FROM WELLINGTON POET/ARTIST/WRITER/CURATOR GREG O'BRIEN

A year ago Gillian Whitehead set some of my poems to music – for spoken voice and bassoon & piano – and we’re performing these next week at this free concert in Wellington.

Also: Ben Hoadley (Auckland-based composer and musician) has set my poem ‘Winter I Was’ for alto flute and spoken voice. I’ve very happily been roped into providing the voice-part on this occasion for those pieces (we performed the Whitehead compositions as part of the Dunedin Festival last October), and I’ll provide a few appropriate poetic interludes elsewhere in the programme.
The musicians involved are fantastic.

Event Info
Host:
St Andrews on the Terrace
Type:
Music/Arts - Concert
Network:
Global

Time and Place
Date:
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Time:
12:15pm - 1:00pm
Location:
St Andrews on the Terrace
City/Town:
Wellington, New Zealand

Free admission
Recent works by:

Eve de Castro-Robinson

Pieta Hextall

Ben Hoadley

Gillian Whitehead

and the NZ premier of:Edwin Carr - 'Petit Concert' for wind trio with poetry readings by:Greg O'Brien

Performed by:Luca Manghi - Flute

Madeline Sakofsky - Oboe

Anna McGregor - Bass Clarinet

Ben Hoadley - Bassoon