One of our most celebrated authors, Witi Ihimaera, recalls how his life changed when he first heard The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky, as a young boy listening to a record player in Gisborne. And NZSO double bass player Alexander Gunchenko explains the fiendish difficulty of playing the piece.
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