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On Thursday October 29, pianist Camila de Oliveira presented a programme called "When the serious finds the rock "n" roll". She performed a selection from Scriabin’s set of Etudes opus 8 (no's 2,5,8) which was written in 1894, two years after he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory. The set of etudes is composed with a very romantic style which demonstrated Scriabin’s devotion to Chopin. This is contrasted with a work by New Zealander composer Jenny McLeod.. Rock Sonata no. 2 was commissioned for Rae de Lisle by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council (now Creative New Zealand) with the assistance of the New Zealand Composers' Foundation (now APRA). The composer has generously authorised Auckland Libraries to podcast this work.