New Zealand Arts Review
Reviews, News and Commentary by John Daly-Peoples
Auckland Arts Festival Previews – Visitors, Sultans Kitchen and Duck Pond
John Daly-Peoples Visitors A Theatre Times review by Bronwyn Carlson. “It is 1788, and six senior lawmen (with one young man sent as a representative) witness the arrival of the First Fleet. The play features a talented cast: John Blair, Damion Hunter, Colin Kinchela, Nathan Leslie, Leroy Parsons, Glenn Shea, Kerri Simpson. As we approach…
Niue’s Hikulagi Sculpture Park
John Daly-Peoples Niue’s Hikulagi Sculpture Park: A Global Microcosm Sited in the middle of the natural rainforest of the Pacific Island of Niue is a physically small but conceptually monumental installation / treatise on global environment concerns, the Hikulagi Sculpture Park. The Hikulagi Park was established in 1996 by members of the then Tahiono Arts…
Eddie Clemens’ new sculpture for Wellington
John Daly-Peoples Eddie Clemens Fibre-Optic Colonnade Car Wash Shed 21 Wellington John Daly-Peoples Another outstanding public work of art for Wellington City has been opened this week. “Fibre-Optic Colonnade Car Wash” created by Eddie Clemes is an ambitious new work of art for Wellington that will transform a pedestrian thoroughfare linking the railway station with…
Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide
Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds Massey University Press RRP $37.00 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples John Walsh and photographer Patrick Reynolds have just launched “Wellington Architecture, A Walking Guide” their third book in the series of architectural walking tours following on from their books on Auckland and…
Wellington Architecture: a Walking Guide
Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds Massey University Press RRP $37.00 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples John Walsh and photographer Patrick Reynolds have just launched “Wellington Architecture, A Walking Guide” a revised edition of the book first published in 2022. This is their third book in the series of architectural walking tours…
Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide
Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds Massey University Press RRP $37.00 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples John Walsh and photographer Patrick Reynolds have just launched “Wellington Architecture, A Walking Guide” a revised edition of the book first published in 2022. This is their third book in the series…
Music without end: A book of listening
Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Music Without End; A book of listening Roger Horrocks Atuanui Press RRP $45.00 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples We are surrounded by music every day, in our houses, in the public space in shopping malls and with our audio devices and through this soundscape to our lives which we build up a…
Joyce DiDonato’s ravishing singing of Berlioz’s Summer Nights
Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Summer Nights, Joyce DiDonato New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Auckland Town Hall November 29 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples The message came though just a short time before the NZSO’s “Summer Nights” concert – “Due to the global grounding of Airbus aircraft today, the NZSO can’t fly enough players from Wellington to Auckland…
Black Grace at 30
Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Black Grace: Celebrating 30 years Civic Theatre, Auckland November 21 Then Isaac Theatre Royal, Christchurch November 25 & 26 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples For their thirtieth anniversary finale Black Grace presented two works, one a new piece by Neil Ieremia and a work by the legendary American choreographer Paul Taylor, created…
Auckland Philharmonia’s astounding performance of Mahler’s Symphony No 3
Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples Mahler 3 Auckland Philharmonia (in association with the Australian Academy of Music) Auckland Town Hall November 20 Reviewed by John Daly-Peoples With the last of the Auckland Philharmonia Premier Series concerts for the year the orchestra presented Mahler’s Symphony No3. This is Mahler’s longest work of six movements and close to…
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