September 2, 2018...much dancing outdoors that you can see the footprints; a white dress for the bride, instruments playing (or maybe the church organ), and above all, everyone singing. Sotho wedding songs...- September 2, 2022...layout than in Reddy’s score for clarity of reading, but with all Reddy’s markings. In the recording below, Reddy and Schiertz play ballade for florian as a piano-tabla duo. ...
- August 30, 2022...others. Reddy’s comment at the top of p.1 – ‘not for Debbie’ – is probably a reference to Martin Lund’s Blues for Debbie or maybe even Bill Evans’s Waltz for...
October 21, 2020...University of South Africa. He called it a ‘symphonic poem’ and subtitled it ‘My Country’, referring to Lesotho. The orchestration is late Romantic, the harmonic language is early Modernist, and...- February 17, 2022There are six volumes of works in the complete Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa Critical Edition, comprising 145 works in total. Each volume is published in two versions: one in staff notation...
- February 17, 2022There are six volumes of works in the complete Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa Critical Edition, comprising 145 works in total. Each volume is published in two versions: one in staff notation...
- February 17, 2022There are six volumes of works in the complete Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa Critical Edition, comprising 145 works in total. Each volume is published in two versions: one in staff notation...
- February 17, 2022There are six volumes of works in the complete Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa Critical Edition, comprising 145 works in total. Each volume is published in two versions: one in staff notation...
March 14, 2020...suite no. 3, to ‘acceptance’ in suite no. 6. His preface to the whole set is given in this newly published score, explaining his compositional aesthetic of musical ‘time travel’....
March 14, 2020suite no. 5 in c major was composed in 1985 in the style of early 18th-century keyboard music, and it relates to the child-like simplicity of suite no. 1 in...
March 14, 2020...longest of the six, Handelian in places and with richer harmonic textures. The opening Prelude-Allemande, which echoes the Prelude of suite no. 1, is followed by a compound Menuet of...
March 14, 2020The very short three pieces for piano on b-a-c-h, composed in 1979 and based on the letters of J.S. Bach’s surname, B-flat-A-C-B-natural, are dedicated to Keith Burston. He was one...- September 2, 2018‘Ahe, Moren’a Khanya!’ was published in Morija, Lesotho in 1955 as song No. 22 of 29 songs in Hosanna: Lipina tsa Kereke (Hosanna: Church Songs), a collection of anthems –...
December 13, 2022...return to South Africa. He had designed the ‘perfect home’ there, that he and his partner Heike Asmuss (shown together on the right) would one day live in: ‘a three-storey...- September 2, 2018‘Balisa’ was published in Morija, Lesotho in 1955 as song No. 2 of 29 songs by various composers in Hosanna: Lipina tsa Kereke (Hosanna: Church Songs), a collection of songs...
February 11, 2024...take their place among the family of nations. Amu felt the song could be remembered as the ‘Gati song.’ (Philip T. Laryea. Ephraim Amu: Nationalist, Poet and Theologian, p. 79)....- February 11, 2024Monyi moho adi (Declare yourselves) for SATB chorus was composed in July 10, 1931, and is one of Amu’s sacred songs....
- September 2, 2018...that follow them. ‘Kiri ‘a Tšoana’ reminds us of the thirstiness of a country where subsistence farmers depend for their livelihood on good annual summer rains. ‘Let it rain! Bring...
- February 11, 2024Odiewoe! (Hail Yam!) The original version for this SATB choral piece was composed August 11- 13, 1931. Odiewoe! was then revised and rewritten September 24-27, 1982. Insofar as the original...
- September 2, 2018...bereavement, however, but about sorrow in a more generalised sense. They refer to the folk tale of Tselane and to ‘Limo’, meaning ‘Cannibal’ – with a capital C – which...
- February 11, 2024Momma yɛnkɔ Betlehem (Let us go to Bethlehem) for SATB chorus was composed December 22, 1931, and it is one of Amu’s sacred songs for the Christmas season....
- February 11, 2024Owu (Death) for SATB chorus was composed May 28, 1931. It is a sobering secular work encouraging humankind to be mindful that life is fleeting, and we would do well...
- February 11, 2024Ͻdomankama Ͻbↄadeԑ bↄↄ ade no, Ͻbↄↄ no kronkronkron (God the Creator created things holy) for SATB chorus was composed May 12, 1932, and is one of Amu’s sacred songs. Amu’s...
- September 2, 2018‘Le Lekaakang’ follows naturally from the previous two songs Mohapeloa wrote in his 3rd songbook, ‘’Mōpi oa Lefatše’ and ‘Lefatše le Letle’. All three serve to remind us of the...
- February 11, 2024...(Ofori’s subjects, Gyanadu) for SATB chorus was composed May 17, 1932. It is one of Amu’s patriotic songs. Gyanadu is the name of a clan, and ɔdededuam is its appellation....
