youth Choir is celebrating New Zealand Music Month by performing works by composers who's names start with M - Marshall, Matthews and Mealor. The NZ premiere of each piece is overseen by choir leaders Lachlan Craig and Grace Francis who explain what it takes to get youthful voices soaring.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Auckland Youth Choir, Lachlan Craig, Grace Francis
Duration: 25'49"
13:20
A little birdy told me...
BODY:
Outrageously fabulous Auckland-based crossover artist Luke Bird on making musical theatre and opera accessible to the younger generation; the importance of performing at Big Gay Out; and where he gets his signature sequined tuxes from.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: opera, musical theatre, cross-over, Luke Bird
Duration: 17'03"
13:40
A successful experiment?
BODY:
Peter Mechen reviews US based Ensō String Quartet. The performance included works from Beethoven, Ravel, and a new piece by New Zealand composer Alex Taylor, A Coincidence of surfaces, which can be performed as a quartet or an octet. The quartet is currently traveling the length of the country in association with Chamber Music New Zealand.
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Peter Mechen reviews US based Ensō String Quartet. The performance included works from Beethoven, Ravel, and a new piece by New Zealand composer Alex Taylor, A Coincidence of surfaces, which can be performed as a quartet or an octet. The quartet is currently traveling the length of the country in association with Chamber Music New Zealand.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: classical, Alex Taylor, ENSO, chamber music, CMNZ
Duration: 16'57"