Arts

New Zealand Listener: The Colony Strikes Back

If you had to choose just one recent event to illustrate to the British where New Zealand's changing culture is at, it would have to be the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's performance at the BBC Proms this year. At that most English of musical extravaganzas, our orchestra played Douglas Lilburn's third symphony. But to launch proceedings there was a kapa haka group, the Manaia Maori Performing Arts Company, whose performance culminated in hongi between performers and conductor James Judd.

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