Arnold van Wyk Centenary Concert - Curro Durbanville

In a tribute to Arnold Van Wyk after his death in 1983, South African musicologist Jacques Pierre Malan wrote that the creation of a South African abstract art music "was the work of one man, the prophet of South African music, Arnold van Wyk. He was our first sovereign sound-master, the first one to draw attention abroad as a creative artist, the first to create locally, between all the foreign masters, the possibility of establishing an own music of the highest quality, the first to make musical achievements count as much as all the other achievements—to name just a few of the 'firsts'."

Arnold van Wyk was born on the farm Klawervlei, near Calvinia, on 26 April 1916.  He studied at the University of Stellenbosch (where he later became a lecturer).  He was the first South African to receive a Performing Right Scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Read more 

---

DATE:  23 June 2016
TIME:  19:00
VENUE:  Auditorium, Curro Durbanville, 1 Momento Drive, Sonstraal Heights, Durbanville, 7550