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PLAYS MAHLER 7

9–11 MARCH 2017

WELCOME ABOUT THE MSO

Welcome to the first concert in our Masters Series for 2017. The Masters Series brings together some of the finest conductors and soloists from around

the world and tonight is no exception with our Chief Conductor, Sir Andrew Davis, at the helm as he conducts Mahler’s brilliant Symphony No.7.

I am delighted to welcome Sir Andrew Davis back to Melbourne and the MSO for his fifth season. Sir Andrew joins the MSO in the Master Series in 2017 presenting a selection of outstanding concerts featuring symphonic masterpieces from magnificent composers including Haydn, Schubert, Shostakovich, Bruckner, and Mahler once again in June (Das Lied von der Erde).

Musicians all over the world mark Mahler’s ten symphonies as ‘must play’ works, and tonight’s performance continues the MSO’s Mahler Cycle, which is now in its fourth year.

I would like to extend a warm welcome to members of the MSO’s Mahler Syndicate who have supported the cycle from the very beginning. Thank you to all of our subscribers who ensure each year the Orchestra can deliver the best in classical music on our city’s stages. Of course, if tonight is your first taste of our Masters Series, I encourage you to consider a Series subscription.

I look forward to experiencing the Masters Series with you.

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. Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis has been at the helm of MSO since 2013. Engaging more than 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 the 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 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 John Adams, Tan Dun, Charles Dutoit, Jakub Hrůša, Mark Wigglesworth, Markus Stenz and Simone Young. It has also collaborated with non-classical musicians including Nick Cave, Sting, Tim Minchin, Ben Folds, DJ Jeff Mills and Flight Facilities.

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ARTISTS

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Sir Andrew Davis

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus*

Guest Chorus Master Warren Trevelyan-Jones*

REPERTOIRE

Stanhope The Heavens Declare*

INTERVAL

Mahler Symphony No.7

Running time 1 hour and 55 minutes (Hamer Hall) | 1 hour and 20 minutes (Costa Hall)

*The Heavens Declare will be performed in Hamer Hall only.

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SIR ANDREW DAVIS CONDUCTOR

Sir Andrew Davis has served as Music Director and Principal Conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago since 2000. He began his tenure as Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in January 2013.

Engagements this season include the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Bergen and Royal Liverpool Philharmonics, as well as the Edinburgh International Festival.

Recently, at Lyric Opera the English conductor led Massenet’s Don Quichotte and Berlioz’s epic Les Troyens. Sir Andrew joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in performances of his own reorchestration of Handel’s Messiah, which has just been released on Chandos Records. Following the end of the Lyric season, Sir Andrew made return appearances with the orchestras of Bergen, Liverpool, Melbourne (including the MSO’s tour to China), Detroit, and Frankfurt, along with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and summer in addition to several recording sessions for Chandos.

Conductor laureate of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (he was previously that ensemble's Principal Conductor), Sir Andrew is also Conductor Laureate of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Emeritus of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and former Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He has led performances at many of the world's most important opera houses, among them the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Covent Garden, the Bayreuth Festival, and the major companies of Munich, Paris, San Francisco, and Santa Fe.

In addition to those ensembles previously mentioned, he has appeared with virtually every other internationally prominent orchestra, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and all the major British orchestras.

A vast discography documents Sir Andrew's artistry, with recent CDs including works of Berlioz, Elgar, Grainger, Delius, Ives, Holst (nominated for a Grammy in 2015 for Best Choral Performance), and York Bowen (nominated for a Grammy in 2012 for Best Orchestral Performance). In 1992 Maestro Davis was created a Commander of the British Empire, and in 1999 he was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours List. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.

Image courtesy Dario Acosta Photography.

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MSO CHORUS

For more than 50 years the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus has been the unstinting voice of the Orchestra’s choral repertoire. In 2017 the Chorus joins forces with the Orchestra on more than 20 different occasions to perform some of the most moving and inspiring repertoire from the canon, as well as once again presenting its own a cappella performances.

The MSO Chorus sings with the finest conductors including Sir Andrew Davis, Edward Gardner, Mark Wigglesworth, Bernard Labadie, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Manfred Honeck, and is committed to developing and performing new Australian and international choral repertoire. Commissions include Brett Dean’s Katz und Spatz, Ross Edwards’ Mountain Chant, and Paul Stanhope’s Exile Lamentations.

Recordings by the MSO Chorus have received critical acclaim. It has performed across Brazil and at the Cultura Inglese Festival in Sao Paolo, in Kuala Lumpur with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, with The Australian Ballet, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, at the AFL Grand Final and at Anzac Day commemorative ceremonies.

