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Baroque 2000 Concert

Baroque 2000 Concert

Date: 2015-09-25
Baroque 2000's 2015 season resumes with a concert on Sunday September 27 at the usual venue, the Church of the Monastery Mariannhill. Starting at 3pm, the programme features Bach's Peasant Cantata, a bucolic comedy based largely or possibly entirely on popular melodies of the day.

Vanessa Tait Jones, soprano and Barend van der Westhuizen,bass,both based in Stellenbosch, sing the two rustic lovers.

The work, part of a celebratory event with a firework display, is in its character unique in Bach's oeuvre and is full of delightful and humorous music.There are two other items in this concert: Handel's Concerto Grosso in D major op6 no5, and the Overture to his opera Agrippina.

Tickets are R120 at the door and there is ample safe parking. Enquiries to Michel; 082 303 5241 or sursouth@iafrica.com.