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Stockton Revealed
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)


Back
Curl up and dye

Playwright: SUE PAM-GRANT

Director: KARABELO LEKALAKE

Venue: Scaena Theatre

Language: English

 

Dates and times:

24 September 2014         19h30

25 September 2014         18h00

26 September 2014         19h30

 

Prices:  R 40.00 for adults / R 30.00 for students or scholars / R 25.00 for pensioners or for groups of 10 or more

 

Bookings:   Computicket (0861 915 8000)

 

The play is set against the background of Joubert Park, the infamous grey area in Johannesburg. The year is 1989 and South Africa is nearing the end of the apartheid regime. While some are fighting to keep what they have, others are fighting for existence.  Sue Pam Grant’s thought-provoking Curl Up & Dye highlights some of the challenges facing the community during apartheid. The  play focuses on the lives of the five seemingly different woman, whom the ruthless course of South African society in the eighties has thrown uncomfortably together. It all comes tumbling down as they battle and bump into their own truths unwillingly, yet still clinging to the old masks. But as it all unravels, Roline (Yoliswa Jacobs) reverts to her true self and the demons that she can never escape. Living in a society where everything she wants to hide is skin deep and easily exposed, it heightens the fear and the powerlessness that dominates her life. The character of Mrs Dubois (Marnel  Bester ) who often finds comfort in the discomfort of others, escapes her dark reality by reminiscing about the good old days. Miriam (Mosili Makuta) is the unsung hero in the play. Although she is the same age as Mrs Duboise, race, class and the system doesn’t allow her to get equal treatment as her counterpart. Charmaine’s (Jana Coetzer) destructive world is made up of drugs, alcohol and prostitution. She engages in these activities because that is the only way she manages to numb her pain. Then there is Dudu Dlamini( Setheo Thamae),  she is a highly qualified nurse who makes her unlikely way into the scenario. Dudu brings hope into the hopeless situation.

With this play, Grant mirrors all shades of grey that infect our society. Although some might be uncomfortable watching this play, the play explores with tenderness, compassion and wonderful humour the fears, conflicts and hopes of these women living on the edge. As we celebrate 20 years of democracy our country, the play exams the then volatile, segregated country and it captures the success and journey of the new South Africa.

Curl Up & Dye will be presented by honors students from the University of the Free State at the Scaena Theatre. Catch this exciting, hilarious and intriguing    play on the 24th September 2014(19:30), 25th September (18:00) and 26th September (19:30).

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