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2018-03-04

Stockton Revealed

4 March 2018

Odeion

16:00

Stockton Revealed is an unique concert with a variety of Classical and Jazz compositions by well known celebrated composer and pianist, Noel Stockton.

Noel Stockton has established a wide reputation as a leading arranger, composer, performer, teacher and Jazz educator. He has been involved in all spheres of music for over fifty years.

Born in Benoni, Noel was a member of many well known South African bands in his youth, and broadcast extensively during the fifties and sixties. Subsequently he has conducted, arranged and composed, and performed for jazz ensembles, symphony orchestras and wind bands.

SAMRO commissions (compositions) include Manguang Suite (premièred and conducted by Dr F Fennell, USA), Concerto for Stageband premièred in 1994, by the Cape Town Jazz Orchestra Conversation Piece (Suite for String Quartet and Clarinet), Sol Y Sombra (Suite for String Quartet, Castanets and Clarinet.). Other compositions include Adagio for Strings, South African Folk Song Rhapsody, Invictus (orchestral prelude) for Jazz quartet and Symphony Orchestra, Gossip for Saxophone and String Orchestra and Three Pieces for Clarinet and Piano.

Productions as music director/conductor include Pacofs Goes Pop, Noel Stockton Big Band Shows I and II, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Snoopy!!!!!, Die Goue Kring (also composer), Met Permissie Gesê, Romeo and Juliet, Brommer in die Boord, Nathaniel and Stockton in Concert, Grease, The Wiz, Sound of Music (for Eunice High School) and Flamenco - Jazz Fiesta.

Noel was a member of the PACOFS Symphony Orchestra and Senior Lecturer at the Musicon in Bloemfontein for 17 years, and lecturer in Jazz Studies and Theory at the University of the Free State and Pretoria University.

Musicians who will perform, include Noel Stockton (piano), the Nöthling-Strydom Duo (with Danrè Strydom – clarinet and Grethe Nöthling – piano), Francois Henkins (violin), Elspeth Neary (violin), Anna van Niekerk (viola), Anmari van der Westhuizen (cello), Tilla Henkins (cello), Geruan Geldenhuys (flute), Xavier Cloete (bassoon), Marco D’Angelo (trumpet), George Foster (tuba), Petro Engelbrecht (piano), Lesley-Ann Mathews (piano) and Jasmin Antonie (castanets).

PROGRAMME:

  • Six short pieces for Violin and Piano
  • Antiphonals for Trumpet and Piano
  • Diversions for Violin, Recorder and Piano
  • Invocation and Chant for solo V’Cello and Bembe
  • Three pieces for Clarinet and Piano
  • Sonatina for Tuba and Euphonium (Bassoon)
  • Sol Y Sombra Suite (in honour of Uys Krige)
  • Dance suite for Flute and String Quartet

ADMISSION

  • R70 (adults)
  • *R50 (pensioners)
  • *R50 (UFS staff)
  • *R40 (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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For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf

Venue:  Scaena Theatre, UFS-Main Campus

Language: English 

Genre: Choreopoem / Drama

 

Date and times:

12 September @ 19:30

13 September @ 19:30

14 Septermber@ 19:30

 

Tickets:         

R 40.00 per person

R 30.00 for students, scholars,

R 25.00 for pensioners

 

Bookings Computicket (0861 915 8000)

 A beautiful fusion between dance, poetry, drama and music is what you can expect in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, the next play brought to the stage by the University of the Free State Drama Department. Issues women all over the world are struggling with, like abuse, identity crises, the coming of age and self-love, empowerment and depression, are themes this choreopoem explores. Written in 1975 by American author Ntozake Shange, it is today just as relevant as then.

 For Colored Girls uses nineteen poems by seven women who experience different individual problems. Each of these characters go through a journey of their own but come to realise that they are not alone. While they are all confronted with similar issues, they are not as different from each other after all.

“she’s half-notes scattered

without rhythm/ no tune

sing her sighs

sing the song of her possibilities

sing a righteous gospel

let her be born”- Lady in Brown

The characters’ names reflect the colours of the rainbow: Lady in Red, Lady in Blue, Lady in Brown, Orange, Yellow, Purple and Green.

American playwright, poet and feminist activist fighting for the rights of black women, Ntozake Shange, was born in Trenton New Jersey, as Paulette Williams. When she separated from her first husband, she often attempted to commit suicide. However, focusing her anger and hurt on the limitations that black women have she was able to regain her inner strength. She then took her African name, from South African friends at the time – Ntozake Shange – which means “she who comes with her own things “and “she who walks like a lion”.

Being an educator, performer/director, writer and committed solo spoken word artist, she said “the poems find[ing] their way through me to the audience”, but that she was so nervous in the beginning of putting these poems into a performance, because “I was a performance poet, not a theatre artist.”

For Colored Girls will be performed by second year drama students from the UFS, from 12 – 14 September 2018, at 9:30 in the Scaena Theatre, UFS.

Please note the age restriction of 16 years, as some content is too mature for younger viewers. Tickets are available at Computicket. For more information go to https://www.facebook.com/ufsdrama/

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