Rhodes Music showcase in Sunday Baroque concert

The Department of Music and Musicology regrets to announce that the performance on 8 November 2020 will no longer be open to the public due to concern about rising Covid infections on campus. However, the concert will be presented as a live online event. Please click on one of the links below to watch this performance live at 3pm on Sunday afternoon.

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Tickets which have been sold already will be refunded. Please contact Ms Mnyobe 046 6038490 or v.mnyobe@ru.ac.za if you would like a refund. Should you wish to donate your ticket to our scholarship fund, we would be most grateful.

Rhodes University postgraduate and undergraduate students will perform a selection of well known Baroque pieces for soloists and string orchestra.

The Baroque string orchestra comprises 10 players and will be conducted by Free State Symphony Orchestra and Free State Youth Orchestra CEO and Artistic Director Alex Fokkens.

The Rhodes University Chamber Choir, accompanied by a string quartet, will then sing the Chamber Eucharist composed by Rhodes Alumnus Andrew Bethke.

Programme • Bach

Violin concerto in a minor, 1st movement

• Albinoni • Telemann

Sonata Cinque, op 2 no 3 Concerto for Flute and Recorder in e minor, 1st and 2nd movements

Ombra Mai Fu from Xerxes, Every

• Handel

Valley (Messiah)

Stissozo mio stissozo, from La Serva Padronai

• Bethke Chamber Eucharist

String orchestra

• Vln 1 JF Viljoen (PHD), Tessa Campbell (PGCE), Matthew Holman (Bmus 2)

Ilana Chirombo (Mmus), Bradley van Heerden (IMS 2), Gabrielle Govender (IMS

2)

• Pergolesi • Vln 2

• Viola • Cello

Elizabeth Furtner (Mmus)

Cameron Cordell (Rhodes Alumnus), Kwazi Mkula (guest)

Garreth Robertson (Mmus) Yoliswa Gusha (Bmus 1), Matthew Holman (Bmus 2), Yamkela Ntsakaza (Bmus 3), Tshegofatso Makube (Music Hon),

Devon Florence (Mmus), Vuyelwa Moyo (Mmus), Boudina Mcconnachie (staff) Alexander Fokkens

Rhodes University Chamber Choir

• Harpsichord • Soloists • Conductor •Choir