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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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Around

Original script by Arthur Schnitzler (La Ronde)

 

Adapted by the advanced acting students of the UFS Department of Drama and Theatre Arts under the supervision of Dion van Niekerk and DeBeer Cloete

 

Directed by Dion van Niekerk and DeBeer Cloete

 

Venue:  Scaena Rehearsal Room Theatre, UFS-Main Campus

 

Language: English 

 

Genre: Drama

 

Age restriction: 16+

 

Date and times:

28 November @ 19h30

29 November @ 19h30

30 November @ 19h30

 

TICKETS:          R 40.00 Per Person

R 30.00 For Students, Scholars,

R 25.00 For Pensioners

 

Bookings:        Computicket (0861 915 8000)

 

We are all connected to each other in some way, but just how deep are these connections really?

When Arthur Schnitzler presented his play La Ronde in 1920, the play sent shockwaves through Europe. It was considered an immoral and inappropriate piece of theatre, mainly because of its sexual themes. But it has continued to fascinate audiences well into the twenty-first century because of Schnitzler’s excellent treatment of class difference and social hypocrisy.

La Ronde has now found its way to Bloemfontein, in a new adaptation by the advanced acting students of the UFS Department of Drama and Theatre Arts. In this version, entitled Around, the play has been re-written to reflect a contemporary South African society. Familiar characters take the stage, be it the local butcher, the reverend’s wife, a model or a taxi-driver, and all reveal themselves to be a part of a never-ending cycle of sex, addiction and power.

Around has been conceived and developed by the students under the watchful supervision of Dion van Niekerk and DeBeer Cloete. It can be seen at the Scaena Rehearsal Room Theatre from the 28 – 30 November at 19:30.

The play has a 16+ age restriction.

Bookings can be made through Computicket.

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