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GET ready, Cape Town – the Yale Glee Club is bringing their beautiful music to the Mother City. The critically acclaimed choral group will be performing in the Groote Kerk in the CBD on Saturday; L Zwane Centre in Gugulethu on Sunday and Khayelitsha on Tuesday. The Glee Club will be performing a repertoire from the 16th century to the present, including Renaissance motets, contemporary choral works, world music, spirituals and folk songs, and traditional Yale songs. The Yale Glee Club is also premiering newly commissioned pieces that form part of their two annual competitions for young composers.
They have also been leading advocates of international choral exchange. The Glee Club has hosted countless guest ensembles at Yale and at New York’s Lincoln Center in conjunction with its own international festivals.
In 2012, the Glee Club held the first Yale International Choral Festival in New Haven, and in June of 2015, they presented the second incarnation of the festival, hosting choirs from Singapore, Sweden, Cuba, and Israel, along with the 1 Impulsively, whimsically (12) 9 Laboratory tube used to transfer liquids (7) 10 Intervene between parties to reconcile differences (7) 11 Command of a town crier (4) 12 Acerbity (10) 14 Nurtured (8) 15 Good turn (6) 18 Substance secreted by the auditory canal (6) 19 Revere (8) 22 Fusion of blues and country music (10) 24 Vendetta (4) 26 Caring profession (7) 27 Newborn (7) 28 Most typical representation or example (12) Across: - 1 Microbiology. 9 Perfect. 10 Comfrey. 11 Ague. 12 Households. 14 Executor. 15 Scrape. 18 Summer. 20 Pretzels. 23 Voluptuous. 24 Jury. 26 Renewal. 27 Imports. 28 Neurosurgery. Yale Alumni Chorus and Yale Choral Artists.
This choral group also have a special connection to the Mother City. In April they hosted the Cape Town Youth Choir during their Song of Loss and Hope tour in the US.
The Cape Town Youth Choir performed on the Yale campus and stayed with members of the Yale Glee Club.
The short stay left a lasting impression on the Cape Town Youth Choir, and they are also currently preparing for their Hendrik Hofmeyr concert, which is set to take place in August at the Baxter Theatre.
Audience members for the Yale Glee Club can expect a Verdi Requiem, Mozart Requiem, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Britten’s War Requiem and Cantata Misericordium, Rossini’s Stabat Mater.
Then there is Fauré’s Requiem, Haydn’s Missa in Tempore Belli, Missa in Angustiis and Creation, Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem and Nänie, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Penderecki’s Credo, Aaron Jay Kernis’s Symphony of Meditations, and choral symphonies of Mahler and Beethoven. 1 Builder who works in wood (9) 2 Feel sympathy for (4) 3 Made a detailed list (8) 4 Prisoner (6) 5 Funeral director (10) 6 Rental contract (5) 7 In flower (6) 8 More tightly packed (6) 13 Calumny (10) 16 Typically, by and large (2,7) 17 Emotions (8) 18 Brief trip to carry out a task (6) 20 Small circular currents (6) 21 Catchy tune used in advertising (6) 23 Greek island in the Ionian Sea (5) 25 Former capital of West Germany (4) Down: - 1 Marquee. 2 Clef. 3 Orthodox. 4 Incest. 5 Lymphocyte. 6 Gorilla. 7 Speakers. 8 Dyes. 13 Superpower. 16 Essayist. 17 Croupier. 19 Melange. 21 Equerry. 22 Guilds. 23 Vary. 25 Epee. OLIVIA Newton John is feeling positive and confident about healing following her second breast cancer diagnosis.
The Grease star postponed her concerts next month in the US and Canada after learning the disease had spread to her sacrum, a bone in the lower back,
but her close pal John Farnham says she believes her treatment will be successful.
John told News. com.au: “I’ve spoken to Olivia in the last few days, and, as always she is very positive. She told me she is feeling good and confident of a total healing.
“The love and support from family and friends as well as people in general is enormous comfort to her.
“I’ve also spoken to Dr Cebon at Olivia’s wellness facility, and he tells me that her positivity is a great asset to her and if anyone can beat this she can.”
Olivia, 68, was diagnosed with breast cancer 25 years ago in 1992 and had a mastectomy. – Bang ShowBiz