Concert

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, Waltz of the Anches Hantées, a jazz musette waltz!

Strauss and the QAH, humbly, become one.

Works under consideration :

Johann STRAUSS Jr.: Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron), Overture

Johannes BRAHMS: Intermezzo No. 3, Op. 117, Andante con moto in C sharp minor

Johann STRAUSS Jr.: Czárdás, excerpt from Ritter Pázmán, Op. 441

Mel BONIS: Ballabile Op. 35 – excerpt from the Suite in Waltz Form

Anton WEBERN: Quartet Op. 28, 2nd movement

Mel BONIS: Scenes from Childhood, Op. 92: No. 4, Slow Waltz

Johannes BRAHMS: Capriccio Op. 76 No. 5

Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse Bluette – Op. 72 No. 11

Anton WEBERN: Quartet Op. 5, 3rd movement Charles

KOECHLIN: Waltz of Reconciliation – Lilian’s First Album, Op. 39 No. 3