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Story: Waiata hōu – contemporary Māori songs

Alfred Hill performing a haka

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Alfred Hill performing a haka

Composer and conductor Alfred Hill gives his all in a haka in front of Māori students at Whangamarino Māori school, near Rotorua, in 1952. The children are greatly entertained by his performance.

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New Zealand Herald

Reference: John Thomson, A distant music: the life and times of Alfred Hill 1870-1960. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1980, p. 211

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Piri Sciascia and Paul Meredith, Waiata hōu – contemporary Māori songs – Origins of contemporary waiata, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/44798/alfred-hill-performing-a-haka (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Piri Sciascia and Paul Meredith, published 31 March 2014.