Strauss Connections
Creation 2026
Duration : 75 minutes
for ages 7+
Nicolas Châtelain, 1st Clarinet
Sarah Lefèvre, 2nd Clarinet
Bertrand Laude, Basset horn
Élise Marre, Bass Clarinet
Can also be played with a hip-hop dancer
Overview
The QAH was born with Johann Strauss II, and the QAH will fade with Johann Strauss II. Why?
Because there are encounters one never forgets, encounters that shape a destiny; there are composers who permeate your musical universe and cling to you for life.
Johann Strauss has accompanied us for 25 years—his melodies, his lightness, his festive spirit, but also his rigor, his relentless sense of rhythm, and the artistic (often physical) commitment his music demands.
He marked his era. He left an imprint that some after him have embraced to pay tribute and amplify his legacy; others have shunned it; still others have failed to grasp it while nonetheless holding a deep admiration for Strauss.
Strauss builds bridges between all these people. Strauss builds bridges between the popular and the learned. Strauss is an alchemist of connection.
The QAH paid tribute to him in 2023 and 2024 with Strauss&Co, opening the door to an infinity of works to appropriate. Strauss&Co, conceived as a one-off project, has thus given birth to a new opus, just as rich and exciting, aiming to create a link between Strauss, the present, the popular world, and what the waltz has also become today—through a new creation by Vincent Peirani, La Valse des Anches hantées, a jazz musette waltz!
Strauss and the QAH, humbly, become one.
Works under consideration :
Richard STRAUSS, Waltz Suite No. 2 (long version)
Vincent PEIRANI, Waltz of the Anches Hantées
Charles KOECHLIN, Waltz of Reconciliation – First Album of Lilian, Op. 39 No. 3
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY, Valse Bluette – Op. 72 No. 11
Johann STRAUSS, Éljen a Magyar!
Johannes BRAHMS, Capriccio, Op. 76 No. 5
Johannes BRAHMS, Intermezzo No. 3, Op. 117, Andante con moto in C-sharp minor
Frédéric CHOPIN, Waltz No. 3 in F major, Op. 34, “Grandes Valses Brillantes”
Mel BONIS, Children’s Scenes, Op. 92: No. 4, Slow Waltz
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY, Entr’acte and Waltz with Chorus, Act II – Eugene Onegin
Johann STRAUSS, Csárdás (excerpt from Ritter Pázmán)
Technical information
- 4 Manhasset-style music stands
- 4 adjustable piano benches ou 1 adjustable piano benche et 3 comfortable armless chairs