The Documentation Centre for Music (DOMUS) has recently embarked on digitizing their collections. Funding was provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) and the process was facilitated by the Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service. Two collections were identified for digitization, which include the collection of the eminent composer-conductor Albert Coates and esteemed South African composer Stefans Grové. The digitization of the Grové collection coincides with the composer’s 90th birthday celebration in 2012.
At present the digitization of the Coates and Grové collections are underway. Please visit SUNDigital Collections (link below).
(August 2012)
STEFANS GROVÉ 90 YEARS A Festival & Symposium Internationally acclaimed South African composer, Stefans Grové, celebrates his 90th birthday this year. In honour of his long and distinguished career, the Odeion School of Music (University of the Free State), in collaboration with the Documentation Centre for Music (DOMUS) at the University of Stellenbosch, is proud to present a weekend-long festival in Bloemfontein from 10 to 12 August, which will include concerts of his music, a symposium of musicological reflection, as well as commentaries on his work by the composer himself. The programme starts off on Friday 10 August with a talk given by Prof Grové (18:00) to introduce the evening’s concert. The concert at 19:30 will include Grové’s Tweespalt and Sanguinies from Piano Pieces (1975) Nonyana, the ceremonial dancer (1994), Afrika Beelde (1999) and Dance Song for the Nyau Dance (2003). Pianist Ben Schoeman is the soloist for this part of the programme. After the interval the set of Five Ingrid Jonker songs, Pan and the Nightingale and Sielvoël will be performed. The artists are Helen Vosloo (flute), Anmari van der Westhuizen (cello), Lesley-Ann Mathews (piano) and Matildie Thom Wium (mezzo soprano). On Saturday 11 August the Documentation Centre for Music will present a symposium (9:00 – 13:00) on Grové’s music, including papers by such distinguished scholars as Gregory Barz (via video), Hannes Taljaard and Izak Grové, and a lecture demonstration by Ben Schoeman. With the concert (19:30) Grové’s Afrika Hymnus II, the première of My Jaargetye (commissioned by the Odeion School of Music for Schoeman), Conversations for organ and piano as well as the première of Grové’s recently composed Piano Quintet – A Venda Legend. During this concert the FAK will present an award for exceptional cultural achievement to Stefans Grové and the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns will present a citation to the composer. This concert will be preceded by an interview with Grové conducted by Ben Schoeman on the subject of Grové’s piano music (18:00). The concluding concert of the festival will take place on Sunday 12 August and will feature the ensemble work Musa, for flute (Helen Vosloo), viola (Jeanne-Louise Moolman), violoncello (Anmari van der Westhuizen), piano (Piet Moolman) and a narrator (Marli van der Bijl). Other works on Sunday afternoon’s programme include Grové’s Sonata for Viola and Piano and the Elegy for String Orchestra which will be performed by the OSM Camerata. We sincerely thank the following OSM partners who have contributed to make these special events possible: DOMUS, Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, the FAK, ATKV & ATKV-Muziq and Xerox (UFS Campus). (July 2012) |
From Stellenbosch University News Blog:
The “Liedjieboer” Anton Goosen’s collection will soon be housed at Stellenbosch University (SU).
'Goosen will be donating his collection of, amongst others, notes, lyrics and albums to the Documentation Centre for Music (DOMUS), which is situated within SU’s Department of Music.'
Tete Mbambisa is considered one of the great figures of South African jazz. This gifted composer, pianist and vocalist has been active in the South African jazz world since the 1950’s, and is still active today. He has collaborated with jazz legends such as Zim Ngqawana, Herbie Tsoaeli, Feya Faku, Sylvia Mdunyelwa and Ezra Ngcukana.
DOMUS, in the spirit of promoting music in South Africa and Africa through strategic projects of research, publication, performance and recordings, financially supported the recording of Tete Mbambisa’s first solo CD, which will be launched in July 2011. The album is produced by Dr. Jonathan Eato of the University of York in the United Kingdom.
(May 2011)
More on the 2012 launch of the Black Heroes: Tete Mbambisa CD here.
