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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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OSM Sunday afternoon concert

“An Afternoon with Kreisler”

with Samson Diamond (violin) & Dana Cilliers (piano)

Sunday, 19 May 2013

Odeion

16:00

The Odeion School of Music cordially invites you to a free OSM Sunday Afternoon Concert with violinist, Samson Diamond and pianist, Dana Cilliers.    

They will perform works and arrangements by Fritz Kreisler.  The programme includes works like Caprice Viennois, Rondino on a theme by Beethoven, Tambourin Chinois,  Recitativo & Scherzo Caprice for solo violin and Syncopation as well as as arrangements by Kreisler like Albeniz’ Tango, Op.165 No.2, Danse Espagnole by Granados and Londonderry Air - Farewell to Cucullain.

Samson, leader of the Odeion String Quartet, is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (UK) where he obtained both the Bachelor of Music Honours degree First Class (2006) and his Master of Music Performance (2007) degree with distinction. Samson got his first taste of music in Soweto, where he studied with the founding director of Buskaid, Rosemary Nalden and in the UK with Richard Ireland, Pauline Nobes and Philippe Graffin. He has won many prizes, including the prestigious 2010 Standard Bank Young Artist for Music, the Charles Hallé Award; the RNCM Eric Nicholson Bow Prize, the RNCM Major Entrance Award, Edward Heaton Scholarship and the RNCM Philip Newman Violin Prize.

As a freelance orchestral player in the UK, Samson played in the Hallé Orchestra, the Academy of St Martins in the Fields, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, and the Academy of Ancient Music. He has been heard in concert in prestigious venues such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Berlin, Bela Bartok National Concert Hall in Budapest and the Musikverein in Vienna.  Samson has appeared as soloist with L’Orchestre Nationale d’France, the Buskaid Ensemble and prominent orchestras in South Africa, including the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra and the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Dana Cilliers studied piano with Thomas Rajna at UCT. He completed a BMus and MMus degree.  As a student, he performed as a soloist with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, the CAPAB Orchestra and other ad hoc orchestras. He gave a number of public solo and ensemble recitals, and the SABC broadcast both solo recitals and orchestral performances on radio and television. In 1993, after teaching at schools in the Free State, he took a position as a lecturer in piano at the University of the Free State. In addition to numerous, regular solo and chamber recitals, notably as member of the Henkins-Cilliers Piano Trio. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Bloemfontein, and he also performs regularly as an accompanist at local and national competitions. 

Admission: Free (no booking necessary)

Enquiries: Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 – 401 2504)

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