An Ode to the Moon - Free concert to celebrate Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival

...The audience showed the visitors their deep-felt appreciation for an evening of exquisite music. The Aroha String Quartet made the evening unforgettable. (16 April 2013)...
(Audience Member, Palmerston North)
Submitted by robert on Sat, 2017-08-26 15:52

26 August 2017 - We're really thrilled to be putting on a free concert of music from China & New Zealand to celebrate Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival at St Andrew's on the Terrace in Wellington on Sunday 1 October at 7pm.

The programme includes arrangements of well-known Chinese folk songs and two tuneful works by New Zealand composers Anthony Ritchie & David Farquhar.

This concert is organised and sponsored by the China Cultural Centre in New Zealand.

 

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