Peter Borchers, Suzanne Buchanan, Margot Dower, Casey Driver, Elinor Driver, Matthew Ferrandi, Christina Goodall, Carelize Jacobs,

Tessa Gawith, Karen Hahne, Simon Hartley, Lesley Jennings, Chloë Reeler, Aaron Juritz, David Langford, James Lister, Maryke Louw, Hannalie Malan,

Jen Matlock, Robyn McKechnie, Maryanne McLachlan, Thembi Nyathi, Enis Özel, Kyle Paulssen, John Rennie, Owen Rogers, Fi Smit,

Bernice Taljaard, Stefan van der Westhuizen, Jenni van Doesburgh, Anthea van Wieringen, Christiaan van Woerden, Jean Westwood

Founder and Director: John Woodland

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VOX Cape Town, the city’s most innovative choral collective, spans musical history in its focus on a cappella works, oratorios and local compositions

to enrich the musical life of Cape Town and South Africa. VOX intends to invigorate local choral music through imaginative programming

and staging to create intimate, immersive sensory experiences.

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Friday 31 May 2019 Hermanus Music Society, Bouchard Finlayson Cellar (18h30)

Saturdays 20 and 27 July 2019 Flower Songs at the Irma Stern Museum, Rosebank (11h00)

Friday 23 August 2019 ViniChoral III at the Tasting Cellar, Groot Constantia (19h30)

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For further details and booking information, visit voxcapetown.com

Tonight, as part of the Norval Foundation’s Concert Programme, VOX Cape Town presents a constellation of exquisite choral music

written by five great composers of our time.

The musical journey, which spans three continents, begins in the United States with the lush tone-clusters of ERIC WHITACRE whose otherworldly, ambient

harmonies are set against “pillow-soft dissonances”.

His music is contrasted with the repetitive minimalism of PHILIP GLASS, whose settings of poems by Leonard Cohen, Raymond Lévesque and Octavio Paz are

interspersed with four items of his piano music, including extracts from the award-winning film score for The Hours, played by CLINTON CLAASEN.

Across the Atlantic, two young Norwegians, OLA GJEILO (b. 1978) and KIM ANDRÉ ARNESEN (b. 1980), provide a mesmerising soundscape

inspired by the icy landscape of their homeland.

Finally, we return to the African veld, our collective birthplace, for vivid settings of poems by the late South African writer, Stephen Watson. These Songs from

the /Xam, composed by PETER KLATZOW (b. 1945) earlier this decade, remind us that “being part of the heavens, we belong to the sky”.

Tonight, VOX shares Gallery 8 with Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, whose installation piece Labour of Many covers all surfaces (except the ceiling) with the humble hessian sack, contrasting the humility of the materials with the

monumentality of the space.

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VOX gratefully acknowledges the support of Ian Burgess-Simpson Pianos for tonight’s event as well as the preview performance that took place

last Monday 25 March at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, De Waterkant. Tonight marks the first concert performance of this Fazioli F212 grand piano.

ERIC WHITACRE (b. 1970, United States)

Alleluia

PHILIP GLASS (b. 1937, United States)

PIANO INTERLUDE – Morning Passages from The Hours

There Are Some Men

PIANO INTERLUDE – Etude 5

Quand Les Hommes Vivront D’Amour

PIANO INTERLUDE – Etude 6

Pierre De Soleil

PIANO INTERLUDE – Choosing Life from The Hours

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OLA GJEILO (b. 1978, Norway)

Ubi Caritas

KIM ANDRÉ ARNESEN (b. 1980, Norway)

Even When He Is Silent

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PETER KLATZOW (b. 1945, South Africa)

Two Songs from the /Xam We, who are stars I am the day star