NEW MUSIC INDABA 2003
Twin Themes: Stockhausen at 75/Sisters in the Mix
27th June - 6th July, Grahamstown, South Africa
Director
Michael Blake
Sponsors
The New Music Indaba wishes to thank the following organizations for their kind assistance:
- Standard Bank
- Eastern Cape Government
- Gaudeamus Foundation
- Royal Netherlands Embassy
- MMINO, South African-Norwegian Education and Music Programme
- Distell Foundation for the Performing Arts
- Die Rupert-Musiekstigting
- SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts
- Institut Francais Afrique du Sud
- University of Stellenbosch
PROGRAMME
1 Friday 27 June |
2 Saturday 28 June |
3 Sunday 29 June
4 Monday 30 June |
5 Tuesday 1 July |
6 Wednesday 2 July
7 Thursday 3 July |
8 Friday 4 July |
9 Saturday 5 July
10 Sunday 6 July
Full notes on performers, composers, and works will be available at Indaba events.
Programmes and artists subject to change.
** = South African première
*** = World première
Day 1
Friday 27 June
COMPOSERS IN CONVERSATION 1
Friday 27 June 18h00-18h45 | Café Workshop
OperaWorks director Mary Rörich talks to Dutch composers Theo Loevendie and Christina Viola Oorebeek prior to the South African prèmières of several of their works.
OPERAWORKS - THE CONCERT
Friday 27 June 19h00-20h30 | Beethoven Room
Beth Griffith soprano
Walter Butt tenor
Michael Blake piano
Pauline Post & Nora Mulder piano duo
Matteo Fargion amplified cardboard boxes
Sontonga String Quartet:
Marc Uys & Waldo Alexander violins
Xandi van Dijk viola
Brian Choveaux cello
Corinne Cooper sound
Theo Loevendie
Sonata for Solo Voice ***
Matteo Fargion
Donna che beve **
Mauricio Kagel
Recitativarie for Singing Harpsichordist
Ernest H.Papier
Tête à queue ni tête **
Christina Viola Oorebeek
Satie and his Sense of Shoelaces **
Theo Loevendie
The Barpianist **
Interval
Participants in OperaWorks - The Course
Opera Excerpts ***
Sponsored by Gaudeamus Foundation, Royal Dutch Embassy and MMINO.
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Day 2
Saturday 28 June
COMPOSERS IN CONVERSATION 2
Saturday 28 June 10h30-11h15 | Café Workshop
Indaba director Michael Blake talks to composers Jürgen Bräuninger and Matteo Fargion whose music is performed during the following days.
FLOWERS OF THE NATION
Saturday 28 June 14h00-c15h20 | Cathedral
Indaba Festival Singers:
Joy of Africa conducted by Makhaya Mjana
Siyakhula Choral Group conducted by Sizwe Bali
Siyaphakama Adult Choir conducted by Thomas T K Kolo
Beth Griffith soprano
Johan Rautenbach guitar
Makhaya Mjana
New Music Indaba
Lihle Biata
Kumnandi ***
T T Mahlangeni
Emv'ekhaya
Benjamin Tyamzashe
Ezants'e Coalbrook
Priaulx Rainier
Ubunzima **
W A Majola
Udumo
Benjamin Myataza
Ingoma Phezu Kodonga Lomlambo
Christian Ngqobe
Amandla Omthandazo
Priaulx Rainier
Dance of the Rain **
Shalati Khosa
Afrika Tsonga
Michael Moerane
Della
Joseph Motuba
Rorisang Morena
Igor Stravinsky
Three Sacred Choruses
Sponsored by the Eastern Cape Government and SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts.
STOCKHAUSEN'S MANTRA
Saturday 28 June 19h00-20h00 | Beethoven Room
Pauline Post piano
Nora Mulder piano
Jan Panis electronics
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Mantra for two pianists **
Sponsored by the Gaudeamus Foundation and Royal Netherlands Embassy.
