The New Zealand School of Music is delighted to announce a lullaby competition, with the winning entry to be gifted to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
The competition is open to all New Zealanders, and in celebration of Suffrage 125 marking the 125th anniversary of women getting the vote in New Zealand, the music must be set to the poem, A Lullaby—a satirical text written by New Zealand poet Thomas Bracken in 1892.
The poem's theme of role reversal at that time was a source of much hilarity. The last laugh comes over a century later however; the words have turned to reality with the Prime Minister returning to work to ‘look after the Nation’, leaving her partner Clarke Gayford, to ‘mind the baby’.
A panel of NZSM experts will judge the entries and the winner will perform their winning composition at a concert on Sunday 14 October, as part of a week-long celebration of women and music in Aotearoa, hosted by the NZSM.
Entries close 31 August, 2018
Start time
July 23, 2018 12:00PM
End time
August 31, 2018 5:00PM
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