Our shining Soweto stars “BUSKAID” perform on SAT!
Catch some well-travelled and much loved talented youngsters from Soweto that will blow you away on their strings… Buskaid performs at the Linder Auditorium this SATURDAY the 16th July.
Some background:
Buskaid is a charity founded by viola player Rosemary Nalden in response to an item on the BBC’s Today programme which …
highlighted the difficulties experienced by a group of young string players in Diepkloof, Soweto. In 1997 she moved to Johannesburg and created the Buskaid project.
All Buskaid’s students are drawn from the underprivileged community and range in age from five to twenty-four. There are currently seventy students enrolled in the Project, which is housed in its own purpose-built Music School in Diepkloof.
The gig:
Following a number of highly successful performances last year in England, Ireland, Germany, Holland and South Africa, The Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble will be presenting its only major public concert for 2005 in Johannesburg on 16th July at the Linder Auditorium.
These young and vibrant African musicians from Diepkloof Soweto, have for the past five years thrilled audiences worldwide with their brilliant string playing and extraordinary sense of style. Their repertoire this year embraces major classical works by the great composers, as well as “classic pops” such as Mamma Mia, Stand by Me and Grapevine – and of course their inimitable arrangements of traditional African Kwela.
With standards higher than ever, this Ensemble of 23 talented young musicians will dazzle audiences with their interpretations of Handel’s Concerto Grosso Op 6 No. 1, Mozart’s Divertimento in D Major, Tchaikovsky’s Andante Cantabile and Ernest Bloch’s hauntingly beautiful ‘From Jewish Life’ featuring 16-year old cellist Innocentia Diamond. Two singers from the group, Mathapelo Matabane and Teboho Semela, whose rich voices and electric stage presence have captivated Buskaid’s international audiences, will feature in both ‘pops’ and Kwela arrangements.
The Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble
7.30pm, July 16th 2005 Tel: 011 442 9676/99
Linder Auditorium Email SONYA
Booking at Computicket
R75, R55, R35, R30 (students & pensioners)
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