SONTONGA QUARTET - LATE NIGHT SESSIONS
Saturday 28 June 21h30-22h30 | Beethoven Room
Sontonga Quartet:
Marc Uys & Waldo Alexander violins
Xandi van Dijk viola
Brian Choveaux cello
Arvo Pärt
Fratres
Henryk Gorecki
String Quartet No 2 Op 64 (Quasi una fantasia) **
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Day 3
Sunday 29 June
COMPOSERS IN CONVERSATION 3
Sunday 29 June 10h30-11h15 | Café Workshop
Christine Lucia talks to composer Kevin Volans, prior to a performance of his recent Piano Études.
ESSENTIALLY ÉTUDES
Sunday 29 June 11h30-12h30 | Beethoven Room
Jill Richards piano
Matteo Fargion
Opera Studies
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Klavierstück 9
György Ligeti
From Études for Piano (Book 1: Nos. 2-4)
Kevin Volans
Three Études
Sponsored by Rupert Musiekstigting.
THE CHAMELEON, THE LIZARD AND OTHER MUSICIANS
Sunday 29 June 14h00-15h30 | Rhodes Chapel
University of Pretoria Chorale
Indaba Festival Orchestra
Mokale Koapeng conductor
Mokale Koapeng
Fatlhego sa gago
Motsumi Makhene
Skhumbule
Mzilikazi Khumalo
Inkondlo Kambayi
Podu Mamabolo
Thuto
Mthunzi Namba
Isoka Tam
Laurence Chonco
Inqwele
Stanley Glasser/Lewis Nkosi
The Chameleon and the Lizard **
Sponsored by the Eastern Cape Government and University of Pretoria.
INVUSELELO MOYANDUMISO (REVIVAL OF THE SPIRIT)
Sunday 29 June 17h00-c18h10 | Nombulelo Hall
SDASA Choir
Victor Koapeng conductor
PAULINE POST & NORA MULDER
Sunday 29 June 19h00-20h30 | Beethoven Room
Pauline Post piano
Nora Mulder piano
Jan Panis electronics
Ernest H.Papier
Tête à queue ni tête
Eric de Clercq
1+1=3 **
Matteo Fargion
Double Dickie ***
Barbara Monk Feldman
Two Pianos **
Interval
Patricio Wang
Two Sisters **
Martijn Padding
Legatos **
Mayke Nas
Digit #2 **
Sponsored by the Gaudeamus Foundation and Royal Netherlands Embassy.
SONTONGA QUARTET - LATE NIGHT SESSIONS
Sunday 29 June 21h30-22h30 | Beethoven Room
Sontonga Quartet:
Marc Uys & Waldo Alexander violins
Xandi van Dijk viola
Brian Choveaux cello
Kevin Volans
String Quartet No 4 (The Ramanujan Notebooks) **
Henryk Gorecki
String Quartet No 2 Op 64 (Quasi una fantasia)
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Day 4
Monday 30 June
THE BOW: SOUTH AFRICA'S WEAPON OF MUSIC
Monday 30 June 11h00-11h45 | Café Workshop
A lecture-demonstration on the uhadi bow and its music by Professor Andrew Tracey, director of the International Library of African Music.
THE BOW PROJECT
Monday 30 June 12h00-13h00 | Beethoven Room
Mantombi Matotiyana bow singer
Pumeza Matshikiza soprano
Sontonga String Quartet:
Marc Uys violin
Waldo Alexander violin
Xandi van Dijk viola
Brian Choveaux cello
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
Inxembula
Martin Scherzinger
My Friend, the Ugly One
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
unTsiki
Trad/Dywili arr. Hanmer
unTsiki ***
Paul Hanmer
Mtwazana ***
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
Umzi kaMzwandile
Trad/Dywili arr. Prince
Umzi kaMzwandile ***
Lloyd Prince
Lines ***
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
Nguwe l'udal' inyakanyaka
Trad/Dywili arr. Fargion
Nguwe l'udal' inyakanyaka ***
Matteo Fargion
String Quartet No.4 ***
Sponsored by Distell Foundation for the Performing Arts.
