Name: David Fennessy’s 'Conquest of the Useless'
Start: 2023-11-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-11-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Halls

Organization

Admin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Guitarist

David Fennessy

Electric Guitar

Zanger

Mezzo-soprano

Jennifer Johnston

Mezzo soprano

Dirigent

Jack Sheen

Orchestra

Acteur

Brian Ferguson

David Fennessy’s 'Conquest of the Useless'

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Verenigd Koninkrijk

City Halls

David Fennessy’s 'Conquest of the Useless': The Conqeust of the Useless Fennessy

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The Conquest of the Useless

Pallavi Pawar

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Baroque Trumpetist

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Bassoonist

Cellist

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Cornettist

Flutist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

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Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

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Pianist

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Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

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Violist

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Soprano

Countertenor

Bass-baritone

Tenor

Baritone

Bass

Contralto

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

In the early 1980s the German film director Werner Herzog kept a diary of his struggle to make his film Fitzcarraldo in the Amazon. Entitled Conquest of the Useless, its descriptions of nature and Herzog’s day-today battle inspired composer David Fennessy to create an epic threepart work that touches on madness, ambition, Verdi, belief, Enrico Caruso, musical Romanticism and the teeming, chaotic brutality of the jungle.

Fennessy’s Conquest of the Useless moves from an orchestral depiction of Herzog’s original vision – “a large steamship scaling a hill under its own steam” – though a four-part choir made up of samples from Caruso’s recordings, to a finale once described by the composer as “Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde put through a blender.”

Part-premiered by the BBC SSO at Glasgow’s first Tectonics festival in 2013, the completed work returns to City Halls for a performance preceded by a discussion with the composer and a screening of Les Blank’s 1982 documentary of the Fitzcarraldo shoot, Burden of Dreams (Cert. 15).

5.30pm Screening of 'Burden of Dreams' (Location: Old Fruitmarket)
7.15pm Herzog’s legacy – A panel discussion, including David Fennessy
8.00pm Conquest of the Useless (Location: City Halls Auditorium)

English

David Fennessy’s 'Conquest of the Useless' by Fennessy, za. 04 nov 2023, Van (2023/2023), Dirigent Jack Sheen, City Halls, Glasgow, Verenigd Koninkrijk

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