SOUNDS OF SPRING CONCERT PROGRAM

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1 SOUNDS OF SPRING 30 NOVEMBER 1 DECEMBER 2017 CONCERT PROGRAM

2 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Eoin Andersen violin/director Stefan Cassomenos piano Beethoven Violin Sonata No.5 Spring Copland Appalachian Spring: Suite Piazzolla The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Running time: 2 hours, including a 20-minute interval In consideration of your fellow patrons, the MSO thanks you for dimming the lighting on your mobile phone. The MSO acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we are performing. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, and the Elders from other communities who may be in attendance. mso.com.au (03)

3 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 the MSO since Engaging more than 2.5 million people each year, and as a truly global orchestra, the MSO collaborates with guest artists and arts organisations from across the world. 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 to audiences of all ages through its Education and Outreach initiatives. The MSO also works with Associate Conductor, Benjamin Northey, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus, as well as with such eminent guest conductors as John Adams, Tan Dun, Jakub Hrůša, Markus Stenz and Simone Young. It has also collaborated with non-classical musicians including Nick Cave, Sting, Tim Minchin and Flight Facilities. Image courtesy Daniel Aulsebrook EOIN ANDERSEN VIOLIN / DIRECTOR A native of Wisconsin, USA, Eoin began violin lessons at the age of five. His teachers have included Sr. Noraleen Retinger, Gerald Fischbach, David Taylor, Efim Boico, and his foremost musical influence, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Eoin commenced the position of Co-Concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 2015, and was previously Second Violin of the Orchester der Oper Zürich. He has performed as Guest Concertmaster of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and as Guest with the Mahler and Australian Chamber Orchestras, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic and frequently with the Rundfunk- Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Eoin was a long-time member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. As a founding member and director of the Mahler Chamber Soloists, he performed in South America and throughout Europe, and collaborated with the pianist Fazıl Say, the choreographer Sasha Waltz, and soprano Anna Prohaska. Image courtesy Shara Henderson 3

4 PROGRAM NOTES LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN ( ) STEFAN CASSOMENOS PIANO Melbourne pianist and composer Stefan Cassomenos is one of Australia s most vibrant and versatile musicians. Stefan has performed internationally since the age of 10, and performed the premiere of his own composition Piano Concerto No.1 Aegean Odyssey with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16. More recently, he has performed concertos with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra Victoria. Stefan s compositions are regularly commissioned and performed throughout Australia, and his music has been performed by the Melbourne and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, the Queensland Youth Symphony, Orchestra 21, and the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir. He is also active as an artistic director of various festivals, projects and collaborations, and he is a founding member of PLEXUS. Stefan is generously supported by Kawai Australia and by the Youth Music of Australia. Image courtesy Belinda Strodder Violin Sonata No.5 in F, Op.24 Spring Allegro Adagio molto espressivo Scherzo: Allegro molto Allegro ma non troppo Eoin Andersen violin Stefan Cassomenos piano The fifth of Beethoven s sonatas for piano and violin was published in 1801, the same year as its predecessor, Op.23 in A minor. Whereas that work was troubled, agitated and difficult, the F major sonata is sunny, equable and fresh, so that the nickname someone has given it seems less objectionable than some other such arbitrary titles. Among nearcontemporary works of the composer, one similar in mood is the Op.28 piano sonata, the Pastoral, while the key of F major was later to seem suitable to Beethoven for the development of similar sentiments on a far greater scale in the Sixth Symphony. This is not to say that the Spring Sonata is a small-scale work. Not only is it the first of its genre in Beethoven s output to have four movements, but each except the Scherzo is developed with considerable breadth. Breadth and flowing lyricism immediately strike the attention in the opening movement s first subject. In fact, as with other memorable themes of his, it took Beethoven some effort to fashion its final form, which combines 4

