Ma-Homemakers (Ingoma Ka Zenzele)
October 25, 2020...them Moerane’s home language, Sesotho (Ma-Homemakers) and the other in is his wife’s home language, isiXhosa. The song can be seen as a tribute to her, Mrs Beatrice Betty Moerane...Kena ka Khotso
September 2, 2018...-‘come in peace’ and ‘go in peace’ – are important in Lesotho’s cultural life, greetings found at the country’s border posts, for example. This song indicates that by 1976 Lesotho...
don’t give a damn blues
August 30, 2022...an ensemble piece. In the first recording below, for example, Reddy plays don’t give a damn blues as a solo, with the tune only beginning after a five-minute bluesy introduction....Naakutendanga Emirembe Gyonna
February 7, 2022...journal Musiktexte (“Neue Musik aus Afrika” at https://texte.musiktexte.de/mt-173/325/ausgewahlte-scheiben-neuer-musik, accessed 31 May 2022) music critic Max Nyffeler writes: “Tamasuza’s compositions are, to European ears, what might be described with the blanket...Thesele E Mocha
September 2, 2018...was Thesele, a name that became synonymous with the country itself, as in this song. In 1947 when it was published, many nations re-examined themselves, questioned where they come from...lebanon
March 14, 2020...his ‘10 principles of clazz’. When he says in bar 137, then, that ‘this is only an example: improvise chords in this pattern according to 2nd harmonic law as accompaniment...
six variations on an english theme
March 14, 2020...pieces Reddy played while studying at the Royal College of Music, London: Variation 2, for example, is indebted to Messiaen, Variation 3 to Shostakovitch, Variation 5 to Schubert. Other composers...
African Choral Legacy – Historic Recordings of Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa
March 16, 2022...untold history of 20th-century African choral song. Choose either MP3 (normal quality) or FLAC (studio quality) recordings when you make a purchase, and to download the free Liner notes and...
Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa Critical Edition in Six Volumes, revised edition 2016
December 9, 2019Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa Critical Edition in Six Volumes (ISMN 979-0-804003-89-5) was first launched in 2015 and was revised in 2016 as a limited edition CD-Rom for publication in SAMUS: South...
now what marion
September 1, 2022...to Marion in Amsterdam they worked together on a short logo for Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR, a German radio and tv channel). The image is one of Reddy’s computer grafic designs....à la recherche de la paix et de la liberté
February 15, 2022...iAfrika, Mannenberg (sometimes spelled ‘Manenberg’), Lakutshon Ilanga, Ntyilo-Ntyilo and Mayibuye, Reddy’s music speaks poignantly to the hopes and fears, the joy and the heartache, the excitement and yearning, of the...
mayibuye suite for organ
March 14, 2020...South Africa (Unisa) in 2001, and its title is inspired by the anti-apartheid rallying cry, ‘mayibuye, iAfrika!’ (come back, Africa). The music draws on the composer’s compositional principles of ‘clazz’,...Linonyana
September 2, 2018...pastoralism. Mohapeloa might have learnt or heard pieces such as Schumann’s ‘Song of the Reaper’, for example, during his piano lessons at the Morija mission when he was an adolescent....sonata ‘f-a-i-r-p-l-a-y’ (II extended)
September 6, 2022The 2009 sonata ‘f-a-i-r-p-l-a-y’ (II extended) is, as the subtitle by Reddy suggests, a longer version of his sonata ‘f-a-i-r-p-l-a-y’ [I] (2007). Reddy partly uses the new piece to change...Mohahlaula
September 2, 2018...Tsa Afrika II are ‘Ha Eso’ and ‘Jim, Motsoalle oa ka’; in Meloli I, ‘Methaka, Emang’ and ‘Palesa ea Bocha’. The migrant worker, far away from Lesotho on the mines...Nonyana Se-nya-mafi
September 2, 2018...its “tempting pap” (African porridge made from cornmeal), until eventually they return home and are “re-united – duly chastened – with their parents, who had given them up for lost”....Tšaba-tšaba
April 4, 2020...word ‘brakes’ in the wonderfully understated colloquialism ‘amahyy brakes!’ (‘apply brakes!’) is an excellent example of cultural borrowing – borrowing from the landlord’s culture (because Basutoland was still a British...back to the bass-ix (2007)
March 14, 2020...a fine example of Reddy’s mature ‘clazz’ style. Among the many quotations heard along the way are the ‘Hornpipe’ from Henry Wood’s Fantasia on British Sea Songs (a standard number...Chabana Sa Khomo
September 2, 2018...says, a song ‘sung when the skin is scraped to make a karos [blanket]’, and he creates this antiphony by dividing the choir into two groups of Soprano-Tenor-Bass as can...Ei, Ei
September 2, 2018...being hushed: ‘There, there, little boy / Hush, please, don’t cry’. But quickly he is scorned. ‘Cry baby, you cry too much. / You are even sobbing’. This scorning continues,...sonata ‘f-a-i-r-p-l-a-y’ [I]
September 4, 2022The sonata ‘f-a-i-r-p-l-a-y’ for violin and piano was composed in 2007 as a 50th birthday present for Reddy’s great friend, violinist Michael Wiener. The piece is long and virtuoso, and...
berceuse for daniel
September 6, 2022...it is still in Reddy’s ‘clazz’ style. It comprises a repeated arpeggiated figure over which Reddy improvises. The image is a photo of Reddy taken in his home in Konstanz....‘Mankokotsane
October 23, 2020...when it rains. The 86-bar song for 4 voices begins in a leisurely way and then speeds up at bar 17 (‘double tempo’). The syncopated rhythms, modulations, soaring melodic lines...
Della
March 28, 2020...Shepherd his completed score of Della, to ‘words adapted from the “poem” of the same name by Mr. S.S. Mputa’. Shepherd charged Mputa £3 3s. in advance for the setting...Matlala
October 24, 2020...to the tradition of appeasing the ancestors by offering them ‘choice cuts of meat’ at a feast. This ‘choice cut for the ancestors’ is what the word ‘matlala’ really means....
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