(April 2012)
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SOUTH AFRICAN JEWISH MUSIC CENTRE COLLECTION
In 2011 the collection of the South African Jewish Music Centre was donated to DOMUS by Mrs. Fay Singer, hence the Fay Singer South African Jewish Music Centre Collection. The aim of this centre is to preserve the heritage of Jewish music in its South African context. The Centre has been active in promoting the study and performance of Jewish music. Under its banner, Fay Singer started collating material that grew to become the South African Jewish Music Archive. The material in this archive includes, amongst others things, gramophone recordings of South African and international Jewish music, and music and scores donated to the Centre by local synagogues, cantors and other individuals. Due to negotiations between former Stellenbosch University music student Annemie Stimie and Fay Singer, the archive of the South Afriican Jewish Music Centre was transferred to DOMUS.
THE SOUTH AFRICAN JEWISH MUSIC CENTRE
Newsletter In July 1996 I started a Newsletter beautifully arranged and printed by my daughter Mara containing news. It dealt with books about music, research, sheet music. This first copy also contained a request for books, records, sheet music to be sent to the S.A.J.M.C. in order to preserve our cultural heritage. This request has received an amazing reaction on the part of the public. Jy kan nie anders as om ekstatiese byvoeglike naamwoorde te gryp nie: energiek, meesterlik, meesleurend, toeganklik. Hierdie is definitief een van die juwele van die KKNK[3]. 2011 Was a watershed for the South African Jewish Music Centre. Due to the hard work and commitment the greater part of the collection housed in the Choir Loft at Highlands House was transferred here to DOMUS by Prof Stephanus Muller, Santie and Annemie, and Kerry Pierce, where I know it is in good hands and is attended to with outstanding professionalism and will be accessible, as I always wanted to be. 1. All these performances are noted down in more detail in the attendance registry book, which is presently in the collection at DOMUS. (March 2012) |
Konservatorium, Jannasch Hall The Department of Music presents a weekly academic presentation and discussion in the form of the Departmental Colloquia. These events take place on Mondays from 15:00 to 16:30 in the Jannasch Hall at the Konservatorium. A wide variety of topics will be presented during the first semester, with a diverse cast of local and international speakers. These events are open for attendance by by the university community and general public and you are cordially invited to join us for these discussions on Monday afternoons. ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND |
Colloquia 2012
6 February
‘Sing unto the Lord a new song’: Status and identity in synagogue choirs
Dr. Stephen Muir (University of Leeds, UK)
13 February
Lion’s Share: Intellectual Property Rights and the South African Music industry
Prof. Veit Erlmann (Butler School of Music University of Texas at Austin)
20 February
The jazz photography of Basil Breakey
Niklas Zimmer (University of Cape Town)
27 February
Vocal hygiene and voice management
Vanessa Tait-Jones (Stellenbosch University)
5 March
Adorno’s Aesthetics of Music
Dr. Ralf Kohler (Stellenbosch University)
12 March
The South African Jewish Music Archive and a short introduction to Klezmer music
Fay Singer (Cape Town) and Annemie Stimie (University of South Africa)
19 March
Op soek na die stomme JC
Johan Cloete (Cape Town)
26 March
The wild and weird charm of the concertina: Boeremusiek and Blackface Minstrelsy
Willemien Froneman (Stellenbosch University)
16 April
Parading respectability: The Christmas Bands movement in the Western Cape and the constitution of subjectivity
Dr. Sylvia Bruinders (University of Cape Town)
23 April
Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph’s Masada: In the wake of the unspoken cultural alliance
Annemie Stimie (University of South Africa)
30 April
Musiek sonder 'n mark
Louis Heyneman (Head Executive Officer, Cape Philharmonic Orchestra)
7 May
Così fan tutte – Così facciamo: A decade’s journey on the road less travelled
Hans Huyssen (Stellenbosch University)
14 May
Reflections on academic and artistic collaboration: The Boeremusiek project
Willemien Froneman (Stellenbosch University) and Niklas Zimmer (University of Cape Town)
6 August
‘Sterkte’ in Sterkfontein: Towards a composing culture in South Africa
Prof. Michael Blake (Stellenbosch University)
13 August
Second thoughts: On the implications of re-writing
Prof. Christine Lucia (Stellenbosch University)
20 August
Exploring the colonial soundscape: The fifteen Meent Borcherds keyboard pieces
Erik Dippenaar (Royal College of Music, London)
27 August
Ralf Kohler in conversation with composer Theo Herbst.
17 September
Van Bethlehem tot Blaauwbergstrand: Die oue, die nuwe en die eie in Stefans Grové se oeuvre
Prof. Izak Grové
15 October
Sex, lies and a concerto
Prof. Chris Walton
22 October
Archery and cello playing - two sides of the same coin?
Dalena Roux