Name: Astonish Me!
Start: 2023-09-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-09-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Cadogan Hall

Organization

Conductor

Peter Ash

Cadogan Hall

Orchestra

Odyssey Festival Orchestra

Ballet

English National Ballet School

Astonish Me!

London

United Kingdom

Astonish Me!: Le Spectre de la rose (The Spirit of the Rose) Berlioz (+5 More)

Public

Le Spectre de la rose (The Spirit of the Rose)

Petrushka, K012

Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2

La boutique fantasque

Pulcinella

The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No.1

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

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

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

Tenor

Baritone

Contralto

Soprano

Mezzo-soprano

Bass

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

London’s vibrant new youth orchestra embarks on its second season with a programme of works commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes. This extraordinary dance company was animated by the idea of connecting the visual arts with the world of music and movement. Its goal was to create a single all-embracing art form.

Composers such as Ravel, Stravinsky and Manuel de Falla would work with visual artists of the calibre of Picasso, Bakst, Delaunay, Matisse and Natalia Goncharova.

Diaghilev was blessed with a company that included some of the most brilliant figures in the history of dance: choreographers like Fokine and Massine and legendary dancers such as Nijinsky, Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina. Between 1910 and 1929, they were responsible for some of the most ground-breaking works of modernism and neo-classicism.

The concert’s narration, drawn largely from the memoirs of the company’s prima ballerina, Tamara Karsavina (who emigrated to the UK in 1918 at the height of the Red Terror, aged 33, and lived in London for the next 60 years), explores how to achieve these ends; Diaghilev repeatedly commanded his collaborators to ‘astonish him’.

English

Astonish Me! by Berlioz, Stravinsky, Ravel, Respighi, Falla, From (2023/2023), Conductor Peter Ash, Cadogan Hall, London, United Kingdom

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues