EAST MEETS WEST CHINESE NEW YEAR CONCERT

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1 PRESENTED WITH ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE EAST MEETS WEST CHINESE NEW YEAR CONCERT SATURDAY 24 FEBRUARY 7.30PM Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall PROGRAM

2 WELCOME As proud patron of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra s East Meets West concert celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year in 2018, I have the great pleasure to welcome you to one of the major cultural events of the Happy Chinese New Year celebrations across Australia. The concert will shine the spotlight on China and Australia s shared love of musical traditions, through a beautiful blend of Chinese melodies and western masterworks. Some of China s brightest stars, including maestro Lü Jia, violinist Lu Siqing and erhu player Ma Xiaohui, will join the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in this beautiful evening. I believe you will enjoy this concert which conveys the joy and harmony of the Chinese New Year and demonstrates the friendship between our peoples and two countries. I wish you all the best in the Year of the Dog. His Excellency Mr Jingye Cheng Ambassador of the People s Republic of China to the Commonwealth of Australia It is my great pleasure to extend my best wishes to those celebrating the Year of the Dog at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra s Chinese New Year Concert in Melbourne. Australia and China share strong and diverse connections. China is one of our key strategic partners in Asia and our largest trading partner. Last year, we celebrated 45 years of diplomatic relations. Chinese Australians are a vital part of multi-cultural Australian society. Australia is home to over one million people of Chinese ancestry, one of our earliest migrant communities. People-to-people ties between our countries continue to grow through education, science and tourism. Events such as this reflect the social and cultural dividends of Australia-China engagements. In welcoming the Year of the Dog, I wish you a year full of happiness, health and prosperity. The Hon Julie Bishop MP Minister for Foreign Affairs 3

3 WELCOME I am delighted to once again send my best wishes to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as it prepares for its 2018 Chinese New Year Concert. As the only annual Chinese New Year program of its kind in Australia, this concert is recognised as an outstanding showcase of the MSO and one of the leading New Year celebrations outside of China. This year s concert features the renowned Chinese conductor Lü Jia, and a stellar cast of guest artists including violinist Lü Siqing, and Erhu player Ma Xiaohui. The Chinese New Year Concert also shows, yet again, that Melbourne is the cultural capital of Australia. I wish the performers the very best of luck, our special guests an enjoyable time during their stay in Melbourne, and all attendees a wonderful evening. To everyone celebrating this Year of the Dog, I hope it brings you and your loved ones good luck and good health. The Hon Daniel Andrews MP Premier of Victoria I am delighted to welcome you to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra s fifth Chinese New Year Concert, where we join with the rest of Melbourne to celebrate the Year of the Dog. Chinese New Year has been an intrinsic part of Melbourne s cultural tradition for many years, with celebrations across the city. This concert is part of the MSO s engagement with Melbourne s Chinese community, reflecting a shared appreciation for each other s cultural traditions. Brilliant Chinese violinist Lu Siqing joins us to celebrate this special evening. The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto is one of the most well-known pieces of classical music, and I look forward to hearing his rendition of the piece will be a big year for the MSO and Lu Siqing; our CD collaboration has just been released, and we are delighted that he will join us on tour in his home country, when we visit China in May. We also warmly welcome conductor Lü Jia and the world-renowned erhu player who tonight makes her Melbourne debut, Ma Xiaohui, and of course our magnificent MSO musicians. Tonight we present an exciting and culturally diverse program, and one I know you will enjoy. Special thanks must go to all our MSO supporters and in particular to the Li Family Trust and Arts Centre Melbourne for supporting this concert. Michael Ullmer Chairman Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ARTISTS Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Lü Jia conductor Lu Siqing violin Ma Xiaohui erhu Bao Yuankai Chinese Sights and Sounds: Dialogue on Flowers Yang Liqing Shepherdess of the Tianshan Mountains Chen Gang / He Zanhao The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto INTERVAL Schumann Symphony No.1 Spring This concert has a duration of approximately 2 hours, including a 20-minute interval. This concert will be recorded for video broadcast into China and on Foxtel Arts, as well as audio broadcast on ABC Classic FM. 4 5