STOCKHAUSEN'S KONTAKTE
Monday 30 June 19h00-20h30 | Beethoven Room
Ancuza Aprodu piano
Thierry Miroglio percussion
Corinne Cooper sound
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Tierkreis (version for vibraphone and piano)
Zyklus for solo percussion **
Klavierstücke 1-4
Interval
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Kontakte for piano, percussion and tape **
Sponsored by the Institut Francais Afrique du Sud.
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Day 5
Tuesday 1 July
THE BOW: SOUTH AFRICA'S WEAPON OF MUSIC 2
Tuesday 1 July 11h00-11h45 | Café Workshop
Some of the composers who have contributed to the Bow Project Phase 2 in discussion with Indaba director Michael Blake who conceived the project.
THE BOW PROJECT
Tuesday 1 July 12h00-13h00 | Beethoven Room
Mantombi Matotiyana bow singer
Pumeza Matshikiza soprano
Sontonga String Quartet:
Marc Uys violin
Waldo Alexander violin
Xandi van Dijk viola
Brian Choveaux cello
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
uMagungqel' indawo
Trad/Dywili arr. Khumalo
uMagungqel' indawo
Andile Khumalo
uMagungqel' indawo
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
Nontyolo
Trad/Dywili arr. Miller
Nontyolo ***
Philip Miller
Nontyolo Part 2 ***
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
Latshon'ilanga
Trad/Dywili arr. Raynham
Latshon'ilanga ***
Julia Raynham
Malingatshoni ***
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
Umyeyezolo
Trad/Dywili arr. Koapeng
Umyeyezolo ***
Mokale Koapeng
Komeng ***
Sponsored by Distell Foundation for the Performing Arts.
THE ZAP DREAM - CONCERT FOR KIDS (AND GROWNUPS)
Tuesday 1 July 15h00-16h00 | Nombulelo Hall
Beth Griffith soprano & narrator
Michael Blake piano
Dumisa Mpupha narrator
Pauline Post & Nora Mulder piano duet
Ruth Crawford Seeger
The Adventures of Tom Thumb **
Beth Anderson
Country Time **
John Cage
A Flower
Beth Anderson
Cat Songs **
Aaron Copland
I Bought Me a Cat
Mayke Nas
Digit #2
Christina Viola Oorebeek
The Zap Dream **
Sponsored by the Gaudeamus Foundation and Royal Netherlands Embassy.
ANCUZA APRODU & THIERRY MIROGLIO
Tuesday 1 July 19h00-20h30 | Nombulelo Hall
Ancuza Aprodu piano
Thierry Miroglio percussion
Corinne Cooper sound
Daniel Teruggi
Phonic Streams **
Alicia Terzian
Yagua Ya Yuca **
Maurice Ohana
Etude XII (Imitations-Dialogues) **
Interval
Enrico Correggia
Turbata serenità degli incanti **
Dominique Lemaitre
Al Uzza (1999) **
Michael Blake
Ways of the dance **
Sponsored by the Institut Francais Afrique du Sud.
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Day 6
Wednesday 2 July
ELECTRONIC EXHIBITION
Wednesday 2 July 12h00-18h00 | Electronic Music Gallery
Cobi van Tonder curator
Beth Griffith soprano
Corinne Cooper sound
Electronic Music Gallery programme
MIRRORING MAYA DEREN
Wednesday 2 July 17h00-18h00 | Nombulelo Hall
Marcus Wyatt trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion
Carlo Mombelli electric bass, voice, loops
Michael Blake piano, percussion
Helen Hacksley cello
Corinne Cooper sound
With simultaneous screening of the films by Maya Deren
Jürgen Bräuninger
Transfigured Ritual ***
Carlo Mombelli
Meshes of the Afternoon ***
Michael Blake
At Land ***
Improvisation
A Study in Choreography for Camera
Sponsored by the National Arts Festival.
