NICHOLAS CARTER CONDUCTS TCHAIKOVSKY 4

NICHOLAS CARTER CONDUCTS TCHAIKOVSKY 4 FRIDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2017 CONCERT PROGRAM

WELCOME ABOUT THE MSO I am delighted to welcome you to the first Melbourne Town Hall concert of 2017. Tonight s performance marks the MSO debut of violinist Anne-Marie Johnson. We are proud to be supporting and premiering Melbourne s finest rising talent and Anne-Marie is no exception, being the daughter of two renowned MSO musicians. It is such a privilege to be performing tonight s very special program in the heart of the city at the historic Melbourne Town Hall. I wish to acknowledge our partner, the City of Melbourne, who continues to support this city s live music scene and ensure it thrives in both the local and international market. This year we are thrilled to present three Melbourne Town Hall programs across the year, two of which will be led by our Associate Conductor Benjamin Northey and tonight s performance with guest conductor Nicholas Carter. This popular series features timeless classics, with a stunning program of Beethoven and Sibelius in May and then Elgar, Bizet and Saint-Saëns in July. We look forward to sharing this series with you. If you like Tchaikovsky s music and enjoy tonight s performance of his Fourth Symphony, make sure to come back in March when we perform the composer s Sixth Symphony at Hamer Hall. Sophie Galaise Managing Director Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Established in 1906, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an arts leader and Australia s oldest professional orchestra. Engaging over 2.5 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 performed in 2016 and Europe where the MSO toured in 2014. 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 recent guest conductors as Thomas Ades, John Adams, Tan Dun, Charles Dutoit, Jakub Hrůša, Mark Wigglesworth, Markus Stenz and Simone Young. It has also collaborated with non-classical musicians including Burt Bacharach, Nick Cave, Sting, Tim Minchin, Ben Folds, DJ Jeff Mills and Flight Facilities. 2

ARTISTS Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Conductor Nicholas Carter Violin Anne-Marie Johnson REPERTOIRE Prokofiev Classical Symphony Mendelssohn Violin Concerto INTERVAL Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 PRE-CONCERT ORGAN RECITAL As with all of the MSO s Melbourne Town Hall Series, renowned composer and organist Calvin Bowman will perform a pre-concert organ recital in the historic setting of the Melbourne Town Hall. This free performance will begin at 6.30pm. Running time 1 hour and 50 minutes including a 20-minute interval. 3

NICHOLAS CARTER CONDUCTOR Adelaide Symphony Orchestra s Conductor Nicholas Carter is fast establishing a career as a conductor of exceptional versatility, equally at home in the concert hall and the opera house, and fluent in a diverse repertoire. Nicholas 2016/2017 season includes not only concerts with Adelaide Symphony but debuts with MDR Leipzig, Oregon Symphony, The Florida Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lille, and Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Don Pasquale). He also returns to the Australian National Academy of Music, and to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for Symphony in the Domain. Closely associated with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where for the past two seasons he served as Kapellmeister and musical assistant to Donald Runnicles, Nicholas has conducted a wide repertoire including La Bohème, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Hänsel und Gretel, Carmen, Le Nozze di Figaro and Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (with Staatsballet Berlin). Other recent engagements include the Queensland Symphony Orchestra for a gala concert with Maxim Vengerov and concerts with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Nicholas was previously Kapellmeister at the Hamburg State Opera, as well as serving as musical assistant to Music Director Simone Young. This engagement followed a threeyear association with the Sydney Symphony, first as Assistant Conductor, working closely with Vladimir Ashkenazy and a number of the orchestra s guest conductors, and subsequently as Associate Conductor. As guest conductor, Nicholas has also conducted the Staatsorchester Braunschweig, the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Dalasinfoniettan Sweden and the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra in a Gala with Diana Damrau as soloist. At the invitation of Donald Runnicles, Nicholas served as Associate Conductor of the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming from 2010-2013. Image courtesy Annette Koroll. 4

