The Maroondah Symphony Orchestra Inc gratefully acknowledges the support of the Maroondah City Council and Arts Nunawading Inc.

2019 Concert Dates

Sunday, 23rd June

Sunday, 15th September

Sunday, 24th November

All at George Wood Performing Arts Centre

Yarra Valley Grammar, Kalinda Rd. Ringwood

Further Details: www.maroondahsymphony.org.au

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Next Concert

Sunday, 24th March 2019

Mahon Theatre

Aquinas College, Great Ryrie St. Ringwood

Mozart - Titus Overture

Lully - Ballet Suite

Beethoven - Symphony No 8

Haydn - Trumpet Concerto in E flat

Soloist - Michael Olsen

Conductor: Willem van der Vis

An Afternoon at the Movies

Hannah Shin - Piano

Colin Prohasky - Organ

Leader: Rosalind Burns

Sunday 25th November 2018 2.30pm

George Wood Performing Arts Centre

Yarra Valley Grammar Kalinda Road, Ringwood

Hannah Shin

Hannah Shin is one of Australia’s leading younger generation of pianists and has garnered prizes and accolades around the world.

Hannah has won major prizes at international competitions in China, Thailand, Malaysia and America. Prizes in Australia include the Margaret Schofield Memorial Prize for Chopin, and the MSV’s Nehama Patkin Award. Her recent major prize in the Zhuhai In-ternational Mozart Competition was one of the most significant prizes awarded internationally to an Australian pianist - that, at just 17 years of age!

She has given recitals in USA, Germany, Denmark, Russia, China, Thailand, Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia and of course Australia. Hannah has also excelled as a chamber musician

Hannah appeared with the Maroondah Symphony Orchestra ear-lier in 2018 giving a brilliant performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat. She was a favourite of our audi-ence and so we are delighted to have her return for today's Afternoon at the Movies Concert.

She will play George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue which featured in the movie The Great Gatsby and the well-known Andante move-ment from Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.21 from the film Elvira Madigan.

Maroondah Symphony Orchestra

The Maroondah Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1964 and prides itself on providing local access to quality classical music. It presents four concerts a year at the George Wood Performing Arts Centre, Yarra Valley Grammar in Ring-wood. The programs are of classical and lighter classical music where talented young musicians as well as professional soloists of repute are featured. Repeat performances can be arranged for charity and other organisations.

The Orchestra has flourished under the guidance and expertise of conductor, Willem van der Vis and attracts quality musicians. The Orchestra is based in Ringwood and is open to musicians ranging from senior secondary students to mature age. Rehearsals are held each Tuesday evening at Maroondah Federa-tion Estate, 32 Greenwood Avenue, Ringwood from 7:45pm to 10:00pm.

For information about the Orchestra or membership enquiries:

Phone: Rob 0419 230 344 or Lyn 0411 087 457

or via the website

www.maroondahsymphony.org.au

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Willem van der Vis Musical Director

New Zealand born Willem van der Vis gained a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in physics before going

on to play principal cello with the New Zealand Symphony Training Or-chestra and Southern Sinfonia (Dunedin).

In 1979 he moved to Australia, joining the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra. He also played with Orchestra Victoria and the New Zealand, Tasmanian and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras.

After completing his Bachelor of Music (conducting) at the Western Aus-tralian Academy of Performing Arts and the Victorian College of the Arts (Robert Rosen), he enjoyed further conducting studies in Moscow, Eng-land and the Czech Republic and with Professor John Hopkins in Mel-bourne.

He has conducted the Stonnington, Heidelberg, Preston, New Monash, Ballarat, Derwent (Hobart) and U3A Symphony Orchestras and was Mu-sical Director of the Murray Conservatorium Chamber Orchestra (Albury, NSW).

He conducts at orchestral workshops and music camps around Australia. Willem is also in demand as an adjudicator and holds workshops in or-chestral conducting.

Maroondah Symphony Orchestra

1st Violin Rosalind Burns * Yoke-Cheng Vaile Suneith Sukumar Alicia Donelly Katharine Goodall Peta Cope Glen Huang Cynthia Kee

2nd Violin Paul Hwang * Gerry Tan Ina Koetsier Kirsty Dixon Elaine Ogden Anne Lacey Vincent Fazio Hannah Dean

Viola Gitta Green * Joella Gould Paul Watson Mat Lim Caitlin Lyons Yu-ling Pai

Cello Felicity Schijf * Kendra Bousfield Michael Bonsall Arthur Braun Keren Smith Elaine Neely Judy Fox-Smith Jane Moon

Double Bass Michael Taylor * Leon Heale Hilton Vermaas Bill Clark Michaela Reiss

Flute Melanie Smith * Fiona O’Callaghan

Oboe Meg Bowker * Hilary Edwards Cor Anglais Hilary Edwards

Clarinet Belinda Bolger * Lyn McCutcheon Rosemary Smith (Bass)

Alto Saxophone Rosemary Smith Allanah Coldwell

Tenor Saxophone Jon Magill

Bassoon Robert Weiss * Frances Muggeridge

French Horn David Keeffe * Vicki-Ann Ware Kim Alford Tony Hodges Jessica Hall

Trumpet Steve Burns * Emily Johnson David Mercer

Trombone Anthony Ware * Kenton Smith Bass Trombone Nicholas Chislett

Timpani Nalini Scarfe *

Percussion Casey-John Prater Lore Burns Bec Ford

Piano Hannah Shin Sarah Webster

Organ, Piano Synthesizer Colin Prohasky

* Section Leader

Thus Spake Zarathustra - Sunrise - Richard Strauss (1864 -1949) One of the greatest and most influential films of all time, the 1968 epic Science Fic-tion Film 2001 A Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick used a selection of clas-sical music as its film score, including this famous opening of Richard Strauss’s tone poem Thus Spake Zarathustra.

