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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Newsletter 3/Nuusbrief 3, 2014

Reflections on the performance by The Cape Town Male Voice Choir.
The hall was packed to hear this popular men's choir together with the newly formed Stilbaai Mannekoor under the leadership of Naomi van Schalkwyk. The Mannekoor opened the evening with five charming songs which they performed with enthusiasm and self-confidence belying the fact that the choir is barely a year old. Thereafter the Cape Town Male Voice Choir treated the audience to a program of rousing choral music, expertly performed with great feeling and precision under the professional leadership of their highly qualified conductor and accompanist. Their program also included a work especially composed for the choir which they first performed at the Welch World Choir Festival in London in 2012. This work consists of adaptations of African music and also includes a sound picture of an African thunderstorm which astounded the audience. The evening was concluded by the massed choirs performing the well-known “Stout-hearted Men” by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II. The audience, throughout the performance showed their appreciation by loud and long applause, which in turn spurred the choirs on to an even better performance. Thank you Stilbaai for being such an enthusiastic and appreciative audience.

Matthew Reid en Tertia Visser op Saterdagaand 10 Mei 2014.

Die klarinet-speler, Matthew Reid, is woonagtig in Kaapstad en is ‘n voltydse vry-skut musikant. Hierdie man het uitstekende kwalifikasies verwerf aan die Kaapse Universiteit, die Royal College of Music in London en het ook verdere studies in Parys en Wenen onderneem.  In 2008 onvang hy die Kanna-toekenning vir die beste klassieke-musikant by die KKNK.  Hierdie uitsonderlike man is ook die musiek-direkteur van ‘n musiekproduksie wat reeds aangebied is in Kaapstad, Johannesburg, Helsinki en London, en wat in Oktober vanjaar in Berlyn en Cologne opgevoer gaan word.

Die klavierspeler, Tertia Visser, is aan baie Stilbaaiers bekend. Sy is ‘n oud Matie en het al die Unisa lisensiate met lof geslaag en het ook verder opleiding oorsee ontvang.  Sy het reeds verskeie CD’s van haar eie, tree gereeld op as ‘n solo kunstenaar en baie dikwels as ‘n gesogde klavier-begeleier, beide vir lokale- en oorsese kunstenaars.  Sy is tans ‘n deeltydse lektor by die SA College of Music by die Universiteit van Kaapstad.

Met twee sulke virtuose in ons midde, word  almal  uitgenooi om na ‘n pragtige klassieke-musiek aanbieding te kom luister.



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