Philharmonia Choir of Cape Town:
A concert featuring works from three different countries.
A setting of the liturgical Mass with Spanish text, Misa Criolla, which originated in Argentina in 1965, has become increasingly popular in recent years. This work, set to music by Ariel Ramirez (recently deceased), has an accompaniment dominated by guitar and percussion instruments.
Another unusual version of the Mass is Missa Luba (1961), which is a Mass in Congolese style: the original Latin text is used but the accompaniment consists entirely of percussion instruments (originally gourd and tom-toms). It was due to the efforts of Father Guido Haazen and the African singers with whom he worked that this Mass was not only created but notated and recorded as well.
The third work in this unusual programme will be Prayers and Dances of Praise from Africa, a setting by the eminent South African composer Peter Klatzow of words taken from An African Prayer Book, compiled by Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Conductor to be announced.
- Date:
- 10 June 2010
- Time:
- 19:30
- City/Town:
- Cape Town
- Venue:
- Chapel at Diocesan College (Bishops), Rondebosch
- Address:
- Camp Ground Road, Rondebosch
- Ticket Price:
- TBC
- Bookings:
- TBC
- Organiser/Presenter:
- Philharmonia Choir of Cape Town
- Phone Number:
- +27 (0)21 421 8368
- Fax Number:
- +27 (0)21 789 2804
- Email Address:
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- Website:
- http://www.philchoir.co.za/