5 spontaneity and inevitability. The character of the movement is thus set from the outset though there is some agitation and drama later, particularly when the recapitulation turns towards the second subject group. The basic contrast is between the essentially melodic first idea and a more broken-up, dramatically exchanged second subject. The main theme returns in the coda where its first bar is developed, setting its seal even more firmly on the movement. variously shaped, the effect is of almost uninterrupted development and variation. The contrast comes when, in the second couplet of the Rondo, the music shifts into D minor. When the refrain returns, some remote keys are explored before the coda uses a little virtuosity to provide an effective concert conclusion. David Garrett This is the first performance of this work by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The slow movement, in B flat, is again distinguished by breadth of phrase and warm feeling, while the mood is more serious. Exposition is exceptionally closely shared by the instruments, each doing what it can best the violin detaching itself to present the first theme cantabile, the piano heightening the intensity by varying it with repeated notes. In concluding the dialogue with trills on both instruments, Beethoven provides an early example of his ability to raise a decorative device to an expressive function. Breathtaking concision marks the Scherzo which abruptly contrasts a syncopated exchange (the violin follows the piano a beat behind) with a trio in rapidly running notes. This prepares the listener by way of contrast for a return in the last movement to the lyricism and flow of the first. Formally this is a rondo, and because of the subtlety with which the refrain is altered and 5

6 PROGRAM NOTES AARON COPLAND ( ) Appalachian Spring (Ballet for Martha): Suite Version for 13 instruments Very slowly Allegro Moderato Fast Molto moderato Subito allegro Presto Meno mosso Very slowly (as at first) Doppio movimento (Shaker melody: The Gift to be Simple) Moderato (like a prayer) Andante (very calm) Aaron Copland s Appalachian Spring Suite originated in a ballet he wrote for the choreographer Martha Graham. Graham had already choreographed Copland s Piano Variations (Dithyramb, 1931) when, in 1942, arts patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge commissioned her to produce three new ballets, and Copland was chosen to write music for one of them. Appalachian Spring premiered in Washington in October 1944 and its score won the Pulitzer Prize for Music the following year. Appalachian Spring is one of those works which defines the American spirit in music, yet its title has attracted its fair share of misunderstandings. For one thing, springtime was not in the creators heads at the time of writing. I could not decide on a title, recounted Martha Graham, and the day of the first rehearsal I noticed [Aaron] had written on the title page, Ballet for Martha. Finally I shared with [him] the title Appalachian Spring, and he laughed that wonderful laugh and sighed, At last! The words Appalachian Spring actually come from a book-length poem, The Bridge, by Hart Crane, and refer to a spring of water on a trail through the Appalachian Mountains: I took the portage climb, then chose A further valley-shed; I could not stop. Feet nozzled wat ry webs of upper flows; One white veil gusted from the very top. O Appalachian Spring! Despite Copland being kept in the dark over the title, much in Graham s concept inspired this most American of scores. Her original scenario included Bible quotations, a central character who resembled Pocahontas, and several references to the Civil War. Eventually the story revolved around a pioneer farmhouse in the Pennsylvania hill country in the early 1800s a stark symbol of American values. Graham s unique choreographic style spare and restrained determined much of the expressive content of the ballet. Set designer Isamu Noguchi noted that Graham was in a sense influenced by Shaker furniture, but it is also the culmination of Martha s interest in American themes and in the Puritan American tradition. The values of simplicity and directness led to the use of the Shaker hymn The Gift to be Simple, a song previously unknown to the general public, recalled Copland, but which expressed the unity of the Shaker spirit, 6

