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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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FSSO Symphony concert - Soloist: Zanta Hofmeyr (Violin)

FSSO Symphony concert
Thursday 22 October 2009
Odeion
19:30

Soloist: Zanta Hofmeyr (Violin)
Conductor: Conrad van Alphen

The internationally acclaimed conductor Conrad van Alphen will conduct the Free State Symphony Orchestra for the final symphony concert of this year in the Odeion on 22 October. To commemorate Felix Mendelssohn’s 200th anniversary, the FSSO has included works by this famous composer in all the programmes. Violinist Zanta Hofmeyr will be the soloist in one of his most popular works: the Violin Concerto in E minor at this concert. The rest of the programme will consist of Rossini’s La Cenerentola Overture and Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 (“Jupiter”).

Conrad van Alphen is the chief conductor of the Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra and much in demand by other orchestras throughout the world. He often conducts orchestras in the Netherlands, England, Germany, Bulgaria, Russia, Slovenia, Poland, China and Mexico.

Zanta Hoefmeyr is one of our country’s leading violinists. Her recordings include "Zanta Hofmeyr plays Arioso" with organist Wim Viljoen and "Romantic Violin" with pianist Malcolm Nay. Zanta includes a lot of chamber music in her concert schedule. As a member of the Musaion Piano Trio, she toured extensively in South Africa and the Netherlands in 2004.
In 2004 she was awarded a Rapport/City Press "Woman of the Year" award and in 2005 the ATKV "Afrikoon" award.

Zanta loves roses and was particularly honoured when Ludwig Tassner presented her with a new "Zanta Hofmeyr" rose in 2003.

Admission:
R90 (adults)
R70 ((pensioners, students and learners)
R50 for group bookings of 10 or more
Tickets available at Computicket (at all Shoprite / Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall information desk) and at the doors.
Computicket www.computicket.com  

Enquiries:
Ella Kotze, tel. 051 – 401 2342
 

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