New Zealand
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Interview on National Radio 2.30pm Sunday 2 November http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/artsonsunday/20081102
‘Each of the two main stories vying for the reader’s attention in this complex, skillfully layered novel could have formed the basis of a separate novel. ‘ Philippa Jamieson, NZ Listener
So, Sonata for Miriam is officially launched in New Zealand. A warm thank to all who contributed to yesterday’s event. It was an emotional experience to hear Alexander Ekroth-Baginski’s Sonata to Miriam played here, on the other side of the earth. Somehow it was comforting to me, as if my two worlds inched a little closer to each other. Music can do that, breach the gaps. Not just the geographical ones.