WIFT NZ - WIFT Member Screenings Coming Up

WIFT members Annie Goldson Elgar's Enigma: Biography of a Concerto and Anna Cottrell Last of the Anzacs have screenings at Nga Taonga over the next fortnight.

Elgar's Enigma: Biography of a Concerto follows the theory that the English composer, Edward Elgar, was moved to write his Cello Concerto in Em by the WWI death of a young New Zealand soldier, the son of Elgar's first great love, Helen Weaver. The Concerto is one in the classical repertoire and is known as a powerful war requiem, grieving for a world changed forever by the Great War.

The film interweaves the personal narrative with a superb performance of the Concerto by internationally renowned cellist, Lynn Harrell, with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Matthias Bamert.

When:
5.30pm Wednesday 22 April

Where:
Ng? Taonga Sound & Vision, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington

Free admission

Last of the Anzacs combines the frontline accounts of [World War One] veterans Les Leach (99) and Doug Dibley (101), who died in 1997, with the diary and letter entries of three other New Zealanders who risked their lives in the 1915 Gallipoli campaign. The written accounts were from William Steven (25, Canterbury Infantry Regiment), Roderick McCandlish (22, Wellington Mounted Rifles) and Tautuhi Maraki (22, Maori Pioneers) who, like 2721 Kiwis, did not return from the Dardanelles." - The Listener

When:
5.30pm Friday 24 April

Where:
Ng? Taonga Sound & Vision, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington

Free admission