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Listen to this!American Soundscapes Part II: The Nelson Symphony OrchestraIt’s an ugly time for America. So let’s listen to what is beautiful about the USA in its classical orchestral music. 2025-04-0928 minListen to this!American Soundscapes: Nelson Symphony OrchestraIt’s hard to be an American these days but listen to the beauty of the USA through classical repertoire performed by the Nelson Symphony Orchestra in its American Soundscapes Concert. March 29 Nelson New Zealand. Yours truly Conductor.2025-03-1027 min
La Collection Georges LangLes Nocturnes du vendredi 28 février 2025Programmation des Nocturnes du vendredi 28 février 2025:
TRUE TO THE DEATH ROCK 'N' ROLL BALLAD-DUFF McKAGAN
FORTUNATE SON-JOHN FOGERTY & FOO FIGHTERS
SAVIOR WITH A RAZOR-BETH HART w/ SLASH
SLEEPLESS IN CHRISTCHURCH-TESS LIAUTAUD
GOING UP THE COUNTRY-CANNED HEAT
HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED-BOB DYLAN
MY FRIEND JACK-SMOKE
SPACEMAN IN TULSA-COUNTING CROWS
MR. JONES-COUNTING CROWS
ASTRONAUT-TEARS FOR FEARS
SPACE ODDITY-DAVID BOWIE
BABA 0' RILEY-THE WHO
MOTHERLESS CHILDREN-ERIC CLAPTON
WATCH THIS-SLASH / DAVE GROHL / DUFF McKAGAN
Ecoutez La Collection Georges Lang du 28 février 2025.Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.2025-02-2855 minListen to this!Super Bowl SpecialVictory and Loss in all of our lives.2025-02-1124 minListen to this!New Year New BeginningsHappy New Year! Lets listen to music that gives us the feeling of a new start and new beginning, celebration and reflection.2025-01-0924 minListen to this!It’s Christmas!Whether you believe in Christmas or not, classical music about Christmas will bring you, joy, renewal and hope.2024-11-2942 minListen to this!A Whole New World: Garden City OrchestraClassical music that brings us to new worlds.2024-11-2828 minListen to this!Wellington City Orchestra
In this episode we will highlight the upcoming
concert of the Wellington City Orchestra who are performing Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto #1 and New Zealand composers Douglas Lilburn / Aoteoroa Overture and Anthony Ritchie / Symphony #1
2024-11-0826 minListen to this!Cats
Many listeners own a cat, like cats or just want
to get into the current trend of being a cat lady.
This episode is dedicated to USA Republican Candidate for vice president J.D. Vance and as well to Taylor Swift who endorsed Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris with a cat friendly special sign off.
Lets listen to classical music that have cat
themes, either in the title, theme, or through cat-like musical ideas or motifs
2024-10-2622 minListen to this!Love and Romance: Romeo and Juliet Part IIRomeo and Juliet captures all of the romance, passion, drama and conflict of deep and magical love and our classical composers have given us some gorgeous representations of this beautiful story.2024-09-1326 minListen to this!AranjuezIn Season 1 we explored music that makes us want to dance. The Risingholme Orchestra of Christchurch is playing three pieces that are about dance too but, are different, Instead of music we could almost dance TO it is music we can WATCH others dance. In other words music from original ballets. When we listen to just the music from the ballet we might still be able to feel the joyful and graceful movement of the
dancers and feel that motion in our selves as well.
2024-06-1925 minListen to this!Aranjuez: The Risingholme Orchestra
In Season 1 we explored music that makes us want to dance. The Risingholme Orchestra of Christchurch is playing three pieces that are about dance too but, are different, Instead of music we could almost dance TO it is music we can WATCH others dance. In other words music from original ballets. When we listen to just the music from the ballet we might still be able to feel the joyful and graceful movement of the
dancers and feel that motion in our selves as well.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.co...2024-06-0726 minListen to this!Ain't She Suite: The Garden City OrchestraA suite is a collection of smaller musical pieces. Just like a bowl of candy, wonderful to taste.2024-05-2825 minListen to this!Stories of Time and Place: The Christchurch Youth OrchestraIn previous "Listen to this!" episodes we highlighted the performance of the Nelson Symphony and their concert called "Travel Plans". Even though its musical program is also about different places, the Christchurch Youth Orchestra’s concert is less about the cultural aspects of a different country and more about the visceral FEELING of the geography of a different land.
