Name: The Modernists
Start: 2024-04-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-04-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: St John's Smith Square

Organization

Admin

St John's Smith Square

Conductor

Lee Reynolds

Orchestra

Southbank Sinfonia

Singer

Soprano

Philippa Boyle

The Modernists

London

United Kingdom

The Modernists: Erwartung (arr.Lee Reynolds ) Schoenberg, Arnold (+2 More)

Public

Erwartung (arr.Lee Reynolds )

Symphony no. 10 in F-sharp major (arr.Lee Reynolds)

Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, (arr. Reynolds)

Pallavi Pawar

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Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

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Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

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Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Bass-baritone

Baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Contralto

Bass

Tenor

Countertenor

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

What does it mean to be modern? 100 years on, Southbank Sinfonia explores three works from composers who challenged every preconceived notion about the music that preceded them, at a time when the art world was remaking itself anew.

Schoenburg’s Erwartung is a radical new vision of opera, delivered in one intensely demanding monologue from its soprano. It has been posthumously grouped as one of the ‘atonally’ labelled works that the composer wrote after his wife left him for a younger man, with the “aim to represent in slow motion everything that occurs during a single second of maximum spiritual excitement, stretching it out to half an hour”.

Debussy had a similarly radical vision of opera, wishing for “no time, no place, no big scene...”. In his words, “music in opera is far too predominant. The characters whom I see are at the mercy of life or destiny.”

English

The Modernists by Schoenberg, Arnold, Mahler, Debussy, From (2024/2024), Conductor Lee Reynolds, St John's Smith Square, London, United Kingdom

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