ANNE-MARIE JOHNSON VIOLIN Melbourne-born violinist Anne-Marie Johnson is currently completing a master's degree at the Haute école de musique in Geneva, Switzerland under Prof. Mihaela Martin. She holds a Bachelor of Music (Performance) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and also attended the Australian National Academy of Music, studying with William Hennessy. Anne-Marie was the first prize winner in the 2014 Dorcas McClean Scholarship Competition and also was awarded first place in the Australian National Academy of Music Concerto Competition in 2013. In 2015 she participated in the Seoul International Violin Competition and the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition with her quartet. Anne- Marie has also twice been a finalist in the Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards, won the Audience Choice prize in the Australian Youth Classical Music Competition and received a Premier's Award for VCE Solo Performance. Anne-Marie has recorded and performed Elgar's violin concerto with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed as a soloist with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Corpus Medicorum and the ANAM orchestra. Anne-Marie is an Australian Chamber Orchestra Emerging Artist and was also a founding member of the Australian Octet. 5

PROGRAM NOTES SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) Classical Symphony, Op.25 Allegro Larghetto Gavotte (Non troppo allegro) Finale (Molto vivace After Prokofiev wrote this symphony in 1917, audiences thought he was moving into a simpler musical language; critics discussed his Neo-classical style. But Prokofiev was up to some mischief. In the summer of 1917, between the February and October Revolutions, he had gone to stay in a country house without a piano. Having noticed that thematic material composed without the piano was often better, he wondered if he could compose a whole work in his head, without using the piano as he usually did. He thought this would be easier if he deliberately adopted a simpler style and form. Haydn was his model, and it was for a Haydn orchestra that he wrote pairs of wind instruments, horns, trumpets, timpani and strings. But he didn t imitate Haydn: for instance, at the beginning he states the theme in the key of D, then without any pretence at modulation, in C. The writing for strings tends to be high, giving the Classical Symphony its elegant, wittysounding texture; as though themes by Haydn were being played an octave higher than he would have written them. Prokofiev loved playing musical games (he was also a champion chess player!), and the Classical is a cheerful, humorous symphony one way Prokofiev rebelled against the late- Romantic atmosphere, steamy with philosophy, literature and mysticism. Adapted from a note David Garrett The Melbourne Symphony was the first of the Australian state orchestras to perform this work, on 4 May 1940 conducted by Antal Dorati. The Orchestra s most recent performance was in August 2013 under the direction of Diego Matheuz. FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (1809-1847) Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64 Allegro molto appassionato Andante Allegro non troppo Allegro molto vivace Violin Anne-Marie Johnson This is one of the best-loved of all Mendelssohn s works, its main rival for top ranking among violin concertos probably that of Beethoven. Ferdinand David, the leader of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Mendelssohn, helped the composer with the technicalities of the solo part, and gave the premiere in 1845. Mendelssohn abolishes the opening orchestral tutti completely: the violin soars in with the impassioned and lyrical first subject after just a bar and a half of orchestral accompaniment. The virtuosity of the writing for violin is subordinated to the overall musical purpose: the cadenza, fully written out, occurs in the middle of the movement, and concludes with 6

