Masque of the Silver Trees

The Masque of the Silver Trees is an outdoor pageant composed by Rene Juta in 1909.

The original text
A neo-classical quasi-Jacobean performance, it was inspired by the grand preparations in Cape Town for a national pageant intended to inaugurate the newly-forged Union of South Africa in 1910.

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