KEMUS ENSEMBLE PLAYS MIKROPHONIE 1
Wednesday 2 July 19h00-20h30 | Beethoven Room
John Pringle, Claire Nozaïc, David West, Chris Coetzee, Jan-Hendrik Harley performers
Mario Cronjé computer programming
Hanno Smit sound technician
Theo Herbst musical director
Hans Roosenschoon
Helios
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Mikrophonie 1 for tam-tam, microphones, filters and potentiometers
Interval
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Mikrophonie 1 (second performance)
Theo Herbst
Dialoog ***
Sponsored by the Rupert Musiekstigting and University of Stellenbosch.
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Day 7
Thursday 3 July
FORUM: MUSIC AND GENDER
Thursday 3 July 11h00-11h55 | Café Workshop
With renowned music journalist and IAJ director Gwen Ansell in the chair, a number of Indaba personalities and guests discuss some of the issues raised by one of the two festival themes 'Sisters in the Mix'.
BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL
Thursday 3 July 12h00-13h00 | Beethoven Room
Beth Griffith soprano
Michael Blake piano
Caroline Wilkins
Pas **
Meredith Monk
One Man Cha-Cha **
Beth Anderson
Tyger **
Ruth Crawford
Seeger Sacco, Vanzetti **
Johanna Beyer
Sky Pieces ***
Sorrel Hays
Anybody is
MIRRORING MAYA DEREN
Thursday 3 July 17h00-18h00 | Olive Schreiner Hall
Marcus Wyatt trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion
Carlo Mombelli electric bass, voice, loops
Michael Blake piano, percussion
Helen Hacksley cello
Corinne Cooper sound
With simultaneous screening of the films by Maya Deren
Jürgen Bräuninger
Transfigured Ritual ***
Carlo Mombelli
Meshes of the Afternoon ***
Michael Blake
At Land ***
Improvisation
A Study in Choreography for Camera
Sponsored by the National Arts Festival.
The SONTONGA QUARTET
Thursday 3 July 20h00-21h30 | Nombulelo Hall
Marc Uys & Waldo Alexander violins
Xandi van Dijk viola
Brian Choveaux cello
Philip Miller sampler
Corinne Cooper sound
Kevin Volans
String Quartet No.4 (The Ramanujan Notebooks)
Braam du Toit
trip songs for string quartet ***
Interval
Philip Miller
Z3 Song Cycle for string quartet and samples ***
Priaulx Rainier
String Quartet
Sponsored by the Eastern Cape Government.
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Day 8
Friday 4 July
COMPOSERS INDABA PREMIÈRES
Friday 4 July 12h00-13h00 | Beethoven Room
Pauline Post & Nora Mulder piano duo
Ancuza Aprodu & Thierry Miroglio piano & percussion
A concert of short new pieces for piano duo or piano & percussion written by the participants in the Composers Indaba during the preceding ten days. A unique programme of premières with the ink still wet on the page.
The concert will be preceded by a two-hour open rehearsal starting at 09h00 which is free to the public.
Sponsored by the Gaudeamus Foundation, Royal Netherlands Embassy, Institut Francais Afrique du Sud, MMINO and SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts
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Day 9
Saturday 5 July
ANCUZA APRODU & THIERRY MIROGLIO
Saturday 5 July 12h00-13h30 | Wits Theatre
Ancuza Aprodu piano
Thierry Miroglio percussion
Maurice Ohana
Etude n.XII (Imitations - Dialogues)
Daniel Teruggi
Phonic Streams
Betsy Jolas
Music For Joan **
Michael Blake
Ways of the dance
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Kontakte
Sponsored by the Institut Francais Afrique du Sud
ESSENTIALLY ÉTUDES
Saturday 5 July 14h30-15h30 | Wits Theatre
Jill Richards piano
Matteo Fargion
Opera Studies
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Klavierstück 9
György Ligeti
From Études for Piano (Book 1: Nos. 2-4)
Kevin Volans
Three Études
Sponsored by the Rupert Musiekstigting.
