by Henk | Jun 5, 2019 | Composers, News
On Tuesday 9 April 2019, the CD ‘Songs of Heritage, Hope and Healing’ by Mantombi Matotiyana was launched at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective (TAAC) in Observatory, Cape Town.
by Henk | Apr 2, 2019 | Events
ifPOP, Hidden Years and FUNGUS invites you to a rare vinyl listening session with selectors Atiyyah Khan and Rob Machiri. We’ve asked Atiyyah and Rob to select records from the Hidden Years Music Archive as a way to open the archive to broader listeners. When:...
by Henk | Nov 6, 2018 | Collections
Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a “coloured” cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape.
by Hilde Roos | Oct 15, 2018 | Composers, DOMUS, News
Marc Röntsch, who started working on the Christopher Langford James archive many years ago, reflects on the donation of the James piano to AOI.
by Hilde Roos | Oct 15, 2018 | Collections
The Philosophy of Composition, Michael Blake’s works for cello and piano, performed by Friedrich Gauwerky (cello) and Daan Vandewalle (piano). Read Stephanus Muller’s liner notes here.
by Hilde Roos | Oct 14, 2018 | Collections
Musiek, erfenis en restitusie was die elemente van Dinsdagaand se opening van die nuwe tuiste van AOI op Stellenbosch. Lees artikel in Die Burger.
by Hilde Roos | Oct 14, 2018 | Events, News
In remembering residents uprooted from central Stellenbosch because of the Group Areas Act, AOI officially named its offices after the first residents who lived at 7 Joubert Street. Read more here.
by Hilde Roos | Oct 10, 2018 | Events, News
Speech delivered by the Director of AOI, Prof. Stephanus Muller, on 9 October 2018 at the inauguration of the institute and the naming of the AOI premises at 7 Joubert Street as Pieter Okkers-huis.
by Hilde Roos | Aug 14, 2018 | Composers, Events
Sounding Cities is an interdisciplinary project between composers, artists and performers that links the cities of Johannesburg in South Africa and Birmingham in the UK.
by Hilde Roos | Aug 7, 2018 | Archive, Composers, News
The death has been announced on 5 August of composer and academic Stanley Glasser. Read about his song cycle, Exile, here. This article was originally published in Art South Africa 9:4, 2011.
