Society events held in 1984

 

Tuesday
 7 February
6.15pm: Talk by composer Peter Sculthorpe   The Print Room

141 Dowling Street

Waterloo
Monday
27 February 

Group booking for Die Walküre

 

SOH

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

Tuesday
27 March 

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

Precis of talk

Qantas Theatre

New Qantas House
Jamieson Street

Friday
18 May

6.30pm: Annual General Meeting

7.30pm: Annual ‘Wagner’s Birthday’ Dinner

  Concordia Club

Stanmore Road

Stanmore

Saturday
2 June

Group tour to concert performance of Siegfried

 

Melbourne

Sunday
24 June

1.30pm: Recording of Die Walküre (von Karajan)

 

Concordia Club

Tuesday
 10 July

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

 

Goethe Institut

Tuesday
24 July

Group booking for Das Rheingold

  SOH

Sunday
29 July

1.30pm: Recording of Siegfried (von Karajan)

 

Concordia Club

Sunday
26 August

1.30pm: Recording of Götterdämmerung (von Karajan) 

 

Concordia Club

Sunday
24 September

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

 

Goethe Institut

Sunday
30 September

1.30pm: Recording of Tristan und Isolde

  Concordia Club

9 November

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

  Newtown