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Folk Baroque
2018-10-18

Camerata Tinta Barocca presents:

FOLK BAROQUE

18 October 2018

Odeion

19:30

with

  • Bridget Rennie-Salonen (traverso)
  • Darryn Prinsloo (recorder)
  • Annien Shaw (Baroque violin)
  • Uwe Grosser (theorbo, Baroque guitar)
  • Cheryl de Havilland (Baroque cello)
  • Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord, director)

Camerata Tinta Barocca (CTB), founded in Cape Town by violinist Quentin Crida (July 2004), is the leading South African Baroque ensemble playing on period instruments. Its name is derived from the musicians' passion for Baroque music and red wine. The members include some of Cape Town's finest musicians who embrace a historically informed performance practice approach. CTB's concerts have been broadcast on Fine Music Radio and have received critical acclaim in the Cape Times and Die Burger. Mostly playing music from the 18th century, CTB has worked with leaders in their fields, such as Baroque violinists Antoinette Lohmann and Pauline Nobes; violinists David Juritz, Darragh Morgan and Zoe Beyers; countertenor Christopher Ainslie; male soprano Philipp Mathmann; recorder player Stefan Temmingh; mandolin player Alon Sariel and conductor Arjan Tien.

Apart from CTB's annual concert series in their home, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Cape Town), the ensemble regularly accompanies opera and oratorio performances, and performs in festivals throughout South Africa. CTB also has an active outreach component, which includes an annual education tour to the West Coast (the Matzikama Music Week), the Sunshine Concerts (an outreach programme for people unable to attend concerts because they are elderly, indigent or disabled in some way), as well as a regular collaboration with the Keiskamma Music Academy (Eastern Cape).

Since 2011 CTB has gradually moved towards playing on period instruments. Currently it is the only period ensemble in South Africa that regularly plays in orchestral format, performing most of its annual concerts on period instruments. In 2013 CTB, in collaboration with the Cape Consort, gave the first South African period performance of Handel's Messiah. During November 2016 CTB played for Cape Town Opera's first production to use a period instrument orchestra: Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, directed by Jaco Bouwer and conducted by Erik Dippenaar. In December 2016 CTB was nominated for a kykNET Fiesta award for a programme titled Handel in the Drawing Room presented during the 2016 Klein Karoo Klassique festival. In September 2017 CTB successfully launched the first annual Cape Town Baroque Festival.

In 2015 CTB set up a collaboration with the early music ensemble Collegium Musicum at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town, through which two student cadets annually receive hands-on training in period performance in CTB projects. The cadet scheme is generously supported by the Claude Leon Foundation. In July 2015 Erik Dippenaar was appointed Artistic Director of CTB, Michael Maas (former CEO of the Artscape Theatre Centre) as Administrative Coordinator and Cheryl de Havilland as Outreach Coordinator.

www.ctbaroque.co.za

PROGRAMME

  • Marco Uccelini (c.1610 – 1680): Bergamasca
  • Trad. Scottish, Orpheus Caledonius (1733): The bush aboon tranquair
  • Francesco Barsanti (1690 – 1775): The bush aboon tranquair from A Collection of Old Scots Tunes (1742)
  • Francesco Geminiani (1687 – 1762): The bush aboon tranquair from A treatise of good taste in the Art of Musick (1749)
  • Gaspar Sanz (1640 – 1710): Canarios
  • Francesco Barsanti (1690 – 1775): Lochaber from A Collection of Old Scots Tunes (1742)
  • Domenico Scarlatti (1685 – 1757): Sonata in C minor, K.99
  • Gaspar Sanz (1640 – 1710): Zarabanda
  • Tarquinio Merula (1595 – 1665): Ciaconna
  • Trad. Scottish, Orpheus Caledonius (1733): Lady Ann Bothwell's lament
  • Francesco Geminiani (1687 – 1762): Lady Ann Bothwel’s Lament
  • Francesco Veracini (1690 – 1768): Scozzese from Sonata IX, Opus 2 (1744)
  • Niel Gow (1727 – 1807): Lament for the Death of his 2nd wife

ADMISSION

  • R120 (adults)
  • *R80 (pensioners)
  • *R70 (UFS staff)
  • *R50 (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 troue

Description: Die Troue Tags: Die TroueName of production: Die Troue

Playwright: Anton Tsjechof

Director: Nico Luwes

Venue:  Wynand Mouton Theatre, UFS Main Campus

Language: Afrikaans

Genre: comedy

 

Dates and times:

2 March 2016             19:30 (free of charge, where donations can be made towards bursaries for needy students) 

3 March 2016             19:30

4 March 2016             17:30 & 19:30

 

Prices:  R 40.00 for adults / R 30.00 for students & scholars / R25.00 for pensioners.

