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LIESBETH SCHLUMBERGER-KURPERSHOEK – Organ Chair
2018-10-02

2 – 6 October 2018

CONCERTS

2 October 2018 – Sundowner Concert

(Lutheran Church, Bloemfontein, 17:30, Admission FREE)

3 October 2018 – Organ Recital

(Odeion, 19:30, Tickets @ Computicket)

MASTERCLASSES

4 – 6 October 2018

(Odeion / Kopanong)


The ODEION SCHOOL OF MUSIC aspires to excellence and aims to provide superior tuition at an international standard. The South African higher music education arena remains isolated in many senses, and this impression is reinforced by a declining number of students studying music. The OSM aims to fill these voids by pro-actively generating and facilitating excellence on several levels simultaneously. A multilateral policy towards internationalisation and innovation constitutes the cornerstone of our strategy.

The Liesbeth Schlumberger-Kurpershoek Organ Chair was founded in 2015 by the OSM and is positioned under the auspices of the OSM International Artistic Mentorship Programme (IAMP). The main objective of the IAMP being establishing partnerships with musicians (soloists, chamber musicians, and pedagogues) who are pursuing and already have established careers as musicians internationally. On par with international tendencies, the aim is to deploy these experts as instructors to coach and mentor OSM students complimentary to the local residential OSM performance faculty.

The amount of students studying the organ has declined drastically in South African during the last two decades. Therefore, it is imperative for the OSM that the anticipated initiatives and intellectual capital generated by the organ chair will be optimally accessible to all South African students, lecturers, liturgical and amateur organists.

The Liesbeth Schlumberger Organ Chair is assembled of an annual week-long intensive tuition programme to mentor and tutor SA organ students and organists under the tutelage of Liesbeth Schlumberger. Complimentary Liesbeth presents two concert recitals contrasting in nature during this timeslot as well as a lecture.

Apart from the scheduled annual programme to be hosted by the OSM in South Africa, our long-term aim is that talented OSM organ students will have the opportunity to study a semester or more of their studies under the auspices of Liesbeth Schlumberger and her colleagues in France at Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon (Lyon CNSMD). Formal discussions with the aim of forging of a bi-lateral agreement between the Lyon CNSMD and the Odeion School of Music is planned for this year.

The OSM has presented already two already two highly successful events of the Liesbeth Schlumberger Organ Leaning Chair in 2015 and 2016. For both events students and organist from all over the country participated as master students at the event. The third Liesbeth Schlumberger Organ Leaning Chair is scheduled to take place from 28 September – 5 October 2018.”

PROGRAMME

Concert I : Sundowner Concert

  • Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707): Praeludium in F major, Bux WV 146
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Partita - Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig - O Jesu, du edle Gabe BWV 768
  • François Couperin (1668-1733): Messe à l’usage ordinaire des Paroisses, pour les Fêtes Solennelles
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1759-1791): Fantasia - Fantasie für eine Orgelwalze in F minor KV 608

ADMISSION: Free

PROGRAMME

Concert II : Liesbeth Schlumberger Recital (Odeion, Bloemfontein)

  • Louis Marchand (1669-1732): Pièces choisies pour l’Orgue de feu
  • César Franck (1822-1890): Choral No 3 in A minor (1890)
  • Jean Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Toccata, BWV 564

ADMISSION:

  • R140 (adults)
  • *R100 (pensioners)
  • *R80 (UFS staff)
  • *R60 (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 Plaasvervangers (A)

Production: Die Plaasvervangers (A)
Text: Pieter Fourie
Director: Stéphanie Brink

Venue: Wynand Mouton Theatre

Dates and times:
23 March 2010 19h30
24 March 2010 19h30
25 March 2010 19h30
26 March 2010 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) or Marijda Kamper (051 401 2160)

Die Plaasvervangers is a student production of the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts and is under the direction of Stephanie Brink. The production promises stylized theatre at its best! This piece was chosen in celebration of Pieter Fourie’s 70th birthday as well as the fact that it delivers an important message to our young and floundering democracy of today.

Fourie touches on sensitive political issues stretching from the Anglo/Boer War up to the late eighties and points specifically to the injustices and dangers of Apartheid. The production gives a satirical view on the happenings around the birthday celebrations of the main character namely the Kampmoeder (Camp Mother). This dramatic dark comedy uncovers the falsehood contained in the Afrikaner’s cultural roots. The idea of the big lie, in all its facets, comes to light over 4 generations. Fourie wanted to publicly expose his contempt for the lie that the Afrikaner indulges himself in: the complete uncovering of the hypocritical lie that is the super race, the Afrikaner. The fitting title emphasises the lie as replacement (in Afrikaans: plaasvervanger) for the truth on which the Afrikaner has built his identity in the present. The original rural tour of the production was banned in 1978 because some of Fourie’s insinuations in the play were too extreme for governing bodies, politicians as well as certain critics, who questioned the artistic value of the piece.

The dramatic action centres around the 100th birthday celebrations of the Kampmoeder. She represents the Afrikaner’s idealism and the consciousness of his calling at the beginning of this century. According to legend, the typical Mother of the nation, as is her duty as Afrikaner woman, gave birth to a Boer child in the concentration camp in order to insure the Afrikaner nation’s purity and future. The boy, who was born, becomes a senator and, according to tradition, inherits the family-farm and the duty to raise a new generation of Bonthuyse. The fact is that, unknown to the Kampmoeder, her descendants have left the farm and the brown servant-family has moved into the big farmhouse. But this is not the only secret!

The play opens with the characters in disarray as a result of the lie of what has happened to the farm. The Afrikaner traditions must be reinstated before the celebrations begin! The brown servant-family has four days to restore the house and plant new palms in the place of the lost symbolic ones to complete the fake facade.

Fourie exposes, in a comical way, the lie of each generation of Afrikaner until the Kampmoeder finally reveals the complex intrigue of the original lie – to the great consternation of the pillars of the pre-1994 governments. The play utilizes symbolic scenes and figures as signs of the gradual moral degradation of the Afrikaner nation over the decades.
 

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