NZSO | Made in New Zealand

This annual concert celebrates the best of New Zealand music. It features two works by composer Douglas Lilburn; Landfall in Unknown Seas – a poem by New Zealand poet Allen Curnow set to music by Lilburn and narrated by Bill Manhire. Manhire will also narrate Lilburn’s Three Poems of the Sea. There is also a new composition by Jack Body, entitled, My Name is Mok Bhon.

In addition, two young NZ composers are featured - Lissa Meridan’s new electroacoustic work: a quiet fury and Dugal McKinnon’s Blue Kisses Green.

LILBURN Landfall in Unknown Seas
MERIDAN a quiet fury
LILBURN Three Poems of the Sea
BODY My Name is Mok Bhon

Bill Manhire Narrator
Hamish McKeich Conductor
Michael Norris Electroacoustics

NB there is an optional third part to this concert: At the end of the concert members of the audience are invited to stay in the auditorium to listen to a selection of New Zealand electroacoustic works.

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