4 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ARTISTS Established in 1906, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an arts leader and Australia s oldest professional orchestra. Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis has been at the helm of MSO since Engaging more than 3 million people each year, the MSO reaches a variety of audiences through live performances, recordings, TV and radio broadcasts and live streaming. As a truly global orchestra, the MSO collaborates with guest artists and arts organisations from across the world. Its international audiences include China, where MSO has performed in 2012, 2016 and again in 2018, Europe (2014) and Indonesia, where in 2017 it performed at the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Prambanan Temple. The MSO performs a variety of concerts ranging from core classical performances at its home, Hamer Hall at Arts Centre Melbourne, to its annual free concerts at Melbourne s largest outdoor venue, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. The MSO also delivers innovative and engaging programs and digital tools to audiences of all ages through its Education and Outreach initiatives. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is funded principally by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and is generously supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources. The MSO is also funded by the City of Melbourne, its Partner, Emirates, corporate sponsors and individual donors, trusts and foundations. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we perform The Kulin Nation and would like to pay our respects to their Elders and Community both past and present. LÜ JIA CONDUCTOR Born in Shanghai, Lü Jia studied in Beijing and Berlin, and at the age of 26 became Chief Conductor of the Teatro Verdi, Trieste, the youngest chief conductor of an Italian opera house. He has conducted nearly 3,000 opera and concert performances in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia and appeared with many of the world s leading orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In addition to his tenure at Teatro Verdi, he has been Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Toscana Orchestra of Florence, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Rome Chamber Orchestra, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra and Verona Opera. He is currently Artistic Director of Beijing s National Centre for the Performing Arts, the Macao Orchestra and the World Chinese Orchestra. LU SIQING VIOLIN Lu Siqing came to international prominence when he became the first Asian violinist to win the Paganini Competition in He has since performed to acclaim in some of the world s most prestigious concert halls in more than forty countries and territories worldwide. Lu Siqing has collaborated with many of the world s leading orchestras and musicians and he appears regularly at many of the top music festivals and prestigious music events around the world. Lu Siqing was invited to perform in the first ever Chinese New Year Concert in 2014 with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In September 2017, he recorded the Violin Concerto Album with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In May 2018, he will join the China tour with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sir Andrew Davis. In this concert, Lu Siqing plays the Miss Crespi 1699 Stradivari violin, generously loaned by Mr. David Li, a Chinese- Australian Arts Philanthropist. MA XIAOHUI ERHU Perhaps best known for her performance alongside Yo-Yo Ma on the Oscar-winning soundtrack for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Ma Xiaohui is one of the few traditional classical Chinese musicians to have achieved an international career. A leading cross-cultural artist, she was concertmaster of the Shanghai Traditional Orchestra for many years, and now appears with many of the world s most distinguished orchestras in prominent venues. Away from the concert stage, she is the founder of the Shanghai International Ma Xiaohui Art Center, and acts as artistic adviser for many organisations. She has served as visiting professor on the faculties of leading educational establishments in Shanghai and the US, and has given performances and lectures at highprofile world events in her capacity as one of China s international cultural ambassadors. FOLLOW US ON WECHAT 6 7

