Category Archives: Festivals

Mozart Festival treats for 2018

Posted on January 22, 2018 by moirads

As Bruce Dennill points out in his review, the annual Viennese New Year Concerts always mark the start of the classical music programme for Johannesburg. (Well, Theatre on the Square’s Friday lunchtime concerts started on Friday as well). These light … Continue reading →

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BASA Award nominees

Posted on August 29, 2017 by moirads

  One of the most exciting things for the arts is the formation of a sponsoring partnership with a corporate sponsor.  The BASA Awards are based on the premise of drawing attention to these corporate sponsors, and acknowledging the role … Continue reading →

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State Fracture, biting satire

Posted on July 26, 2017 by moirads

Last year one of the hottest tickets was for Mike van Graan’s Pay Back the Curry, directed by Rob van Vuuren and starring Daniel Mpilo Richards.  The same team is back with more in the same vein, this time under … Continue reading →

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Nijinksy’s War

Posted on July 16, 2017 by moirads

One of the pieces I have been most keen to see at the 969 Festival at Wits University is Nijinsky’s War with dancer/choreographer Ignatius van Heerden. Directed by Gopala Davies and this work starts before the audience enters the theatre with … Continue reading →

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High art and popular music

Posted on July 15, 2017 by moirads

So the 969 Festival at Wits University is underway. So named because it is 969 km from Grahamstown, the festival gives legs to some of the productions from the National Arts Festival. Gita Pather is the curator of the 969 … Continue reading →

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Sorry to be missing the Festival Gala Concert

Posted on July 8, 2017 by moirads

Every year when I don’t attend the National Arts Festival, I look through the programme and wish that I were attending certain things.  Today it  is the Festival Gala Concert with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maestro Richard … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 30, 2017 by moirads

I am so jealous of all the people at the National Arts Festival this year. Today I wish I were hearing Pendo Masote in concert. Pendo Masote is a young violinist who is making waves in classical music circles. He … Continue reading →

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I’m sorry I’m missing Nil today

Posted on June 29, 2017 by moirads

Gavin Krastin is a talented and challenging performance artist.  I am sorry I will not be at the National Arts Festival to see his new work, Nil. Part show-and-tell and part actionism, Nil is loosely inspired by “The 12 Labours … Continue reading →

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Masilo’s Gutsy Giselle

Posted on June 28, 2017 by moirads

Giselle is best known as a pretty, classical ballet from the Romantic era, to pretty music by the little known Adolphe Adam.  If that’s what you want, do NOT go out to see Dada Masilo’s Giselle. You won’t find any … Continue reading →

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Tea with Moosa Manjra

Posted on September 29, 2016 by moirads

Venue:  Craft, Parkhurst.  (R29 for organic African blend tea).  Trendy, expensive.  Not wheelchair friendly. Great service. “And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.”  So says Deuteronomy 10:19, scriptures sacred to Judaism … Continue reading →

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