Surendran Reddy
October 1, 2018...on arrangements of ‘Nkosi Sikelel’iAfrika’, ‘Ntiyilo-Ntyilo’, ‘Mannenberg’, and ‘Mayibuye’. Surendran’s main theme as a composer during the 1990s was freedom, and combining a diversity of musics was his compositional strength....
sonatina ‘die and let die’ for reiner
September 4, 2022...played by both arms. The James Bond title ‘live and let die’ provides a darkly humorous alternative title. It’s mad! which must be why Reddy put the name ‘looney’ at...Michael Mosoeu Moerane
July 22, 2018...more children were born: two daughters (Hadieo and Sophie) and a son (Thabo). who was born in 1947. In 1931, as well, Moerane registered for a B. Mus degree, part-time,...
Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa
August 18, 2018...and 5 — Molelekeng (a girl’s name), Liphala (Horns), and Tšaba-tšaba (Watch out!) — are quite jazzy, while No. 2, Senqu – The Orange River is like an operatic chorus, and No. 4, E-eang ka khotso (Go in peace) is...african idyll for hike
March 14, 2020...it was for me because I loved ‘african’…(Africa? I can’t remember how he expressed it) – for me it expresses die ganze Sehnsucht nach der friedlichen, einfachen und [the whole...
missa gratias per antonius
September 7, 2022...bass guitar, piano, and five-part strings. The most complete sections are worth listening to first: aside from the ‘paternosters’ these are the ‘introitus’, the ‘kyrie’, and the ‘gloria’. ACE has...other teaching material
November 27, 2022When he died on 22 January 2010, Surendran Reddy left many fragments, sketches, ideas, notes and graphs, incomplete pieces, student pieces and files of teaching exercises. Much but not all...incomplete short pieces, sketches and fragments
November 17, 2022...in d, etude in e, etude in e flat, flute & piano piece, hike’s piece, idea 4 symph, idea for new piece andreas, invention s-c-h-o-r-gg, little symphony 2, minor progression,...Khorolakoqo
September 2, 2018The text of ‘Khorolakoqo’ is derived from a Sotho folk tale that explains why the rock-rabbit (‘dassie’ in southern Africa – an animal rather like a large guinea-pig) has no...Justinian Tamusuza
January 21, 2021...Ensemble Jahrhudeert XX (Vienna) to write Ekinnonoggo (2010), by Ensemble Reconsil (Vienna), for Ekikujjuko (2007), and has also received commissions from the Munich Chamber Orchestra (2006) International Horn Symposium. For...Khulu, Phutha Thupa
September 2, 2018...Afrika. It is a game song, typical of children’s songs everywhere. The words are nonsensical, their literal meaning being ‘tortoise, pick up stick’, but it is really a song about...momo (children’s dance theatre)
September 1, 2022...war’) fades out on the MIDI file whereas it has a ‘proper’ ending on the 2006 Sib file, and No 14 (‘finale: the village rejoices’) is a reprise of no....masakane – let us build together (revsd. with new text-vocal score))
September 6, 2022...composed in 1996 as part of a ‘Human Rights Oratorio’ that was supposed to be have been performed at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. (Financial problems prevented this from happening.)...Ruri!
October 24, 2020...May 2014 that his father ‘had a lot of trouble with it’; and Mofelehetsi knew the way his father composed. It is one of Moerane’s most mature and best-loved works,...
toccata for madiba
March 14, 2020...anthem, Enoch Sontonga’s ‘Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika’ (God Bless Africa) as a fugue-subject in the final section. By using the name ‘Madiba’ (Mandela’s Thembu clan name) in the title and by...incomplete long pieces
November 16, 2022...student work; 3: incomplete long pieces; 4: incomplete short pieces, sketches and fragments. The incomplete long pieces, category 3, are available on this page as a freely downloadable pdf. There...new baroque suite
March 14, 2020...Harald’s name on the score there are several references to Bach. The 1st movement is ‘invention/sinfonia’, the 2nd ‘interlude I (in the form of a christmas bagatelle)’, the 3rd ‘minuet’,...
elevenses
September 2, 2022...composer. His daughter, Lîla, for example, wrote a little song for Winnie-the-Pooh that Reddy features on the last track of his album, rough ‘n reddy (1996; ACE-362). Elevenses is also...Ea Hlolang
April 28, 2020Ea Hlolang is a rousing anthem of four verses, beginning in call-and-response style. It originated as hymn no. 122 in Lifela tsa Sione (Songs of Zion), the Sesotho hymnal that...Mankanisi
September 2, 2018...back, die there”. Mohapeloa had heard about such mines in Johannesburg from the workers who mined there. His song subsequently became famous on ‘the Reef’, in the popular Saturday evening...on the run
August 30, 2022...on keyboard(s), Denny Lalouette on bass, Rob Watson on drums, and Bruce Cassidy on EVI . The four-page lead sheet is handwritten and not easy to read. The clearest part...Bukana ea Lipesaleme
September 2, 2018...84, 89, 91, 93, 100a, 100[b] (in two versions), 104, 105, 107, 115, 116, 123, 130, 134, 136, 137a, 137b (two versions), 138, 146, 147, 149, and 150, the Gospel...toccata for john roos arr. for tabla by florian schiertz
September 3, 2022...– on both drums, the dayna (RH) and baya (LH) – and the fourth staff has the bol parant, which literally means ‘speak bols’ or ‘speak tabla syllables’. Each note...Monyaka Oa Pelo
October 24, 2020Monyaka Oa Pelo is based on a beautiful love poem in rhyming verse by Bennett Makalo Khaketla (1913-2000), the Lesotho writer on whom Moerane drew in several of his compositions....
dance of the rain (ballet)
September 3, 2020...dedicated the ballet to his wife, the ballerina Linda Smit, ‘and to our future child’, because she was pregnant at the time with their daughter, whom they would name, Lîla....
