CADOGAN HALL


because they love music – they don’t feel the need to know a lot about it first. They just go and have the experience of loving it. It’s very much embedded in their culture and it’s not seen as an elitist occupation at all.” Young says she understands why some audience members can be intimidated by classical music but it is a sentiment she is keen to challenge. “I actually gave a talk recently about the great composers to people who don’t know much about music and by the end of it they were really amazed at what they felt about the music,” she says. “I simply asked them to write down their responses, whatever they were, and they said they had never been asked to do that or felt it was okay to do that. That’s my point really, if you just come and open your heart, that’s all you really need to do to experience a concert.” Young’s love of classical music dates back to the first performance she attended as a teenager. “I went to see New Zealand Symphony


“The most important thing about an


orchestra is everybody is there to play to their utmost and do their best and really give commitment to the concert and the music they are playing”


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