2024-05-1125 minListen to this!Love and Romance: Romeo and JulietAhhh love….We all want it… sometimes we find it sometimes we lose it. How does classical music bring us love and Romance through the story of the classic story of Romeo and Juliet.2024-04-2924 min
Psych MattersGender-Affirming Care: What is it? (and what it isn’t!)In this episode Dr Jamie Speeden (Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist/Paediatrician)discusses the care of transgender people with leading clinical experts in Aotearoa/NewZealand. The discussion covers what gender affirming care is (as well as what it isn’t!) and the primary-care-lead model through which it is delivered and provided across Aotearoa/New Zealand. The panel discusses their experiences of providing gender-affirming care, explores how the role of the psychiatrist has changed since depsychopathologisation, and they share why they find working with transgender people to be particularly rewarding.Dr Jamie Speeden (he/hi...2024-04-2552 minListen to this!Let's DanceLet’s groove with our modern moves to the old classical beats.2024-04-0925 minListen to this!Travel Plans Part 2Let’s continue to open up our lives to new feelings, new ways of thinking, new sensations by exploring the world through classical music with the music of The Nelson Symphony Orchestra’s concert, Travel Plans.. Aaron Copland's visit the USA with Appalachian Spring, New Zealand with Natalie Hunt's Only to the Mountain Highest and Spain with Joachim Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez.2024-04-0929 minListen to this!Travel Plans Part 1Travelling is so great. Going somewhere different, even if it’s only a short distance away can take you out of your own problems, change your way of thinking and your heart to more joyful possibilities in life. For a brief moment when visiting somewhere
different, you can feel something special.
In this episode of Listen to this! let’s let classical music take us to where we
want to go. Highlighting music from the upcoming March 23rd Travel Plans concert of the Nelson Symphony Orchestra in New Zealand. Beethoven's Overture to Fidelio, Faure's Pelleas et Melisande Suite...2024-03-0727 minListen to this!AcceptanceListen To This! - Episode 11 - Acceptance
( 0:28:23) Episode Information Published: 3/09/2023 6:00:00 p.m.2023-10-1228 minListen to this!Classical music that helps when we are in depressionClassical music that helps when we are in depression.
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Published: 5/08/2023 6:00:00 p.m.2023-10-1228 minListen to this!The Five Stages of Grief / BargainingListen To This! - Episode 9 - The Five Stages of Grief/Bargaining
( 0:26:40) Episode Information Our last two episodes of Listen to this! were about death and more specifically about denial and then anger two of the five stages of grief that we go through when we are mourning a great loss in life, whether it be actual death or the loss of a job, marriage or anything in between. Let’s listen now to classical music that helps us through another of the five stages of grief. Bargaining.Published: 23/07/2023 6:00:00 p.m.2023-10-1226 minListen to this!Grief / AngerListen To This! - Episode 8 - Grief / Anger
( 0:27:38) Episode Information There are five stages of grief that we go through when we are mourning a great loss in life, whether it be actual death or the loss of a job, marriage or anything in between. In this episode we listen to classical music that helps us through a particularly difficult stage of grief, Anger.Published: 9/07/2023 6:00:00 p.m.2023-10-1227 minListen to this!Death and Denial Listen To This! - Episode 7 - Death and Denial
( 0:26:43) Episode InformationToday's episode is about Death. Arggghhh. Not the most positive thing in the world but, along with taxes, an inevitable fact of life. We will try and break down death or ending and the difficult emotions we go through when we are confronted with…. the end and find classical musicPublished: 11/06/2023 3:16:00 p.m.2023-10-1226 minListen to this!Classical Music and PowerListen To This! - Episode 6 - Classical Music and Power ( 0:26:24) Episode Information In this episode of Listen to this! we will be listening to classical music that has power, that helps us feel strong and mighty. Because our emotions can be subtly different and complex and because we need subtly different support and inspiration from our classical music this, episode will show us classical music that has the kind of power we need to win, a power we need so that we can overcome any obstacle internal or external.Published: 28/05/2023 6:00:00 p.m.2023-10-1226 minListen to this!Classical music that healsListen To This! - Episode 5 - Classical music that heals (0:28:4) Episode Information Whether we need it emotionally, spiritually or physically., there is classical music that helps us feel better and heal. Classical music can help us feel better and stay healthier.Published: 14/05/2023 4:43:00 p.m.2023-10-1227 minListen to this!When we are sadListen To This! - Episode 4 - Classical music that helps when we are sad( 0:30:4) Episode Information In this episode of Listen to this we will explore some wonderful classical music that expresses sadness.Published: 30/04/2023 9:21:00 a.m.2023-10-1228 minListen to this!Be happy!Listen To This! - Episode 3 - Be Happy! Listen to this classical music!( 0:27:27) Episode Information Many people think that classical music can be very serious and deep but not! Listen to this classical music that will put a smile on your face, a laugh in your belly and definitely cheer you upPublished: 16/04/2023 6:00:00 p.m.2023-10-1227 minListen to this!Get SmartListen To This! - Episode 2 - Get Smart: Classical music that helps you think, study, learn( 0:25:16) Episode InformationPeer reviewed, scientific studies have shown that listening to classical music can lower stress hormone levels, improve mental health and well being, and strengthen brain development. Today we will listen to some music that might make us… what’s it called again (*duhhhh), smarter!Published: 2/04/2023 1:48:00 p.m.2023-10-1225 minListen to this!What is Classical Music?Listen To This! - Episode 1 - What is Classical music?
