WIN! Grammy Award-winning U.S. orchestra celebrate Madiba
The musical tribute to Mandela forms part of nearly 50 projects planned by the Nelson Mandela Foundation to commemorate the Mandela legacy.
For the first time, a professional U.S. orchestra will tour South Africa in celebration of the Nelson Mandela centenary year and will stop in Durban on August 12.
The Grammy Award-winning Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänskä will perform music by Bernstein, Beethoven and a piece specially commissioned as a tribute to Mandela by Classical Movements composed by Bongani Ndodana-Breen and titled Harmonia Ubuntu featuring soprano Goitsemang Oniccah Lehobye.
Minnesota Orchestra president and CEO Kevin Smith said sharing music is an bonding experience.
“We recently became the first American orchestra to tour Cuba following a 2014 thaw in diplomatic relations. The experience was so uplifting and enlightening for us that we decided to forge similar cultural exchanges with other countries.
American and European musical traditions. Photo: Travis Anderson
“Our music director Osmo Vänskä had performed with the South African National Youth Orchestra in Cape Town and Soweto in 2014, and the moving experience of that event persuaded us to tour South Africa next,” said Smith.
The musical tribute to Mandela forms part of nearly 50 projects planned by the Nelson Mandela Foundation to commemorate the Mandela legacy.
Chief executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation Sello Hatang said Madiba’s centenary is about helping build a values-based society.
“Music has over the years played a key role in helping deliver democracy in South Africa. We hope this initiative will highlight the plight of the poor and the marginalized, and thereby build a more equal society,” said Hatang.
The Minnesota Orchestra will be performing at the Durban City Hall on Sunday, August 12 at 5pm.
Tickets start at R175 and are available from Computicket.
For more information, visit minnesotaorchestra.org/satour
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Competition closes at 12pm on August 10.
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