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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 Dean’s Concert: Thursday, 18 September 2014
 

 

Thursday, 18 September 2014

Odeion

19:30

 

It’s again time for the annual prestige OSM Dean’s Concert where top students of the OSM will perform. 

 

The OSM Dean’s Concert was established in 2011 as a strategic initiative to increase the visibility of the OSM.  The Dean’s Concert is also a debut podium for a young professional who is completing a given qualification. Prof Lucius Botes, the dean of the UFS Faculty of the Humanities, is the patron of the event.

 

This year’s programme will include:

 

Bertha Menyatso (mezzo-soprano – Diploma II) with

Lesley-Ann Mathews (piano – PhD)

and cello obligate by Chris van Zyl (OSM Apprentice)

Purcell: Aria - When I am laid in earth

 

William Earl (piano – BMus III)

Liszt: La Campanella

 

Heinrich Lategan (marimba – BMus III) with Nicol Viljoen (piano)

Mozart: Violin Sonata, K.301 (transcription for marimba)

 

Marianne Cilliers-Legierski (violin – Phd) and Karol Legierski (violin – Phd)

Górecki:  Sonata for two violins, Op. 10 (movements I & II)

 

Maja van Dyk (viola – BMus III) and Cézarre Strydom (piano – guest artist)

Grové: Viola Sonata (movements I & II)

 

Geruan Geldenhuys (flute – BMusHons)

Grové: Pan en die Nagtegaal

 

OSM Camerata under the baton of Xavier Cloete

with Matildie Thom Wium (mezzo-soprano – MMus)

Grové: 7 Liedere op Boesmanverse vir sopraan en kamerorkes

 

ADMISSION:

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

Tickets available at Computicket. 

 

ENQUIRIES:   

Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)

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