KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: Artmusic from South Africa

Digital Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

Hal Clark

Identifier

MC.1986.01.21

Program Series

Morning Concert

Program Length

104 min

Dates

1986-01-21 | broadcast

Description

A Morning Concert program produced by Harold Clark and Charles Amirkhanian based on Clark's field work in South Africa in 1985. It was originally aired on KPFA in January, 1986.

Harold Clark talks about music in South Africa only months after the state-of emergency from the Apartheid government. The program features music and talk by the last living Chopi Timbila composer, Venâcio Mbande, as well as pieces by Hans Rosenchoon, Peter Klatzow, David Rycroft, and Juluka; an ensemble of black and white Zulu musicians. The conversations heard relate to acceptance, rejection, economics of new music, and the diversity and future of South Africa's new music.

Some of the individuals we hear in recorded interviews include:
Andrew Tracey, director of the International Library of African Music (His father being the late Hugh Tracey) ; Hans Rosenschoon, composer of the first multi-ethnic (African and Western Symphony Orchestra) composition performed in South Africa ; Peter Klatzow, the late and highly regarded South African composer of contemporary music. Peter died in January of 2022 from COVID-19 in Cape Town.

The recording ends abruptly during Peter Klatzow's "Incantations for Orchestra".

Genres

World music
New music
Field recordings

Musical Selections

Chibudu, for Chopi Timbila Orchestra (6:00) / Venancio Mbande -- Timbila, for Chopi Orchestra and Western Symphony (1985) (11:00) / Hans Rosenschoon -- Chamber Concerto for 7 [excerpt] (1979) (3:15) -- Incantations for Orchestra [excerpt] (1984) (3:37) / Peter Klatzow

Performers

Venancio Mbande, leader (Chibudu, Timbila)
The National Symphony Orchestra of SABC (Timbila, Concerto for 7, Incantations)
Chopi Musicians of Rand Gold Mines of Wildebeesfontein (Timbila)
Christian Tiemeyer, conductor (Timbila)
The CAPAB Players (Concerto for 7)
Peter Klatzow, conductor (Concerto for 7)

Subjects

Apartheid
Music--South Africa
Chopi (African people)
Ethnomusicology
Composers -- 20th century

Related place

Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Clark, Hal
Amirkhanian, Charles
Rosenschoon, Hans
Klatzow, Peter
Mbande, Venancio
Rycroft, David
Tracey, Andrew