WARREN TREVELYAN-JONES

Warren Trevelyan-Jones was born in the United Kingdom, and began his singing career as a Choral Scholar and Lay Clerk in Exeter Cathedral Choir, graduating in music at the University in 1988.

Warren is a regular member of many of the leading early music ensembles

both in Britain and abroad. These include Vocalconsort Berlin, the Gabrieli Consort, Taverner Consort, Orchestra of the Renaissance, The Kings Consort, Dunedin Consort and La Chapelle Royale of Paris. He has also performed with The Sixteen and the Tallis Scholars.

PAUL STANHOPE (born 1969)

The Heavens Declare A Choral Symphony for large chorus and orchestra

Inspired by a camping trip on a remote part of Fraser Island, The Heavens Declare is Australian composer Paul Stanhope’s response to the spectacular and moving sight of the night-time sky and blanket of stars.

In Stanhope’s own words, 'the work is a setting of four Old Testament texts in their Latin translations: a section from the creation story in Genesis (which I imagined as a dreamtime story), two joyful Psalm excerpts, and a more angst-ridden passage from the Book of Job.

'The two Psalm settings are joyful, rhythmic choral dances, while the central setting of the Job text agonises over the insignificance of humankind in relation to the vastness of the universe.'

The Heavens Declare was commissioned in 1999 by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. The 2016 revision performed this evening was commissioned by Juliet Tootel for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.Adapted from a note by Paul Stanhope © 2016

*The MSO and the MSO Chorus will perform The Heavens Declare in Hamer Hall only

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PROGRAM NOTES

GUSTAV MAHLER (1860–1911)

Symphony No.7 in E minor

Langsam – Allegro risoluto, ma non troppoNachtmusik: Allegro moderatoScherzo: SchattenhaftNachtmusik: Andante amorosoRondo-finale

In 1904, within weeks of completing the Sixth Symphony, Mahler was busily sketching his next symphony, and had soon made ‘architectural drawings’ of the two Nachtmusik (night music) movements. Given his heavy conducting schedule in Vienna, Mahler had to wait until the following summer’s vacation before he could return to serious composition. He then experienced a ‘composer’s block’ that he tried, as ever, to exorcise through vigorous physical activity such as hiking in the Dolomite mountains.

This had no effect, so Mahler ‘gave it up, and returned home’. However he found that once he ceased concentrating on the work, the ideas started to flow: he got into a boat on the lake at Maiernigg to return to his holiday retreat and, as he wrote to his wife, Alma: ‘At the first stroke of the oars, the theme … of the introduction to the first movement came into my head – and in four weeks the first, third and fifth movements were written.’

Mahler then turned to orchestrating his longest and most detailed score. The instrumentation requires an expansion of the conventional orchestra, particularly the wind and percussion and two very unusual instrumental visitors.

Some critics have treated the work with suspicion. After the existential bleakness of the Sixth, the Seventh seems to retreat into a more conventional optimism and, in doing so, resorts to 'gimmickry' such as the inclusion of guitar and mandolin in the orchestra. But it could equally be seen as representing the transition from the despair of the Sixth to the joyful paean to divine creativity in the Eighth. The work’s trajectory passes through various nocturnal worlds but finally reaches a world of light. And it is significant that Mahler’s description of that opening theme was ‘Here Nature roars!’Gordon Kerry © 2010 Sir Charles Mackerras conducted the first performance of Mahler’s Symphony No.7 by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, on 4 May 1963. The Orchestra most recently performed it on 24-26 March 2011 under the direction of Mark Wigglesworth.

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PROGRAM NOTES

SIR ANDREW DAVIS ON MAHLER 7

Mahler's Seventh Symphony was long regarded as the most puzzling of all his works. While the three middle movements have always been favourably received, the first movement and the Finale were but little understood. Some of the objections to the former have included the fact that the theme of the introduction remains as the first idea of the Allegro – what's wrong with that?! – and the moments of time standing still in the central section (the march theme slowed almost to a stop) were seen as impeding the music's momentum - again this is something that Mahler had been doing for as long as he'd been writing symphonies!

Nevertheless the shape of the movement is complicated and the mood veers between introspection and manic energy in a way that challenges interpreters. I hold to the view that in this movement, which is the one that gave the composer the most trouble, he is struggling to emerge from the bleak world of the Sixth Symphony with its dreadful hammer blows of fate, and that the real sense of triumph of the almost schizophrenic relish of the finale’s mastery has only been won by passing through the strenuous effort of the first movement and the twilight world of the middle three.

