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The New Zealand Herald Premier Series: Tall Tales

Ticket Information

  • Deluxe Adult: $136.00 each
  • Deluxe Senior: $125.00 each
  • Premier Adult: $114.00 each
  • Premier Senior: $104.00 each
  • Premier Student/Child: $61.00 each
  • A Res Adult: $93.00 each
  • A Res Senior: $83.00 each
  • A Res Student/Child: $47.00 each
  • B Res Adult: $72.00 each
  • B Res Senior: $66.00 each
  • B Res Student/Child: $39.00 each
  • C Res Adult: $54.00 each
  • C Res Senior: $49.00 each
  • C Res Student/Child: $28.00 each
  • Additional fees may apply

Dates

  • Thu 5 May 2022, 7:30pm–9:30pm

Restrictions

All Ages

Website

Conductor Gilbert Varga
Violin Clara-Jumi Kang
Cimbalom Jenő Lisztes

Kodály Háry János: Suite
Jenő Lisztes Improvisation for Cimbalom
John Adams Scheherazade.2

A concert of storytelling. Kodály’s operetta concerns the heroic adventures of a Hungarian peasant… and if Háry János perhaps exaggerates a bit (did he really capture Napoleon single-handedly?), then what’s wrong with that?

Central to the piece is the sound of the cimbalom, the Hungarian zither. It’s a notoriously difficult instrument and Jenő Lisztes’ virtuosity is totally breathtaking.

Inspired by the Tales of the 1001 Nights, John Adams riffed on Rimsky- Korsakov in a ‘dramatic symphony’ for violin and orchestra about ‘a Scheherazade in our own time’, ending with ‘escape, flight, and sanctuary’ from the barbaric men subjugating her.

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