Child-friendly concert
The Grahamstown Music Society's next concert, on Tuesday 30 May, is a special childfriendly edition with local music and storytelling legend Andrew Tracey narrating for a performance of Camille SaintSaëns’s The Carnival of the Animals.
Berthine van Schoor (cello) and Annalien Ball (piano) will perform a recital of unusual music for cello and piano, by French, Italian, Indian, South African and Ukranian composers.
In the first half of the concert there will be a transcription by Werner Thomas-Mifune for cello and piano of Camille Saint-Saëns’s The Carnival of the Animals, with text by celebrated South African author Philip de Vos, which will be narrated by Tracey. If parents would like to bring children to just the first half of the concert, the organisers say, no one will take offence if they leave at interval.
The concert is at 7.30pm on Tuesday 30 May in the Drill Hall, St Andrew’s College. Tickets are available at the door, same price as last year, still R90 (adults), R70 (pensioners), R50 (tertiary students). Schoolgoers and GMS members free. The programme: Camille Saint-Saëns: nival of the Animals Giuseppe Dall’Abaco (17101805): Two Capricci for solo cello John Mayer (1830-2004): Prabhanda Mokale Koapeng (b.1963): Rhythm in Chains Nikolai Kapustin (b.1937): Nearly Waltz The Car-