Jenkins' Mass for Peace performed in South Africa
(May 2007)
Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace is now a regular item on UK choral programmes and is increasingly being taken up internationally. This season has brought over 120 performances in 12 countries, including premieres in Austria, Sweden and South Africa. The Virgin disc remains a best-seller, and the Benedictus was the highest scoring work by a living composer in the 2007 Classic FM Hall of Fame.
The Cape Town performance in March, led by the Salisbury Community Choir, formed part of an historic collaboration with South African musicians. The Mass was the centrepiece of a ‘Rainbow Nation’ programme at City Hall for Freedom Day, benefiting the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre and joining hands with Cape Town communities in a great celebration of choral music. South African singers will travel to the UK in summer 2008 for a reciprocal concert at the Salisbury Festival. Jenkins will conduct two performances in Johannesburg this September.
A new Jenkins recording on EMI is due for release early next year, including the composer’s London Symphony Orchestra commission Quirk, his arrangement of Corelli’s La Folia for marimba and string orchestra, and the double harp concerto Over the Stone featuring Catrin Finch and Elinor Bennett. The composer is currently at work on a Stabat Mater, scheduled for premiere and release at Easter 2008.
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Photo: Damien Schumann / Salisbury Community Choir
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