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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)


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Die Wintersprokie (AFR)

Production: Die Wintersprokie (AFR)
Text: Anna Neethling-Pohl
Director: Gerben Kamper
Venue: Wynand Mouton Theatre
Date: 21 & 22 September 2009
Time: 19h30

Tickets:
R 30.00 Adults
R 25.00 Pensioners, scholars & students
R 25.00 Block bookings 10+
R 15.00 Club Theatron members

Tickets available at Computicket (Mimosa Mall & any Checkers) or at the door.

“Die Wintersprokie” (The Winter’s Tale) is a fantasy filled play by William Shakespeare and begins in Sicilia where Leontes (the King of Sicilia) is trying to convince his best friend Polixenes (the King of Bohemia) to extend his stay in Sicilia a little longer. Without any success Leontes turns to his wife, Hermione, for help. With great determination, Hermione succeeds in convincing Polixenes to stay without realising the consequences it entails by doing so. Leontes, in a moment of absolute absurdity, accuses Hermione and Polixenes of having an affair. His jealousy gets the better of him and thus starts plotting Polixenes’ death and throws Hermione in prison. While in prison Hermione gives birth to Leontes’s little baby girl, but Leontes, who is still overtaken by his madness, disowns her and orders Antigonus to abandon her in the desert. Leontes’s life gradually starts falling apart with one tragedy after another and soon starts realising what his jealousy has cost him. Will he be able to make amen’s or will the King of Sicilia fall from his throne?

This play is filled with lots of drama, accusations of a love affair, an abandoned baby daughter, a king’s descent into madness, three deaths, a marriage and finally a miracle. “Die Wintersprokie” (translated by the late veteran actress and theatre personality Anna Neethling-Pohl) is a wonderful play that is performed for the first time in Bloemfontein by the students of the Drama Department at the University of the Free State. Come and enjoy this traditional Shakespeare story that promises to keep young and old on the edge of their seats.
 

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