20/20 Entertainment in Containment presents “Fragment”
Fri Jul 31, 20:00 - Thu Aug 6, 23:00
Event is online
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20/20 Entertainment in Containment presents “Fragment” by Magdalena de Vries
20/20 vision in the year 2020
Biblioteek Productions presents twenty Classical inter-disciplinary online projects of twenty minutes each. Nearly sixty freelance artists from all spheres of the creative and arts industry are involved in this exciting project. These mini-productions will be rolled out each week from 10 July. Join us in this online revolution, where we continue to bring boundary shifting classical music to you.
31 July - Magdalena de Vries “Fragment”
Fragment is a collection of commissioned South African compositions for solo marimba. It was conceptualised in 2016 by international award-winning marimbist Magdalena de Vries and Magdalene Minnaar of Biblioteek Productions.
De Vries matched each Afrikaans poem with a South African composer, commissioning them to set the poem as a solo marimba piece. The result is a multilayered interpretation – each composer interpreting the poem (some not in their mother tongue) and the performer interpreting the music, whilst having her own interpretation of the various poems.
In addition, the poems dance around on the screen, and the audience is completely immersed in the music. This performance features “Toemaar die Donker Man” poem by the late Ingrid Jonker, composed by Laurika Rauch and arranged for solo marimba by Deedee van der Hoven-Oosthuizen; “Man met Flits” poem by iconic D. J. Opperman with music by Altus Hendriks and “Termiete” written by poet Philip de Vos and composed by Dawid Boverhoff.
NEXT CONCERTS:
7 August - Daniel Zachariah Franks: “The Hot Club of Cape Town”
14 August - Magdalene Minnaar & José Dias: “Nocturne”
21 August - Christiaan Snyman, Kerry Wisniewsky & Natalie Bentley: “Don Quichotte”
28 August - Elmarie van der Vyver & Mathilda Hornsveld: “Strings and Songs”
4 September - Emma Farquharson, Caleb Vaughn-Jones, Lara Kirsten, Ilse Myburgh & Oswald Mbuyiseli Mtshali: “Hear Her Now”
11 September - Franco Prinsloo, Sonya Rademeyer, Willem van den Heever & André van Rensburg: “Traces”
18 September - Busisiwe Ngejane & Makudupanyane Senaoana: “La Bohéme”
25 September - Monthati Masebe & Tali Lehr- Sacks: “Sun trans-fusion”
2 October - Catherine Stephenson “Journeys”
9 October - Cara Stacey, Joyce Moholoagae & Nicola du Toit, Galina Juritz: “Arum Project”
16 October - Franco Prinsloo, Magdalene Minnaar, Louis Minnaar & Jaco van der Merwe “Alphabet”
MORE DATES TO FOLLOW