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Temmingh’s Swan Song played by Pieter Schoeman and the JPO

The second week of the final season of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra gave us a fairly interesting programme. It commenced with the Coriolan Overture, Opus 62 (1807) and finished with Sibelius Symphony No 1 in E Minor, Op 39 (1899), … Continue reading

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The silver lining in JPO’s clouds of woe

The financial woes of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra are a disgrace to the city which bills itself as a ‘world class African city’. World class cities fund their world class professional orchestras. However the dark clouds gathering round the JPO … Continue reading

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