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Nettie Immelman Memorial Concert
2018-05-03

3 May 2018

Odeion

19:30

Legendary piano teacher, Nettie Immelman, passed away in 2011 and the OSM presented the first memorial concert in her honour in 2012. Since then it became an annual event on the OSM concert calendar. For this year’s concert the pianist Nicol Viljoen (Associated Professor at the OSM) will be the performing artist.

Nicol Viljoen is the foremost expert of Schenkerian analysis in South Africa. His training under world-renowned specialists in the United States of America is currently still our country’s most intensive contact with dynamic international developments concerning this highly specialized music-analytical system. His research during the past two decades has focused both on theoretical Schenker studies, and on its application within musical performance practice through structuralist aural analysis. His exceptionally versatile activities as music theorist, concert pianist, chamber musician, jazz pianist, and academic, has greatly contributed to an inclusive vision of music study at the UFS. During 2003, Nicol Viljoen produced the compact disc Franz Schubert/Johannes Brahms (Unfoldings UCD001) together with the violist John Wille. In 2011, he produced his second compact disc, Transcendental Schubert, on the Mukavi label.

Programme

  • Schubert - Six Moments Musicaux, D. 780
  • Mozart - Fantasia in C minor, K. 475
  • Chopin - Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61
  • Chopin - Mazurka in C major, Op. 56/2; Mazurka in C minor, Op. 56/3; Mazurka in A-flat major, Op. 59/2; Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 50/3

Admission
Free

ENQUIRIES

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504) / pretoriusn@ufs.ac.za


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Lecture: “Mandela, You Are Finally Free: Music, Memory, and Madiba”

presented by Prof. Gregory Melchor-Barz (senior professor: Odeion School of Music)

28 February 2014

Odeion

12:10

Abstract:

Asimbonanga, asimbonang' uMandela thina [We have not seen him, we have not seen Mandela]

Laph’ekhona, Laph'ehleli khonal [In the place where he is, in the place where he is kept]

Johnny Clegg and Savuka

Over the years Nelson Mandela inspired musicians to write about his life and perform challenging musical responses to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. In this brief presentation, we will engage a variety of performers who performed musical tributes and challenges to the life and career of Madiba. We will also focus on the problematic issue of music for and about Mandela that was consumed outside in the South African diaspora (whether due to prohibitions or bans within the country or otherwise) vs. music produced as an internal musical commodity. 

Gregory Melchor-Barz, PhD

Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor

Associate Professor of Musicology/Ethnomusicology (Blair School of Music)

Associate Professor Music and Religion (Divinity School)

Associate Professor of Anthropology (Anthropology)

Faculty Head of North House, The Ingram Commons

Admission: Free

Enquiries: Ninette Pretorius (051 401 2504 / pretoriusn@ufs.ac.za)

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