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Tuks se amptelike studentekoerant / Official Tuks student newspaper / Kuranta ya baithuti ya semmušo ya Tuks
17 August 2015
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Erika and Sonop take UP Serenade crown ELMARIE KRUGER From 10-14 August, UP residences took to the Aula and Musaion stages to showcase their singing talents on the 20th anniversary of Serenade. Serenade prelims were held from 10-12 August, while finals and the Serenade gala evening took place on 13 and 14 August respectively. Residences coordinated their Serenade performances according to themes chosen by the residences themselves. The prescribed song for the men’s Serenade groups this year was “It had better be tonight” by Michael Bublé, while the prescribed song for the ladies was Mary J. Blige’s “Therapy”. Residences were judged on the balance between various vocal parts in their groups, pronunciation, harmonising and enthusiasm, among other factors. Judges included, among others, singer Mabet van Wyk,
co-frontman of soft rock duo Dans Dans Lisa Deon Meiring, and Christo Burger, conductor of the Akustika Chamber Singers. This year, Serenade groups performed anonymously in order to avoid any bias from the judges. Spectators were therefore not allowed to make any residence-specific comments during the performances. The participating residences came up with creative and entertaining themes, the most interesting of which included Sonop’s “beer brewers”, Mopanie’s “workers at Checkers”, Vividus Men’s “wedding crashers”, and Vividus Ladies’ “baseball” theme. Other eye-catching themes included Kollege’s centenary-orientated “black parade” theme, Maroela’s “school of rock”, Boekenhout’s “pilots” and Taaibos’ “revolutionaries”. Four male and four female residences made it through to the final round. These residences
were Curlitzia, Inca, Erika and Magrietjie in the ladies’ category, and Boekenhout, Vividus Men, Sonop and Taaibos in the men’s category. The winners were announced at a gala event on Friday evening. Sonop were announced as the winners of Tuks Serenade in the men’s category, with Vividus Men in second place and Taaibos in third place. Erika were the winners of the ladies’ category, with Curlitzia and Inca in second and third place respectively. Erika and Boekenhout won the prizes for best own composition in their categories. The winners of Tuks Serenade will go on to represent UP at the national Serenade competition in Stellenbosch where they will be competing against other universities, such as the University of North West, the University of Johannesburg and the University of Stellenbosch. UP is currently the defending national
Serenade champions, with Sonop winning the competition in 2013 and Curlitzia walking away as the overall winners in 2014. “This year’s Serenade was particularly important, firstly because Tuks will be hosting Serenade nationals next year, and secondly because Tuks have been the overall Serenade winners for two years in a row now, and we would like to build on that,” says Pieter Scribante, chairperson of Stuku. “We want Serenade to have a positive image at the university. It is seen as a classically Afrikaans event, which it is not,” he added, continuing by explaining, “In their performances, residences must include one Afrikaans song and one song that is in an African language which is not French, German, English or Afrikaans. There is balance and integration in the Serenade performances at Tuks, and that’s where our success lies.”
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