CONCERT PROGRAM

NICHOLAS CARTER CONDUCTS

TCHAIKOVSKY 4FRIDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2017

CONCERT PROGRAM

NICHOLAS CARTER CONDUCTS

TCHAIKOVSKY 4FRIDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2017

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WELCOME

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.

ABOUT THE MSO

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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.

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NICHOLAS CARTER CONDUCTOR

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Principal 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 three-year 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.

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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.

ANNE-MARIE JOHNSON VIOLIN

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PROGRAM NOTES

SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)

Classical Symphony, Op.25

AllegroLarghettoGavotte (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, witty-sounding 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 –AndanteAllegro 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

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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 animaAndantino in modo di canzonaScherzo (Pizzicato ostinato) – AllegroFinale (Allegro con fuoco)

Written in 1877-78 around the time of Tchaikovsky’s disastrous and short-lived 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.

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MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

FIRST VIOLINS

Dale Barltrop Concertmaster

Eoin Andersen Concertmaster

Sophie Rowell Associate ConcertmasterThe Ullmer Family Foundation#

Erica Kennedy*‡ Guest Principal

Peter Edwards Assistant Principal

Kirsty BremnerSarah CurroPeter FellinDeborah GoodallLorraine HookKirstin KennyJi Won KimEleanor ManciniDavid and Helen Moses#

Mark Mogilevski Michelle RuffoloKathryn TaylorMichael Aquilina#

Rebecca Adler*Jacqueline Edwards*Oksana Thompson*

SECOND VIOLINS

Matthew Tomkins Principal The Gross Foundation#

Robert Macindoe Associate Principal

Monica Curro Assistant PrincipalDanny Gorog and Lindy Susskind#

Mary AllisonIsin CakmakciogluFreya Franzen Anonymous#

Cong GuAndrew HallFrancesca HiewTam Vu, Peter and Lyndsey Hawkins#

Rachel Homburg Isy WassermanPhilippa WestPatrick WongRoger YoungAmy Brookman*Madeleine Jevons*

VIOLAS

Christopher Moore PrincipalDi Jameson#

Fiona Sargeant Associate Principal

Lauren BrigdenKatharine BrockmanChristopher CartlidgeGabrielle HalloranTrevor Jones Cindy WatkinCaleb WrightGaëlle Bayet†William Clark*Ceridwen Davies*Isabel Morse*

CELLOS

David Berlin Principal MS Newman Family#

Rachael Tobin Associate Principal

Nicholas Bochner Assistant Principal

Miranda Brockman Geelong Friends of the MSO#

Rohan de KorteKeith JohnsonSarah MorseAngela SargeantMichelle WoodAndrew and Theresa Dyer#

Kalina Krusteva-Theaker*Anna Pokorny*Zoe Knighton*

DOUBLE BASSES

Steve Reeves Principal

Andrew Moon Associate Principal

Sylvia Hosking Assistant Principal

Damien EckersleyBenjamin HanlonSuzanne LeeStephen Newton Sophie Galaise and Clarence Frase#

John Keene*Stuart Riley*Esther Toh*

FLUTES

Prudence Davis Principal Anonymous#

Wendy Clarke Associate Principal

Sarah Beggs

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PICCOLO

Andrew Macleod Principal

OBOES

Jeffrey Crellin Principal

Thomas Hutchinson Associate Principal

Ann Blackburn

COR ANGLAIS

Michael Pisani Principal

CLARINETS

David Thomas Principal

Philip Arkinstall Associate Principal

Craig Hill

BASS CLARINET

Jon Craven Principal

BASSOONS

Jack Schiller Principal

Elise Millman Associate Principal

Natasha Thomas

CONTRABASSOON

Brock Imison Principal

HORNS

Stefan Bernhardsson* Guest Principal

Saul Lewis Principal Third

Jenna BreenAbbey Edlin Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM#

Trinette McClimontEmma Gregan*§

TRUMPETS

Geoffrey Payne Principal

Shane Hooton Associate Principal

William EvansRosie Turner*

TROMBONES

Brett Kelly Principal

Iain Faragher*Mike Szabo Principal Bass Trombone

TUBA

Timothy Buzbee Principal

TIMPANI

Christopher Lane*

PERCUSSION

Robert Clarke Principal

John ArcaroRobert CossomLeah Scholes

HARP

Yinuo Mu Principal

MSO BOARD

Chairman

Michael Ullmer

Board Members

Andrew DyerDanny GorogBrett KellyDavid KrasnosteinDavid LiHelen Silver AOMargaret Jackson ACSophie 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

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