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Otago Daily Times
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
World War 2 tribute in song
Violinist Orla Dunlop Soprano Erin Connelly-Whyte Central Otago Regional Choir is performing in Arrowtown this Saturday in a tribute concert to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2. Among the numbers will be favourites the audience will even be invited to join in, including the choruses in The White Cliffs of Dover, It's a Long Way to Tipperary and Land of Hope and Glory. Other standards being sung include Now is the Hour, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square and We'll Meet Again. Under the baton of Richard Madden, the accompanists include Peter Doyle (drums), Ariana Knudson-Hollebon (double bass) and Alison Frude (piano). Also appearing are two talented young artists Orla Dunlop (violin), who'll play a movement from Saint-Saens' Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor, and Erin Connelly-Whyte (soprano), last year's ODT Aria Competition winner, who'll sing Franz Lehar's aria, My lips kiss with such heat. Both will be accompanied by pianist Cameron Monteath. Tickets for Saturday's concert, 7.30pm at the Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall, are $30 from choir members, Arrowtown's Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown Pharmacy, Queenstown's Life Pharmacy Wilkinsons and Frankton's Summerfield's Pharmacy.
NZ Herald
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
NZ Music Month: Why these are the country's best songs
New Zealanders have always been great songsmiths. But songs are more than just hits that wax then wane. They reflect and help define who we are and who we want to be. There are many claims to Now is the Hour. On one hand, it is – unlike pavlova, Phar Lap and Split Enz – undeniably Australian. The listed composer of a tune called the Swiss Cradle Song, Clement Scott, is a pseudonym for Albert Saunders, who worked for
