Your Production Team:Bill & Betsy Weber, Executive Producers
Scott Calvert, Conner Fay, Ed Greenberg, Associate Producers
Our Professional Tour Management:
Classical Movements, Inc. (CMI) led by Executive Vice President Neeta Helms and Director, Special Projects LeAnn Binford.
Our Music Director:
Jeffrey Douma, Director of the Yale Glee Club.
Jeff was be assisted by Richard Cock, Director of the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra & Chorus. Richard prepared his musicians prior to our arrival. Jeff conducted us both in Johannesburg and in Grahamstown.
Our Accompanist:
The inestimable Timothy J. DeWerff
Art & Education Task Force:
Roberta Krakoff, Chair
Landa Freeman, Kori Calvert, Evelyn Fay, and, from University of Cape Town, Marilynn McNamara
Treasurer: Jeff Freeman
Chief Medical Officer: Dr. Larry Krakoff
Cultural Affairs & Protocol: McKinney Russell
Webmaster: Scott Calvert
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Dates: Wednesday June 20 - Saturday July 7, 2007
Simon Estes Music High School, East Cape Philharmonic Orchestra Education Project and numerous other opportunities in this remarkably “target rich environment”.
Our Game Parks:
Travel Tips: Try the chutney potato chips, drink some “bush tea”, always look to the right when leaving a bus or a cab - they drive on the left - very fast!
Concert Dress for the Tour
Click on link below to download PDF with particulars as to concert dress.
June 24, 2007
June 30, 2007
June 29, 2007
July 4, 2007
(Click on the link above.)
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African Music
• A piece we learned on this trip was Bawo Thixo Somandla. Hear and see the young South African chorus Pro Cantu perform this dynamic piece of struggle music on the link below:’
