Society events held in 1984

 

Tuesday
 7 February

The Print Room, 141 Dowling Street,
Waterloo
6.15pm: Talk by composer Peter Sculthorpe
Monday
27 February 

SOH

Group booking for Die Walküre

Friday
9 March 

Old Darlington School,
Sydney University
Connell Byrne [Australian tenor, for many years active in Europe] sang arias mostly by Wagner, accompanied by Werner Baer

Tuesday
27 March 

Qantas Theatre, New Qantas House,
Jamieson Street

6.15pm: ‘Love or power – The fatal choice’, a talk by Sir Charles Mackerras

Precis of talk

Friday
18 May

Concordia Club, Stanmore Road,
Stanmore
6.30pm: Annual General Meeting

7.30pm: Annual ‘Wagner’s Birthday’ Dinner

Saturday
2 June

Melbourne

Group tour to concert performance of Siegfried

Sunday
24 June

Concordia Club

1.30pm: Recording of Die Walküre (von Karajan)

Tuesday
 10 July

Goethe Institut

6.30pm: Talk by Stuart Challender, resident conductor with AO. In particular, the preparation of Wagner’s original score to suit the demands of SOH pit and Ring conductor Maestro Cillario

Tuesday
24 July

SOH
Group booking for Das Rheingold

Sunday
29 July

Concordia Club

1.30pm: Recording of Siegfried (von Karajan)

Sunday
26 August

Concordia Club

1.30pm: Recording of Götterdämmerung (von Karajan) 

Sunday
24 September

Goethe Institut

6.30pm: Talk by Professor Michael Ewans on ‘Wagner and his Successors’, reviewing Wagner’s influence on the music and drama of Janáček and Debussy
Sunday
30 September

Concordia Club
1.30pm: Recording of Tristan und Isolde
9 November

Newtown
7.30pm: ‘A Wagner night of a different kind’, courtesy of Denis Condon with works of Wagner and others transcribed for piano rolls on player pianos and played by well-known pianists on the piano rolls

 

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