“New Zealanders can enjoy two free live-streamed performances by their national orchestra this month,” reads an unsigned article in Sunday’s (6/7) SunLive (Tauranga, New Zealand). The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will play Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony “live on stage from Wellington’s Michael Fowler Centre on June 10. It will be the first time since the COVID-19 restrictions that many of the orchestra’s 90 players perform together. On June 24 … New Zealand pianist Diedre Irons will join the orchestra on stage for a live-streamed performance of Beethoven’s beloved Emperor Piano Concerto. The June 10 and 24 concerts, led by NZSO Principal Conductor in Residence Hamish McKeich … will be exclusively live-streamed events. Each concert will premiere at live.nzso.co.nz via smart TV, mobile phone, tablet or computer. Since the COVID-19 restrictions, the NZSO has streamed more than 20 new performances by Orchestra players in their homes, along with some earlier filmed concerts.… Other NZSO streamed concerts and performances … at live.nzso.so.nz include … NZSO players and international guests performing in their homes [and] a ten-part series of educational videos.”
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