Invitation to the Dance
“Music and dance are all you need.” Molière: Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670)
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Salut! Baroque is led by artistic directors Sally Melhuish and Tim Blomfield, the ensemble performs annual subscription series concerts in Canberra and Sydney and has released more than ten CDs.
Dance and diplomacy were inseparable at Louis XIV’s opulent palace in Versailles. Every aspect of the palace was designed to reinforce the King’s absolute authority, and Louis protected his political power through pageantry.
In appointing the Italian-born musician, composer and dancer Jean-Baptiste Lully as Master of the King’s Music, Louis chose a political manipulator whose ruthlessness matched his own. Their control over music, dance and opera was enforced by complex social etiquette, with failure to conform being devastating to ambition – ensuring that the arts had the single purpose of glorifying the King and France.
2MBS Fine Music Sydney subscribers have the chance to win a double pass to see Salut! Baroque on Sunday 26 April at 3pm.
When: Sunday 26 April at 3pm
Where: Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Tickets: from $45
Bookings: click HERE