5 ABOUT THE MUSIC BAO YUANKAI (born 1944) Chinese Sights and Sounds: Dialogue on Flowers from Suite No.1, Heibei Folk Songs Bao Yuankai is one of the most eminent contemporary Chinese composers and music educators, whose body of works is as varied as it is large, and whose influence on younger generations runs into the decades. His 1991 work Chinese Sights and Sounds comprises six suites, each of which is devoted to the folk music of a particular province. Bao s score uses the techniques of Western music as a prism through which to explore and exalt the sublime vistas and ancient history of his homeland. The first suite, Heibei Folk Songs, depicts Stories on the Lands of Ancient Yan and Zhao. The final movement, Dialogue on Flowers, is based on two folk songs: the first, from Cangzhou, bookends the movement and presents the flute and oboe in conversation in a lively Allegro vivace. The contrasting middle section, featuring a folk song called Flying the Kite, ranges through several keys before returning to the lively opening music. YANG LIQING (born 1942) Shepherdess of the Tianshan Mountain Ma Xiaohui erhu The erhu ( two-string ), perhaps the best-known Chinese instrument, has remained largely unchanged over the last millennium. Besides its shape, the main differences between the erhu and Western string instruments are that its sound box is covered in python skin, giving the instrument its characteristic timbre; and that the bow never loses contact with the instrument s two strings, always running in a straight line between them, rather than passing over the top of them in an arc, as with the violin. The erhu is often associated with contemplative reflection and wistful melancholy, but in Shepherdess of the Tianshan Mountain (1997), a haunting rhapsody written by Yang Liqing for soloist Ma Xiaohui, a more impassioned and virtuosic side to the instrument is revealed. The music is based on a melody from Xinjiang province at the westernmost edge of China, and evokes a benevolent shepherdess tending her flock at the foot of the mountains. CHEN GANG (born 1935) HE ZANHAO (born 1933) The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto Lu Siqing violin Adagio cantabile Allegro Adagio assai doloroso Allegro molto resoluto Lagrimoso Allegro molto Adagio cantabile The well-known legend of the Butterfly Lovers, which dates from the Jin dynasty ( ), concerns Zhu Yingtai, the daughter of a rich landowner, who disguises herself as a boy and sets off from her home village to study in Hangzhou. There she meets fellow student Liang Shanbo and, over the next three years, their friendship deepens. On completion of her studies Zhu returns home where she is promised in marriage to the son of a wealthy family. When Liang visits Zhu and discovers her true identity and that she is betrothed to another, the two part and Liang later dies of a broken heart. Before her wedding, Zhu visits Liang s tomb and as a storm erupts, she leaps into Liang s open grave. When the storm subsides the lovers emerge from the grave as butterflies, never to be parted. The tale has seen many dramatic and musical adaptations. Chen Gang and He Zhanhao wrote this orchestral representation in 1959 when they were both students at the Shanghai Conservatory. The concerto is structured in a single movement and closely follows the story s narrative, with melodic references to Shanghai opera and the solo violin drawing on erhu technique (versions also exist for solo erhu and traditional Chinese orchestra). The concerto was premiered to great success in Shanghai on 27 May 1959 and made stars of its composers and its soloist, violinist Yu Lina. The work and the artists fell out of favour in the late 1960s; however in recent decades it has regained popularity and is now a staple of the repertoire for Chinese and, increasingly, Western orchestras. These combined notes are based on notes Douglas Rutherford and Symphony Australia. Tonight is the first time MSO has performed these works. ROBERT SCHUMANN ( ) Symphony No.1 in B flat, Op.38, Spring Andante un poco maestoso Allegro molto vivace Larghetto Scherzo (Molto vivace Molto più vivace) Allegro animato e grazioso Schumann wrote his First Symphony with a quill pen he had found near Beethoven s grave in Vienna. It was his first major orchestral composition, and began a brief but intensive creative spurt, in which he also composed the first version of what became Symphony No.4. Although Schumann removed the title Spring Symphony when the music was published, he wrote to a conductor of the