Staying in Tune: CMNZ at 60

31 May 2011

Last year Chamber Music New Zealand celebrated 60 years of chamber music presentation, advocacy and development. The organisation’s formative years, from 1950 to 1982, were thoroughly documented in the 1985 book Into A New Key by John Mansfield Thomson. CMNZ’s Jane Dawson, who is responsible for our printed concert programmes, was commissioned to research and write a new, updated history. The result is a special book, Staying in Tune: Chamber Music New Zealand at 60.

The book was gifted to CMNZ 2010 subscriber households. Copies are available at $25 including postage and packing. For more information or to place an order, phone 0800 CONCERT (266 2378) or email info@chambermusic.co.nz

To give you a taste of what's cooking inside, extracts from the book are available as downloadable PDFs from our Resources/Miscellaneous page.*

The cover of the book features a painting by well-known NZ artist Piera McArthur. Piera was commissioned by CMNZ to celebrate our 60th anniversary with a series of paintings. Many of these paintings feature the Borodin Quartet, who opened our 2010 season.

*Please note that although freely available as a download, this book is copyright. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part of this book may be reproduced by any process without prior permission of the publisher (Chamber Music New Zealand). The moral rights of the author have been asserted.