Events next week:

this review, but while the first is to offer a reflection on a concert, the second is to reinforce the comment on the Mo review, above, about the enduring quality and value of the lunchtime concerts which have become such a significant part of Hamilton’s music environment.

Half a dozen performers, a similar number of composers, and an audience which fully appreciates the ambience of the Museum venue. As a reminder, as if we needed one, of that ambience, Katie Trigg’s elegantly maturing Mezzo brought the whole audience into an intimacy with the singer which turned the Mozart’s Torna di Tito a Lato into a personal performance for each individual, well matched by Aidan Phillips’s quirkily interesting interpretation of the Menotti When The Air Sings of Summer, which elegantly revealed the pathos, irony, and a worldly humour of the lyrics. Stylish, Friday March 22 at 6.30pm at Clarence Street. Remember the fabulously enjoyable RNZ Ballet’s Tutus on Tour last year? The company is back, with a range of accessible favourites and some new works to charm your socks off.

Friday 22 at 8pm at The Meteor Theatre. The ‘‘appropriately inappropriate’’ comedian Neil D’Bear Thornton in his new show Omnivore. Saturday 23 at 7pm at the Meteor Theatre. Wai Taiko – Japanese Druming Show. It is all power, rhythm, and movement, with top Japanese drummer Kenji Furutate in full cry and Marjorie Hau performing a little more delicately on the Chinese lute.