1 October 2007
Kampala — WHAT was supposed to be a fundraising show turned out to be an evening of great classical music. The Charity Music Concert raised funds for Kampala music School and Uganda women's effort save orphans at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel on Thursday.
World-renowned Romanian pianist, Gabriela Imreh proved she was in a league of her own as she was conducted by Daniel Spalding, one of the world's highly sought after conductors.
Imreh first displayed her awesome talent in a three-movement Sheep May Safely Graze by Johanna Sebastian Bach and Concerto for Piano in D minor by the same composer.
She showed everything - skill, emotion and display as Bach surely must have done hundreds of years ago.
Spalding's baton conducted the Kampala music School Orchestra, made up of young student musicians and teachers in a cohesive unit. Their precision was astonishing.
After the interval, it was more music, but this time round, it was choral, and when it comes to chorus music, it does not get better than Handel Zadok the Priest, Mozart Ave Verum Corpus and Beethoven Choral Fantasia, which was written to aid widows in 1808.
The mass choir made up of 120 choristers sang the pieces elegantly. All in all, it was proved that no genre of music could replace the gleaming beauty of the violins, trumpet, cellos, piano and the glorious voices of the 120 choristers.
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