Sing New Zealand
Sing New Zealand

Author: Guy E. Jansen

Publisher: Massey University Press

Published: 2020-02-01

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 0995113513

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New Zealanders love to sing together, and we've done so in choirs for over 200 years. In Sing New Zealand, Guy E. Jansen describes our country's choral music trajectory, from the amateur efforts of the nineteenth century to today's internationally renowned choirs. It's a story about striving for excellence—and achieving it. This book is the first to bring together the stories and history of this significant aspect of New Zealand's culture.

Sing New Zealand
Sing New Zealand

Author: Guy Jansen

Publisher: Massey University

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780995100152

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Covering 200 years of choral singing, Sing New Zealand encompasses all styles, genres and age groups. It begins with the meeting of Maori and European musical forms in what the author terms as the birth of a new tradition' and describes the role of group singing in creating a familiar cultural environment for new settlers. As well as examining its history, the technical development of choral singing is described, including the influence of visiting choirs and conductors, through to the establishment of school choir competitions such as 'Big Sing', the training of choir conductors and the establishment of the Choral Federation. The author introduces key people and events such as the world-class, 200-voice Sheffield Choir, which presented 40 concerts in New Zealand in 1911; Robert Parker, the Father of New Zealand music'; Stanley Oliver's Wellington Schola Cantorum, rated by Australian Sir Bernard Heinze as the finest choir of its kind in the world; and the establishment in 1981 of Te Waka Huia, an elite kapa haka group, by Dr Ngapo and Pimia Wehi.

Rugby: A New Zealand History
Rugby: A New Zealand History

Author: Ron Palenski

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2015-08-24

Total Pages: 912

ISBN-13: 1775588130

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Rugby is New Zealand's national sport. From the grand tour by the 1888 Natives to the upcoming 2015 World Cup, from games in the North African desert in the Second World War to matches behind barbed wire during the 1981 Springbok tour, from grassroots club rugby to heaving crowds outside Eden Park, Lancaster Park, Athletic Park or Carisbrook, New Zealanders have made rugby their game. In this book, historian and former journalist Ron Palenski tells the full story of rugby in New Zealand for the first time. It is a story of how the game travelled from England and settled in the colony, how Maori and later Pacific players made rugby their own, how battles over amateurism and apartheid threatened the sport, how national teams, provinces and local clubs shaped it. The story of rugby is New Zealand's story. Rooted in extensive research in public and private archives and newspapers, and highly illustrated with many rare photographs and ephemera, this book is the defining history of rugby in a land that has made the game its own.

Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War
Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War

Author: Gavin McLean

Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Published: 2009-08-31

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 1742288766

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The New Zealand Wars of the 1840s and 1860s, other nineteenth-century military encounters, the South African War, the First and Second World Wars, Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, the Gulf War, modern-day peacekeeping . . . The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War contains the best, widest range of published and non-published written material on our people in warfare. This is a soldier's book - thus letters, diaries, journalists' reports, memoirs. The focus is on actual experience and on human responses to war. A vast array of personal experiences is covered, including POWs, the home front, medical/nursing efforts, as well as coverage of conscientious objectors.

Book & Print in New Zealand
Book & Print in New Zealand

Author: Douglas Ross Harvey

Publisher: Victoria University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780864733313

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A guide to print culture in Aotearoa, the impact of the book and other forms of print on New Zealand. This collection of essays by many contributors looks at the effect of print on Maori and their oral traditions, printing, publishing, bookselling, libraries, buying and collecting, readers and reading, awards, and the print culture of many other language groups in New Zealand.

New Zealand Level 2 Elementary/Lower-intermediate American English
New Zealand Level 2 Elementary/Lower-intermediate American English

Author: Margaret Johnson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-01-05

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 0521149029

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Who are the Maoris and why do they wear tattoos? Why do we call people from New Zealand "Kiwis"? Who are the All Blacks? And why do they dance the haka? Why are adventure sports so popular in New Zealand? Find out the answers to those questions and much more in this profile of New Zealand - a country full of magical stories, exciting sports, and wonderful places. Cambridge Discovery Readers is an exciting new series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks, specifically written for pre-teen and teenage learners of English. Graded into seven levels - from Starter to Advanced - the readers provide easy and enjoyable reading with skills and vocabulary practice on a wide range of contemporary topics and themes. Book jacket.