7 [and] was ideal for Martha s scenario, and for the kind of austere movements associated with her choreography. With the benefit of hindsight, however, we can tell that much of Graham s aesthetic was in accord with Copland s own compositional inclinations, which we associate now with the typical American sound. Plain, plain, plain!, said Leonard Bernstein in admiration, one of those Puritan values like being fair you re thrifty. In 1944, Copland extracted a concert suite from the ballet, which he subsequently arranged for full orchestra (it is performed this evening in the ballet s original 13-member chamber instrumentation). The suite is constructed in eight sections, played without interruption. Copland s printed analysis for the suite s premiere, given by the New York Philharmonic under Artur Rodzinski on 4 October 1945, enables a concert audience to retain an impression of the broader features of the original ballet: 1. Very slowly. Introduction of the characters, one by one, in a suffused light. 2. Fast. Sudden burst of unison strings in A major arpeggios starts the action. A sentiment both elated and religious gives the keynote to this scene. 3. Moderato. Duo for the Bride and her Intended scene of tenderness and passion. 4. Quite fast. The Revivalist and his flock. Folksy feelings suggestions of square dances and country fiddlers. 5. Still faster. Solo dance of the Bride presentiment of motherhood. Extremes of joy and fear and wonder. 6. Very slowly (as at first). Transition scenes reminiscent of the introduction. 7. Calm and flowing. Scenes of activity for the Bride and her Farmer-husband. There are five improvisations on a Shaker theme. The theme, sung by a solo clarinet, was taken from a collection of Shaker melodies compiled by Edward D. Andrews, and published later under the title The Gift to be Simple. 8. Moderato Coda. The Bride takes her place among her neighbours. At the end the couple are left quiet and strong in their new house. Muted strings intone a hushed, prayer-like passage. We hear a last echo of the principal theme sung by a flute and solo violin. Appalachian Spring had a great deal to do with bringing my name before a larger public, recalled Copland in later years, and his orchestration of The Gift to be Simple has become a secondary American anthem. The storyline of the original ballet implies good Yankee values sobriety, industriousness, community spirit. Though few people these days know the ballet, there is something in Copland s music, his Enlightened Popular style the wide-open folksy breeziness, the stoically heroic melodies, the simple colours which has also come to represent these qualities. Abridged from a note by Gordon Kalton Williams 1998/2015 The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra first performed the suite from Appalachian Spring in March 1967 under conductor Moshe Atzmon, and on March 1978 under the direction of the composer. The Orchestra most recently performed the work in July 2015 with Matthew Coorey. 7

8 PROGRAM NOTES ASTOR PIAZZOLLA ( ) arr. Leonid Desyatnikov (born 1955) Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires) Primavera porteña (Spring) Allegro Lento Allegro Verano porteño (Summer) Allegro Lento Rosso Allegro Invierno porteño (Winter) Andante moderato Otoño porteño (Autumn) = 112 Lento Allegro Tempo I In 1954 Astor Piazzolla won a scholarship to study with the legendary Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He was by this stage acknowledged as a great composer of tangos and performer on the bandoneón (button-key accordion) in his native Buenos Aires (though, incidentally, he spent many of his earliest years in New York) and had already studied with Alberto Ginastera. But Piazzolla, like Gershwin, yearned to be a serious composer and played down the importance of tango at first. Boulanger, however, showed her usual perspicacity. Hearing Piazzolla play tango on the bandoneón she famously said Astor, your classical pieces are well written, but the true Piazzolla is here, never leave it behind. Despite Piazzolla s distinguished career, tango was originally far from high art, and while its origins are complex it was the music of the porteños and porteñas inhabitants of the slum port areas of Buenos Aires in the early 20th century which is the root 8 of Piazzolla s art. (And, we might note, plenty of people believed that Piazzolla had ruined tango by developing it into a classical genre as he did.) These four pieces, composed between 1964 and 1970, are often referred to as the Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, but are really tango portraits of this particular aspect of the city s life through the year. They were originally composed for Piazzolla s own ensemble of violin, piano, electric guitar, bass, and bandoneón. Violinist Gidon Kremer had the idea of using the pieces to complement Vivaldi s Four Seasons (as Piazzolla s Seasons were written in the Southern Hemisphere, the movements actually oppose Vivaldi's work, which were written in the North. For examples, Vivaldi's themes in his Autumn can be found in Piazzolla / Desyatnikov's Spring), so commissioned Ukrainian composer Leonid Desyatnikov to make this version for violin and string orchestra. They are, strictly speaking, versions rather than arrangements: Desyatnikov underlines the relationship to Vivaldi by incorporating thematic material, often to genuinely humorous effect, from the Baroque composer s work into Piazzolla s without disrespect to either. Desyatnikov also exploits the virtuosity of both Kremer and his orchestra. Each movement has a strong musical and meteorological character. Spring, as in other parts of the southern hemisphere, is busy but not always comfortable; Summer, the first composed of the set, was written

