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On the world’s opera stage: 19 New Zealand singers, Roger Flury
Southern Voices; international singers of New Zealand Adrienne Simpson and Peter Downes, Reed Books, Auckland, 1992, $45 The timing of Adrienne Simpson’s and Peter Downes’s admirable Southern Voices could hardly be more propitious. With opera in New Zealand once again…
Tagged with: Adrienne Simpson, Issue 5, Peter Downes, Roger Flury, Winter 1992
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Music, Non-fiction, Review
Chunuk Bair, directed by Leon Narbey, Phillip Mann
The events that occurred on and about Chunuk Bair, a remote hill on the Gallipoli peninsula, on 7 and 8 August 1915, have been widely celebrated, at least in Australia and New Zealand, where they have achieved something of the…
Tagged with: Issue 5, Maurice Shadbolt, Phillip Mann, Winter 1992
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
New Zealand film: an overall view, John Roberts
The End of the Golden Weather directed by Ian Mune This is not a film review. Movie buffs please note. It is a reflection on a key work in the corpus of New Zealand literature and the use which a…
Tagged with: Bruce Mason, Ian Mune, Issue 5, John Roberts, Winter 1992
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Media, Non-fiction, Review
Edge of The Earth, Alison Glenny
Edge of The Earth; Stories and Images from the Antipodes Vincent Ward (with Alison Carter, Geoff Chapple and Louis Nowra), Reed, Auckland, 1990, $34.95 The appearance and title of this loosely strung together collection of prose pieces, photographs and film…
Tagged with: Alison Carter, Alison Glenny, Geoff Chapple, Issue 5, Louis Nowra, Reed, Vincent Ward, Winter 1992
Posted in Art, Māori, Memoir, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Posted in Art, Māori, Memoir, Non-fiction, Photography, Review
Figures in history: the sculpture of Tony Stones, Vincent O’Sullivan
Visitors who arrive at Mangere airport see their first piece of New Zealand sculpture as they leave the main terminal building: the eight-foot-high bronze figure of a young lean Batten as she stretches on tip-toe, waving to the crowd, reaching…
Tagged with: Issue 5, Tony Stones, Vincent O’Sullivan, Winter 1992
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Fun for the very young, Nicola Chilton
Food is Fun for Young Cooks Dianne Lowry and Jan van der Voo, Book 2 Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland, 1991, $19.95 This book states it is ‘a perfect introduction for 7-12 year-olds to the delights of cooking’. About a quarter…
Tagged with: Dianne Lowry, Hodder & Stoughton, Issue 5, Jan van der Voo, Nicola Chilton, Winter 1992
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Letters – Issue 5
The legacies of history I should like to comment upon some very misleading remarks in the review by Mr B J Poff of my recent book, Kinds of Peace, Maori People after the Wars, 1870-85, (March 1992). In my preface,…
Boys at centre-stage, Vivien Joseph
Uncle Trev and The Great South Island Plan Jack Lasenby, Cape Catley, Whatamongo Bay, 1991, $14.95 Does Daniel Wilmott Tell Lies? Juliet Martin, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991 The Boy At The Door and Other Stories of the Supernatural Anthony Holcroft,…
Tagged with: Anthony Holcroft, Cape Catley, Hazard Press, Issue 5, Jack Lasenby, Juliet Martin, Vivien Joseph, Winter 1992
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Review
Parrots and paintings, Tom Fitzgibbon
The Story of the Kakapo: Parrot of the night Philip Temple and Chris Gaskin, Hodder and Stoughton, Auckland, $9.95 Matarawa House Rhondda Greig, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1991, $21.50 For the many summertime trampers such as myself, the name of Philip…
Tagged with: Chris Gaskin, Hazard Press, Hodder and Stoughton, Issue 5, Philip Temple, Rhondda Greig, Tom Fitzgibbon, Winter 1992
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review