To Wellington
- Amanda Riddell
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- 4 hours ago
- 2 min read
If you're unable to provide words of apology, I'm unable to lift the boycott. It's that simple. All you're doing is shooting yourselves in the foot and being bigoted. You are demonstrating the rapacious tokenism that fuels my satire. If you want me to come to gigs, you must stop asking me to sing or play guitar. You can't legally force me. Dr. Fisher must accept failure to convert me. She must learn her own melodic style. - Sorry. No wiggle room: sexual extortion took place, and I can't forgive it. Everyone knows it did, despite the inability to form a case. Please agree to a formal apology hui. Demonstrate awareness that you behaved like awful people. Accept my boundaries and limits. I'm not going to be persuaded to turn up to video plays. Sorry, not for free. $500-700 a day, and only if I like the play. Same with videoing concerts: $500-700 per person. Every service you wish to use requires fair pay. If there is a market benchmark, I must be paid that amount. Why? Because I'm a film director with several features under my belt. Why? Because I'm a composer that's written a number of hits, both pop and legit. Why? Because I've got political and social skills that you lack. - Why won't I share my wonderful piece with the university? Because they called me a sexual deviant and thought I was a paedophile. VUW can't walk back those statements, and VUW must accept my refusal. You backed up somebody that indecently assaulted me. That isn't ok. - Why won't I share my wonderful piece with Wellington? Same reason. 'Oro's Preludes must be done by another soloist. If you can't accept my fair reasons for refusing - no experience with an orchestra, a lack of time or interest in rehearsing my music, and the presence of numerous guitarists who have the chops and the charisma to do it instead of me. Amalia, Salina: you can't possibly understand. Guitar isn't a lucrative instrument. Nobody does it for the money. Your bigotry cost you my piece. Drop it. Never bring it up again. Tolerate Joel or you won't be able to get the licence. Joel's a good guy, but mostly he's got the temperament and the technique. STOP. I've said no. I've established that I know soloists who are up to it.
Is that enough to end this?
Why is it that Māori musicians are expected to front, but Pākehā and Asians aren't? It's racist to talk about our natural performing abilities. No, music was just in people's houses, rather than only at school. That's what separates us from the nerds. This seems like tokenism. They want a dark-skinned guy, and Ram's got the chops. - Don't you think Ruby would've have rather paid a proper classical cellist? Probably. She's not a full-stack classical cellist, so I'd say that limits the range of her music. I didn't write the preludes for me to perform, and I refuse. You should accept that I'm not half-trained, but I'm still not doing it. It's a matter of principle. Leo Brouwer didn't premiere his first few concerti. I'm a fully trained composer…