MUSIC

ORGAN RECITAL



The City of Durban administration department holds regular two-monthly recitals in the City Hall. Departing from the lunch-hour norm, the next free recital will be held on Sunday, September 15 at 15h00. Organ soloists will be Dr Cheryl Lasson, Andrea Dove, Andrea Kayser and Don Powell. Vocal soloists are Joan Breviario and Ferdi van der Ahee.

This aim is to promote the refurbished organ and to show how young organists cope with this magnificent instrument.



LUC HOUTKAMP



The University of Natal's music depart-ment this month hosts Dutch composer Luc Houtkamp, an improvising musician and composer for 24 years with a unique approach to the saxophone.

Luc Houtcamp appears with local saxophonist and MMus student Mfana Mlambo on September 10 at 19h30 in Howard College Theatre. Tickets at the door R18 (students R8).

WORKSHOPS

Since 1985 Luc Houtcamp has been in-volved with electronic and computer music and will hold two free workshops on interactive computer music on September 9 (15h00-16h30) and Septem-ber 10 (10h30-12h00). The two sessions will be different but self-contained so that attendances at both is not vital. They will also take place in Howard College Theatre and are open to anyone interested in electronic and computerised music. Musikland has loaned a Yamaha disklavier with the new micro-computer control unit for these demonstrations.

The Luc Houtcamp project was made possible by the Gaudeamus Foundation of the Netherlands and the Oude Meester Foundation for the Performing Arts.

(N.B. Luc will also give a free lunch-hour concert for the music department - see separate story)



MUSIC AT THE LAKE



The Natal Philharmonic Orchestra plays light classics at the Durban Botanical Gardens on September 22 at 15h00. Bring along friends and family, picnic baskets, a bottle or two of wine, chairs or blankets and enjoy good music in the beautiful surroundings of the Gardens.

Tickets ranging in price between R12 and R15 are available at both entrances to the park.



SCHOLA CANTORUM



Founded in 1960 by Hungarian dissident Laszlo Heltay, Schola Cantorum is the University of Oxford's longest running chamber choir. Since 1990 the choir has been conducted by Jeremy Summerly under whom it has released many recordings and toured extensively, both in Britain and abroad.

Over the last three decades many former members have become involved in pro-fessional music at the highest levels. Former singers include Emma Kirby and Jane Glover, while Andrew Parrott, Nicholas Cleobury, and Ivor Bolton are among the choir's former conductors. The choir has worked under Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Leonhardt, Sir Colin Davis and Sir Neville Marriner.

PROGRAMME

The programme includes works by Heinrich Schtz, Antonio Litti, Johann Sebastian Bach, Herbert Howells, John Bennet, John Wilbye and John Farmer as well as Somerset and Scottish traditional songs and negro spirituals.

Scholar Cantorum will give two perfor-mances: at St Paul's in Durban on September 14 at 18h00 (Computicket) and at the Anglican Cathedral in Pietermaritzburg on September 15 at 15h00 (book through the cathedral office on 0331: 94-1467).

DRUM PROJECT



The Steel Drum Project, the first of its kind in South Africa, was initiated by two energetic Natal Philharmonic Orchestra percussionists, Bryan Clarke and Dobri Paliev, who recently won the 1996 Durban Critic's Circle award.

In between NPO commitments, Bryan and Dobri teach youngsters around the province to play, experience and enjoy music through steel drums.

The Steel Drum Project will give a concert for the Friends of Music on September 10 at 19h45 in the Durban Jewish Club.