The Pro Musica Orchestra and Opera Chorus will perform at the company’s newly revamped theatre in Florida Park this weekend

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The Joburg Pro Musica will launch its new corporate identity at the concert entitled Magic and Emotion

Concert explores music from the movies A revamped theatre and a new corporate identity will be launched at Magic and Emotion, a concert exploring classical music in the movies. September 21, 2007 By JoNews Reporter JOBURG PRO MUSICA will launch its new identity, along with its upgraded theatre, at a special concert this weekend. Magic and Emotion will feature several renowned classical music pieces that have been used in Hollywood movies. It is on 22, 23 and 28 September at the company's newly revamped theatre in Florida Park, in the west of Joburg. Formerly known as Pro Musica Productions, the concert will be used to launch its new corporate identity, which displays "the valuable past of this organisation and represents the vision for the future", according to conductor Weiss Doubell, the company's artistic director. The Pro Musica Orchestra and Opera Chorus will perform. Soloists include Etienne Malan on clarinet and pianist Johan Botes. Doubell, Eddie Clayton and Petros Mofokeng will conduct. Pieces to be performed include Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra, used in 2001: A Space Odyssey; the intermezzo from Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, which was used in the movie Godfather III; the adagio from Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, used in Out of Africa; Vangelis's Conquest of Paradise, from 1492; Andante from Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21, featured in the movie Elvira Madigan; Va Pensiero from Verdi's Nabucco, used in the movie The Colour of Money; and the overture from Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach, used in the films Gulag and Peter's Friends. "This programme consists of jewels from the movies and the classical music genre and is something which we have wanted to do for such a long time," Doubell says on the company's website. Speaking about the changes, he says it is with utmost confidence that Joburg Pro Musica goes into the future with its new challenges and questions of relativity, cost and governance, "because something of beauty remains a joy forever". He adds, "We are diversifying our presentations, but music will remain at the core." Performances are on Saturday, 22 September at 8pm; Sunday, 23 September at 3.30pm; and Friday, 28 September at 8pm. Booking is through Computicket outlets, on 083 915 8000 or online on the Computicket website. Tickets are R125, R150 and R175, and include food and sparkling wine. Joburg Pro Musica houses an opera company, orchestra, opera chorus and undertakes tuition schemes. It is funded by the City. The theatre is on Christiaan de Wet Road in Florida Park, Roodepoort, in western Johannesburg. For more information or assistance with bookings contact the organisation on 011 674 1357/8, visit the Joburg Pro Musica website, or SMS the word "Promusica" to 34664. Permission to use web site material Publishers may use material from this site free of charge, as long as: Credit is given to either the "City of Johannesburg website (www.joburg.org.za)" or to "Johannesburg News Agency (www.joburg.org.za)"; If the article is used online, a link is provided to the original article on this website; The name of the article's author is acknowledged; The webmaster is informed of how and where the material is used (fill in this brief online form). Johannesburg News Agency is operated by BIG Media at 011-484-1400 Print this Page E-mail this article to a friend Help using Joburg.org.za