Events next week:

the guitar, were perfectly adjusted to the quite extraordinary atmospheric lighting plot.

At one stage, the dancer, male, was accompanied by a fantastically lit – in the ancient sense of that word -—shadow, which was utterly female.

But then one realised that that androgyny was also at the heart of the narrative, because this performance took its meaning, not from a typical western narrative form, but from the emotional intensity of contrast in the key senses, sight, and sound.

Architecturally the Gallagher Playhouse had become a wharenui from the walls of which figures emerged and retreated as if the internal poupou had come alive, through which shadows played and figures moved, and interpeted all the while by the flute and guitar.

This was a performance in which the common question, “What does it mean?” is immaterial.

The real question is what did one feel, and the answers to that help redefine our world – which is what great art does. Thursday 8 November at 12.00 at the Museum, some of the best young musicians from the University of Waikato play and sing.

Friday 9 at 1 pm at the Museum. A further edition of the Mayor’s Monthly Music Matinee offering memorable classical music in excellent acoustics.

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On Saturday 17:

At 3.00pm at Willlowbrook Park the Dame Malvina Foundation is having a fundraiser. Watch for more information in Tuesday 13th Arts Reflections, Cantando Choir and WTSO give us ‘‘A Night At The Proms’’