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Welcome to Five Lines, a collection of my writings about music If you enjoy listening to music and like to learn more about the musicians and composers who create it, Five Lines is for you. Here you’ll find my reviews of recent albums, operas and concerts, profiles of artists and short features about music. I’m a New Zealand-based freelance music critic and commentator and have worked in music and the arts for many years as a broadcaster, writer, university lecturer and arts leader. I believe that critical writing is always important to the health of music as an art form. As well as Five Lines, I write articles about classical music for the NZ Listener. If you’re a concert presenter, record company, performer or composer, get in touch to tell me about your upcoming projects and events. And if you’re a member of the music audience I’m keen to hear your comments on what you read here and topics you’d like me to explore. Source

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Pianist Jian Liu: vivid pianism and intriguing curation across cultures

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Five Lines is a collection of writings about music in Aotearoa New Zealand by Elizabeth Kerr. It features short articles, artist profiles and reviews of concerts, operas and albums. You can subscribe - it’s free - at the bottom of any story.
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NZ Opera’s “Figaro”: glorious music, fast-moving farce and the dark side of power

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Five Lines is a collection of writings about music in Aotearoa New Zealand by Elizabeth Kerr. It features short articles, artist profiles and reviews of concerts, operas and albums. You can subscribe - it’s free - at the bottom of any story.
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Pianist Jian Liu: vivid pianism and intriguing curation across cultures

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By Elizabeth Kerr Verified
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Pianist Jian Liu has just completed a piano recital tour to seven New Zealand centres, as part of the Chamber Music NZ "in partnership" series. I heard his programme in an afternoon concert in Wellington in the warm and responsive interior of St Andrews-on-the-Terrace church, fast becoming a favourite chamber music venue in the capital. Playing music by composers from China and Aotearoa, Liu’s "second home country", he brought us the most intriguingly curated programme I’ve heard for some time.
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NZ Opera’s “Figaro”: glorious music, fast-moving farce and the dark side of power

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By Elizabeth Kerr Verified
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Perhaps underlining a democratic impulse, in Figaro Mozart has written an opera full of ensembles – duets, trios and bigger groups. Felicity Tomkins as the Countess Almaviva, however, holds the stage alone at the beginning of Act 2, singing of her distress about her husband’s philandering in the lovely cavatina Porgi d’amor. Tomkins has a big and beautiful voice and her aria is finely judged, moving but artistically restrained.
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The Aeon project: reflections on eternity

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Five Lines is a collection of writings about music in Aotearoa New Zealand by Elizabeth Kerr. It features short articles, artist profiles and reviews of concerts, operas and albums. You can subscribe - it’s free - at the bottom of any story.
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The Aeon project: reflections on eternity

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Five Lines is a collection of writings about music in Aotearoa New Zealand by Elizabeth Kerr. It features short articles, artist profiles and reviews of concerts, operas and albums. You can subscribe - it’s free - at the bottom of any story.
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The Aeon project: reflections on eternity

| Five Lines
Five Lines is a collection of writings about music in Aotearoa New Zealand by Elizabeth Kerr. It features short articles, artist profiles and reviews of concerts, operas and albums. You can subscribe - it’s free - at the bottom of any story.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (11) Issue with article?

The Aeon project: reflections on eternity

| Five Lines
Five Lines is a collection of writings about music in Aotearoa New Zealand by Elizabeth Kerr. It features short articles, artist profiles and reviews of concerts, operas and albums. You can subscribe - it’s free - at the bottom of any story.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (11) Issue with article?

The Aeon project: reflections on eternity

| Five Lines
Five Lines is a collection of writings about music in Aotearoa New Zealand by Elizabeth Kerr. It features short articles, artist profiles and reviews of concerts, operas and albums. You can subscribe - it’s free - at the bottom of any story.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (11) Issue with article?

The Aeon project: reflections on eternity

| Five Lines
Five Lines is a collection of writings about music in Aotearoa New Zealand by Elizabeth Kerr. It features short articles, artist profiles and reviews of concerts, operas and albums. You can subscribe - it’s free - at the bottom of any story.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (11) Issue with article?