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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