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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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Red Riding Hood

Description: Red Riding Hood Tags: Red Riding HoodName of production: Red Riding Hood

Adapted by: Walter Strydom

Director: Walter Strydom

Venue:  Scaena Rehearsal Room, UFS Main Campus

Language: English

Genre: Children's Theatre

 

Dates and Times:

6 May 2016               11:00 & 18:00      

7 May 2016               11:00

12 May 2016             15:00

13 May 2016             11:00 & 18:00

14 May 2016             11:00

 

Price:  R 25.00 per person and/or R20.00 per person for groups of 10 or more.

Bookings:   Computicket (0861 915 8000)

  

Red Riding Hood’s cat is hungry. She has been fed this morning, but she needs her snack right now. Unfortunately Red Riding Hood is on her way to her Grandmother’s house. Between pulling a prank on the local woodcutter and sharing witticisms with a suspiciously looking dog-like creature, Red Riding Hood forgot to provide said snack. What is a cat to do?

 

The local Woodcutter is afraid. What will his mother say if she finds out he has lost his axe? He just can’t remember where he left it. What he does remember is the last time he saw his axe. It was just before the girl with the red hood sneaked up on him and gave his such a fright it nearly made his heart stop. What did she say? That she is on her way to her Grandmother’s house? Maybe he too should go there to see if she maybe took his axe.

 

Red Riding Hood’s grandmother is feeling a little bit under the weather. She is expecting her wild little grandchild to visit her later today, but at the moment she is left with her knitting. She needs wool, red wool. And three bags full, mind you. Unfortunately there has been a sheep-shortage lately and the local shops are all out of wool. Suddenly there’s a knock at the door. That must be Red Riding Hood…

 

Red Riding Hood is a fresh retelling of the ageless classic specifically aimed to entertain a newer generation of kids with the same story mom and dad loved when they were young. With dancing, songs and hilarious interactive comedy this production from the University of the Free State’s Department of Drama and Theatre Arts is sure to be great family fun. Hard at work behind the scenes of this delightful comedy for younger audiences are the energetic talents of a vibrant group of drama students. Directed by Walter Strydom, whose previous productions include the 2015 production of Jack and the Beanstalk and Gouelokkies en die Drie Bere (2016), Red Riding Hood hits the stage early in May.

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