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Clarinet & Piano: OPUS
2018-08-30

with the Nöthling Strydom Duo - Danrè Strydom (clarinet) & Grethe Nöthling (piano) and David Griessel (visual artist David Griessel displaying the sketching process inspired by each composition performed)

30 August 2018
Odeion
19:30

Award-winning South African musicians, clarinetist Danrè Strydom and pianist Grethe Nöthling, started an exciting collaboration in 2016. Since recently returning to South Africa after several years abroad, these two musicians aim to provide global audiences with exhilarating performances of not only well-known and loved repertoire, but also of more unknown and interesting repertoire. The Duo performed at 2017 South African festivals and various national concert series. Both musicians (as part of Trio Intolerance) won the Free State Artists of the Year award at the Free State Arts Festival (2017). During 2018 the Duo was invited to perform at the International Clarinet Festival in Belgium. While in Europe, they recorded the first part of their CD of newly composed as well as underplayed South African compositions for clarinet and piano.

In this concert, titled Clarinet & Piano: Opus ZA, the Duo will be performing some of the lovely but demanding South African compositions which will appear on the CD. The selection includes works by well-established composers such as Clare Loveday, Noel Stockton, Hendrik Hofmeyr and Peter Klatzow, to mention a few. All the works are relatively short compositions, so the programme will include nine works in total. To emphasise the character of each of these compositions, South African visual artist, David Griessel, will do nine sketches that will be displayed on a screen behind the musicians. These videos made by Bloemfontein videographer, Zita, will include the complete drawing process, and the audience can follow each line and brush stroke during the performance of the music. After the concert, these original sketches, titled the same as the compositions, will be sold to interested audience members. These will be unique sketches, and the audience can look forward to this extraordinary collaboration of two musicians with a visual artist.

David Griessel graduated with a bachelor in Fine Arts from the University of the Free State. Earlier in 2018, he did an art residency, book launch and exhibition in Caylus and Saint Antonin (France). He currently works as an artist/writer/illustrator in Cape Town and is the art editor of the literary journal, New Contrast. He is part of the artist’s collective, Studio Clowder.

PROGRAMME:

  • Hendrik Hofmeyr: Notturno
  • Clare Loveday: Heatwave
  • Noel Stockton: Three Pieces
  • Peter Klatzow: Moments of Night
  • StephansGrove: Spieeltjie aan die wand
  • Isak Roux: Kleine Chronik
  • Surendran Reddy: Game I for Lîla
  • Alexander Johnson: Jazz Sonatine

ADMISSION

  • R120 (adults)
  • *R80 (pensioners)
  • *R70 (UFS staff)
  • *R50 (students, learners and block bookings of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket or online at http://online.computicket.com/web/

*Please note that tickets for pensioners, students, learners and UFS staff can only be purchased at a Computicket outlet (Shoprite Checkers) or at the doors since a valid card or ID has to be presented to qualify for the above-mentioned discount.

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Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)


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Blommefeetjies

Description: Blommefeetjies Tags: BlommefeetjiesScript by: Karen Combrinck
Directed by: Marijda Kamper
Venue:  Rehearsal room theatre, UFS-Main Campus
Language: Afrikaans
Genre: Children’s Theatre

Date and times:
Wednesday, 13 September 2017 at 11:00      
Thursday, 14 September 2017 at 18:00
Friday, 15 September 2017 at 11:00 & 18:00
Saturday, 16 September 2017 at 11:00

Price:  R 25.00 per person and/or R20.00 per person for groups of 10 or more.
Bookings:  Computicket (0861 915 8000)
Group bookings: Karen Combrinck ((051) 401 2160)

While feeling ill, Sussie’s friend Stefan, tries to cheer her up. Every time he brings her flowers, the Flower Fairies appear and whisper beautiful poems. The only problem is, Sussie can’t hear them: She doesn’t believe fairies exist, for how could she when there is a war and bad things happen every day?

Based on true events, the play Blommefeetjies tells the story of how Cecily Mary Barker created the popular “Flower Fairies” books. In the beginning of the previous century during the First World War, Cecily – still a child at that stage – started painting flower fairies and wrote poems about them. During the time, the British population grew so tired of the war that they started believing in the existence of fairies.

Blommefeetjies is a children’s play with the message that even in a world where bad things happen, children and adults alike, can still appreciate the beauty in small things. Or as Rose Fairy says: “Always believe in the beauty of life; something towards which we can strive”.

Blommefeetjies is the UFS Drama Department’s last children’s production of the year and will be performed from 13 – 16 September 2017 in the Rehearsal Room Theatre at the drama department.

Tickets cost R25 p.p. or R20 p.p. for groups of ten or more and are available at Computicket.

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