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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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Around the world in 80 days

PRODUCTION: AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS

DIRECTED BY: THYS HEYDENRYCH

SCRIPT BY: JULES VERNE

ADAPTATION BY: MARK BROWN

VENUE: WYNAND MOUTON THEATRE

GENRE: COMEDY

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

PHOTO BY: THYS HEYDENRYCH

CAST: LEFT IS SUMARIÉ VAN DER BERG AS AUODA, MARNUS NEL AS PHILEAS FOGG AND GERRIT FOURIE AS PASSEPARTOUT.

DATES AND TIMES:

  • 8 NOVEMBER 2017 AT 19H30
  • 9 NOVEMBER 2017 AT 19H30
  • 10 NOVEMBER 2017 AT 19H30

TICKETS:

  • R 40.00 PER PERSON
  • R 30.00 FOR STUDENTS, SCHOLARS,
  • R 25.00 FOR PENSIONERS

BOOKINGS: COMPUTICKET

Press Release: Around the World in 80 Days

What would happen if you only used nine actors, four chairs and one table for an excursion around the world in 80 days? Well, that is exactly what happens in Mark Brown’s adaption of Jules Verne’s comedy, Around the World in 80 Days.

The phlegmatic Phileas Fogg accepts an outrageous wager to circumnavigate the world in only 80 days. With the help of his loyal servant, Passepartout, they encounter many challenges: a raging typhoon, a runaway train, Indians and an elephant, to name only a few. As if these challenges aren’t enough, Phileas Fogg is also being followed by a detective who thinks that he is a thief on the run.

Danger, romance and comical surprises are everywhere in this production, where the actors portray 39 different characters on a quest across seven continents in one of the greatest adventures of all time.

The production is presented by the drama honours students of the University of the Free State, with Thys Heydenrych as director. Around the World in 80 Days is showing from 8 – 10 November at 19:30 at the Wynand Mouton Theatre on the UFS Campus. Tickets are available at the door or through Computicket, R40.00 for adults, R30.00 for scholars and students and R25 for pensioners and group bookings of 10 or more people.

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