March 13, 2021 7:30PM • The Globe, Palmerston North

Chamber Music NZ | Transfigured Night (Palmerston North)

Concert

Laura Saxon Jones
William Fitzgerald
Tabitha Dombroski
with Artistic Direction and Choreography by Loughlan Prior

Programme:

Tabea Squire | I Danced, Unseen
Dvořák | String Sextet in A major, Op 48
Schoenberg | Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)

Award-winning choreographer Loughlan Prior fuses dance with music in his visceral adaption of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night). Based on the mystical poem by Richard Dehmel, it is a celebration of new life, the duality of conflict and resolution and, ultimately, the reconciliation of one with the universe.

Coupled with Dvořák’s gorgeously Slavonic string quartet, this night of intimacy, intensity and spiritual metamorphosis is given life by BalletCollective Aotearoa and New Zealand String Quartet in a moving journey of courage, strength and human warmth.

Additional performances:

March 9th (Auckland)
March 10th (Hamilton)
March 11th (Napier)
March 15th (Wellington)
March 17th (New Plymouth)
March 19th (Nelson)
March 20th (Christchurch)
March 22nd (Dunedin)
March 23rd (Invercargill)