The Tui and the Kahikatea
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      The Tui and the Kahikatea

      Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time (with Pacifica poetry)

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      Turner Centre

      43 Cobham Road

      Kerikeri, New Zealand

      When

      Sun 27 Apr 2025

      Running Time

      1 hour, 10 minutes

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      The performers -Peter Scholes clarinet, Simeon Broom violin, James Tennant cello, Katherine Austin piano and Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna’i poet- present a reflective evening of music and poetry. The famous eight-movement quartet by Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was composed in a prisoner of war camp during the Second World War.

      He was an organist/ pianist, and in the camp, under trying conditions, there was also a violinist, a clarinettist and a cellist. This group of four well-known New Zealand musicians first came together with Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna’i in 2023 to present a concert which combined what is perhaps the most celebrated chamber music composition of the 20th century, with Pacifica poetry, speaking to the issues of our age.

      This music, at times angry, at times a lament, at times bursting with bird song, leads us to a place of simplicity and transcendent beauty, taking us to the core of our existence and a place of courage in the face of what we see happening in the world. Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna’i brings dramatic presentations of her poetry about the threat of climate change to the Pacific Islands and of “wayfinding” our path from the present situation. The poems are carefully matched with the mood of each movement. The impact is powerful.