Auckland Chamber Orchestra presents Furniture Music + Silent Movie + Louis Spohr

ACO has teamed up with actor/musician/MD Paul Barrett to guide and distract us through Satie’s Furniture Music.

Paul Barrett has credits in over 140 productions as an actor. Over 40 productions as Musical Director/ Associate MD/ Vocal Coach/ Pianist. Over 1000 Voice Overs for Documentaries, Corporate and Television/ Radio Commercials. 50 books recorded for The Royal New Zealand Foundation Of The Blind.

Then it’s silent movie night! Cinema with live orchestra in a performance of Entr’acte (1924) directed by René Clair with music by Erik Satie. Peter Scholes conducts the ACO in synchronisation with the film. Peter’s silent movie experience includes conducting Buster Keaton’s “The General”, Charlie Chaplin’s “City Lights”, Eric von Stroheim’s “The Wedding March” and Hitchcock’s “The Lodger”.

The cast included cameo appearances by Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Jean Börlin (artistic director of the Ballets Suédois), Georges Auric (whose music we perform later in October), and Clair himself.

Erik Satie

• Vexations (extract) Justin Bird piano

• Musique d'Ameublement

  • Carrelage phonique (Acoustic Tiling)

    Tapisserie en fer forgé (Wrought-iron Tapestry)

    Un salon (A Drawing Room)

    Chez un "bistrot" (At a "Bistrot")

    Tenture de cabinet préfecturale (Curtain for a Prefectural Office)

Erik Satie

• Entr'acte - silent movie

— Interval —

Joshua Pearson Teine Sa  (Peter Scholes clarinet)

• On my feet
  I walked through dense glass
  Pushing over tides
  Slowly waddling
  Like the Laumei*
  The sea it breaks
  Glass shards bouncing off
  my back
  It is protected
  By the chant of the ancients
  Rotating
  Levitating
  On the wet rooftops
  Sub-heaven skies

• 'Moon oil' (2017) written by Joshua Pearson

• *'Laumei' means 'sea turtle' in Samoan

Louis Spohr Nonet in F major, Op. 31

Here’s a list of who is performing:

Paul Barrett emcee, Justin Bird piano, Shane Currey percussion, Rachel Guan bassoon, Callum Hall cello, Ben Harrison viola, Dominic Jacquemard percussion, James Jin violin, David Kay horn, Harris Leung violin, Luca Manghi flute, Donald Nicholls clarinet, Darcy O'Malley trumpet, Eric Scholes contrabass, Peter Scholes clarinet and conductor, Grant Sinclair trombone, Andrew Uren clarinet, Camille Wells oboe.

Kāhui St David’s has a superb acoustic. Expect wonderful sounds resonating through the fine timber-lined room. It’s a gorgeous space and we love playing there.