SWARTBERG MUSIC SALON

 

                                       

SWARTBERG MUSIC SALON 2 – 4 AUGUSTUS.

 

The Swartberg Music Salon (SMS) is a new initiative run in collaboration with the Prince Albert Community Trust (PACT) and the ARCO Project, a music programme for Early Child Development and string teaching. The Artistic Committee is Louise Lansdown, Elna van der Merwe and Anthony Alcock, with Leone Pitts as project manager. This new and unique chamber music festival will take place from 2 – 4 August and is yet another unique and Karoo-centric festival to be held in Prince Albert, complementing the hugely successful Journey to Jazz which was first held in 2023 (also a PACT initiative).

 The festival’s performances will headline some of South Africa’s most highly regarded musicians including violinists Zanta Hofmeyr and Samson Diamond, violists Louise Lansdown and Jeanne-Louise Moolman, cellist Susan Mouton, pianist Elna van der Merwe, and UK double bassist Anthony Alcock. South of Bear including violists Emile de Roubaix, Jan Hendrik-Harley and double bassist Mariechen Meyer will also be featured, as well as the magnificent opera singer Lynelle Kenned.

SMS hopes to be held annually and attract people from across the country to Prince Albert showcasing its rich musical heritage, initiatives and musical talent. It will be a celebration of chamber music, filled with inspiring Karoo-inspired concerts held in venues across Prince Albert. The streets and homes of Prince Albert will be ringing with the sound of music for these four days!

The full programme can be viewed on the SMS website: https://theshowroomtheatre.co.za/swartberg-music-salon-2/

Tickets are available through Quicket, or at the Showroom Theatre in Prince Albert

SWARTBERG MUSIC SALON 2 – 4 AUGUST.

PROGRAMME 2024 

Friday 2 August

Swartberg Music Salon Children’s Lunchtime Concert (by invitation only – for creche and primary school children)

Lynelle Kenned (soprano), Samson Diamond and Zanta Hofmeyr (violins), Louise Lansdown (viola), Susan Mouton (cello), Tony Alcock (double bass)

11:30: PACT Youth Centre

G. McLachlan Yihle Moyà and Shosoloza for solo double bass 

BINGO 

The Circle Song 

Old MacDonald

The Beehive 

IBuyele iAfrika and Thula Thula 

Swartberg Music Salon Evening Concert

Samson Diamond (violin), Louise Lansdown (viola), Susan Mouton (cello), Tony Alcock (double bass), Elna van der Merwe (piano)

19:00 The Showroom

P. Klatzow Piano Quintet

N.Burgess “Colours of the Cape”

F. Schubert “Trout” Quintet

Saturday 3 August 

Swartberg Music Salon Lunchtime Concert with South of Bear 

12:00 Prince Albert Hotel – Royal Venue

Pérotin – Beata Viscera 

J. S. Bach – Prelude

J. S. Bach – Second movement from Brandenburg Concerto No. 6

Copland - Appalachian Spring Suite

J. Crosmer – Lullabies

Playford – Dancemaster Suite 

Wanderlust Suite – JH Harley

Anon - Scandinavian Dance Suite 

Swartberg Music Salon Gala Evening Concert 

Lynelle Kenned, all artists and Ad Astra Choir – Oudshoorn High (led by Elmine Bester)

19:00 NG Church

Doen slegs U wil Heer (arr Awie van Wyk)

Cantate Domino (G Pitoni)

Let us break bread together (Negro spiritual – arr J.W.W.)

Yesterday (Lennon/McCartney) - accompanied by Danie Bester

J. Kern “Can't help lovin’ that man” (Showboat)

CM. Schönberg “I dreamed a dream” (Les Miserables) 

F. Wildhorn “In His Eyes” (Jekyll &Hyde) 

A Lloyd Webber “Love never dies” 

A Lloyd Webber “Memory (Cats) 

I Kamakawiwo’ole “Somewhere over the rainbow” (Wizard of Oz) 

G. Gershwin “Someone to watch over me”  

G.Gershwin “Summertime”

A Lloyd Webber Webber “Wishing you were somehow here again (Phantom of the Opera)

A Menken “Colours of the Wind” (Pochahontas)

A Menken “I see the light” (Tangled) 

K. Anderson-Lopez and R. Lopez “All is found” (Frozen 11) 

R. Spector “The Call” (Chronicles of Narnia)

C. de Villiers “Karoonag”

J.K Bokwe “Plea from Africa”

Sunday 4 August  

Swartberg Music Salon Coffee Concert with Take Four Piano Quartet

11:30 The Showroom

Mozart Piano Quartet K.493 in E flat

M.Koapeng “Komeng” for string quartet 

Faure Piano Quartet op.15 in C minor 

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