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First 2014 season for Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra

Posted on January 31, 2014 by moirads

The first of four symphony seasons have been announced for 2014. It is a five week season unless one futher concert is to be announced later. Funding is already in place for most of the seasons this year so there … Continue reading →

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First 2013 season for JPO begins … with no guarantees there will be a second

Posted on February 28, 2013 by moirads

So, the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra first season for 2013 started last night with the announcement that we were benefiting from the last arts sponsorship which Anglo American will be making due to ‘economic conditions’. One hopes that they will soon … Continue reading →

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JPO now in business rescue proceedings

Posted on October 25, 2012 by moirads

So the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra is officially in “financial distress” (press release below) and is in voluntary business rescue proceedings. The public learned this today, just hours after the third concert in the last symphony season for 2012 was played … Continue reading →

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

Posted on October 23, 2012 by moirads

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

Posted on October 12, 2012 by moirads

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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