Message from the Nduna (Homage to György Kurtág) (2019)
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 4: No 12
Dedicated to Mokale Koapeng
Composed 6 Match 2019, Mostertsdrift, Stellenbosch
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1284 (Volume 4 Complete)
Duration: 1'05"
Recording
Recorded by Antony Gray on 'Michael Blake: Afrikosmos’ (Divine Art DA 21374)
Première
First performance:
Programme note
Message from the Nduna uses the row of five pitches that appear on my ‘Ex Libris’ sticker (image below). The row is transposed, inverted, combined in contrary motion, in a similar manner to a twelve-note row, and eventually the seven other pitches are added. Kurtág has composed pieces with cryptic titles like this, and after I was christened ‘Nduna’ by a journalist in 2003, Mokale Koapeng insisted “Once an Nduna, always an Nduna”.
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 4: No 12
Dedicated to Mokale Koapeng
Composed 6 Match 2019, Mostertsdrift, Stellenbosch
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1284 (Volume 4 Complete)
Duration: 1'05"
Recording
Recorded by Antony Gray on 'Michael Blake: Afrikosmos’ (Divine Art DA 21374)
Première
First performance:
Programme note
Message from the Nduna uses the row of five pitches that appear on my ‘Ex Libris’ sticker (image below). The row is transposed, inverted, combined in contrary motion, in a similar manner to a twelve-note row, and eventually the seven other pitches are added. Kurtág has composed pieces with cryptic titles like this, and after I was christened ‘Nduna’ by a journalist in 2003, Mokale Koapeng insisted “Once an Nduna, always an Nduna”.
