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Odeion Sinfonia Concert
2018-09-16

- In memory of Prof Derek Ochse -

with conductor Anmari van der Westhuizen & soloist Danielle Ceronio (saxophone)

16 September 2018

Odeion

16:00

This Odeion Sinfonia is a string only orchestra housed in the Odeion School of Music comprising string students studying at the OSM and string members of the Free State Youth Orchestra. The orchestra was founded by Derek Ochse with Anmari taking over the baton during her first year of residence at the UFS and the Odeion String Quartet (2009). The principle aims of this orchestra are to provide excellent training and valuable experience in string and ensemble playing, to adequately prepare string students for orchestral playing, to present them with numerous ensemble and orchestral concert playing opportunities and to generally promote quality string and ensemble playing.

Anmari is a highly acclaimed cellist and chamber musician and has more than thirty years of experience in playing and conducting chamber music. She is Adjunct Professor and Head of the OSQ. She graduated from the Stellenbosch University (BMusHons, cum laude), from the Mozarteum, Salzburg (Grosses Diplom, cum laude), and from the Hochschule für Musik (Cologne) under the tutelage of Prof Maria Kliegel (Konzertexamen). Anmari has won prestigious competitions and has had extensive chamber music training by members of the world's best string quartets like the Alban Berg String Quartet, the Amadeus String Quartet, the Borodin String Quartet, the Brodsky String Quartet and the Hagen String Quartet. She performed as a chamber musician and soloist in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Faroe Islands, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Anmari has made several CD recordings, and both her solo CDs with Ilse Schumann received excellent reviews in South Africa and in Austria. She was the conductor / director of the UCT String Ensemble for ten years and is currently the conductor of the Odeion Sinfonia and co-conductor of the Free State Youth Orchestra.

The programme will include the following works:

  • GF Handel - Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 1
  • R Vaughan Williams - Concerto Grosso
  • N Stockton - Passacaglia for saxophone/horn and strings orchestra (soloist: Danielle Ceronio – saxophone)
  • P Warlock - Capriol Suite

ADMISSION
Free

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Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504) / pretoriusn@ufs.ac.za


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For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf

Venue:  Scaena Theatre, UFS-Main Campus

Language: English 

Genre: Choreopoem / Drama

 

Date and times:

12 September @ 19:30

13 September @ 19:30

14 Septermber@ 19:30

 

Tickets:         

R 40.00 per person

R 30.00 for students, scholars,

R 25.00 for pensioners

 

Bookings Computicket (0861 915 8000)

 A beautiful fusion between dance, poetry, drama and music is what you can expect in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, the next play brought to the stage by the University of the Free State Drama Department. Issues women all over the world are struggling with, like abuse, identity crises, the coming of age and self-love, empowerment and depression, are themes this choreopoem explores. Written in 1975 by American author Ntozake Shange, it is today just as relevant as then.

 For Colored Girls uses nineteen poems by seven women who experience different individual problems. Each of these characters go through a journey of their own but come to realise that they are not alone. While they are all confronted with similar issues, they are not as different from each other after all.

“she’s half-notes scattered

without rhythm/ no tune

sing her sighs

sing the song of her possibilities

sing a righteous gospel

let her be born”- Lady in Brown

The characters’ names reflect the colours of the rainbow: Lady in Red, Lady in Blue, Lady in Brown, Orange, Yellow, Purple and Green.

American playwright, poet and feminist activist fighting for the rights of black women, Ntozake Shange, was born in Trenton New Jersey, as Paulette Williams. When she separated from her first husband, she often attempted to commit suicide. However, focusing her anger and hurt on the limitations that black women have she was able to regain her inner strength. She then took her African name, from South African friends at the time – Ntozake Shange – which means “she who comes with her own things “and “she who walks like a lion”.

Being an educator, performer/director, writer and committed solo spoken word artist, she said “the poems find[ing] their way through me to the audience”, but that she was so nervous in the beginning of putting these poems into a performance, because “I was a performance poet, not a theatre artist.”

For Colored Girls will be performed by second year drama students from the UFS, from 12 – 14 September 2018, at 9:30 in the Scaena Theatre, UFS.

Please note the age restriction of 16 years, as some content is too mature for younger viewers. Tickets are available at Computicket. For more information go to https://www.facebook.com/ufsdrama/

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