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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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‘n Snoekie vir my Sweetheart!

Name of production: ‘nSnoekie vir my Sweetheart!

Playwright: Nico Luwes

Director: Nico Luwes

Venue:  Scaena Theatre, UV-Main Campus

Language: Afrikaans

 

Dates and times:

 

11 November 2015          18:00      

12 November 2015          20:00

13 November 2015          15:00 & 19:30

 

Press release: ‘n Snoekie vir my Sweetheart! 

Nico Luwes’s latest farce, ‘n Snoekie vir my Sweetheart! is set in Bishop Lavis, Cape Town. The farce is loosely build on Roald Dahl’s short story, Lamb to the Slaughter, with some new characters added. A sweet housewife, Jênnit April, is waiting for her husband, Sergeant Percy April. Her pet name for him is Sweetheart. Auntie Mavis around the corner did the ring swing over Jênnit’s stomach and she’s got wonderful news! Tonight at dinner with a lovely snoek and chips, she’ll surprise her Sweetheart with the announcement. However, all is not moonshine and roses. Due to a small incident the rest of the evening turns into comical chaos. Soon the female police officers, Inspector Blits Julies, who jumped a few ranks in the police force and the seemingly slothful Sergeant Straatvalk Venter, becomes part of the farcical plot. In the mix we also find the poor Constable Buksie, who has never seen a corpse before. Two female ambulance staff, Driver and Stitch also rock up and the police photographer, Flash, adds to the comical twists for an enjoyable evening in the theatre.

The farce is written in Cape dialect with the typical comic puns and double entendre that our Afrikaans speaking inhabitants of the Cape are so well-known for. The short farce gives ample opportunity for two groups of second year students to show their comic talents on stage. Nico Luwes is the director. Performances are in the Scaena theatre on the evenings of November 11 and 12 with a matinee and evening show on 13 November.  Bookings are at Computicket and at the door.

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