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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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Lusistrata

Production: Lusistrata
Text: Aristophanes
Adaptation & Translation: P. J van Rensburg
Director: Stephanie Brink
Venue: Wynand Mouton Theatre
Dates and times:
15 – 17 September at 19h30

Bookings: Computicket (Mimosa Mall and Checkers)

Bookings for block bookings of 10 or more people can be done with Thys Heydenrych (072 235 3191)


Lusistrata; The Battle of the Sexes...

This September, the University of the Freestate presents Lusistrata at the Wynand Mouton theatre in Bloemfontein . The text for Aristophanes" age old comedy, has been translated and adapted for the modern theatre by P. J van Rensburg. Thanks to the expert guidance of director Dr. Stephanie Brink, the relatively inexperienced cast of third year drama students can say their performance does justice to a story which has stood the test of time.

The action takes place in the city of Athens, which is completely devoid of men. Every man, and every almost-man, has been called to war, and whilst they are being killed off in the fighting, their wives are left at home to raise babies and amuse themselves. Lusistrata has called together the women of Athens and Sparta to come up with a way to force their husbands to come to a peace agreement. The battle of the sexes ensues, as the women select silky, transparent night dresses and dainty shoes as their weapons of choice, coupled with a strategy which relies more on falling back than attacking...Yes, Lusistrata"s fighting methods are alternative, but regardless, she quickly manages to prove that it is the women who will take care of the war!

Althouth it has been adapted, the play still makes use of a traditional Greek chorus and elements of exaggerated costuming. The production makes use of sexual themes and suggestive wordplay but no physical love scenes or nudity and is suitable for audience members 16 years and older.
Lusistrata opens at the Wynand Mouton Threatre on the 15th of September will be running until the 17th of September. Performances begin at 19:30 and tickets are available via Computicket.

For more information contact:

Marijda Kamper
051 401 2160
 

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