Join us in the Grand Hall at Moor Park Mansion for our annual Gala evening of fine dining, congenial company and superb musical entertainment from four of the most gifted classical musicians in the UK today - singers Christine Buras and Ryan Vaughan Davies, violinist David Juritz and pianist Lynn Arnold.

ATTENDANCE AT THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY

The New Members' Reception is a great opportunity to meet other new members and begin making new friendships over an informal buffet lunch. The event is open to members who have joined The Arts Society Moor Park since the beginning of the 2025-26 season and also to those who joined during the 2024-25 season but were unable to attend last year's New Members' Reception.

The fears and anxieties of Vienna in the final years before the outbreak of the Great War found expression in the writing of Freud, the music of Gustav Mahler and the haunting paintings of Klimt, Kokoschka and Schiele. Shimmering portraits flecked with gold; hypnotic landscapes of vibrant brushstrokes; erotic dreams of decadence and death reveal a society in search for salvation at a time when mankind had lost faith in its future.

This special Afternoon Lecture traces the course of this brief, often dark, but always dazzlingly inventive period of art.