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Opera Great Dame Kiri Te Kanawa on New Zealand

Opera Great Dame Kiri Te Kanawa on New Zealand

I was recently going through some old manuscripts I had written, and came across an interview with award-winning New Zealand soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Dame Te Kanawa has sung at major opera houses throughout the world, including New York’s Metropolitan Opera, where I had the privilege of hearing her silken voice. During the phone interview, … Continue reading

The Glowworm Cave of Te Anau, Part I

The Glowworm Cave of Te Anau, Part I

It kept spinning over and over in my head:  “The Glowworm Song” that I remembered as a kid. “Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer….”  It hit number one on the Billboard Charts in 1952, and there’s  a Youtube video of the Mills Brothers singing it on the Nat King Cole Show in 1957.     Since then, I’ve … Continue reading