Previous concert: Spring 2023

Intermezzo's last concert took place on Saturday 13th May, in SJE Arts. The concert featured music with an African connection, including works by classical African composers, an exquisite new setting of a traditional African song, and South African popular music from the 1960s and 1980s adapted for chamber choir. The pieces share themes of joyfulness and integration: black with white, indigenous African with classical style, and choir with special guest marimba! We also included an English composer setting a Caribbean poem about African rituals, and modern versions of African-American spirituals. Some of the pieces had been given to us directly by the composers, so this was a concert programme that you couldn't hear anywhere else.