Lost Cantata Found
Lying in a chest on the stoep of a Cape Province farmhouse for many years, the Union Cantata, composed by Henri ten Brink, has come to light. On December 13, 1910, it was produced for the first and only time at the Opera House in Pretoria. The famous Afrikaans poet Jan Celliers wrote the libretto.
The principal of the Jan Celliers School in Johanensburg, Mr. C. B. Linder, knew of the cantata, for he wished to produce part of it at a Jan Celliers concert. Mr. Linder searched for it everywhere, and while on a visit to Cape Town he called on Mrs. Brink, widow of the famous composer, who remembered an old locked chest’. The chest was 'opened, and there was the manuscript of the Union Cantata It was found to be in excellent condition.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 261, 31 July 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)
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139Lost Cantata Found Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 261, 31 July 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)
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