Name: Fokkens, Robert: Uhambo Olunintsi (Journeys)
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Fokkens, Robert: Uhambo Olunintsi (Journeys)

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Arrangement: for orchestra
Edition Information: study score (A4)
Edition Type: Study/Miniature Score
Publisher: Composers Edition
Catalogue Number: ce-rf1uo1
Date Published: 9th Nov 2020

Uhambo Olunintsi “Journeys” is a meditation on the nature of cycles, particularly on the fascinating tension between progress and stasis that they generate. The scoring is for full orchestra with optional chorus - the text given to the chorus is in Xhosa and explores this idea of uncertain, perhaps circular, journeys playfully and with a positive energy.

Commissioned by the SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts 2002 and premièred at University of Johannesburg by the South African National Youth Orchestra conducted by Conrad van Alphen in July 2005, Journeys was written in memory of Professor Gérard van de Geest, director of SANYO for many years.

Journeys was subsequently recorded by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra under Miguel Harth-Badoya for release on Naxos in 2021, with a Gramophone review saying of it "South African Robert Fokkens sets things in motion with the disc’s title-piece, Uhambo Olunintsi (‘Journeys’), and music that often explodes into something quite violent. But it is a most effective and stimulating piece, which shows off the orchestra to particularly good effect. Other reviews included BBC Music Magazine describing it as “joyfully polyrhythmic”, and American Record Review saying “I’m especially drawn to… the jovial and haunted chaos of Uhambo Olunintsi (Journeys) by Robert Fokkens…”

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