Taonga

Ngaro Rangi Taonga Pūoro - The Forgotten Maori Musical Instruments. (Preview) Dr. hc Richard Nunns from New Zealand and Benjamin Ochse explore the lost voices of Taonga Pūoro (traditional Maori musical instruments) collected more than 225 years ago by James Cook and his crew. They were probably last heard and played in Queen Charlotte Sound on the South Island of New Zealand. Scope. The video documentary explores the collection of Taonga Pūoro artefacts held at the Georg-August University of Göttingen in Germany. Collected during the three Pacific voyages undertaken by James Cook and may be by Johann and Georg Forster between 1768 and 1780, these 225-year-old artefacts provide a rare insight into the New Zealand cultures James Cook encountered. Richard Nunns will explain the cultural background of these instruments and will demonstrate how to play and handle them. Dr. hc Richard Nunns has been described as one of New Zealand's most remarkable musicians. A Pakeha (European New Zealander) who has become the living authority on Taonga Pūoro, his journey has required a great deal of respect, perseverance and sensitivity - characteristics that inevitably emerge in the depths of his own music. He has a long history of personal commitment to researching and presenting / performing the traditional musical instruments of the Maori, and to organizing this body of knowledge into a form that is immediately understandable to people in general. If you like to learn more about this <b>...</b>