PROGRAM NOTES the recapitulation a magical moment, as the orchestra states the main theme while the violin continues with figuration from the cadenza. The effect of the sustained bassoon note linking the first movement with the second is to make the music continuous, and emphasise the change of key to C major for the songful Andante. The last movement has many affinities with Mendelssohn s fairy-scherzo vein, first proclaimed in his teenage masterpieces the Octet and the Midsummer Night s Dream Overture. The whole concerto reveals how completely Mendelssohn, contrary to received opinion, could recapture the fresh inspiration of his youth in his full musical maturity. Adapted from a note David Garrett The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra first performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in March 1939 with soloist Grisha Goluboff and conductor Bernard Heinze, and most recently in June 2016 with soloist/director Eoin Andersen. PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) Symphony No.4 in F minor, Op.36 Andante sostenuto Moderato con anima Andantino in modo di canzona Scherzo (Pizzicato ostinato) Allegro Finale (Allegro con fuoco) Written in 1877-78 around the time of Tchaikovsky s disastrous and shortlived marriage to Antonina Milyukova, the Fourth Symphony is dedicated to the composer s patron, Nadezhda von Meck. A wealthy widow, she had been introduced to Tchaikovsky s music in late 1876 through his student Josef Kotek and, although she and Tchaikovsky never met in person, she provided him with a regular allowance until she abruptly ended their association in 1890. Much has been written about the extent to which Tchaikovsky s personal crisis is reflected in this symphony, and indeed von Meck wrote to him of its profound, terrifying despair. In response, whilst cautioning against extracting a precise program, Tchaikovsky did offer (retrospectively) that the symphony s broad scheme was one of Fate, that ominous power which prevents the success of our search for happiness. This power hangs constantly over our heads, like Damocles sword. The Fate theme is the brass fanfare which opens the first movement and which returns at climactic moments in this and the last movement. Tchaikovsky described the essence of the second movement as that melancholy feeling when one sits alone in the evening, tired from work. The diversion proffered by the pizzicato strings in the Scherzo is fleeting, the return of the Fate motif midway through the Finale casting a shadow over the determinedly festive proceedings. Symphony Services International The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra gave the first complete Australian performance of Tchaikovsky s Fourth Symphony on 20 August 1938 under conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent. The Orchestra performed it most recently in November 2015 with Asher Fisch. 7

MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FIRST VIOLINS Dale Barltrop Concertmaster Eoin Andersen Concertmaster Sophie Rowell Associate Concertmaster The Ullmer Family # Erica Kennedy* Guest Peter Edwards Assistant Kirsty Bremner Sarah Curro 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 # Rebecca Adler* Jacqueline Edwards* Oksana Thompson* 8 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 Francesca Hiew Tam Vu, Peter and Lyndsey Hawkins # Rachel Homburg Isy Wasserman Philippa West Patrick Wong Roger Young Amy Brookman* Madeleine Jevons* VIOLAS Christopher Moore Di Jameson # Fiona Sargeant Associate Lauren Brigden Katharine Brockman Christopher Cartlidge Gabrielle Halloran Trevor Jones Cindy Watkin Caleb Wright Gaëlle Bayet William Clark* Ceridwen Davies* Isabel Morse* CELLOS David Berlin MS Newman Family # Rachael Tobin Associate Nicholas Bochner Assistant Miranda Brockman Geelong Friends of the MSO # Rohan de Korte Keith Johnson Sarah Morse Angela Sargeant Michelle Wood Andrew and Theresa Dyer # Kalina Krusteva-Theaker* Anna Pokorny* Zoe Knighton* DOUBLE BASSES Steve Reeves Andrew Moon Associate Sylvia Hosking Assistant Damien Eckersley Benjamin Hanlon Suzanne Lee Stephen Newton Sophie Galaise and Clarence Frase # John Keene* Stuart Riley* Esther Toh* FLUTES Prudence Davis Anonymous # Wendy Clarke Associate Sarah Beggs

PICCOLO Andrew Macleod OBOES Jeffrey Crellin Thomas Hutchinson Associate Ann Blackburn 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 Stefan Bernhardsson* Guest Saul Lewis Third Jenna Breen Abbey Edlin Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM # Trinette McClimont Emma Gregan* TRUMPETS Geoffrey Payne Shane Hooton Associate William Evans Rosie Turner* TROMBONES Brett Kelly Iain Faragher* Mike Szabo Bass Trombone TUBA Timothy Buzbee TIMPANI Christopher Lane* PERCUSSION Robert Clarke John Arcaro Robert Cossom Leah Scholes HARP Yinuo Mu MSO BOARD Chairman Michael Ullmer Board Members Andrew Dyer Danny Gorog Brett Kelly David Krasnostein David Li Helen Silver AO Margaret Jackson AC Sophie Galaise Company Secretary Oliver Carton # Position supported by * Guest Musician Courtesy of Orchestra Victoria On exchange from West German Radio Symphony Courtesy of West Australian Symphony Orchestra 9

