In this episode we will celebrate the first birthday of Next Golden Age Radio which has been running since American Independence Day of 2024
quote: “One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.” — Agatha Christie
excerpt from Annie Dillard’s (USA) memoir “The American Childhood”
Music: (1) Florence Price (USA, 1887-1953): “Evening Shade”, 4th movement from piano suite “A Day in the Life of a Washerwoman” (Sherry Grant piano NZ) (2) Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915): Prelude in B Flat Minor Op.37 No.1 (Dmitry Rachmanov, piano USA) (3) Franz Liszt (1811-1886): Années de pèlerinage, 2ème année: Italie, S.161 - 3. Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa: Prelude Southern Cross (Alfred Brendel piano) (4) Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen Op.15, "Scenes from Childhood", Op.1 “Of Foreign Lands and Peoples” (Vladimir Horowitz piano)
Interview with American pianist Dmitry Rachmanov, 2023-02-04
Poetry by Ned O’Gorman (1929-2014, USA) and Octavio Quintanilla (USA)
Haiku by Debbie Strange (Canada), Sébastien Revon (Ireland), Ron Scully (USA) and Sherry Grant (NZ, poem and photography by Nick Fewings, UK)
Artwork: “Frontexto” by Octavio Quintanilla (art), in collaboration with Juan Felipe Herrera (poem in Spanish)
Background Image by Daniela Dimitrova from Pixabay
News: (1) NYO adventure concerts this weekend in Wellington Michael Fowler Centre and Auckland Townhall on the evenings of Saturday and Sunday, 5th and 6th of July 2025. This concert features music by Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss and the world premiere of Glacier by NYO Composer in Residence Luka Venter. For more information and to book tickets please visit https://www.nzso.co.nz/the-nzso/events-tickets/events/nyo-adventure (2) SOUNZ Tarling Trust Orchestral Commission 2025 is now open for application.
This opportunity will allow an emerging or early-career New Zealand composer to write a new 10-minute work, to be performed by each partnering orchestra during their 2026-27 concert seasons (i.e. four performances total, in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin).
The commission includes a $14,000 fee for the composition of the work and a performance will be recorded by SOUNZ.
Applications from composers must be completed via the following JotForm link by 5pm Monday 14 July 2025. Information can be found at https://sounz.org.nz/news/sounz-tarling-trust-orchestral-commission-2025 (3) Running from 2-27 July is 'Te Moana' exhibition - a fundraiser being hosted by 'Gallery Patea' to help with efforts to protect the South Taranaki bight and prevent imminent threat from commercial enterprise intending to mine and deposit the offshore ironsands. Many artists have donated and contributed artworks for the exhibition, which launches with a coffee morning at 10am-12pm this Saturday (5 July.) Gallery opening hours: Wed-Sun; 10am-2pm Located at 56a Egmont Street (SH3), Patea, South Taranaki. Contact: 0211355439 gallerypatea@gmail.com (4) 12th World Congress of the Theosophical Society (150 years of the Theosophical Society and 100 years of the Theosophical Society in Canada) 23-27 July 2025. For more information please visit
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