People speak (from time to time) of “transformative experiences”, moments of “rare clarity” — sometimes even invoking cosmic influence, with talk of “planetary alignment” and such like.  Probably the most over-worked — and thus ‘popular’ — phrase in talk of this kind is “life-changing” — one we are more than well acquainted with and have perhaps all, at one time or another, taken recourse in when searching for adjectives to assist in the description of particularly significant events or moments in that silken (or not-so-silken) thread of which our ‘time …

The classical music highlight of the decade is almost upon us. Opera superstar Renée Fleming’s long-awaited South African tour kicks off next Thursday, August 27, in the Durban City Hall.

We’ve uploaded photographs from the Sasol National Youth Orchestra Course 2009 – have a look: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationals09/

Trio Hemanay will be performing on 26 June 2009 at 20:00 at the Musaion, University of Pretoria. Tickets available from www.tunegumtickets.co.za.

NewMusicSA-SA National Youth Orchestra Foundation Collaboration 2009: MEET THE ORCHESTRA
NewMusicSA and the South African National Youth Orchestra Foundation invite you to the first Meet the Orchestra workshop for emerging composers, to be held at the University of  Pretoria on 25 and 26 June 2009.
 Meet the Orchestra is a new opportunity which aims to introduce writing for orchestra and large ensembles to a new generation of South African composers. Meet the Orchestra will consist of:

Presentations and discussions co-ordinated and led by Dr Cameron Harris (composer, lecturer at UNISA and President of NewMusicSA), …