Thursday 30 October 2003

This site will be updated on 6 November  2003 at 17:00

Arts - Kunste

• Feesgangers trotseer hewige reënbuie
• Rock me Amadeus
• Lipizzaners at Spier
• Advent carol service

sopnat jeugdiges het in die reën voor die bedekte verhoog saamgedrom.

Dit was eers toe dit bierbottel(s) begin reën dat Zoid kleinkoppie getrek het en skielik die verhoog verlaat het met 'n sarkastiese "Dankie Wellington".

Gelukkig het hierdie insident eers aan die einde van haar vertoning plaasgevind en volgens Linda le Roux, een van die organiseerders, was dit nie genoeg om haar van toekomstige besoeke aan Wellington af te sit nie.

Saterdag se swaar reën het die program erg ontwrig en een van die grootste teleurstellings is dat die skaatsplankkompetisie en rolskaatshokkiewedstryd heeltemal gekanselleer moes word.

Hoewel reën vanjaar nie te versmaai is nie, kan 'n mens nie help om simpatie te hê nie met die organiseerders, wat reeds hierdie jaar die fees 'n maand later gehou het nadat verlede jaar se fees ook deur reën getref is.

Daar was egter heelwat opvoerings met bekendes soos Pedro Kruger en Soli Philander wat binnenshuis gehou is en groot aftrek gekry het.

Die direksie van die fees gaan hierdie week vergader om die afgelope fees in oënskou te neem en planne vir volgende jaar te beraam. 

Feesgangers, kunstenaars en uitstallers is dit eens dat die Stokkiesdraaifees baie goed georganiseerd was. 

Daar het egter stemme opgegaan dat toegang van R45 tot die stadion te duur was, veral vir mense wat net wou snuffel by die stalletjies en nie noodwendig 'n spesifieke vertoning wou sien nie.

Maar toegangsbeheer net vir sekere dele van die dag kan in die toekoms dalk 'n probleem wees, sê Spyker de Klerk van die Feeskomitee. 

* Heavy rain over the weekend hit the Stokkiesdraai festival in Wellington hard

PAARL is going to rock to the sound of Amadeus in the Grande Roche Amphitheatre on Sunday evening.

And it is all for the Paarl Boys' High School Music Department to support music tuition and to purchase instruments for the school orchestra.

The last few years have seen less and less money being made available by the State for music education in our schools and these funds have now all but dried up.

To compound the problem, the authorities have also reclaimed musical instruments from school orchestras that were on loan over many years from the SANDF, leaving school orchestras depleted.

The members of school orchestras come from all walks of life, including underprivileged townships, and there are very few parents who can afford the cost of a musical instrument such as a clarinet (R10 000), trombone (R20 000) or tuba (R30 000).

So, support the school orchestra while listening to Duck Chowles and his star-studded cast of nine professional musicians performing their acclaimed musical show "Rock me Amadeus" under a moonlit sky in spectacular surroundings.

Following the tremendous success of the Opera Pops last year, the second Grande Roche Musical Experience will be bigger and better with a delectable finger supper and quality wines provided as part of the evening's super entertainment package.

"Rock me Amadeus" is currently playing to packed audiences throughout South Africa.

Now Paarl has a unique opportunity to experience this rollicking, fun-filled trip to the world of rock 'n roll music through the eyes of the eccentric Wolfgang "Amadeus" Mozart.

The two-hour musical is filled with popular hits from Queen, the Monkeys, Shania Twain and many more, as well as rocked-up classics favourites.

It has audiences rocking in the aisles and stomping their feet to the infectious beat of an energy-charged musical script.

The cast consists of professional musicians who enjoyed top billing at recent events such as the opening of the Cape Town International Convention Centre and the National Woman of the Year Award Ceremony.

Tickets are selling fast at R130 (Eunice or Elma at 863-0397 or 082-808-1114). Bring along your cushions and something warm in case of a chill in the air.

THE magnificent Lipizzaner stallions return to Spier for five performances starting on 7 November when their spectacular battle leaps are expected to make it a sell-out.

The afternoon events on November 7, 8, 9, 15 and 16 will see a team of 12 stallions and six women riders perform many aspects of the highly trained Lipizzaner disciplines including the crowd-pleasing levades and caprioles, legacies from their historic past on the battlefields of Europe.

Paarl Post readers can win four sets of double tickets plus refreshments, VIP parking and lunch in the VIP tent for all the performances and each couple can bring two children each, but the children would have to sit on the grass.

Readers who want to win these tickets need to call 466-21706 tomorrow between 09:00 and 12:00.

Tickets have already started selling at the Spier Box Office where 1000 seats are available for each performance.

Tickets to the performances cost R80 per seat, adults and children. Bookings only through Spier Booking Office on 809-1177/78/79. Block bookings can be made on 809-1158. The performance begins at 15:30 on Friday 7 November and 15:00 on 8, 9, 15 and 16 November.

ON Sunday 9 November at 17:00, Bridge House School and the New Apostolic Church will be holding their second joint Carol Service.

This joyous event will be held in the Barnyard Theatre at Bridge House, with the participation of Hospice. What makes this event even more special is that this will be the first time that the music pupils involved in the Bridge House Theatre Music project will be performing. 

This project was started in July of this year after the New Apostolic Church approached the school about the need for tuition for children who do not have access to individual music tuition. 

The group has grown to 28 and these pupils are currently receiving recorder and flute tuition in the music rooms in the Barnyard from Adell le Roux, one of the Bridge House Music teachers. 

They hope to add a string section to the project at the beginning of next year.

Choirs from the church and the Bridge House Born to Sing group will be performing some carols and everyone present will also sing a carol or two to get into the Christmas spirit.