HIGHLIGHT REEL

Toccata on Norma

City organist David Burchell contrasts two of the most famous toccatas — by Bach and Widor — with lesserknown and widely varied pieces from 17thcentury composers Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dietrich Buxtehude and Pablo Bruna and 20thcentury organists Francis Jackson and Frigyes Hidas on the Dunedin Town Hall organ on Sunday.

A Russian Triple Bill

The Imperial Russian Ballet Company returns to the Regent Theatre on Saturday to perform parts of Sleeping Beauty (Act 3),

Les Sylphides (a oneact ballet) and Carmen. It is the first time the company has performed this programme in New Zealand.

Popular women

Otago Museum has extended its exhibition ‘‘Our Women: 125 of Dunedin’s Extraordinary Women’’ until December 2. The exhibition in the Beautiful Science Gallery marks the anniversary of women getting the vote in New Zealand with 125 portraits of extraordinary Dunedin women. Photographed by Sinead Jenkins and Nicola Wilhelmsen.

Southern river moods

Dunedin artist Janet de Wagt will give a floor talk about her exhibition ‘‘MARUAWAI: Valley of Water’’ at the Eastern Southland Gallery in Gore on Wednesday. The exhibition features the Mataura River and the Southland coastline.