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2014-05-08 17:53:08
JPO's Second Season 2014 gets off to a great start
The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra’s second season started on 7 May 2014 with a fabulous concert, beautifully played. Conducted by Conrad Van Alphen, the pieces were all well known, being the Rossini Overture to The Thieving Magpie, Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, Op 18, C Minor with Nina Schumann on piano and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Nina Schumann The orchestra started the season playing well and the show solo bits were all beautifully played without any hint of boredom and complacency with what might otherwise have been a hackneyed programme. A little piece of trivia from the programme that I didn’t know: The Rossini opera was based on a true incident, well to to Rossini’s audiences, where a French servant girl was executed as a thief, only to be exonerated after her death when it turned out that a magpie had actually stolen the items for which […]
2014-04-11 07:27:03
J is for JPO, an orchestra in trouble (A-Z Challenge, April 2014)
Johannesburg bills itself as a “world class African city”. Well, it may be an African city, but it is far from world class. Its only professional orchestra has all but died. The latest updates about the business rescue proceedings which can be found on the JPO website conclude that “16 months of business rescue have illustrated that the JPO has poor prospects.” The JPO – a cultural treasure My heart breaks. An orchestra is more than 80 or so employment opportunities. The jobs are irrelevant except to the people who have or don’t have them and a few economist types. The reality is that the job of a highly trained skilled musician and the job of an illiterate and unskilled labourer are no different when they don’t exist. The result is misery for an individual and the family. On the other hand, an orchestra, as opposed to the […]
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