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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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Die Seemeeu

Produksie: Die Seemeeu
Dramaturg: Anton Tsjechow
Vertaler: Andre P Brink
Regisseur: Gerben Kamper
Venue: Wynand Moutonteater
Datum: 17-20 Maart 2009
Tyd: 19:30
Besprekings: Computicket (Mimosa Mall en Checkers)

 

“Laat alles op die verhoog net so ingewikkeld wees, en tegelyk net so eenvoudig as in die lewe. Mense is besig om te eet, bloot te eet, maar op daardie oomblik word hulle geluk gevorm, of hul lewens word verpletter” (Anton Tsjechow).

Die Universiteit van die Vrystaat se tweede jaars by die Drama departement bring ‘n besondere produksie op die planke onder leiding van Gerben Kamper. Die Seemeeu deur Anton Tsjechow word beskou as een van sy beste toneelstukke en word vanaf die 17de tot die 20ste Maart 2009 in die Wynand Mouton Teater opgevoer. Hierdie is een van die drie realisme toneelstukke wat deel vorm van die module produksies wat die departement terug gebring het.

Anton Tsjechow, 1860 – 1904, het, volgens André P. Brink wat die Afrikaanse vertaling van Die Seemeeu behartig het, vier van die teaterwêreld se grootste stukke geskryf: Die Seemeeu, Oom Wanja, Die drie susters en Die kersieboord. Tsjechow het met hierdie stukke die hoogtepunt in die Naturalistiese - en Impressionistieseteater bereik. Alhoewel Die Seemeeu met die openingsaand in Sint Petersburg in 1896 hopeloos misluk het, was dit wel ‘n reuse sukses twee jaar later toe die Moskouse Kunsteater dit op die planke gebring het. Die mislukking van die eerste opvoering van die stuk het ‘n knou toegedien aan Tsjechow se skrywersdrif en hy het maar min geskryf hierna.

In Die Seemeeu, ‘n komedie, is daar skrywers, aktrises, die dood en hope onbeantwoorde liefde. Om ‘n rowwe idee te gee: Nina, ‘n jong aspirerende aktrise, is verlief op Trigorin, ‘n bekende skrywer, terwyl Trepliow, die seun van die groot aktrise Madame Arkadina, verlief is op Nina. Trigorin, op sy beurt het ‘n verhouding met Arkadina. Tussendeur is daar dan ook Sorin, broer van Arkadina en ook die eienaar van die landgoed waar die handeling plaasvind. Sy voorman, Sjamrajew, se vrou, Polina, het ‘n buite-egtelike verhouding.

Een van die ander, sal ons sê temas, wat in die stuk voorkom is die vernuwing in teater. Waar Arkadina se generasie net gefokus het net op die voorkoms van die opvoering en die oor wat gesê word nie, wil Trepliow dit so verander dat daar gefokus word op die betekenis van dit wat oorgedra word. As gevolg hiervan kry Arkadina en Trepliow stry.

Die rolverdeling vir Die Seemeeu is as volg:

Irina Nikolajewna Arkadina - Edelweiss Bester
Konstantin Gawrilowitsj Treplew - Drikus Saayman
Pjotr Nikolajewitsj Sorin - Quintus Aslett
Nina Mikhailowna Zaretsjnaja - Sanli Jooste
Ilja Afanasjewitsj Sjamrajew - Brandon Hewetson
Paulina Andrejewna - Corma Steyn
Masja - Mieke du Plessis
Boris Alexejewitsj Trigorin - Caval Goodyear
Jewgeni Sergejewitsj Dorn - Frantz Birkholtz
Semjon Semjonowitsj Medwedenko - Frans Fourie
Jakow - Makara Makara
Kok - Kgomotso Lebakeng
Huisbediende - Lerato Chipfupa

Kaartjies vir Die Seemeeu is beskikbaar by Computicket en is R25 – R30.
 

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