KZN Youth Orchestra at The Guild Theatre
June is youth month and the KZN youth orchestra has a great tour planned to the Eastern Cape for the last week of June. On Wednesday 27 June at 7.30pm they will be playing in East London at the Guild Theatre. Ticket prices are R80 and R70 for pensioners and students and can be made through Computicket.
On Thursday 28th of June they will present a community concert for various retirement centres at Port Alfred. This will take place in the afternoon at Port Alfred High school and in the evening, also, at the school, they will present a concert in collaboration with the Port Alfred Rotary club. Tickets for this will be R75 each and all proceeds will go to Rotary. Patrons may bring food and drinks to the evening concert. To book for this, contact Janet van Schalkwyk on 0793838800.
The orchestra then head off to the Grahamstown National Arts festival where they present two concerts at the festival. These will be on Friday 29th at 6pm and on Saturday 30th at 4pm . Both concerts are at the Thomas Pringle hall. Tickets for these range between R30 and R60 and can be booked through boxoffice@
Their hour long show called “Classic Blast” features the KZN Youth Orchestra which comprises young musicians from all around KZN Province. It will have the orchestra playing some well known classical favourites including ‘Dance of the Hours”, Schubert’s’ “ Unfinished symphony” and ‘The anvil chorus’ by Verdi. The popular orchestral items include such pieces as “Take 5”, movie music from Harry Potter , a fun version of “Tequila” ,’Africa’ by Toto, and “The lions sleeps tonight” to name a few .Lyk Temmingh and Cathy Peacock are the conductors.
Information provided by The Guild Theatre