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2018-08-18

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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Hairspray. The Broadway Musical

Book by: Mark O’Donnel
Music by: Marc Shaiman
Lyrics : Scott Willman & Marc Shaiman

Director: Thys Heydenrych
Musical director: Hendri Liebenberg
Choreography: Elize Cogle
Venue: Wynand Mouton theatre

Dates & times:
29 February 2012 19h30
01 March 2012 19h30
02 March 2012 19h30
03 March 2012 14h00 & 19h30

Bookings: Computicket (Mimosa Mall, Loch Logan Waterfront, Preller Square en Checkers)

 

"If life were everything it should be, it would be more like Hairspray." —The New York Times

The Award-winning Broadway musical Hairspray is finally coming to Bloemfontein. FACTS, a local theatre company associated with the UFS Drama department, is staging this fun-filled, toe-tapping musical romp that inspires everyone who sees it to “dream big.”

Tracy Turnblad is a big girl with a big heart and even bigger hair, with one big wish - to dance. We follow Tracy as she sings and dances her way through the adversity of being ahead of her time in her own unassuming way. Along the way she finds acceptance and big romance with the teenage heart-throb Link Larkin.

The cast comprises of a mixture of seasoned professionals as well as honours and final year drama students. Some of the professionals to be seen in this production are Leendert de Jager (Edna Turnblad), Anton Smit (Wilbur Turnblad), Lezanda Visser (Velma von Tussle), Tshili Gude (Motormouth Maybelle), Quintus Aslett (Corny Collins) and Ilne Fourie (Prudy Pingleton). Making their professional debut in this FACTS production are Marnel Bester (Tracy Turnblad), Marli van der Bijl (Penny Pingleton), Heinie de Jager (Link Larkin) and Teddy Mhlambi (Seaweed J. Stubbs).

This Broadway phenomenon, that inspired a major blockbuster-film starring John Travolta, features delicious sing-along songs (under the music direction of Henri Liebenberg), breathtaking choreography (by Elize Cogle assisted by Godfrey Manenye) and spectacular vocals that will have you dancing in the aisles. Directed by Thys Heydenrych, this production promises to blow your socks off.

The show runs from the 29th of February till the 3rd of March in the Wynand Mouton Theatre. Tickets are R50 for adults and R40 for pensioners, students and scholars. Tickets are available at Computicket.

Hairspray is made possible by the generous donation from the National Lottery Distribution Fund.


 

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