Rebeca Omordia
Eni Fashanu sends this review:
In appreciation: The African Concert Series - "EKELE: Piano Music by African Composers" with Rebeca Omordia
By Clive Rubin, Cape Town, RSA
It
was a real pleasure to be able to listen in, despite the prospect of
disturbing and worrisome news, that never stops yet fortunately couldn’t
interrupt or delay this recital. Thank you for allowing us all to be,
briefly, transported and elevated to a higher plane, and concentrate on
something altogether more surprising ; the beauty and precision of
Rebeca Omordia’s concert pianist's hands. Rebeca Omordia’s hands
interpreted and in turn lent grace, poise, levity, dexterity and
intensity to works that I have never heard before. In the soundest
tradition of inherited culture, that can never be allowed to disappear,
Ms Omordia brought back the music of Ayodele Bankole, quite literally,
back to life and it was live too. Ms Omordia's concentration and
performing without sheet music also had me transfixed and in awe. There
were no distractions, not even the rapid turning of the score, all my
attention was drawn to Ms Omordia, her perfect memory and her power of
interpretation and transposition, delivered via the piano through all
ten strong, enamel painted fingers that channelled and coursed up and
down releasing as improbable as it may sound, triumphant, at turns
baleful, pure, melodic, at other times, loud, alarming and complex
composition, ideas and thoughts. If only we could have added the one
absent feature A standing ovation. Bravo.
Please accept my
thanks for introducing and providing a respite and allowing us to tune
in to a concert that was a premiere and truly, for most and even the
seasoned, a first.
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