work: Try to inspire the orchestra with some of the spring longing which chiefly possessed me when I wrote the symphony in February At the very beginning I should like the trumpets to sound as if from on high, like a call to awaken. In what follows of the introduction there might be a suggestion of the growing green of everything, even of a butterfly flying up, and in the following allegro of the gradual assembling of all that belongs to spring. But these are fancies that came to me after the completion of the work. Schumann was inspired by the spring time in which he was composing, and by the overwhelming happiness of his marriage to Clara Wieck, which had finally happened after so many obstacles. He was ambitious for the esteem to be gained by composing a successful symphony. He sketched the whole work in four days, and had completed the orchestration within a month. There was another musical stimulus, too. Schumann had just discovered Schubert s hitherto forgotten Great C major Symphony (No.9): even after Beethoven, he saw, a symphony could be written in a new way. The slow introduction to Schumann s Symphony may be inspired by Schubert s. The Schubert Symphony was first conducted by Felix Mendelssohn, who also conducted the premiere of Schumann s own symphony in the Leipzig Gewandhaus on 31 March Mendelssohn also had a beneficent influence on Schumann s orchestration. As a novice in matters orchestral, Schumann was happy to accept his colleague s guidance. The Symphony was immediately successful, and has remained Schumann s most-often performed. The very opening of the Symphony, the call of spring motif, probably spells out an underlying poetic text its rhythm matches the first lines of a poem by Adolph Boettger: O wende, wende deinen Lauf, Im Thale blüht der Frühling auf! (Oh turn, turn aside thy course, the valley blooms with spring!) Schumann sent the first notes to the poet, with the words Beginning of a symphony inspired by D. Adolph Boettger. The opening motif dominates the first movement, and there is a lovely contrasting second theme led by the winds. At the point of climax which comes with the return of the main material, there is an expanded version of the opening fanfare motive, in long note values and with a broadening of the tempo an effect of grandeur. At the end of the graceful Larghetto slow movement the melody is gradually transformed, at the entrance of the trombones, so that after a half-close it becomes the theme of the third-movement Scherzo, which follows without a break. The finale begins with a loud outburst for full orchestra stating an upward scale. The tripping main theme made Schumann caution a conductor: I like to think of it as the farewell of spring, so I wouldn t want it played too frivolously. Soon, marked off by restatements of the opening scale, comes a quotation. This skipping theme also appears in Schumann s cycle of piano pieces Kreisleriana, composed in 1838, and a favourite of its composer. Schumann liked riddles, but one clue to this is that the phrase is so close to one in Mendelssohn s String Quartet Op.12 that it may be Schumann s tribute to the conductor of his First Symphony. The rhythmic pattern of the Symphony s opening plays its part in this movement, too. Schumann thought he was following Beethoven in thus unifying the work, and perhaps he was following Beethoven (the oboe solo in the first movement of the Fifth Symphony), in pausing just before the recapitulation for a flute solo cadenza. But the way this is ushered in by the horns, and its colouristic effect, is poetic and Romantic. Beethoven s quill pen in a fresh hand. Adapted from a note by David Garrett 2005 The MSO first performed this symphony on 5 July 1941 with Montague Brearley conducting. The most recent performances were on 11, 12 and 14 August 2006 with Oleg Caetani. 8 9

6 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Sir Andrew Davis Chief Conductor Benjamin Northey Conductor Anthony Pratt # Tianyi Lu Cybec Assistant Conductor Hiroyuki Iwaki Conductor Laureate ( ) FIRST VIOLINS Dale Barltrop Concertmaster Sophie Rowell Associate Concertmaster The Ullmer Family Foundation # Peter Edwards Assistant Kirsty Bremner Sarah Curro Michael Aquilina # Peter Fellin Deborah Goodall Lorraine Hook Anne-Marie Johnson Kirstin Kenny Ji Won Kim Eleanor Mancini David and Helen Moses # Mark Mogilevski Michelle Ruffolo Kathryn Taylor Michael Aquilina # Aaron Barnden* Jo Beaumont* Amy Brookman* Karla Hanna* Robert John* Oksana Thompson* SECOND VIOLINS Matthew Tomkins The Gross Foundation # Robert Macindoe Associate Monica Curro Assistant Danny Gorog and Lindy Susskind # Mary Allison Isin Cakmakcioglu Tiffany Cheng Freya Franzen Anonymous # Cong Gu Andrew Hall Andrew and Judy Rogers # Isy Wasserman Philippa West Patrick Wong Roger Young Jacqueline Edwards* Michael Loftus-Hills* Lynette Rayner* VIOLAS Christopher Moore Di Jameson # Fiona Sargeant Associate Lauren Brigden Tam Vu, Peter and Lyndsey Hawkins # Katharine Brockman Christopher Cartlidge Michael Aquilina # Anthony Chataway Gabrielle Halloran Trevor Jones Cindy Watkin Elizabeth Woolnough Caleb Wright William Clark* Matthew Laing* Isabel Morse* CELLOS David Berlin MS Newman Family # Rachael Tobin Associate Nicholas Bochner Assistant Miranda Brockman Geelong Friends of the MSO # Rohan de Korte Andrew Dudgeon # Keith Johnson Sarah Morse Angela Sargeant Michelle Wood Andrew and Theresa Dyer # Rachel Atkinson* Molly Kadarauch* DOUBLE BASSES Steve Reeves Andrew Moon Associate Sylvia Hosking Assistant Damien Eckersley Benjamin Hanlon Suzanne Lee Stephen Newton Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser # Kylie Davies* Emma Sullivan* FLUTES Prudence Davis Anonymous # Wendy Clarke Associate Sarah Beggs PICCOLO Andrew Macleod Taryn Richards* OBOES Jeffrey Crellin Thomas Hutchinson Associate Ann Blackburn The Rosemary Norman Foundation # COR ANGLAIS Michael Pisani CLARINETS David Thomas Philip Arkinstall Associate Craig Hill Robin Henry* BASS CLARINET Jon Craven BASSOONS Jack Schiller Elise Millman Associate Natasha Thomas CONTRABASSOON Brock Imison HORNS Stefan Bernhardsson* Guest Saul Lewis Third Abbey Edlin Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM # Trinette McClimont TRUMPETS Shane Hooton Associate Tristan Rebien* Associate William Evans Rosie Turner TROMBONES Brett Kelly Ronald Prussing* Richard Shirley Mike Szabo Bass Trombone TUBA Timothy Buzbee Scott Watson* TIMPANI ## Brent Miller* PERCUSSION Robert Clarke John Arcaro Robert Cossom Robert Allan* Mathew Levy* Lara Wilson* HARP Yinuo Mu PIANO Laurence Matheson* MSO BOARD Chairman Michael Ullmer Managing Director Sophie Galaise Board Members Andrew Dyer Danny Gorog David Krasnostein David Li Helen Silver AO Margaret Jackson AC Hyon-Ju Newman Company Secretary Oliver Carton WE ARE THE SOUND OF OUR CITY. Show your love for MSO. At over 100 years old, the MSO has been around for nearly as long as Melbourne. We want to continue to be here for you, and all of Melbourne, year after year, season after season. Donate today mso.com.au/give Rebecca Luton* # Position supported by Alexander Morton* * Guest Musician Courtesy of Sydney Symphony Orchestra Courtesy of University of Kansas ## Timpani Chair position supported by Lady Potter AC Name Address Phone Yes! I want to make a difference to the community by supporting the MSO s Month of Giving. Enclosed is my contribution of: $50 $100 $150 Other CREDIT CARD VISA Mastercard AMEX Please charge in full $ or Please charge monthly instalments of $ (number of payments per year) Cardholder Card number Expiry Signature (If you prefer to charge by phone, please contact Garry Stocks on ) CHEQUE ENCLOSED (payable to Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Pty Ltd) EFT TO NAB ACCOUNT MSO Fund BSB Account (include your name and 'Month of Giving' in payment description) ONLINE at mso.com.au/give I am interested in leaving a legacy of wonderful music for years to come: I have made a gift to the MSO in my Will I would consider including the MSO in my Will and would like more information PLEASE RETURN TO MSO s Month of Giving GPO Box 9994 Melbourne VIC 3001 All gifts over $2 are fully tax-deductible

7 SUPPORTERS SUPPORTERS MSO PATRON The Honourable Linda Dessau AC, Governor of Victoria ARTIST CHAIR BENEFACTORS Anthony Pratt Associate Conductor Chair Joy Selby Smith Orchestral Leadership Chair The Cybec Foundation Cybec Assistant Conductor Chair The Ullmer Family Foundation Associate Concertmaster Chair Anonymous Flute Chair The Gross Foundation Second Violin Chair Di Jameson Viola Chair MS Newman Family Foundation Cello Chair Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO 2018 Soloist in Residence Chair PROGRAM BENEFACTORS Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers Program The Cybec Foundation Cybec Young Composer in Residence Made possible by The Cybec Foundation East Meets West Supported by the Li Family Trust Meet The Orchestra Made possible by The Ullmer Family Foundation MSO Audience Access Crown Resorts Foundation Packer Family Foundation MSO Education Supported by Mrs Margaret Ross AM and Dr Ian Ross MSO International Touring Supported by Harold Mitchell AC MSO Regional Touring Creative Victoria Freemasons Foundation Victoria The Robert Salzer Foundation The Pizzicato Effect (Anonymous) Collier Charitable Fund The Marian and E.H. 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