Pirates of the Caribbean medley - Klaus Badelt arr. Ted Ricketts 1. Fog Bound 2. The Medallion Calls 3. To the Pirates Cave 4. One Last Shot

5. He’s a Pirate

Shortly before his death, Walt Disney oversaw the development of the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland in 1967. This eventually spawned six films start-ing in 2003 with The Curse of the Black Pearl from which this medley is taken. The pirate, Jack Sparrow, and blacksmith, Will Turner, rescue Elizabeth Swann from the cursed crew of the Black Pearl who become undead skeletons at night.

Piano Concerto No. 21 K 467 - 2. Andante Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 -1791) The Swedish film Elvira Madigan was based on the tragic life and death of the 19th century Danish tightrope dancer Hedvig Jensen who worked under the stage name of Elvira Madigan at her stepfather’s travelling circus and ran away with a Swedish nobleman. Like 2001 a Space Odyssey, its soundtrack comprises various famous pieces of classical music, including the slow movement of Mozart’s 21st piano con-certo, which has often taken the name of the film!

Mission Impossible theme - Lalo Schifrin arr. Calvin Custer The Mission Impossible television Series (1966-1973) led to a series of films (1996-2018) featuring Tom Cruise as the leader of the Impossible Missions Force. This version of the theme retains the 5/4 time signature from the TV Series, partly re-placed by a 4/4 theme in the later films because 5/4 was too difficult to dance to!

James Bond medley - arr. Victor Lopez 1. The James Bond theme (Monty Norman) 2. For your Eyes Only (Bill Conti)

3. Goldfinger (John Barry) 4. Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney)

5. Nobody Does it Better (Marvin Hamlisch)

The James Bond series of films is one of the longest continually-running film series in history, with 24 films produced by Eon Productions in the UK since 1962. They are based on the character created by Ian Fleming in the early 1950s. The famous theme, originally composed by Monty Norman, has appeared in many different arrangements in the various films.

Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin arr. Ferde Grofé Written by George Gershwin in 1924 for Paul Whiteman’s band, this mini piano concerto perfectly fuses jazz and classical styles and launched Gershwin’s career. This 1942 version was orchestrated for symphony orchestra by Whiteman’s pianist Ferde Grofé. Widely seen as a portrait of New York City, it has been used in the films Fantasia 2000, Manhattan and more recently The Great Gatsby.

INTERVAL (20 minutes)

20th Century Fox Fanfare - Alfred Newman arr. P. Defeudis This famous fanfare, instantly recognizable to all moviegoers, was composed in

1933 by Alfred Newman who became the long-serving head of Twentieth-Century

Fox’s music department and composed scores for more than 200 movies.

Suite from The Star Wars Epic - John Williams arr. Robert W. Smith 1. Princess Leia’s Theme (from Episode IV A New Hope)

2. The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme) / The Forest Battle (from Episode V The Empire Strikes Back and Episode VI Return of the Jedi)

3. Star Wars Main Title (episodes I-VI)

These themes from George Lucas’s original Star Wars trilogy of 1977 to 1983 repre-sent two of the main protagonists - the popular Princess Leia who helps bring about the destruction of the villain Lord Darth Vader, who, though originally on the “light side”, is lured to the “dark side” and is also Princess Leia’s father!

The Star Wars main title theme that follows is probably John Williams’ most fa-mous composition.

Phantom of the Opera medley - Andrew Lloyd Webber arr. Calvin Custer

1. The Phantom of the Opera 2. Think of Me 3. Angel of Music 4. The Music of the Night 5. Masquerade 6. All I Ask of You

The 2004 film is based on the 1986 Andrew Llloyd Webber musical about the “Opera Ghost” that haunted a Paris opera theatre in the 1870s and the rivalry be-tween the Phantom and Raoul for the love of Christine, the leading lady.

Henry Vth Suite - Death of Falstaff - Sir William Walton The 1944 film Henry V featured a score by Sir William Walton, better known as a composer of “classical” music. This movement from the 1963 suite by Muir Mathe-son graphically depicts the death of the buffoonish Sir John Falstaff.

Symphony No. 3 in C minor Op. 78 (Organ) - 2a Maestoso - Allegro - Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 -1921) The 1995 Australian-American comedy Babe recounts the exploits of an orphaned piglet and his friends. The score by Australian composer Nigel Westlake drew heav-ily on music by French classical composers. Excerpts of this famous final move-ment of Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony recur throughout the film including for the main theme song. The symphony was Saint-Saëns’ crowning achievement in 1886 and as well as organ, features two players on the one piano and a large orchestra.

Overture to West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein arr. Maurice Peress The Broadway musical West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Steven Sondheim, opened to mixed reactions due to its graphic depiction of New York street life. However, it soon became a major hit, and the 1961 film won ten Oscars. A 1950’s version of Romeo and Juliet, the love story is set amongst the tense rivalry between two gangs on Manhattan’s West Side. The Overture features many of the musical’s best known tunes including Tonight, Maria and Mambo.

Robert Weiss