Carnival time at the University of Pretoria!

Come one, come all! It is carnival time at the University of Pretoria. In their first concert season for 2012, the University of Pretoria Symphony Orchestra will be dazzling audiences with a production narrated by none other than Tobie Cronjé on 22 and 25 March 2012 in the Musaion.

The mighty lion roars as the magnificent elephants waltz by and tortoises will perform the Can Can, as a lone wolf howls at the moon in an outrageous production of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals and Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.

The University of Pretoria Symphony Orchestra will be expertly portraying these tales through music, with each instrument having its own story to tell and its own character to portray.

In this comical production of side-splitting proportions, Tobie Cronje will be kicking off the performance with an original narrative of Peter and the Wolfincluding beautiful solos from the orchestra.

Carnival of the Animals follows with a bombastic, triumphant, marching opening, accompanied by piano genius Wessel van Wyk and rising star pianist Jannie le Roux as the two soloists, as well as a text performed by Cronje.  The UP Symphony Orchestra promises to put a smile on all faces, young and old.

The University of Pretoria Symphony Orchestra is proud to announce that this programme will feature in Absa’s Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees in April 2012. This will be the orchestra’s sixth invitation to the KKNK festival.