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Louise Kemény & Friends
Part of the Conway Hall Sunday Concerts, Spring 2017 Season
Add to my Calendar 12-02-2017 18:30 12-02-2017 20:30 36 Louise Kemény & Friends *concert generously supported by The Musicians’ Company Pre-concert talk with Robert Hugill at 5.30pm in the Brockway Room: ‘I feel air from another planet’: Schoenberg's second quartet includes a setting of the words 'I feel air from another planet' and this is very much the theme of the music from the evening's concert. In the early 20th century composer's were experimenting, not just with Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, but looking at music for new combinations of performers. Composers combined voices and chamber ensembles in new ways, and wrote music in new forms. Conway Hall, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square
Camden
London
WC1R 4RL
England
Programme
Arnold Schoenberg – String Quartet no.2, Op.10
Maurice Ravel – 3 Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Igor Stravinsky – 3 Japanese Lyrics
Aaron Copland – As it fell upon a day
Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot Lunaire, Op.21
Performers
Louise Kemény – soprano
Alena Lugovkina – flute
Ashok Gupta – piano
Joseph Shiner – clarinet
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Programme Note
*concert generously supported by The Musicians’ Company
Pre-concert talk with Robert Hugill at 5.30pm in the Brockway Room:
‘I feel air from another planet’: Schoenberg's second quartet includes a setting of the words 'I feel air from another planet' and this is very much the theme of the music from the evening's concert. In the early 20th century composer's were experimenting, not just with Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, but looking at music for new combinations of performers. Composers combined voices and chamber ensembles in new ways, and wrote music in new forms.
