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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.

ENQUIRIES
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)


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Ek, Anna van Wyk (AFR)

Title of Production:  Ek, Anna van Wyk

Language:  Afrikaans

Genre:  Drama

Directed by:  Nico Luwes

Written by:  Pieter Fourie

Featuring:  Final year drama students

Venue:  Wynand Mouton Theatre

Dates & times:

28 May at 19:30

29 May at 19:30

30 May at 19:30

Prices:  R 40.00 for adults / R 30.00 for students or scholars / R 25.00 for pensioners or for groups of 10 or more

Bookings:   Computicket (0861 915 8000)

Press Release

The play, "Ek, Anna van Wyk", by Hertzog prize-winner in 2003, Pieter Fourie, is performed by a multicultural third year cast of the UFS Drama Department students under the direction of Prof Nico Luwes in the Wynand Mouton Theatre from 28 to 30 May 2014.

“Anna” is an Afrikaans play about the disintegration of a marriage and a woman caught up in the patriarchal and Apartheid systems. In this haunting exploration of the Afrikaner psyche, the older members of the Terre’Blanche family are stuck in poisonous political dogma and traditions. In contrast, Anna and her husband, represent the young Afrikaner who shed the Apartheid dogma and desperately try to better the lives of their farm workers. The play deals with the rebellious Anna who challenges their misuse of power and the corruption of Christianity for own gain. Senior, the family patriarch, opposes his daughter- in-law, Anna, after it becomes obvious that she is an epileptic. Not fit as ‘breeding stock’ for the Terre’Blanche family she is replaced by a younger woman. In this heart-rending play she must sacrifice that and those who are dearest to her – her husband, her child, her status and herself. Fresh from a mental institution and rehabilitation from alcohol addiction, Anna struggles through the pains of rediscovering her lost identity and believes in what is right and what is wrong. In the final scene Anna apparently murders Senior, but the Voice in the auditorium assures the audience that he died of a heart attack earlier. But is this true? Depicting Anna as Senior’s victim and as a victim of the values embedded in the society he represents, raises the audience’s sympathy for her and diminishes the patriarch’s stature.

The plight of the farm workers plays an important part in the play. Taking into account the recent uprising of farm workers in the De Doorns district, it becomes clear that very little has changed since 1986 when the play was first performed and the country was on the brink of a civil war. Fourie has written a play that can be seen as a dramatic historical document of the 1980’s, but it’s relevance for the present political climate in the country cannot be denied.

Definitely a play that must be seen.

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