SUPPORTERS ARTIST CHAIR BENEFACTORS Anonymous Flute Chair Di Jameson Viola Chair Joy Selby Smith Orchestral Leadership Chair The Gross Second Violin Chair The MS Newman Family Cello Chair The Ullmer Family Associate Concertmaster Chair PROGRAM BENEFACTORS Meet The Orchestra Made possible by The Ullmer Family East Meets West Supported by the Li Family Trust The Pizzicato Effect (Anonymous) Schapper Family Marian & E.H. Flack Trust Collier Charitable Fund Supported by the Hume City Council s Community Grants Program MSO Education Supported by Mrs Margaret Ross AM and Dr Ian Ross MSO Audience Access Crown Resorts Packer Family MSO International Touring Supported by Harold Mitchell AC Satan Jawa Australia Indonesia Institute (DFAT) MSO Regional Touring Creative Victoria Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers Program The Cybec CHAIRMAN S CIRCLE $100,000+ The Gross David and Angela Li MS Newman Family Joy Selby Smith Ullmer Family Anonymous (1) VIRTUOSO PATRONS $50,000+ Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO Di Jameson Harold Mitchell AC IMPRESARIO PATRONS $20,000+ Michael Aquilina The John and Jennifer Brukner Perri Cutten and Jo Daniell Rachel and the late Hon. Alan Goldberg AO QC Hilary Hall, in memory of Wilma Collie Margaret Jackson AC David Krasnostein and Pat Stragalinos Mimie MacLaren John and Lois McKay MAESTRO PATRONS $10,000+ John and Mary Barlow Kaye and David Birks Mitchell Chipman Mary and Frederick Davidson AM Sir Andrew and Lady Davis John Gandel AO and Pauline Gandel Danny Gorog and Lindy Susskind Robert & Jan Green Dr Geraldine Lazarus and Mr Greig Gailey The Cuming Bequest Ian and Jeannie Paterson Lady Potter AC Elizabeth Proust AO Rae Rothfield Glenn Sedgwick Helen Silver AO and Harrison Young Maria Solà Profs. G & G Stephenson, in honour of the great Romanian musicians George Enescu and Dinu Lipatti Onbass Juliet Tootell Alice Vaughan Kee Wong and Wai Tang Jason Yeap OAM PRINCIPAL PATRONS $5,000+ Prof Ian Brighthope Linda Britten David and Emma Capponi Andrew and Theresa Dyer Tim and Lyn Edward Mr Bill Fleming John and Diana Frew Susan Fry and Don Fry AO Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser Geelong Friends of the MSO Jennifer Gorog Louis Hamon OAM Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM Hans and Petra Henkell Hartmut and Ruth Hofmann Jenny and Peter Hordern Jenkins Family Suzanne Kirkham Dr Elizabeth A Lewis AM Peter Lovell Lesley McMullin Mr and Mrs DR Meagher Marie Morton FRSA David and Helen Moses Dr Paul Nisselle AM Ken Ong, in memory of Lin Ong James and Frances Pfeiffer Pzena Investment Charitable Fund Max and Jill Schultz Stephen Shanasy HMA D & CS Kipen on behalf of Israel Kipen Gai and David Taylor Mr Tam Vu and Dr Cherilyn Tillman The Hon. Michael Watt QC and Cecilie Hall Lyn Williams AM Anonymous (2) ASSOCIATE PATRONS $2,500+ Dandolo Partners Will and Dorothy Bailey Bequest Barbara Bell, in memory of Elsa Bell Bill Bowness Stephen and Caroline Brain Dr Mark and Mrs Ann Bryce Bill and Sandra Burdett Oliver Carton John and Lyn Coppock Miss Ann Darby, in memory of Leslie J. Darby Natasha Davies, for the Trikojus Education Fund Beryl Dean Sandra Dent Peter and Leila Doyle Lisa Dwyer and Dr Ian Dickson Jane Edmanson OAM Dr Helen M Ferguson Mr Peter Gallagher and Dr Karen Morley Dina and Ron Goldschlager 10

