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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+)

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*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.

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OSM Opening Concert 2014

Thursday, 27 March 2014

ODEION

19:30

On 27 March 2014 the Odeion School of Music will present its annual Opening Concert. 

During the first half of the programme top students and lecturers of the OSM (Danrè Strydom, Luzanne Eigelaar, Lesley-Ann Mathews and Heinrich Lategan) will perform, followed by the OSM Camerata (OSMC) performing together with OSM vocal students under tutolage of Peet van Heerden and members of the Odeion Choir (Lance Phillip) in the second half.  The OSMC will be conducted by Xavier Cloete.  In this programme two short excerpts from Idomineo (Mozart) and Fidelio (Beethoven) as well as Valse triste by Sibelius will be performed.  OSM MMus student Werner Stander will be serving as assistant conductor for Xavier Cloete. 

In 2011 Xavier Cloete completed a BMus degree at the University of Stellenbosch with bassoon and orchestral conducting as main instruments. He is currently employed by the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra (KZNPO) as the assistant conductor for the KZNPO Youth Orchestra.  In 2013 he won the second National Len van Zyl Conductor's Competition.  After winning this competition, he was selected as one of the top 200 successful young people in South Africa, and appeared in the national Mail and Guardian newspaper during March 2013.

As the winner of the competition, Xavier completed a conducting internship with the famous Philadelphia Orchestra which gave him the opportunity to work with acclaimed conductors such as Christoph von Donyani, Andre Bureko as well as Yannick Nezet-Seguin.  He then studied conducting at the Bienen School of Music (Northwestern University) in the Advanced Graduate Conducting Class of Prof Victor Yampolski.

Xavier was invited to attend the first Sasha Mäkilä International Master Classes (Finland) during January 2013 where he conducted the St Michel's City Orchestra.  He will be making his international debut with the St Michel's City Orchestra (Finland) during April 2014.

The OSMC participated in 2013 in the 13th International Conservatoire Festival which was hosted at the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatoire in St Petersburg (Russia) where they received a standing ovation during their gala performance in the Glazonov Hall.  In 2013 the OSMC performed during the CD recording of Cello for Africa (Cello Concerto for an African Cellist by Hans Huyssen) with SA cellist Heleen Du Plessis.  The CD was internationally released on the New Zealand label for Classical Music ODE records. In March 2014 this CD was nominated for the The Violoncello Foundation - 2nd Listeners' Choice Award in NY.

ADMISSION:

R110 (adults), R70 (pensioners), R60 (UFS staff), R40 (students & learners), R40 (block booking of 10+)

Tickets available at Computicket

PLEASE NOTE: ALL UFS STAFF QUALIFY FOR A DISCOUNT FOR THIS EVENT!! CONTACT NINETTE PRETORIUS  (PretoriusN@ufs.ac.za) FOR MORE INFORMATION AT X2504

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