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2019 2018
OSM Wind Bands Gala Concert
2018-04-14

14 April 2018

Odeion

18:00

The Odeion School of Music (OSM) will present the OSM Wind Bands Gala Concert at the Odeion Auditorium on Saturday 14 April as a culmination of their Wind Bands Festival and Conductor’s Workshop. The Free State Youth Wind Ensemble, conducted by main workshop presenter Gerben Grooten, will première Noel Stockton’s Marche Amusant as the concert overture. Thereafter each conductor will have the opportunity to conduct their specific works. The conductors include Anton Esterhuyse, Hatting Davel, Itumeleng Pooe, Joseph Carlo, Joseph Moilwa, Joas Erasmus, Heinrich Lategan, Eslon Hindundu, Tuhafeni Michael and Renier de Bruin.

Some of the works that will be conducted include Majestia (James Swearingen), Ammerland (Jacob De Haan), Whirlwind (James Curnow), March from the Second Suite in F (Gustav Holst), Acclamations (Ed Huckeby), and Sinatra in Concert (Jerry Nowak). After interval, the Johannesburg Youth Wind Band, under the baton of Etienne Mecloen, will thrill audiences with The Light Eternal (Swearingen), Dam Busters March (Eric Coates), Florentiner March (Julius Fucik) and The Mask of Zorro (James Horner).

ADMISSION: R50

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

ENQUIRIES

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)


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The Department of Music - Free lunch hour concert:International jazz saxophone star, Brian Hogg

The Department of Music
Free lunch hour concert
International jazz saxophone star, Brian Hogg
Thursday, 6 August 2009 
13:00
Odeion Amphitheatre.

For the past two weeks Brian has been giving master classes to the students as well as the UFS Big Band at the Department of Music.

Brian is associate professor in Jazz at the North Kentucky University, Carolina. He is an inspiring and dynamic world class Jazz musician who gives between 200 and 300 concerts a year and who has already performed and recorded with several renowned Jazz musicians. Brian will perform with, amongst others, Noël Stockton, the rhythm section of the UFS Big Band as well as with the complete UFS Big Band. It will be an unbelievable experience to see a concert with one of the top international Jazz musicians for free!

Admission is free. Contact Ms Ninette Pretorius or Mr Paul Loeb van Zuilenburg at x2504 or 084 208 6724 for enquiries.
 

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