Conducted by Richard Cock. Charity concert for the benefit of Lifeline with an eclectic mixture of music in the vein of the London Last Night of the Proms concerts – complete with Parry’s ‘Jerusalem’ and Elgar’s ‘ Land of Hope and Glory’. Sure to put a smile on your face.
Find out more »Conducted by Richard Cock. This will be a concert containing music by the great masters from the Age of Reason. The Requiem in C minor for mixed chorus was written by Luigi Cherubini in 1816 and premiered 21 January 1817 at a commemoration service for Louis XVI of France on the twenty-third anniversary of his beheading during the French Revolution. In 1834 the work was prohibited by the archbishop of Paris because of its use of women's voices, and in 1836 Cherubini wrote a second Requiem in D minor for men's chorus.…
Find out more »Conducted by Richard Cock. Belshazzar's Feast is a cantata by the English composer William Walton. It was first performed at the Leeds Festival on 8 October 1931, with the baritone Dennis Noble, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Leeds Festival Chorus, conducted by Malcolm Sargent. The work has remained one of Walton's most celebrated compositions. Osbert Sitwell selected the text from the Bible, primarily the Book of Daniel, and Psalm 137. In the story of Belshazzar's Feast, the Jews are in exile in Babylon. After a feast at which Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, commits sacrilege by using the Jews' sacred…
Find out more »Conducted by Richard Cock. The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879. Its London debut was on 3 April 1880, at the Opera Comique. Pirates was the fifth Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration and introduced the much-parodied "Major-General's Song". Fiction and plays about pirates were ubiquitous in the 19th century. Walter Scott's The Pirate (1822) and James Fenimore Cooper's The Red Rover were key sources…
Find out more »Conducted by Richard Cock. The traditional family Christmas concert with Richard Cock and the Symphony Choir of Johannesburg without which it really isn’t Christmas in Johannesburg. Young and old will be joined in singing some of the wonderful carols we all know and love. The choir will of course entertain you with other Christmas music both new and old. The proper way to start Christmas. * Special ticket price for Christmas Concerts R200 * Seniors, students & scholars R160
Find out more »Conducted by Richard Cock. The traditional family Christmas concert with Richard Cock and the Symphony Choir of Johannesburg without which it really isn’t Christmas in Johannesburg. Young and old will be joined in singing some of the wonderful carols we all know and love. The choir will of course entertain you with other Christmas music both new and old. The proper way to start Christmas. * Special ticket price for Christmas Concerts R200 * Seniors, students & scholars R160
Find out more »Conducted by Richard Cock. Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins, CBE(born 1944) is a Welsh musician and composer. Jenkins began his musical career as an oboist in the National Youth Orchestra of Wales. He went on to study music at Cardiff University, and then commenced postgraduate studies in London at the Royal Academy of Music, where he is a fellow and an associate and where he also met his wife and musical collaborator, Carol Barratt. He was a member of the jazz-rock band Soft Machine. Stabat Mater is a 2008 piece Jenkins…
Find out more »Conducted by Richard Cock. Charity concert for the benefit of Lifeline with an eclectic mixture of music in the vein of the London Last Night of the Proms concerts – complete with Parry’s ‘Jerusalem’ and Elgar’s ‘ Land of Hope and Glory’. Sure to put a smile on your face.
Find out more »Conducted by Richard Cock. Charity concert for the benefit of Lifeline with an eclectic mixture of music in the vein of the London Last Night of the Proms concerts – complete with Parry’s ‘Jerusalem’ and Elgar’s ‘ Land of Hope and Glory’. Sure to put a smile on your face.
Find out more »Conducted by Richard Cock. Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (1895 – 1982) was a German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana (1937). In addition to his career as a composer, Orff developed an influential approach toward music education for children. Orff studied at the Munich Academy of Music until 1914, he then served in the German Army during World War I. Afterwards, he held various positions at opera houses in Mannheim and Darmstadt, later returning to Munich to pursue his music studies. In 1934, Orff encountered the 1847 edition of the Carmina…
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