Name: Shelley Conducts Strauss
Start: 2023-11-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-11-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Southam Hall

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Alexander Shelley

Felix Klieser

Horn

National Arts Centre

Orchestra

National Arts Centre Orchestra (NAC)

Shelley Conducts Strauss

Ottawa

Canadá

Southam Hall

Shelley Conducts Strauss: Don Juan, op. 20 Strauss (+2 More)

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Don Juan, op. 20

Concierto para trompa n.º 4 en mi bemol mayor, K. 495

Muerte y transfiguración

The Infinite Reaches

Dark Nights, Bright Stars, Vast Universe

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Richard Strauss’s tone poems (one-movement symphonic works that tell a story) depict epic tales and ask life’s big questions. Contemporary Canadian composers Kelly-Marie Murphy and Kevin Lau reply with fresh companion pieces to two of Strauss’s best-known tone poems.

Concert-level mastery of a work like Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4 takes patience, talent, and determination, and guest guest horn player Felix Klieser, a musical prodigy who was born with no arms, has worked since childhood to reach that pinnacle, learning to play the horn with his left foot. 

Richard Strauss’s tone poem Don Juan follows the legendary and heartless womanizer through days and nights of wicked promiscuity and debauchery, through romance after ardent romance, until the infamous philanderer succumbs to a fiery and mournful end. For her first NACO commission, Canadian composer Kelly-Marie Murphy has written a companion piece to Don Juan that makes its world premiere here. 

Strauss was 25 years old when he composed another of his tone poems, Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), a “cosmic musical drama, concerned with the twilight of life,” (thelistenersclub.com). The piece asks lofty questions: What is the nature of life and what lies on the other side? Canadian composer Kevin Lau answers with his transcendent NACO commission entitled The Infinite Reaches, also making its world premiere in Southam Hall.

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Shelley Conducts Strauss by Strauss, Mozart, Lau, K., Murphy, K., mié. 22 nov 2023, De (2023/2023), Director Alexander Shelley, Southam Hall, Ottawa, Canadá

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