MOSSEL BAY NEWS - Since its inception in 2015, Garden Route's community-based music performance organisation, Carpe Musicam! has gained a reputation for making interesting and enjoyable choral and instrumental music accessible to the average music lover.
This year's Easter presentation, Passion to Pentecost, is no exception to this style of live music.
Using the large choir and nine-piece boutique band, the lively, deep and ultimately festive retrospective tells the Easter story through words and music in a way that should appeal to everyone.
The performance is on Sunday, 15 May, at 15:30 at Laminin Agora in Hartenbos.
More information and tickets are available at www.carpemusicam.co.za.
There are four items in the show by contemporary British-born composer, Paul Barker, who approaches the serious subject matter in a pop-rock style which often spills over into a Gospel-like euphoria.
In his Hosanna!, Hallelujah!, Senza Paura (Unfearingly) and the four-movement MASSive, he creates a joyful, yet often tender mood against which the audience can ponder the events of the first Easter.
The version of Were You There? has been described as the "most moving performance" ever heard by a non-choir rehearsal attendee.
There are also glorious hymn arrangements which celebrate the triumph over darkness, and the setting of O, Sacred Head, Once Wounded against a Bach Siciliano is absolutely "stunningly beautiful".
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