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Love’s the theme at film fest All the featured films are the recipients of numerous awards and accolades at international film festivals and competitions, including the Oscars and the Cannes Film Festival. They are the latest productions from the most exciting and talented film directors in Europe at the moment, and a true reflection of European cinematographic creativity and diversity. The list of films to be screened during the festival include Paradise: Love (Austria), The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium), The Hunt (Denmark), Stranger by the Lake (France), Barbara (Germany), The Great Beauty (Italy), Tabu (Portugal), Child’s Pose (Romania), Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (Spain) and Le Week-End (United Kingdom). Bookings for the festival are open and special festival ticket rates will apply to make these foreign language films accessible to a wide audience. The festival also features an outreach screening programme and a competition that gives ticketholders the chance to win a trip for two to France, courtesy of Air France and Atout France (French tourism agency). VISUAL FEAST: Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan star in Le V For more information about Week-End, one of the films which will be screened as part of the festival schedule visit www.cinemanouveau.co.za. this year’s European Film Festival. Love has many faces, sometimes unexpected, sometimes challenging. Beyond Love is the theme of the European Film Festival to be screened at Cinema Nouveau theatres in May. As the Beyond Love theme suggests, the festival explores some of the faces of love with the screening of 10 internationallyacclaimed films, representing the best of European cinema but never before screened to South African audiences. The European Film Festival (EUFF) runs from Friday 9 to Sunday 18 May, in partnership with 10 European cultural agencies and embassies based in South Africa.
PEOPLE'S POST | CLAREMONT | RONDEBOSCH Thursday, 24 April 2014
MUSIC: DON’T MISS TALENTED DUO
Pianist pair for Baxter show
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fter a successful tour in America two of South Africa’s foremost piano duos will perform in Cape Town. Pianists Nina Schumann and Luis Magalhães, known as TwoPianists, will play the Goldberg Variations for the Cape Town Concert Series on Saturday 26 April at the Baxter Concert Hall at 20:00. They will also play works by Samuel Barber and John Adams. Schumann and Magalhães bring a wealth of solo and chamber music experience to the ensemble. Both students of Vladimir Viardo in Texas and now both teachers at the University of Stellenbosch, they are known for their dedication to the genre. Their intimate knowledge of the two-piano repertoire and sound command of technique, in combination with a finely developed sense of ensemble have allowed TwoPianists to focus on the nuance and detail that has won so much praise from critics locally and in the tours through the America, Germany, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, China and Japan. The ensemble’s debut disc of the full works for two pianos by Rachmaninov and released by Universal Records, established its reputation as recording artists; its second release, consisting of virtuoso showpieces
CLASSIC: Piano duo Luis Magalhães and Nina Schumann will perform at the Cape Town Concert Series. PHOTO: SUPPLIED and recorded for the TwoPianists label, had entrenched that reputation. Tickets are R125 at Computicket. Students and seniors will receive a discount. V For more information visit info@ctconcerts.co.za, www.ctconcerts.co.za or phone (021) 439 7663.
Macbeth with an African twist In a radical take on Verdi’s Macbeth, Shakespeare’s story of ambition, treachery and witchcraft is set in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, amid wars and ruthless exploitation. This version was conceptualised, designed and directed by Brett Bailey. Within a swamp of multinational double-dealings, ethnic conflict, brutal militia, socalled blood minerals and glittering Chinese imports, a Congolese warlord and his ambitious wife murder their leader and unleash atrocities upon the crumbling African province they seize. Bailey is a prolific South African artist and the director of Third World Bunfight, a theatre company that has maintained its position at the forefront of South African performance throughout its 18year history. Bailey’s works AMBITIOUS: Nobulumko Mngxekeza as Lady Macbeth in Brett Baisuch as EXHIBIT B, Orfeus ley’s radical take on Macbeth, set in the Great Lakes region of and Big Dada have brought Central Africa. PHOTO: MORNE VAN ZYL him renown on European mans. stages. The leads in the production are Owen MetMacbeth has been rearranged for 10 black South African opera singers and 12 South Af- sileng as Macbeth, Nobulumko Mngxekeza rican musicians by Fabrizio Cassol – who as Lady Macbeth and Otto Maidi as Banquo. has previously composed music for Anne V Macbeth is at the Artscape Theatre until Saturday Teresa de Keersmaeker, Alain Platel, Faus- 26 April at 20:15. Tickets cost R120 to R160 via Comtin Linyekula, Luc Bondy and Philippe Boes- puticket or (021) 421 7695.
Indian classical muso heads for city Legendary Indian flautist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia will be heading to South Africa in June. The grand master of the bansuri, or bamboo flute, will be headlining two concerts, titled Raga Fantasy. Chaurasia will be accompanied on this tour by Subhankar Banerjee on tabla, and Bhawani Shankar on pakhawaj in a concert on Indian classical music. Chaurasia is known for his outstanding contribution in popularising Indian classical music all over the world. His consummate artistry has distinguished him as the greatest living master of the North Indian bamboo flute both at home and abroad. As a musician he is a rare combination of
an innovator and a traditionalist. He has significantly expanded the expressive possibilities of classical North Indian flute-playing through his masterful blowing technique and his unique adaptation of alaap and jod to the flute. Chaurasia has won multiple awards in India and abroad, earned three honorary doctorates, and the prestigious Ordres des Arts et Lettres in France in 2008. He still teaches music at the Rotterdam Music Conservatorium, where he is artistic director of the Indian Music Department. Raga Fantasy will take place on Saturday 14 June at 19:30 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. V Tickets are available from Computicket.
ON TOUR: Renowned duo Kerstin Blodig and Ian Melrose will perform at the Kronendal Music Academy soiree on Friday 25 April at 20:00 as part of their Kelpie tour. Tickets are R100. Phone (021) 790 4457 to book. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
Exhibition of Mandela ‘at work’ Photojournalist Nic Bothma’s exhibition, titled A Statesman at Work, is currently on at the ErdmannContemporary Gallery. It runs until the end of May. The exhibition is a collection of images which Bothma took of Nelson Mandela during his career. Bothma is an established photojournalist who is the West Africa chief photographer for the Europe-
an Pressphoto Agency. A percentage of the proceeds of photographic sales will be donated to Hokisa (Homes for Kids in South Africa) Children’s Home. The organisation creates a safe and nurturing environment for children living with HIV/Aids. V The gallery is situated at 84 Kloof Street in Gardens. Visit www.erdmanncontemporary.co.za for more information.