KEMUS ENSEMBLE PLAYS MIKROPHONIE 1
Saturday 5 July 14h00-15h30 | Wits Theatre Downstairs
John Pringle, Claire Nozaïc, David West, Chris Coetzee, Jan-Hendrik Harley performers
Mario Cronjé computer programming
Hanno Smit sound technician
Theo Herbst musical director
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Mikrophonie 1 (2 performances)
Sponsored by the Rupert Musiekstigting and University of Stellenbosch
BETH GRIFFITH IN CONCERT
Saturday 5 July 18h00-19h00 | Wits Theatre
Beth Griffith soprano
Michael Blake piano
Alvin Curran
Madonna and Child
Mauricio Kagel
Recitativarie for Singing Harpsichordist
John Cage
The Wonderful Widow of 18 Springs
Nowth upon Nacht
A Flower
John McGuire
A Cappella
STOCKHAUSEN'S MANTRA
Saturday 5 July 20h00-21h30 | Wits Great Hall
Pauline Post piano
Nora Mulder piano
Jan Panis electronics
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Mantra for two pianists **
Sponsored by the Gaudeamus Foundation and Royal Netherlands Embassy.
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Day 10
Sunday 6 July
THE BOW PROJECT - PART 1
Sunday 6 July 12h00-13h00 | Atrium, Wits University
Mantombi Matotiyana bow singer
Pumeza Matshikiza soprano
Sontonga String Quartet:
Marc Uys violin
Waldo Alexander violin
Xandi van Dijk viola
Brian Choveaux cello
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
Inxembula
Martin Scherzinger
My Friend, the Ugly One
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
unTsiki
Trad/Dywili arr. Hanmer
unTsiki ***
Paul Hanmer
Mtwazana ***
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
Umzi kaMzwandile
Trad/Dywili arr. Prince
Umzi kaMzwandile ***
Lloyd Prince
Lines ***
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
Nguwe l'udal' inyakanyaka
Trad/Dywili arr. Fargion
Nguwe l'udal' inyakanyaka ***
Matteo Fargion
String Quartet No.4 ***
Sponsored by Distell Foundation for the Performing Arts.
THE BOW PROJECT - PART 2
Sunday 6 July 14h00-15h00 | Atrium, Wits University
Mantombi Matotiyana bow singer
Pumeza Matshikiza soprano
Sontonga String Quartet:
Marc Uys violin
Waldo Alexander violin
Xandi van Dijk viola
Brian Choveaux cello
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
uMagungqel' indawo
Trad/Dywili arr. Khumalo
uMagungqel' indawo
Andile Khumalo
uMagungqel' indawo
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
Nontyolo
Trad/Dywili arr. Miller
Nontyolo ***
Philip Miller
Nontyolo Part 2 ***
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
Latshon'ilanga
Trad/Dywili arr. Raynham
Latshon'ilanga ***
Julia Raynham
Malingatshoni ***
Trad/Nofinishi Dywili
Umyeyezolo
Trad/Dywili arr. Koapeng
Umyeyezolo ***
Mokale Koapeng
Komeng ***
Sponsored by Distell Foundation for the Performing Arts.
DOUBLE BILL
Sunday 6 July 19h30-22h30 | Bassline, Melville
Sontonga Quartet:
Marc Uys violin
Waldo Alexander violin
Xandi van Dijk viola
Brian Choveaux cello
Carlo Mombelli and The Prisoners of Strange:
Carlo Mombelli basses, loops
Siya Makuzeni voice
Marcus Wyatt trumpet, flugelhorn
Sidney Mnisi saxophones
Lloyd Martin drums
Arvo Pärt
Fratres
Kevin Volans
String Quartet No 4 (The Ramanujan Notebooks)
Interval
Music by Carlo Mombelli
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Presented by NewMusicSA - The International Society for Contemporary Music, South African Section
www.iscm.org
Standard Bank
Eastern Cape Government
Gaudeamus Foundation
Royal Netherlands Embassy
MMINO, South African-Norwegian Education and Music Programme
Distell Foundation for the Performing Arts
Die Rupert-Musiekstigting
SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts
Institut Francais Afrique du Sud
University of Stellenbosch