Mahler conducted a performance of the symphony in Amsterdam, preceding it with three works by Wagner – the Faust Overture, Siegfried Idyll (his love song to his wife) and the Prelude to Die Meistersinger (whose shadow in the symphony's finale is hard to miss). I must confess to being attracted to the theory put forward by Niall O'Loughlin that this is a Faust symphony, in which the first movement portrays the tensions between Faust (main theme), Mephistopheles (march) and Gretchen (lyrical second subject). The second is Faust wandering in the countryside at night, the scherzo the nocturnal meeting between Faust and Mephistopheles in Goethe's Walpurgisnacht, the fourth Mahler's own love song, and the Finale the triumph of love over the devil – in this context the unexpected brass chord in the penultimate bar would, I suppose, be Mephistopheles displaying his horns one last time before being obliterated by C major! Fanciful but intriguing!

However, whatever extra-musical notions may be inspired by this work, for me at least it is one of Mahler's most extraordinary creations. And I am most eager, as we continue our remarkable symphonic journey, to convince you too!

Sir Andrew Davis Chief Conductor Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

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MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

FIRST VIOLINS

Dale Barltrop Concertmaster

Eoin Andersen Concertmaster

Sophie Rowell Associate ConcertmasterThe Ullmer Family Foundation#

Peter Edwards Assistant Principal

Kirsty BremnerSarah Curro Michael Aquilina#

Peter FellinDeborah GoodallLorraine HookKirstin KennyJi Won KimEleanor ManciniDavid and Helen Moses#

Mark Mogilevski Michelle RuffoloKathryn TaylorMichael Aquilina#

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 HallAndrew and Judy Rogers#

Francesca 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 BrockmanAnthony ChatawayGabrielle HalloranTrevor Jones Cindy WatkinElizabeth WoolnoughCaleb WrightGaëlle Bayet†Isabel Morse*Katie Yap*

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 Sargeant

Michelle WoodAndrew and Theresa Dyer#

Kalina Krusteva-Theaker*

DOUBLE BASSES

Steve Reeves Principal

Andrew Moon Associate Principal

Sylvia Hosking Assistant Principal

Damien EckersleyBenjamin HanlonSuzanne LeeStephen Newton Sophie Galaise and Clarence Frase#

Emma Sullivan*Esther Toh*

FLUTES

Prudence Davis Principal Anonymous#

Wendy Clarke Associate Principal

Sarah BeggsHelen Hardy*

PICCOLO

Andrew Macleod Principal

OBOES

Jeffrey Crellin Principal

Thomas Hutchinson Associate Principal

Ann BlackburnMichael Pisani

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CLARINETS

David Thomas Principal

Philip Arkinstall Associate Principal

Craig HillRobin Henry*

BASS CLARINET

Jon Craven Principal

BASSOONS

Jack Schiller Principal

Elise Millman Associate Principal

Natasha ThomasLyndon Watts*

CONTRABASSOON

Brock Imison Principal

HORNS

Andrew Bain*‡ Guest Principal

Grzegorz Curyla*§ Guest Principal

Saul Lewis Principal Third

Jenna BreenAbbey Edlin Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM#

Trinette McClimontRobert Shirley*

TRUMPETS

Geoffrey Payne Principal

Shane Hooton Associate Principal

William EvansRosie Turner*

TROMBONES

Brett Kelly Principal

Ben Lovell-Greene

BASS TROMBONE

Mike Szabo Principal

TUBA

Timothy Buzbee Principal

EUPHONIUM

Matthew Van Emmerik*

TIMPANI

Christopher Lane*

PERCUSSION

Robert Clarke Principal

John ArcaroRobert CossomTimothy Hook*Brent Miller*

HARP

Yinuo Mu Principal

Delyth Stafford*

PIANO/CELESTE

Louisa Breen*

GUITAR

Ken Murray*

MANDOLIN

Doug de Vries*

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† On exchange from West German

Radio Symphony‡ Courtesy of Los Angeles

Philharmonic§ Courtesy of Malaysian

Philharmonic Orchestra

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MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS

GUEST CHORUS MASTER

Warren Trevelyan-Jones

REPETITEUR

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ALTO

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TENOR

James Allen Tony Barnett Steve Burnett Peter Campbell Denny Chandra Peter Clay John CleghornAlexander Davie James Dipnall Marcel Favilla Simon Goldman Lyndon Horsburgh Dominic McKenna Simon Milton Michael Mobach Peter Duy-Lam Nguyen-Hoang Ben OwenDaniel Riley

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