MUSIC

JERUSALEM QUARTET



Direct from their concert tour to London and the UK, the Young Jerusalem Quar-tet are doing a whirlwind tour of South Africa before returning to perform in a major concert in Jerusalem.

The quartet was founded in October 1933 within the framework of the Young Musicians Group under the auspices of the Jerusalem Music Centre and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF) and in cooperation with the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance. Its members are all recipients of AICF's scholarships and the two violins and cello are on loan from the AICF.

DONATING

The quartet are generously donating their performances in this five concert series as a benefit to the growing contingent of highly talented young immigrant musicians leaving Russia for Israel.

The Young Jerusalem Quartet will appear in the Playhouse Drama Theatre on September 7 at 20h00.



SYMPHONY SERIES



Conductor John Hopkins returns to Durban to lead the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in P„rt's Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (1980), Beethoven's Triple Concerto in C and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetique) on September 3 in the Durban City Hall at 19h30. The acclaimed Osiris Trio feature as soloists.

Cellist Anne Gastinel is the soloist when John Hopkins conducts Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B minor in the Durban City Hall on September 19, this time at 20h00. Also featured are Elgar's Intro-duction and Allegro for Strings and Vaughan-Williams' Symphony No 5 in D.

Pre-concert lectures by the Friends of Music are given at 18h45 in the City Hall basement by Andrew Warburton.

Rush-hour tickets for students/pensioners at the City Hall box office from 19h30.



PIANO RECITAL



Well-known pianist Ruth Goveia gives a recital in Howard College Theatre on September 18 at 19h30. She will play three Pr‚ludes by Debussy, Chopin's Ballade No 4 and Scherzo No 4, and Sonata for Piano by Samuel Barber.

Currently senior lecturer in piano at the department of music, University of Natal, where she has taught since 1984, Ruth Goveia has appeared as soloist with the Johannesburg, Capab, Pacofs and Natal Philharmonic Orchestras. Apart from her teaching commitments, she is actively engaged as piano soloist and chamber musician and also broadcasts for the SABC. Her most recent engage-ments were as soloist with the NPO in August 1995 and a recital with violinist G‚za Kayser at the University last May.

The concert begins at 19h30. Tickets at the door are R18 (students R8).

RAINBAT MUSIC



Veteran jazz musicians, the African Jazz Pioneers, are making a rare trip to Durban to appear in the next Rainbat Project series of concerts.

They will perform in the BAT Hall at the BAT Centre on September 27 and 28 and at the Rainbow Restaurant on September 19 at 13h00.

After the lifting of the cultural boycott in 1988, the African Jazz Pioneers were among the first musicians to travel abroad, headlining jazz venues, festivals and concerts across Europe, Australia, Japan and Africa.

They have shared the stage with the likes of Youssou N'Dour, Quincy Jones, Manhattan Transfer, Neville Brothers, Chick Corea, Gilbert Gao, Salif Keita, Nina Simone as well as the local performers such as Winston Mankunku, Hugh Masekela and many others.