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South Africa

Concert at Wits Anglo American Digital Dome with Wits University Choir, Dr. Musa-Duke Nkuna

Concert|What does the sky sound like? Full of celestial harmony and the twinkle of stars? Or dazzlingly bright like the sun in Pēteris Vasks’ *Māte Saule*? How can Jupiter, king of the planets and father of the gods in Roman mythology, be captured in sound?

Members of the Bundesjugendchor stand on staircases and walkways in a modern building, dressed in black concert attire for a group portrait during the choir’s South Africa tour. © Peter Adamik

Members of the Bundesjugendchor stand on staircases and walkways in a modern building, dressed in black concert attire for a group portrait during the choir’s South Africa tour. © Peter Adamik

What is the vibration of moonlight? And above all: What is the capricious Alice doing in cyberspace?
“Outer Space – Comets of Choral Music” explores humanity’s fascination with the heavens, with light, stars, and darkness—with everything that lies beyond our planet. From humanity’s earthly perspective, the question arises: How can the vastness of the universe and the celestial bodies be experienced through sound?

The musical answers to this question are diverse: Johann Sebastian Bach celebrates the divine order in heavenly hymns of praise through radiant polyphony. Heinrich Schütz sings of the Christian hope for life after death. Robert Schumann turns his gaze inward, making the firmament a mirror of his own soul. And Gustav Mahler transcends the boundary between the world and eternity.

“Outer Space – Comets of Choral Music” brings together works that shine in their own unique way. The program connects humanity’s earthly gaze toward the heavens with the sonic spheres of the cosmos.

The TUKS Camerata will present its own program segment.