Name: The Dinner Party
Start: 2023-10-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-10-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: QPAC

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Shaun Brown

Voice

The Dinner Party

Brisbane

Australia

QPAC

Concert Hall

The Dinner Party: 6 Little Piano Pieces, op. 19 Schoenberg, Arnold (+7 More)

Private

Public

6 Little Piano Pieces, op. 19

Chrysanthemums

Three Little Pieces, op. 11

Humoreske

Four Pieces, op. 5

Songs of a Wayfarer (arr. Schoenberg)

Piano Quartet, op.13

Till Eulenspiegel Einmal Anders!

Approved

Bass

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

Oboist

hornist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Harper

Saxophonist

Trombonist

Harpsichordist

Accordionist

Bassist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Conductor

Stage director

Librettist

Set designer

Costume designer

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Orchestra

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Countertenor

Soprano

Baritone

Contralto

Mezzo-soprano

Bass-baritone

Tenor

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

At the opening night of Richard Strauss’ Salome at the Stadtheatre in Graz in 1906, an extraordinary dinner party took place. The world and its music was changing, and the participants of the dinner party – Puccini, Schoenberg, Zemlinsky, Berg, Mahler, Webern, and Strauss – were at the forefront of music at this volatile time.

In this brilliant performance Ensemble Q musically re-creates that dinner party and highlights the sometimes astonishing disparity of works written around that time. It was the meeting between deep romanticism and atonality, between deep set tradition and breaking of boundaries to allow freedom of artistic expression.

The program features the stark beauty of solo and duo works by Anton Webern, Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg alongside the rich romanticism of Richard Strauss’ fertile and pictorially imaginative Piano Quartet, Giacomo Puccini’s exquisite string quartet Crisantemi and Gustav Mahler’s Song of the Wayfarer, arranged for chamber ensemble by his dinner party comrade Arnold Schoenberg and performed at The Dinner Party by guest artist, Opera Queensland baritone Shaun Brown.

The delectable desserts feature Alexander von Zemlinsky’s Humoreske for wind quintet, and Till Eulenspiegel Einmal Anders! by Strauss/Hasenöhrl.

English

The Dinner Party by Schoenberg, Arnold, Puccini, Webern, Von Zemlinsky, Berg, Mahler, Strauss, From (2023/2023), QPAC, Brisbane, Australia

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