An introduction to Listen to this! and Beth Cohen your host. Our assumption that classical music is one type of music and not the other might not allow us to truly enjoy it. What is classical music? If we expand our definition we might find classical music that we want to listen to. Classical music is much more and is for all of us.Published: 17/03/2023 1:30:00 p.m.2023-10-1225 min
The Arts Village PeopleEpisode 08 with Mary-Beth AcresGeorgia and Tara are reunited with former Director at the Arts Village, Mary-Beth Acres to discuss her arts practice, her new job in Christchurch, an incredible story about her lost cat, and of course memories of her time at the Village.
Follow Mary-Beth on Instagram and Facebook by following this link: https://linktr.ee/mbacres
Learn more about the Cantabrainers Choir here: https://www.cantabrainerschoir.nz
Find Arts Village Merch here: https://tav-merch.printmighty.co.nz2022-02-2135 min
Finding CommunityEpisode 3: Pride MonthEpisode 3 of Finding Community honors Pride Month with a discussion about the intersection of faith, spirituality, and personal identity. Our special guests were Beth Russell, a parent and educator in Hillsboro School District and Vice Chair of Westside Queer Resource Center (WQRC), Shannon Walton-Clark, Board Chair of the WQRC and a resident of Washington County, and David Eppelsheimer, Pastor of Community of ChristChurch in Hillsboro and Board Member of WQRC.Transcripts available here: https://bit.ly/FindingCommunityEp3Learn more about VAN and our initiatives:https://www.visionactionnetwork.orghttps://www.facebook.com/VisionActionNetwork/...2021-06-2553 min
The GlasshouseMargaret Gordon and Ella BaxterJournalist and producer Margaret Gordon talks about making the podcast ‘Collapse’, which examines the CTV building failure in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake; and writer Ella Baxter chats about her debut novel ‘New Animal’, exploring a journey through sex, death and grief.With presenter Fi Wright, filling in for Beth AQ.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/the-glasshouseInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theglasshouse.rrr/?hl=en2021-04-1441 min
Politics in Full Sentences: ACT New ZealandState of the Nation 2020 - David Seymour, ACT LeaderIntroductionThank you Beth and thank you to our wonderful ACT Party volunteers and President. Did you know our online donations averaged a thousand dollars per day for the hundred days before the election was called? ACT has its best momentum and support in a decade.I want to thank Sang Cho and the team at Eden Bistro for opening up especially in Waitangi. Eden Bistro is a new business, and I think it’s going to be a big success. Here in the north of Mt Eden is one of the Epsom Electorate’s most...2020-02-1400 min
The FENIX VISA PodcastBeth Knowles & ARA Institute of CanterburyAn interview with Beth Knowles, International Director of ARA Institute of Canterbury.
Get to know the affordability and opportunities of a rebuilt Christchurch and the growing Filipino community.2019-09-1721 min
Pantsuit PoliticsBrexit, the Veto, Guns, and White NationalismOn today's show, we discuss a variety of important news stories from around the globe. We discuss flooding in Nebraska, continued Brexit drama, Governor Newsom's death penalty decision, President Trump's first veto, and, in our main segment, the tragic shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand. The shooting raises discussion about gun control, terrorism, and white nationalism. Outside of politics, Beth finally saw Hamilton and Sarah is ready for spring cleaning. Recommended Resources: Deadly Flooding in the Midwest Governor Newsom and the Death Penalty Newsom Takes His Case NationalCompliment the Other Side: New Mexico's Legislature Funds Education At Le...2019-03-1949 minPantsuit PoliticsBrexit, the Veto, Guns, and White NationalismOn today's show, we discuss a variety of important news stories from around the globe. We discuss flooding in Nebraska, continued Brexit drama, Governor Newsom's death penalty decision, President Trump's first veto, and, in our main segment, the tragic shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand. The shooting raises discussion about gun control, terrorism, and white nationalism. Outside of politics, Beth finally saw Hamilton and Sarah is ready for spring cleaning. Recommended Resources: Deadly Flooding in the Midwest Governor Newsom and the Death Penalty Newsom Takes His Case NationalCompliment the Other Side: New Mexico's Legislature Funds Education At Le...2019-03-1949 min
The Good TimelineCTP #015 - Patrick Fuller (Sleep Science: From Brainwaves to Cave Dwellers)Patrick Fuller is associate Professor of Neurology at both Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is involved with numerous organisations including the Society for Neuroscience and the Sleep Research Society.
Patrick enlightened me on present and potential future technological hacks for different brain wave states and sleep; some of the major neurotransmitters and hormones involved in sleep/wake regulation; the circadian clock and how we are affected by temperature and blue light; what monophasic, biphasic and polyphasic sleep patterns are and how to create an ideal sleeping environment.
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