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Obituary — Jack Body
Harmonious sensuality Ross Harris recalls the life and work of fellow-composer Jack Body (1944-2015) Jack Body was born in the small North Island farming town of Te Aroha to parents with little interest in music. Even so, he was playing…
Tagged with: Gillian Whitehead, Issue 112, Jack Body, Jennifer Shennan, Ross Harris, Scilla Askew, Steele Roberts, Summer 2015
Posted in Obituaries
Posted in Obituaries
Not just bits of cloth, Jennifer Shennan
New Zealand’s Historic Samplers – Our Stitched Stories Vivien Caughley David Bateman, $50.00 ISBN 9781869538668 Vivien Caughley’s opening definition of a sampler is “an embroidered cloth which records a stitched pattern, often the alphabet and numerals, sometimes pictures, and stitch…
Tagged with: David Bateman, Issue 112, Jennifer Shennan, Summer 2015, Vivien Caughley
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review
Behind the footlights, Amanda Lafoy Brown
The Royal New Zealand Ballet at 60 Jennifer Shennan and Anne Rowse (eds) Victoria University Press, $60.00, ISBN 9780864738912 My parents first took me to see the New Zealand Ballet at the Opera House in Wellington in the late 1970s.…
Tagged with: Amanda Lafoy Brown, Anne Rowse, Issue 106, Jennifer Shennan, Victoria University Press, Winter 2014
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Non-fiction, Review
From Warsaw to Pahiatua, Jennifer Shennan
New Zealand’s First Refugees: Pahiatua’s Polish Children ed Adam Manterys Polish Children’s Reunion Committee, $39.95, ISBN 0476007399 Many New Zealanders know that in 1944 a shipload of orphaned children, refugees from war-torn Poland (732 children and 102 caregivers, to be…
Tagged with: Adam Manterys, Issue 67, Jennifer Shennan, Polish Children’s Reunion Committee, Spring 2004
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, War
Queen Victoria, dancing monarch, Wendy Pond
A New Most Excellent Dancing Master. The Journal of Joseph Lowe’s visits to Balmoral and Windsor (1852-1860) to teach dance to the family of Queen Victoria Allan Thomas (ed), Pendragon Press, $54.95 It is Boxing Day 1855. Queen Victoria is…
Tagged with: Allan Thomas, Autumn 1993, Issue 8, Jennifer Shennan, Pendragon Press, Wendy Pond
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
The Oceanic heritage, Wendy Pond
Songs and Stories of Tokelau. An introduction to the cultural heritage Allan Thomas, Ineleo Tuia and Judith Huntsman (eds), Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1990, $14.95 (Cassette available from the School of Music. Box 600, Wellington, $8.00) Waiata Maori Songs in…
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