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SUPPORTERS THE MAHLER SYNDICATE David and Kaye Birks Mary and Frederick Davidson AM Tim and Lyn Edward John and Diana Frew Francis and Robyn Hofmann The Hon Dr Barry Jones AC Dr Paul Nisselle AM Maria Solà The Hon Michael Watt QC and Cecilie Hall Anonymous (1) MSO ROSES Roses Mary Barlow Linda Britten Wendy Carter Annette Maluish Lois McKay Pat Stragalinos Jenny Ullmer Rosebuds Maggie Best Penny Barlow Lynne Damman Francie Doolan Lyn Edward Penny Hutchinson Elizabeth A Lewis AM Sophie Rowell Dr Cherilyn Tillman TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS AL Lane Crown Resorts and the Packer Family The Cybec The Marian & E.H. Flack Trust The Erica Ivor Ronald Evans, managed by Equity Trustees Limited Gandel Philanthropy The Harold Mitchell The Pratt The Robert Salzer The Scobie and Claire Mackinnon Trust CONDUCTOR S CIRCLE Current Conductor s Circle Members Jenny Anderson David Angelovich G C Bawden and L de Kievit Lesley Bawden Joyce Bown Mrs Jenny Brukner and the late Mr John Brukner Ken Bullen Luci and Ron Chambers Beryl Dean Sandra Dent Lyn Edward Alan Egan JP Gunta Eglite Marguerite Garnon- Williams Louis Hamon OAM Carol Hay Tony Howe Laurence O'Keefe and Christopher James Audrey M Jenkins John and Joan Jones George and Grace Kass Mrs Sylvia Lavelle Pauline and David Lawton Cameron Mowat Rosia Pasteur Elizabeth Proust AO Penny Rawlins Joan P Robinson Neil Roussac Anne Roussac-Hoyne Ann and Andrew Serpell Jennifer Shepherd Profs. Gabriela and George Stephenson Pamela Swansson Lillian Tarry Dr Cherilyn Tillman Mr and Mrs R P Trebilcock Michael Ullmer Ila Vanrenen The Hon. Rosemary Varty Mr Tam Vu Marian and Terry Wills Cooke Mark Young Anonymous (23) The MSO gratefully acknowledges the support received from the Estates of: Angela Beagley Gwen Hunt Pauline Marie Johnston C P Kemp Peter Forbes MacLaren Lorraine Maxine Meldrum Prof Andrew McCredie Miss Sheila Scotter AM MBE Molly Stephens Jean Tweedie Herta and Fred B Vogel Dorothy Wood HONORARY APPOINTMENTS Sir Elton John CBE Life Member The Honourable Alan Goldberg AO QC Life Member Geoffrey Rush AC Ambassador The Late John Brockman OAM Life Member Her Excellency the Honourable Linda Marion Dessau AC Patron Ila Vanrenen Life Member The MSO relies on your ongoing philanthropic support to sustain our artists, and support access, education, community engagement and more. We invite our suporters to get close to the MSO through a range of special events. The MSO welcomes your support at any level. Donations of $2 and over are tax deductible, and supporters are recognised as follows: $1,000 (Player), $2,500 (Associate), $5,000 (), $10,000 (Maestro), $20,000 (Impresario), $50,000 (Benefactor). The MSO Conductor s Circle is our bequest program for members who have notified of a planned gift in their Will. Enquiries P (03) 9626 1104 E philanthropy@ mso.com.au Signifies Adopt an MSO Musician supporter 12

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