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The Tattletale Saints have been pulling in the crowds on their recent six-week, 20-something date tour of New Zealand but that shouldn’t really surprise. The Auckland-based duo of Cy Winstanley and Vanessa McGowan, who have been together on and off both professionally and personally for a decade, won over a dedicated audience when they crowd-funded through Pledgeme their debut album How Red Is The Blood
Echoes of Home New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pietari Inkinen with Daniel Muller-Schott (cello) Music by Pruden, Dvorak and Rachmaninov April 13, Michael Fowler Centre This was the sixth time the NZSO had played this programme and it showed in the playing. The players were completely inside each of the three works that made up of works loosely based on homesickness, and conductor Inkinen revealed his growth as a conductor
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Among musicians, cellists are known as incurable sentimentalists. This quality is half-humorously assumed, partly because of the tightlipped, tear-laden whine the instrument so easily develops in its upper register, partly because of the overenthusiastic use of that register by romantic composers
Star cellists are a lot rarer than piano or violin virtuosos. A brilliant and virtually unknown cellist made an appearance in East Berlin last week that left listeners surprised and breathless.