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Quartet For The End Of Time
2018-10-25

Quartet For The End Of Time

By Olivier Messiaen (1908 – 1992)

25 October 2018

Odeion

19:30

“THE IDEA OF THE END OF TIME AS THE END OF PAST AND FUTURE AND THE BEGINNING OF ETERNITY”

Anmari van der Westhuizen and Samson Diamond (members of the renowned Odeion String Quartet), will join with the award-winning soloists Grethe Nöthling and Danrè Strydom to perform one of the 20th century’s most compelling chamber music works, Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. These musicians need no introduction to Bloemfontein audiences.

Composed while he was a prisoner of war, Messiaen's Quartet has continually wowed audiences since its creation. The oppressive conditions within which the work was conceived - set against the backdrop of wartime conditions in Nazi Germany - contribute to the work’s inner narrative. In this unsettling time of global political and social uncertainty, we aim to reframe this work from the past in order to contemplate the present. Music woven together with other art forms elicit and explain a range of emotions where words often fail.

A selection of striking WWII photos will be projected behind the musicians - reflecting the theme and history of the composition.

About the composition
Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 92)
Quatour pour le fin du temps (1940 - 41)

Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time was written in perhaps the most incongruous spot any great score has been composed in: an unheated barrack in Stalag VIII-A, a German prisoner-of-war camp, during the second winter of World War 2. Messiaen wrote this mystical quartet for the instruments available in the camp (clarinet, violin, cello, and piano) in a setting that is arguably among the least conducive for creative work.

The quartet is Messiaen's musical depiction of and rumination on Revelation 10:1-7, which the composer included as a heading to the score:

“I saw a mighty angel descending from heaven, clad in mist, having around his head a rainbow. His face was like the sun, his feet like pillars of fire. He placed his right foot on the sea, his left on the earth, and standing thus on the sea and the earth, he lifted his hand toward heaven and swore by Him who liveth forever and ever, saying: "There shall be time no longer, but at the day of the trumpet of the seventh angel the mystery of God shall be consummated."

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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MIS deur Reza de Wet (Afrikaans)

Production: MIS deur Reza de Wet (Afrikaans)
Director: Michelle Luwes
Venue: Wynand Moutonteater (UV-kampus)
Date: 2 – 6 March 2009
Time: See below
Bookings: Computicket or Izami Bloemiste
 

MIS by Reza de Wet
With actors like Alec Debbo – former actor in 7de Laan that plays the blind constable and actors that won the ATKV 2007 winners production like Anne-Mieke Plekker  (Miem), Annebelle Brummer (Gertie) en Martinette van Jaarsveld (Meisie) the production promises a high artistic standard.

Mis is a imaginary play wherin sensuality an important part. Hallucination becomes realty. Every time the circus visits the town in august, a young girl disappears and is found dead the next morning. Sannie Koen was first, then Rienie Pieterse. Who’s next…?

The production is sponsored by the National Arts Council and is performed for the Drama Department of the Free state with second year year students in the rest of the cast.

As the play is a prescribed work for schools, the play will be performed twice per day at 10:00 – 11:30 and 14:30 – 16:00 specially for schools. Schools can book at Sandra Plekker at  0784596 722 or E-mail plekkers.hum@ufs.ac.za.

31 Schools from the Free State, Northern Cape have already booked - so hurry up if you want to attend the shows.  R25,00 per person.

The evening shows on Thursday 5 Feb. and Friday 6 Feb. is open to the public. The shows start at 19:00.  For tickets and bookings for these 2 performances contact Computikcet or Izami Florists. Tickets will be available at the door as well.

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