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Choral concert puts cadenza on a Covid-affected year for ACAS

Literary coup for Arrowtown

Mountain Scene By PHILIP CHANDLER The author of the most talked-about book in New Zealand this year talks about her life and her work at a literary event in the Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall on Wednesday night. Celebrated Kiwi novelist Charlotte Grimshaw hit the headlines with her ‘‘explosive’’ memoir, The Mirror Book, which critiques her father, literary lion C.K. Stead, who’s now 88. After being traumatised by a marriage crisis, Grimshaw — who grew up knowing NZ’s literary elite as regular visitors to her home — realised her family background had been far darker than what her father had painted. The memoir tells of her parents’ hostility towards a daughter who was repeatedly accused of fantasising, stroppy me-too feminism, lacking humour and being ‘‘Charlotte-chaotic’’.

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Covid coup for Twilight Opera

Mountain Scene January 29, 2021 By TRACEY ROXBURGH Closed borders are providing an extra boost for next month’s Twilight Opera, the stage for which is a recently-designated ‘garden of national interest’ at Dalefield. Produced by the Arrowtown Creative Arts Society (ACAS), with Auckland’s Opera Studio, it’ll be the second event of its kind held at Bruce and Margot Robinson’s ‘Birchwood Garden’, at Birchwood Road. Five of the seven names now signed on for the February 21 concert should be on contract overseas, singing with American and European companies, were it not for Covid. Following on from last year’s operatic coup, which saw ACAS secure leading opera tenor Simon O’Neill to perform at Arrowtown’s Athenaeum Hall — a sold-out performance regarded as one of the best staged in the historic hall — the society’s now doubled down.