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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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Opera gala

International singers & students bings tribute to eminent South African singer and pedagogue at an Opera Gala Concert

 

30 August 2015

Odeion

15:30

Admission: FREE (no booking required)

 

On Sunday afternoon the 30th of August 2015 at 15:30, the Odeion School of Music (OSM) will present a gala concert in honour of eminent South African opera singer and pedagogue, Peet van Heerden.

 

On this recital former students and currents students will perform an exciting and wide-ranging program encompassing opera arias by Händel, Mozart, Verdi, Bizet, Catalani  and Donizetti, to name but a few. All singers will collaborate on stage for the final act, reciting the evergreen Dui-du ensemble from “Die Fledermaus” (Johann Strauss). OSM accompanists, Lesley-Ann Mathews and Cézarre Strydom will partner with the singers during the concert.

 

For more information contact Ninette Pretorius at tel. +27(0)51 401 2504 / pretoriusn@ufs.ac.za

 

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