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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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Deon Lamprecht – Organ recital

Deon Lamprecht – Organ recital
Sunday, 11 October 2009
Odeion
16:00

Organ music lovers can book now for an exceptional performance by well-known organist, Deon Lamprecht, on Sunday, 11 October 2009.

Lamprecht studied at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein where he obtained a Teacher’s Diploma, Church Organist’s Diploma, and a B.Mus., B.Mus.Hons. (cum laude), Master’s and D.Phil. degrees. In 1974 he was appointed as lecturer at the UFS, promoted to senior lecturer in 1984 and to Professor in 1994. From 1994 till 2005 he was the Head of the Department of Music at the UFS.

Lamprecht was awarded the first prize in the organ competition during the Third South African Organ Festival in Cape Town in 1980. During the Music Prize Competition of the SABC, also in 1980, he was awarded the first prize in the organ category, as well as the SAMRO prize in the final round. He has appeared several times as organ soloist in works with orchestra by Handel, Haydn, Poulenc and Saint-Saëns and performs regularly in solo organ recitals. He frequently acts as adjudicator for organ, choir and music competitions. In 2005 he presented two organ recitals in British Columbia (Canada).

From 1978 till 1989 he was conductor of the Pro Ecclesia Choir, from 1990 till 1995 of the University Choir and since 1993 of the Alumni Chamber Choir. On several international tours, he conducted choir performances in Zimbabwe, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, England, France, The Netherlands, Egypt and Spain. He conducted several performances of Telemann’s St Matthew Passion, Bach’s St John’s and St Matthew Passions, The Messiah by Handel, and his choirs took part in performances of the Requiems by Verdi and Mozart, and The Elijah by Mendelssohn.

In 1993 he undertook a study tour focusing on organ and choral directing to Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany and presented a paper during the International Organ Festival in Oundle, England. He received master classes in organ from Ludger Lohmann (Germany), Julian Weir (England), Hans Fagius (Sweden), Harald Vogel (Germany), Jean-Claude Zehnder (Switzerland), Marie-Claire Alain (France) and Jacques van Oortmerssen (The Netherlands).

Programme:
J.S. Bach: Wir glauben all an einen Gott
N. Bruhns: Praeludium in G major
J.S. Bach: Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele
J.S. Bach: Passacaglia in C minor
F. Mendelssohn: Sonata no. 5 in D major
A. Guilmant: March upon Lift up your heads by G.F. Handel
J. Alain : Litanies

Admission:
R50 (adults)
R30 (pensioners, students and learners)
Tickets available at Computicket (at all Shoprite / Checkers shops, Mimosa Mall information desk) and at the doors.

Enquiries:
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 - 401 2504)

 

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