Event
Hourglass Ensemble: Prelude to a Kiss
- Date: Saturday, 5 August 2017, 5pm
- Venue: The Flute Tree — Suite 1, 111 Moore Street, Leichhardt, NSW
- Tickets: Adults: $30 | Children: $10 | Concession: $20 — Tickets can be purchased online
Event Details
CABARET - CIRCUS - EXPRESSIONISM - JAZZ - MUSICAL THEATRE Sydney’s favourite international chamber music export The Hourglass Ensemble presents breezy jazz standards from Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald, headlined by “Prelude to a Kiss” and “Lullaby of Birdland”.
Hourglass welcomes trumpet and percussion for the first time to give that smoky club feel, and some suave silky sounds. Alongside, they premiere Australian Tim Hansen’s humorous, dark, poignant song cycle, The Sharpest Piece: cabaret, circus, melodrama, expressionism, and music theatre fused - chronicling Sigmund Freud’s treatment of a woman suffering the bizarre delusion that she is completely made of glass. She lives in fear of her behaviour upsetting her husband, or of making any moves that might cause her to shatter. There are moments of Spiegeltent magic and epic rock in a mesmerising new work especially for Hourglass.
Next, the third piano sonata of Chopin, his most rich, difficult, and brilliant work of all, and the only piece he wrote in 1844 while his romance with George Sand fractured. Watch Gregory again take total command of the Opera House Steinway! Finally, Hourglass play a funky new piece Canon by Nathan Lam, commissioned by us for clarinet, tenor sax, and piano, and the favourite flute solo Spirit of the Plains by Sally Whitwell.
Performers: Clarinets/director - Andrew Kennedy, Flutes - Ewa Kowalski, Saxophones - Nathan Henshaw, Trumpets - Andrew del Riccio, Percussion - Tim Brigden, Mezzo-soprano - Jo Burton, Piano - Gregory Kinda
Featured non-Australian music: Chopin piano sonata number 3; jazz-blues tunes of Ellington/Fitzgerald
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by email to info@hourglassensemble.com
Featured Australian Works
Sharpest piece (small jazz ensemble with vocalist) by Tim Hansen — World premiere — performed by Hourglass Ensemble and Jo Burton | |
Canon by Nathan Lam | |
Spirit of the plains for flute and piano by Sally Whitwell |
Featured artists
- Performer Hourglass Ensemble
- New work by Nathan Lam
- Music of Sally Whitwell
- Performer Andrew Kennedy
- Performer Ewa Kowalski
- Performer Gregory Kinda
- Performer Nathan Henshaw
- Performer Andrew Del Riccio
- Performer Tim Brigden
- Performer Jo Burton
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