Classical review
Karlheinz Company Sunday William Dart twist, with Roger Manins’ roving saxophone dominating the quartet.
Annea Lockwood was saluted twice and her edgy, confrontational song I give you back featured the marvellous Clare Hood ruffling psyches in many shades of speech and song. If Fritz Hauser’s Schraffur invited us to steal in on eight percussionists and their whispering gongs, then Stephen Montague’s Tigida Pipa was the ultimate finale.
Invoking the worlds of Ligeti and Berio, four vocalists, led by Morag Atchison, had merry fun with a plethora of vocal skullduggeries, set against the shivery dance of wood percussion and taped sound to match. quite radical but gone are the days of table thumping. Our forefathers needed to do that but it’s more collaborative now. As a representative of the council’s Pacific Advisory Panel, I marched up Queen St with Len Brown in the 2012 Pasifika March for Equality. Len asked me when Pacific people last marched up Queen St and I knew it was in 1974 against the Dawn Raids because I’ve got a photo from the Herald of my dad and mum, 9 months pregnant with me, leading that only other Pacific march.
Do you still experience racism?
It’s always there, like a free-floating anxiety. Since Le Va won the nationwide training contract we’ve had some nasty comments from people asking why a Pacific organisation is leading this “mainstream” work? There’s a presumption that brown people can’t be as smart as white people. Actually we’re one of the most qualified suicide For more info go to lifekeepers.nz or auntydee.co.nz