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Handel the Great
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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Red Riding Hood

Description: Red Riding Hood Tags: Red Riding HoodName of production: Red Riding Hood

Adapted by: Walter Strydom

Director: Walter Strydom

Venue:  Scaena Rehearsal Room, UFS Main Campus

Language: English

Genre: Children's Theatre

 

Dates and Times:

6 May 2016               11:00 & 18:00      

7 May 2016               11:00

12 May 2016             15:00

13 May 2016             11:00 & 18:00

14 May 2016             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)

  

Red Riding Hood’s cat is hungry. She has been fed this morning, but she needs her snack right now. Unfortunately Red Riding Hood is on her way to her Grandmother’s house. Between pulling a prank on the local woodcutter and sharing witticisms with a suspiciously looking dog-like creature, Red Riding Hood forgot to provide said snack. What is a cat to do?

 

The local Woodcutter is afraid. What will his mother say if she finds out he has lost his axe? He just can’t remember where he left it. What he does remember is the last time he saw his axe. It was just before the girl with the red hood sneaked up on him and gave his such a fright it nearly made his heart stop. What did she say? That she is on her way to her Grandmother’s house? Maybe he too should go there to see if she maybe took his axe.

 

Red Riding Hood’s grandmother is feeling a little bit under the weather. She is expecting her wild little grandchild to visit her later today, but at the moment she is left with her knitting. She needs wool, red wool. And three bags full, mind you. Unfortunately there has been a sheep-shortage lately and the local shops are all out of wool. Suddenly there’s a knock at the door. That must be Red Riding Hood…

 

Red Riding Hood is a fresh retelling of the ageless classic specifically aimed to entertain a newer generation of kids with the same story mom and dad loved when they were young. With dancing, songs and hilarious interactive comedy this production from the University of the Free State’s Department of Drama and Theatre Arts is sure to be great family fun. Hard at work behind the scenes of this delightful comedy for younger audiences are the energetic talents of a vibrant group of drama students. Directed by Walter Strydom, whose previous productions include the 2015 production of Jack and the Beanstalk and Gouelokkies en die Drie Bere (2016), Red Riding Hood hits the stage early in May.

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