It's a Riot! Compositions that Shook the Music World
Secondary Students
Years 9 - 12
11:30am Wednesday March 17
QPAC Concert Hall
Conductor Sarah-Grace Williams
Presenter James Cuskelly
From Enlightenment Vienna to the technological advances of the 21st Century, composers have been breaking the mould-daringly throwing convention out the window. Mozart's Marriage of Figaro upset censors and overwhelmed his patron with too many notes. Beethoven established a new element of the symphonic form, including a scherzo in his Third Symphony. Berlioz used an enormous orchestra in his Symphony Fantastique, Wagner introduced an intoxicating chord in his Tristan und Isolde, and Schönberg rejected tonality. Join us as we explore these and more exciting and revolutionary works. Hear the music that disgusted and shocked audiences in 1913 Paris-the most riotous of them all, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
The winner of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra Young Instrumentalist Competition will perform their winning concerto with the Orchestra.
