Five Traditional Animal Poems of the Khoikhoi (1992)
for SATB a cappella
Traditional text translated by W H I Bleek
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Score BDE 552 in preparation
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: 5 minutes
Première
First performance: Saturday 11 July 1992; St Augustine’s Church, Brighton, United Kingdom; Brighton Chamber Choir, Guy Richardson conductor
Programme note
These settings were composed in 1992 in response to a long-standing request from Guy Richardson. The poems, in a 19th-century translation by the philologist W H I Bleek (1827-75), are taken from his collection Reynard the Fox in South; or Hottentot Fables and Tales (London, 1864). The first performance was given by the Brighton Chamber Choir conducted by Guy Richardson on 11 July 1992 in St Augustine’s Church, Brighton.
for SATB a cappella
- The Hyena
- The Hyena Addressing her Young Ones
- The Giraffe
- The Zebra
- The Horse Cursed by the Sun
Traditional text translated by W H I Bleek
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Score BDE 552 in preparation
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: 5 minutes
Première
First performance: Saturday 11 July 1992; St Augustine’s Church, Brighton, United Kingdom; Brighton Chamber Choir, Guy Richardson conductor
Programme note
These settings were composed in 1992 in response to a long-standing request from Guy Richardson. The poems, in a 19th-century translation by the philologist W H I Bleek (1827-75), are taken from his collection Reynard the Fox in South; or Hottentot Fables and Tales (London, 1864). The first performance was given by the Brighton Chamber Choir conducted by Guy Richardson on 11 July 1992 in St Augustine’s Church, Brighton.
