Organ, pan f lute to boost festive spirit

PAN-flute player Neels Kruger will be in Port Elizabeth this week for the Feather Market Organ Society’s annual Christmas concert at 1pm on Thursday.

Kruger will be playing in a programme that includes four organists – Jaco Bosch, Christiaan Carstens, Rina Ras and Albert Troskie – all of whom will play festive music on the Feather Market’s grand organ.

“This is a great opportunity for all local music lovers and holiday visitors to enjoy a varied selection of beautiful Christmas music,” Troskie said.

Organ solos will include Leroy Anderson’s A Christmas Festival, Zorada Temmingh’s O Du Fröhliche, D’Adam’s O Holy Night, Kobie Kloppers’ Adeste Fideles, Bédard’s Postlude sur un Noël and Troskie’s own Christmas Suite.

Kruger, will perform, among others, Crown Him with Many Crowns, Somerkersfees and the Halleluja Chorus from Handel’s Messiah. The Cantatori Male Voice Choir from Port Elizabeth will sing Silent Night, Steal Away, Shepherds in the Fields Abiding and Ukuthula.

The well-known Jubelkoor from Jeffreys Bay will perform four pieces: You are Mine, Gesu Bambino, Whisper – Baby Born Today and The Lord Bless You and Keep You.

The 2016 Christmas Concert will end with a massed choir of 120 voices which will sing four works: Bach’s Lord God, We Worship Thee, Jerusalem by C Parry), Joy to the World! and An Irish Blessing.

The Salem Moravian Brass Ensemble will play on stage before the concert, so Troskie suggests an early arrival to hear the ensemble from about 12.45pm.

Tickets are available at the door, with no advance bookings. Admission is R50, while pensioners pay R30 and pupils R10. The concert will start at 1pm.

Albert Troskie: (041) 503-7854 or 082-726-9595.