South Africa
April 25, 2012
A small-scale but
bursting-with-energy chamber ensemble, the quartet is the latest
cultural exchange group visiting South Africa from America. J BROOKS
SPECTOR spoke to the group after they performed for the students of
Johannesburg’s National School for the Arts.
Visiting
South Africa at the moment is a new chamber group from America, the
Harlem Quartet. The Sphinx Organization, a non-profit group dedicated
to improving the ethnic diversity in America’s classical music
world, established the group in 2006. Bringing together four young,
immaculately trained African American and Hispanic musicians, they
play the standard classical chamber repertoire, as well as pieces
like Joaquin Turina’s La
Oracion del Toreo,
compositions by contemporary jazz legends like Chick Corea and Wynton
Marsalis, and classic pieces by Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington,
now arranged for string quartet.
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