NZSO Reaches Out In New Year
Next year the NZSO reaches out to new audiences thanks to its "Feel the Seasons Change" tour with Salmonella Dub and
guests. Pietari Inkinen makes his mark on 2008, in his first official year as our new Music Director. Our Christmas gift
pack solves the gift dilemma for music-lovers by giving the gift of live music, and our open subscription vouchers give
audiences flexibility and choice. We meet new education manager Roger Smith, and ex-NYO members, don't forget your
celebration is coming up in 2009 - we want to hear from you. Chamber music lovers, check out the Buskaid Soweto String
Ensemble's concerts or learn more about them at our seminar.
Rautavaara chooses Inkinen and the NZSO
Inkinen's first concert next year links New Zealand's musical traditions to his own, with Lilburn's classic Aotearoa
overture rubbing shoulders with the world premiere for a new piece by Finnish composer Rautavaara.
Pick a concert - any concert!
Can't decide which concerts to attend next year? There's no need to decide now! NZSO Open Subscription Vouchers give you
the flexibility to choose right up to the last moment.
Feel the Seasons Change.
The TVNZ Salmonella Dub tour, in association with Pacific Blue and Pub Charity, is called Feel the Seasons Change. Each
of the participants is in its way a Kiwi icon; put them all together and they should add up to an entertainment that you
could experience nowhere else! Great if you want to explore a little of our own pasifika reggae dub music, or our
premiere jazz vocalist in te reo, or just celebrate a bit of Kiwi culture. And also great for friends who already love
that music and haven't experienced a live orchestra before.
Music for Christmas?
Whether it's a gift for yourself or for someone you love, we make it easy. You can buy someone a $99 Christmas Gift Pack
including two B-Reserve vouchers to any 2008 NZSO concert (subject to availability), or become a subscriber and save on
every concert!
NYO Alumni
The NZSO National Youth Orchestra has been an important part of our musical life for nearly 50 years. In 2009 we will
celebrate this part of our musical history with a reunion - but we need NYO alumni to contact us. Please spread the word
among NYO alumni you know, and tell us your name, address, email address, years you played in the NYO, instrument you
played, your home town at that time, names of your section or friends in the NYO and any anecdotes or stories you may
recall. Send your email to nyo@nzso.co.nz
Competition Time
Email us with the answer to the following question, to be in to win a set of four NZSO glass coasters, decorated with a
musical theme in paua.
What is the name of the Rautavaara piece the NZSO is premiering on The Audi Tour in March and April next year?
Please make sure your full name, address and telephone number are in the body of the email.
Congratulations to:
• Sister Margaret Anne Mills, from the Sisters of Compassion, Wellington, winner of our $99 NZSO Christmas Gift
Pack.
Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble
Children from Soweto townships, trained in the chamber orchestra tradition by English Baroque Soloists? It's the Soweto
String Ensemble's tour, starting on December 8. Hear their infectiously uplifting musicianship in Auckland, Manukau
City, Hastings, New Plymouth and Wellington.
2007 Alex Lindsay Memorial Award winners announced.
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