The Cape Town Composers' Workshop
presents
Parts of Mac McKenzie’s Goema Symphony No. 1 performed by a 25 piece orchestra.
Feature guest compositions from Derek Gripper, Mandla Mlangeni and Aykes Swartz.
First concert season of 2011.
Saturday 12, 19, 26 March 2011
Concerts start 8 pm, doors open 7:30 pm
SABC Auditorium, 209 Beach Road, Sea Point, Cape Town
Tickets R 150 pp, available at the door.
Reduced price for students and pensioners R 100 pp
Reservations by e-mail: composers.workshop.ct{@}gmail.com (remove curlies{} when using)
or SMS to 072 500 22 04
In August 2010, Mac McKenzie debuted his Goema Symphony No. 1. It was the culmination of a process that started officially with seed funding from the Cape Africa Platform in 2005, and that began unofficially back in the days of the Genuines, Mac's punk rock cult band. "I've got sketches going back to the 80s" says Mac, "So this is nothing new, it has been coming on a long time.
What is new is that now we can do it!
"These three concerts take place under the auspices of the Cape Town Composers' Workshop, a not for profit organization created to develop young composers, and network international composers.
The work draws on the indigenous roots of Cape Town music, and tells very distinctly Cape Town stories. Expect banjo, mandolin and gummie drum, added to the traditional symphonic instrumentation, for building the unique Goema groove.
If you are a fan of symphonic music, you will enjoy this fresh approach. And if you think you are not a fan, but love Cape Town music, 'in all its deviant forms', as Mac likes to say, then you will be quite surprised that something symphonic could sound so much like home.
For more info, E-mail: composers.workshop.ct{@}gmail.com (remove curlies{} when using)
presents
Parts of Mac McKenzie’s Goema Symphony No. 1 performed by a 25 piece orchestra.
Feature guest compositions from Derek Gripper, Mandla Mlangeni and Aykes Swartz.
First concert season of 2011.
Saturday 12, 19, 26 March 2011
Concerts start 8 pm, doors open 7:30 pm
SABC Auditorium, 209 Beach Road, Sea Point, Cape Town
Tickets R 150 pp, available at the door.
Reduced price for students and pensioners R 100 pp
Reservations by e-mail: composers.workshop.ct{@}gmail.com (remove curlies{} when using)
or SMS to 072 500 22 04
In August 2010, Mac McKenzie debuted his Goema Symphony No. 1. It was the culmination of a process that started officially with seed funding from the Cape Africa Platform in 2005, and that began unofficially back in the days of the Genuines, Mac's punk rock cult band. "I've got sketches going back to the 80s" says Mac, "So this is nothing new, it has been coming on a long time.
What is new is that now we can do it!
"These three concerts take place under the auspices of the Cape Town Composers' Workshop, a not for profit organization created to develop young composers, and network international composers.
The work draws on the indigenous roots of Cape Town music, and tells very distinctly Cape Town stories. Expect banjo, mandolin and gummie drum, added to the traditional symphonic instrumentation, for building the unique Goema groove.
If you are a fan of symphonic music, you will enjoy this fresh approach. And if you think you are not a fan, but love Cape Town music, 'in all its deviant forms', as Mac likes to say, then you will be quite surprised that something symphonic could sound so much like home.
