Years
2019 2018
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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Moordenaar (Afr)

Text: Anthony Shaffer

Translated and adapted by:  Carel Nel en Nico Luwes
Director: Nico Luwes
Venue: Wynand Mouton Theatre

Language: English

Age restriction:  16 (Violence)

 

Dates and times:

25 September 2014         19h30

26 September 2014         18h00

27 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 British playwright, Anthony Shaffer, made his name on the international stage with Sleuth and Murderer,  his best murder thrillers. Murderer became a hit horror film as well. The play, Moordenaar, is a reworked translation into Afrikaans by Carel Nel en Nico Luwes for Drama and Theatre honours students’ practical examination. Luwes also directed the play in 1986 for PACOFS with Blaize Koch and Gerben Kamper portraying the murderer and the sergeant.  This bloody, physiological thriller is meant for audiences with hair on their teeth and a preference for horror stories. The play opens with probably the most blood chilling and macabre murder scenes in theatre history. The dramatist twits reality and illusion masterly and leaves the audience not only thrilled, but also confused. With the 1986 PACOFS production, audiences streamed to the show and a few faint hearted members ran out of the theatre after a few minutes of watching the blood and gore! Shaffer explores the true nature of murder and the strange fascination the deed holds for the murderer. The often strange connection between the murder and the victim is investigated in this fascinating drama where reality and illusion are brilliantly manipulated. The sergeant’s warning is clear. Avoid experimentation with macabre murder and sexual games. Fantasy can easily become reality. So be warned - Moordenaar is not for the faint hearted! 

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