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2018-06-07

with Gerrit Jordaan

7 June 2018

Odeion

19:30

Gerrit Jordaan studied organ under the guidance of Stephan Zondagh (pupil of Marcel Dupré and Nadia Boulanger), Wim Viljoen (pupil of Marie Claire Alain) and Daleen Kruger (pupil of Jean Claude Zender). In 2007 he completed a DMus with a dissertation on Stefans Grové's Afrika Hymnus II. This Hymnus was dedicated to Gerrit – as it was conceived in a dream wherein the composer heard him playing this work.

Since his student days, Gerrit has been involved with South African organ music, commissioning and performing new works – of which some had been dedicated to him - writing articles on this repertoire, working towards performances with the insight of the composers, recording this repertoire, typesetting and adapting instrumental works to the organ. As an enthusiast of South African music, he presented recitals in Europe as well as Finland and Canada. In 2016 he was invited to play the final recital at the Klangzeit Festival for contemporary music in Münster (Germany). Some of his articles were published internationally in Het Orgel, Organ – Journal für die Orgel, Orgue Nouvelles as well as in local academic publications. He wrote reports on the Stylus Phantasticus in the Praeludia of Buxtehude and on the Choral Preludes of Brahms. He studied historical performance practice of standard repertoire in numerous masterclasses at UNISA Organ Simposia, Haarlem Summer Academia and in Pistoia from organists including Luigi Tagliavini, Harald Vogel, Ludger Lohmann, Bernard Lagacé, Wolfgang Zerer, Olivier Latry, Marie Claire Alain and Szigmund Zsathmary. Until recently, Gerrit was chair of the Church Organist Committee of Southern Africa (SAKOV). He compiled three volumes of original Southern African choral preludes and choir pieces for SAKOV. He is a member of VONKK – a committee that develops new Afrikaans church music – creating new songs, providing organ, choir and instrumental arrangements to this growing repertoire.

PROGRAMME:

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G major (BWV 541)
  • Jacobus Kloppers: Celtic Impressions (2003/4) - Two Strathspeys, Two Airs, Two Jigs, Toccata on two marching songs
  • Surendran Reddy: Toccata for Madiba (ca. 8:00)
  • Antalffy-Zsiross Dezso: Sketches on Negro Spiritual Songs (ca. 7’00)
  • George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (organ transription: Tobias Zuleger)

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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Around the world in 80 days

PRODUCTION: AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS

DIRECTED BY: THYS HEYDENRYCH

SCRIPT BY: JULES VERNE

ADAPTATION BY: MARK BROWN

VENUE: WYNAND MOUTON THEATRE

GENRE: COMEDY

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

PHOTO BY: THYS HEYDENRYCH

CAST: LEFT IS SUMARIÉ VAN DER BERG AS AUODA, MARNUS NEL AS PHILEAS FOGG AND GERRIT FOURIE AS PASSEPARTOUT.

DATES AND TIMES:

  • 8 NOVEMBER 2017 AT 19H30
  • 9 NOVEMBER 2017 AT 19H30
  • 10 NOVEMBER 2017 AT 19H30

TICKETS:

  • R 40.00 PER PERSON
  • R 30.00 FOR STUDENTS, SCHOLARS,
  • R 25.00 FOR PENSIONERS

BOOKINGS: COMPUTICKET

Press Release: Around the World in 80 Days

What would happen if you only used nine actors, four chairs and one table for an excursion around the world in 80 days? Well, that is exactly what happens in Mark Brown’s adaption of Jules Verne’s comedy, Around the World in 80 Days.

The phlegmatic Phileas Fogg accepts an outrageous wager to circumnavigate the world in only 80 days. With the help of his loyal servant, Passepartout, they encounter many challenges: a raging typhoon, a runaway train, Indians and an elephant, to name only a few. As if these challenges aren’t enough, Phileas Fogg is also being followed by a detective who thinks that he is a thief on the run.

Danger, romance and comical surprises are everywhere in this production, where the actors portray 39 different characters on a quest across seven continents in one of the greatest adventures of all time.

The production is presented by the drama honours students of the University of the Free State, with Thys Heydenrych as director. Around the World in 80 Days is showing from 8 – 10 November at 19:30 at the Wynand Mouton Theatre on the UFS Campus. Tickets are available at the door or through Computicket, R40.00 for adults, R30.00 for scholars and students and R25 for pensioners and group bookings of 10 or more people.

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