Join Overstrand Arts/Kunste (OAK) for a special performance that will transport you across the globe with music from around the world while remaining in the comfort of your seat. OAK will be hosting the saxophone quartet Quatuor Avena in the Dutch Reformed Church on Sunday 6 April at 15:30.
Hermanus will be the first stop of their South African tour. The audience can look forward to a pinch of South Africa, a teaspoon of France, a touch of Italy, a zest of Japan that have all been simmering in Strasbourg since 2016. Given their diverse and far-flung origins, it seems natural that the idea of proposing music illustrating travel and an assortment of world cultures germinated between Adam Campbell (Baritone Saxophone), Nicolas Allard (Soprano Saxophone), Fabio Cesare (Alto Saxophone) and Sumika Tsujimoto (Tenor Saxophone).
Using their saxophones as their tools, they concoct exotic musical programmes presented in choreographed performances which make for appetising musical shows. The programme will be: Italian Concerto, 3rd mvt (1735), by Johann Sebastian Bach; Romanian Dances (1915), by Béla Bartók; Sakura, Traditional Japanese song; Haru no Umi (1929), by Michio Miyagi; Temple Hill & Molly on the shore (1907), by Percy Grainger; Triptyque musette: La valse à Margaux, Le clown perdu and Beritwaltz (1989), by Richard Galliano; Four for Tango (1988) by Astor Piazzolla and Massar (2020), by Jean-Charles Richard (1974).
Reserve your places for this amazing experience. Tickets are R220 from René du Plooy (OAK Secretary) at renedup@telkomsa.net or on 082 940 4238.
