Appendix 6 - International Music Council

symphony ca 1h40 min., (2+3+3+;4321;hrp, timp, 4perc, s,a,t,b, chorus,strings); texts by
Prof Themba Msimang; commissioned by the Playhouse Company of Durban, November
1999; premiere 2001. /African Kaddish /7 min.; large Orchestra; Commissioned by
SAMRO for the National Youth Orchestra of South Africa; Premiere July 2001 /The hero
lives again /9 min.; large orchestra and narrator; based on poems by South African writer,
Zakes Mda; May 1999 /uNandi /7 min.; soprano and orchestra; text by the composer;
premiered at the 1999 Mass Choir Festival, Johannesburg; conducted by Richard Cock
/Vespers /Soprano and chamber orchestra (revised version); original version premiered in
August 1996 Endler Hall, Stellenbosch; composer conducting; excerpts choreographed
by Lindi Raizenburg for Cape Town City Ballet as the ballet piece /Episodes/ /Scenes of
Grahamstown /String orchestra; excerpts choreographed by Lindi Raizenburg for Cape
Town City Ballet as the ballet piece /Episodes/ /Mass /Ensemble (012+0,0000, perc,
2vln, 11); dance score, choreography by R.Taylor; premiered October 1998 du Maurier
Theatre Harbourfront Centre, Toronto; composer conducting /My Granddaddy wore no
shoes /Ensemble(1111;0000; 1 perc; strings); dance score, choreography Germaul
Barnes; commissioned by Barnes through funding from the City of Phoenix Arts
Commission, Arizona; performed TG Barr Elementary, Phoenix AZ, April 1999
*Operatic Works:* /Themba and Seliba /Chamber opera with libretto by Gwyneth Lloyd;
commissioned by Co-Opera with funding from the Grahamstown Foundation and
Nedbank Arts & Culture Trust, premiered December 1996, 1820 Settlers Monument
Theatre, Grahamstown; also, July 1997 National Arts Festival Fringe /Uhambo -The
Pilgrimage /Opera-Oratorio base on Guy Butler's /Pilgrimage to Dias Cross/; members of
Cape Town Opera and Orchestra, July 1998 Standard Bank National Arts Festival,
Grahamstown Festival, under the direction of the composer; dedicated to Guy Butler
/Umuntu: "Threnody and Dances" /Monodrama commissioned by the National Arts
Council of South Africa; libretto by the composer; premiered March 2001 with Linda
Bukhosini (soprano) at the Auditorium of the SABC Studios in Durban *Chamber music:
*/Three Miniatures on Motherhood /Soprano and string quartet; first performed in
Munich and Innsbruck, 2001 /Zulu Dances for Octet /(fl,cl,bsn,trp,trb,perc,vln,cb);
written for the Cuttime players of Detroit, MI /An African Rainsong/ Duo for alto
saxophone and piano /Rituals for Forgotten Faces - No. 5/ (fl, ob, cl, bsn, hr, tru, tro,
perc, mar, 2vln, vla, vc, db); Concerto Grosso in 2 movements for marimba and 13
instruments; an Ensemble Noir commission /Rituals for Forgotten Faces - No. 1/ Solo
piano; premiered by Jill Richards in Pittsburgh, October 1999 /Rituals for Forgotten
Faces -No. 2 "A joy" /Solo piano; premiered by Jill Richards in Pittsburgh, October 1999
/Rituals for Forgotten Faces - No. 3 /Solo piano /Rituals for Forgotten Faces - No. 4a
/String quartet; an Ensemble Noir commission /Rituals for Forgotten Faces - No. 4b
/String quartet; an Ensemble Noir commission /Rituals for Forgotten Faces - No. 6/
Sextet /The Lamentations of Jeremiah The Prophet/ Soprano and ensemble; premiered
July 1995, Beethoven Auditorium, Fringe Festival of Standard Bank National Arts
Festival (score has been withdrawn by the composer) /The Sun, The Moon, The Rain
/String quartet; premiered Chicago Cultural Center's Cassidy Theatre, August 1997;
dedicated to Ishbel Sholto-Douglas /Ceremonies and Tongues/ Piano, vln, vc. in two
movements, commissioned by the National Arts Council for the Egoli trio; dedicated to
Jill Richards, February 1998; premiered WITS Hall Johannesburg /Sonatina for Clarinet/
Clarinet and piano; premiered July 1995, Beethoven Auditorium, Fringe Festival of
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