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2018-04-25

The Odeion Baroque Ensemble of the OSM presents

Handel the Great

Wednesday 25 April 2018

Odeion

19:30

The Odeion Baroque Ensemble presents this concert – Handel the Great. This concert consists of a variety of some of the most attractive and popular works by Georg Friedrich Handel (1685 - 1759). The famous Water Music, concerto’s and arias are on the programme. The artists who will perform, include members of the Henkins family – Tilla, Francois, Brahm, and Alba; the Kriges – Petrus and Maretha; Kimberley based oboist Kobus Malan; percussionist Heinrich Lategan and tenor Lance Phillip.

Petrus Krige arranged the works on the programme for an ensemble of violins, violas, cello, double bass, three recorders, two oboes, bassoon, harpsichord, organ, Baroque timpani and tenor.

The guaranteed highlight on the programme will be the Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Handel composed his Water Music with the arrival of the new King George I on the Thames river. This king was Handel’s employer before (in Hannover). Thirty five years later he composed the Music for the Royal Fireworks for 59 wind instruments. About 12 000 people attended the performance in Green Park.

Lance Phillip will open the programme with the popular Where’er you walk from Semele - a Shakespeare sonnet set to music. He will also perform a complete secular cantata and give a rendition of opera extracts from Rodelinda.

The rest of the programme will consist of concerto’s for violin and oboe. Handel himself was a violinist and oboist. His only Violin Concerto, with demanding technical abilities, will be performed by Francois Henkins. Handel is most likely the most prominent composers of organ concerto’s. Maretha Krige plays the first and second movement from a lesser known organ concerto.

Where’er you walk, an aria from Semele
Adagio, from Organ Concerto in D minor
Excerpts from the three Water Music suites
Look down, harmonious Saint
Oboe Concerto in G minor
Violin Concerto in B-flat major (Sonata à 5)
Fatto inferno and Pastorello, from opera Rodelinda
Excerpts from Music for the Royal Fireworks

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.

ENQUIRIES
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504 / pretoriusn@ufs.ac.za)


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The hate crime project

Description: The Hate Crime Project Tags: The Hate Crime ProjectDirected by: Dion van Niekerk and DeBeer Cloete

Script by: A brand new workshopped production

Venue: Scaena Theatre

Genre: Drama

Language: Afrikaans, English and Sesotho

 

Dates and times:

16 November 2017 at 19H30

17 November 2017 at 19H30

18 November 2017 at 19H30

 

Tickets:    R 40.00 per person

R 30.00 for students, scholars,

R 25.00 for pensioners

 

Bookings:  Computicket

 

The Hate Crime Project

 

Nearly two decades after the shocking murder of Mathew Shepard in the small town of Laramie, Wyoming in the United States, reports of hate crimes, discrimination and homophobic inspired violence still populate local and international newspapers.  In South Africa, hate crimes have become synonymous with attacks of xenophobia, reports of corrective rape and violence aimed at minorities that cannot be defended as politically or socio-culturally justified. 

 

Inspired by the groundbreaking theatre production The Laramie Project by the acclaimed playwright Moises Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theatre Project, third year drama students at the University of the Free State workshopped a brand new production which explores hate crimes in South Africa through a fictitious case of corrective rape that occurred in the small Free State town of Heilbron.  In the production, actors portray various roles which include the roles of victims, protesters, perpetrators, parents and the public.  The conclusion:  we are all affected by hate crimes, no matter which race, gender, age, sexual orientation, nationality or level of formal education. 

 

The Hate Crime Project (in Afrikaans, English and Sesotho) is the final production of this group of graduating undergraduate students and is directed by Dion van Niekerk en DeBeer Cloete.  It debuts on the 16th of November and run until the 18th November at the Scaena Theatre on the UFS campus.  Doors close at 19:30.  Tickets are available through Computicket.     

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