A sonnet that I never wrote
signed and numbered 13/40 in red conté in the margin
photolithographic print
image size: 28 by 28cm (11 x 11in);
sheet size: 30.5 by 30.5cm (12 x 12in);
album: 31.5 by 31.5cm (12 3/8 x 12 3/8in).

accompanied by CWaka - The Silence, an album by the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra and Cape Town Opera.

Footnotes

"This album is a silent pause to support those who, like the Cape Town Opera and Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, have been silenced by the pandemic.

It stands in solidarity with the artists around the world who face being silenced whether that be because of Covid, or conflict, or censorship, or loss of funding.

It represents the power of the arts to move us. What will be lost if they are silenced. And the opportunity to work together to save them from this fate."

(www.cwakathesilence.co.za)

The tracklist is as follows:
Side A

1. Cwaka. The Silence. Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra and Cape Town Opera
2. Che gelida manina, La bohème (Silent Version) | Giacomo Puccini
3. Summertime, Porgy and Bess (Silent Version) | George Gershwin
4. Carmen Fantasie (Silent Version) | Pablo de Sarasate
5. Rallalala, Hänsel und Gretel (Silent Version) | Engelbert Humperdinck

Side B

1. L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habanera), Carmen (Silent Version) | Georges Bizet
2. The Carnival of the Animals (Silent Version) | Camille Saint-Saëns
3. Symphony No. 9 (Silent Version) | Alfred Schnittke, reconstructed by Aleksander Raskatov
4. Eine Hex' Steinalt, Hänsel und Gretel (Silent Version) | Engelbert Humperdinck

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