Psathas & Kiri

NZ composer John Psathas and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa provided some of the high points at Manchester’s eclectic “Pulse Festival.” The concert was the climax to a six month exploration of Commonwealth arts entitled “Spirit of Friendship,” which merged classical, jazz and world music. Psathas’ “colourful concerto for percussion, piano and orchestra” formed the evening’s centerpiece, while Dame Kiri’s encore of an unaccompanied Maori song “clearly touched a chord in the large audience …”


Tags: Independent (The)  John Psathas  Kiri Te Kanawa  Maori  Pulse Festival  

Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Cancelled after two season, Taika Waititi’s “silly comedy” Our Flag Means Death “deserves one more voyage”, according to Radio Times critic George White. “ was meant to be sacred…