Bookings:   Computicket (0861 915 8000)

 

Media release: Anton Tsjechof’s “Die troue” performed for student bursaries

 

Income from the first evening of this year’s first performance of the Free State University’s drama department in the Wynand Mouton Theatre, will be used for bursaries for needy drama students. No entrance fee will be charged, however, theatre-goers may either make a donation towards these bursaries, or enjoy the show for free.

 

The artistic year kicks off with a comical, newly translated ‘burlesque’, Die troue, (The Wedding) by world-famous Russian dramatist Anton Tsjechof (1860 – 1902). The play has never before been performed in English or Afrikaans in South Africa and is considered an unknown jewel for theatre-goers.

 

Prof Nico Luwes, head of the drama department, translated the comedy as ‘Die troue’ and will direct the show with honours students and a large group of third year drama students. Prof Nicol Viljoen of the Odeion School of Music will be the pianist at the wedding and will accompany the lady in the red dress when performing her French love song. Minette Grové-Reinach will choreograph the dances.

 

‘Die troue’ promises as much entertainment as the translated trilogy Tsjechov-Triptiek, three one-act plays which were performed at Vryfees 2015. The Tsjechov trilogy was named Best Free State Production 2015 and actor Chris Vorster bagged the prize as best actor for his role in ‘Tragiese kêrel – teen wil en dank’.

In ‘Die troue’, which will be performed as a full costume drama set in 1898, the audience will be treated to a typical Russian wedding with extravagant dances, boisterous singing, many a toast, comical speeches, amusing characters and other ridiculous traditions. As with many weddings, tensions run high, hoping everything goes well. But alas! Is the groom marrying for love or for the bride’s money? What is the bride’s ex-lover doing at the wedding? How does mother-in-law feel about the groom? Can the arrogant telegrapher keep his little Morse code hands off the seductive diva and pretentious singer? How does one maintain order when the guests have already tossed off so many vodkas, and tempers and hormone level begin to fly sky high?

 

And most importantly – will the General, whose presence will contribute a touch of status, ever arrive at the ceremony?

 

Come and enjoy the varying Russian temperaments of a group of eccentric characters and see how the jollifications and frolicsomeness of a wedding can unravel to the delight and entertainment of the whole family.

 

The play will be performed free of charge on 2 March at 19:30, in the Wynand Mouton Theatre, where donations can be made towards bursaries for needy students. Please phone 051 401 2160 to book for this performance. Bookings for the other performances on 3 March at 19:30, and 4 March at 17:30 and 19:30, can be made at Computicket.

 

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Come to a “wedding” and help a needy student!

One wouldn’t always get invited to a wedding in aid of a needy student! But ‘Die troue’ is not your customary wedding ceremony. It is a play brought to the stage by the University of the Free State’s drama department.

On the opening night of the play, no entrance fees will be asked, however, theatre-goers will have the chance to make a donation towards a bursary for needy students.

‘Die troue’ is a comical ‘burlesque’ set in 1989, in full costume, and is a newly translated Afrikaans version of dramatist Anton Tsjechov’s ‘The Wedding’.

It’s a typical Russian wedding with extravagant dances, boisterous singing, many a toast, comical speeches, amusing characters and other ridiculous traditions. Come and enjoy the varying Russian temperaments of a group of eccentric characters and see how the jollifications and frolicsomeness of a wedding can unravel to the delight and entertainment of the whole family.

The play will be performed free of charge on 2 March at 19:30, in the Wynand Mouton Theatre, where donations can be made towards bursaries for needy students. Please phone 051 401 2160 to book for this performance. For the other performances on 3 March at 19:30, and 4 March at 17:30 and 19:30, please book at Computicket.

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