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Presented by the FSSO in collaboration with the OSM

Conductor: Daniel Boico
Soloist: Alissa Margulis (violin)

Saturday, 18 August 2018
Odeion
19:30

The Free State Symphony Orchestra and the OSM invites you to the third symphony concert of the year featuring international guests Daniel Boico (conductor) and the graceful Alissa Margulis (violinist). The long-awaited symphony will take place August 18, 2018 at 19:30 in the Odeion. This concert is presented in collaboration with the Odeion School of Music.

Due to circumstances beyond control, the promised Violin Concerto in D minor by Beethoven was replaced by the gloriously lyrical Violin Concerto in G minor by Bruch. The powerful and dramatic Egmont Overture by Beethoven and Schubert’s Symphony No 6 in C, will round off the programme.

Daniel Boico was born in Israel to musician parents and raised in both Paris and the US, as his father Fima Boico, was concertmaster of Orchestra de Paris and the second violinist of the Fine Arts Quartet. Boico was initially trained as a singer before joining the class of legendary Russian conducting professor Ilya Musin at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Russia. He has extensive experience in music administration, planning and programming, having worked as Manager of Artistic Administration of the New York Philharmonic and as executive assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Chicago Symphony and West-Eastern Divan Orchestra as well as for Chicago Symphony.

Alissa Margulis was born in Freiburg (Germany), into a family of Russian musicians. At the age of four, she started to learn the violin and the piano with Prof. Wolfgang Marschner. She made her first public appearance at the age of seven with the Budapest Soloists. At the age of ten, she won the first prize at the Spohr Youth Competition and at the German national competition Jugend Musiziert within the same year. She is a regular guest at international classical music festivals, and a privileged chamber music player who performs with a Guadagnini Violin dated 1754, a private loan from Jonathan Moulds.

Alissa is an accomplished musician with numerous awards like the Pro Europa Prize awarded by Daniel Barenboim (Berlin, 2002) and the Nouveau Laureat du Festival Juventus (Cambrai, 2004).


Tickets are available from Computicket outlets and online:

  • R150 Adults
  • R100 Pensioners, UFS staff and block bookings of 10 and more people
  • R50 Children 3 to 18 years

ENQUIRIES:

Contact Ninette Pretorius (051 401 2504) or Ella Kotze (051 401 2342).

www.fsso.org.za / www.facebook.com/OdeionSchoolofMusic


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Women of Troy

Description: Troy Tags: TroyProduction: Women of Troy
Story: Based on Euripides' Trojan Women
Directed by: Thys Heydenrych
Venue: Wynand Mouton Theatre

 

Dates and times:
17 May 2017 at 19h30
18 May 2017 at 19h30
19 May 2017 at 19h30

 

Age restriction: 16L

 

Tickets:  

R 40.00 per person
R 30.00 for students, scholars
R 25.00 for pensioners

Bookings:  Computicket


Women of Troy, based on Euripides’ “Trojan Women”, dramatizes the conditions of the Trojan women after the devastating Trojan War. All the men of Troy are dead, slaughtered, and the women, who watched their husbands and children die fighting, are the spoils of war. 
 

Women of Troy is Euripides’ reflection on the war from 415 B.C., a time when Athens was engaging in one devastating military conflict after another. His play is full of blame and bloodshed, and vibrates with relevance, resonating current affairs in our country and abroad: the American presidential election; Anti-Trump protests; SA’s junk status; #FeesMustFall protests; farm killings; #ZumaMustFall protests; kill-the-farmer-kill-the-boer; mass protests in Venezuela against President Maduro; Greek protests over Syrian refugees; Brexit; SA school children wreaking havoc in protests against the Department of Basic Education and the list continues. 
 

Women of Troy tells the story of Queen Hecuba who takes stock of the defeated Troy. Her son Hector has been killed by Achilles, and his widow, Andromache, is left to raise their son, Astyanax, alone. Hecuba's daughter, Cassandra, driven mad by her visions is eager to meet her Greek master, and Helen of Troy tries to reconcile with her power hungry husband Menelaus, who is eager to kill her. All the woman are waiting to hear to which Greek general they will be shipped off to as a concubine. 
 

This powerful, riveting play takes a look at what happens after the world collapses. “Woman of Troy”, directed by Thys Heydenrych, runs from 17 - 19 May 2017 in the Wynand Mouton theatre, 19:30. Tickets available at Computicket.   

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