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

Organization

Conductor

Alexander Shelley

Felix Klieser

Horn

National Arts Centre

Orchestra

National Arts Centre Orchestra (NAC)

Shelley Conducts Strauss

Ottawa

Canada

Southam Hall

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

Public

Don Juan, op. 20

Horn Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 495

Death and Transfiguration, op. 24

The Infinite Reaches

Dark Nights, Bright Stars, Vast Universe

Approved

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

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

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

Singer

Countertenor

Soprano

Contralto

Mezzo-soprano

Bass

Tenor

Baritone

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

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.

English

Shelley Conducts Strauss by Strauss, Mozart, Lau, K., Murphy, K., sre. 22 nov. 2023, Od (2023/2023), Dirigent Alexander Shelley, Southam Hall, Ottawa, Canada

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