9 for a play and is well-known in its own right. Winter begins with a slow introduction that leads, eventually, into the main tango, but ends in a mood of quiet nostalgia with music that recalls Pachelbel s famous canon. Autumn, composed second, begins with an implacable rhythm that gives way to an introspective solo, originally for bandoneón but here played on cello. Gordon Kerry 2009/11 The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra s only previous performance of this work took place on 25 February 2012 at the Sidney Myer Free Concert, under the direction of Diego Matheuz. ABOUT THE COMPOSER Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina in 1921, Astor Piazzolla moved with his family to New York in 1924, where he began learning his signature instrument, the bandoneón, at the age of eight. Jazz was an important formative influence, as was classical music, to which he was introduced by his Hungarian pianist neighbour, Béla Wilda, whose playing of Bach ignited Piazzolla s lifelong passion for the composer. After returning to Argentina in 1937, Piazzolla became an arranger for bandleader Aníbal Troilo in Buenos Aires while studying with Alberto Ginastera, but left Troilo to form Orquesta del 46, a vehicle for his own compositions. He had already been intrigued by the potential of tango as a genre, but in 1954 he travelled to Paris to study with the great pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, who typically encouraged him to plumb his own style and traditions which meant tango. Back in Argentina he formed the Octeto Buenos Aires and Quinteto Nuevo Tango. In 1968 he formed an association with the poet Horacio Ferrer, with whom he composed the tango operita, María de Buenos Aires. From 1976 he began to enjoy great popularity around the world, recording with, among others, Lalo Schifrin and the Orchestra of St. Luke s and with jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton. In 1989 he formed his last group, the New Tango Sextet, which included two bandoneóns, piano, electric guitar, bass and cello. Piazzolla's tango nuevo, incorporating elements of jazz as well as classical techniques such as fugue, earned the hostility of many traditionalist tangueros, to whom tango was dance music, not concert music; but by the 1990s, even some Argentineans conceded the revivifying effect on tango traditions of Piazzolla s innovations. Having begun to appeal to audiences in France and the USA, his music was reaching a wider public at the time of his death, championed by such artists as Michael Tilson Thomas, Gidon Kremer, and the Kronos Quartet. Piazzolla died in July 1992, sadly before making his planned first visit to Australia as part of the Melbourne International Festival of Arts. Symphony Australia 9

10 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Sir Andrew Davis Chief Conductor Benjamin Northey Associate Conductor Tianyi Lu Cybec Assistant Conductor Hiroyuki Iwaki Conductor Laureate ( ) FIRST VIOLINS Dale Barltrop Concertmaster Eoin Andersen Concertmaster Sophie Rowell Associate Concertmaster The Ullmer Family # John Marcus Peter Edwards Assistant Kirsty Bremner Sarah Curro Michael Aquilina # Peter Fellin Deborah Goodall Lorraine Hook Kirstin Kenny Ji Won Kim Eleanor Mancini David and Helen Moses # Mark Mogilevski Michelle Ruffolo Kathryn Taylor Michael Aquilina # SECOND VIOLINS Matthew Tomkins The Gross # Robert Macindoe Associate Monica Curro Assistant Danny Gorog and Lindy Susskind # Mary Allison Isin Cakmakcioglu Freya Franzen Anonymous # Cong Gu Andrew Hall Andrew and Judy Rogers # Isy Wasserman Philippa West Patrick Wong Roger Young Jenny Khafagi* 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 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 # DOUBLE BASSES Steve Reeves Andrew Moon Associate Sylvia Hosking Assistant Damien Eckersley Benjamin Hanlon Suzanne Lee Stephen Newton Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser # FLUTES Prudence Davis Anonymous # Wendy Clarke Associate Sarah Beggs PICCOLO Andrew Macleod 10

11 OBOES Jeffrey Crellin Thomas Hutchinson Associate Ann Blackburn The Rosemary Norman # COR ANGLAIS Michael Pisani CLARINETS David Thomas Philip Arkinstall Associate Craig Hill BASS CLARINET Jon Craven BASSOONS Jack Schiller Elise Millman Associate Natasha Thomas CONTRABASSOON Brock Imison HORNS Saul Lewis Third Abbey Edlin Nereda Hanlon & Michael Hanlon AM # Trinette McClimont TRUMPETS Geoffrey Payne Shane Hooton Associate William Evans Rosie Turner TROMBONES Brett Kelly Richard Shirley BASS TROMBONE Mike Szabo TUBA Timothy Buzbee PERCUSSION Robert Clarke John Arcaro Tim and Lyn Edward # Robert Cossom HARP Yinuo Mu PIANO Louisa Breen MSO BOARD Chairman Michael Ullmer Managing Director Sophie Galaise Board Members Andrew Dyer Danny Gorog Margaret Jackson AC David Krasnostein David Li Hyon-Ju Newman Helen Silver AO Company Secretary Oliver Carton # Position supported by * Guest Musician 11

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