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MUSIC DIRECTOR SIR MARK ELDER CH CBE

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≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 1 WELCOME

Welcome to the Hallé’s 2020-21 Winter Season. This is a particularly happy moment for me personally, having joined the wonderful Hallé family in September.

In spite of these extraordinary times, with concert halls currently closed and live audiences sadly excluded, we are thrilled, in association with our partners at The and our own Hallé St Peter’s, to be able to bring you a Winter Season of nine unique concerts. These specially curated performances have been filmed and recorded to the very highest quality for you to watch at at your leisure.

Although for me nothing beats the live experience, this exciting new filmed format enables us to adventure into new ways of presenting the orchestra and enhancing the music. The diverse array of repertoire on offer will be complimented by introductions, interviews and insights from our family of Hallé conductors and special guest artists.

The Hallé exists to play for you, our audiences, and the support of so many of you over the past months has been an inspiration and literally kept us going. We are deeply grateful. The orchestra is beyond thrilled to be performing together for you once again, and we hope that you enjoy this illuminating and life-enhancing series of events.

On behalf of us all here at the Hallé, thank you for your continued support and welcome to our season.

David Butcher Hallé Chief Executive

2 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 EPISODE 2 RODERICK WILLIAMS SINGS BUTTERWORTH

BROADCAST FROM HALLÉ ST PETER’S,

BRITTEN Russian Funeral ARVO PÄRT Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten BUTTERWORTH Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad orch. RODERICK WILLIAMS world premiere

R. STRAUSS Metamorphosen’

Sir Mark Elder conductor • Roderick Williams baritone

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It is due to the generosity of our sponsors, patrons and every loyal supporter who has been so understanding over the past months, that we are able to perform this concerts. Arts Council England, the Greater Manchester Authorities and the City of Manchester have all been steadfast in their support and have our sincerest thanks.

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As an organisation with a long history in Manchester, As the Hallé’s Major Sponsor, we are deeply committed to supporting our local community. Sharing similar values, we believe our PZ Cussons are proud to partnership with the Hallé works in harmony with our Good4Business principles, helping to bring wonderful support the full range of music to a wider audience and creating opportunities the Hallé’s work, from through supporting pioneering educational programmes. performances on stage to Our community work spans worldwide geographies the broad ranging Education and people, and focuses on enhancing lives and and Outreach work. securing futures for families. Here in the North West, through our partnership with the Hallé we have brought music and fragrance together through our fragrance house Seven, to create sensory learning experiences in a range of diff erent ways, including for children attending the annual Hallé for Youth concert. We also support Hallé musicians working with children and young adults who have complex and severe learning diffi culties at the Seashell Trust through the Musician in Residence programme. We have been proudly sponsoring the Hallé since 2010 and hope you enjoy this concert.

4 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 A VERY WARM WELCOME FROM THE YANG SING!

We are delighted to be part of the Hallé’s 2020–21 Winter Season and extremely proud to celebrate 25 years of partnership with the Orchestra. We believe that our success over four decades, and the growth of Manchester, is linked to the achievements of organisations such as the Hallé, which make major contributions towards projecting positive and lasting impressions of our vibrant city and its cultural offering worldwide. Our marriage of food and music has matured into a longstanding friendship and all the Yang Sing family are pleased to be able to play a part in the continuing success and development of the Hallé. This year, we invite you to enjoy the beautiful, inspiring music of the Hallé with friends and family at home, and look forward to being with you again soon in the fabulous surroundings of The Bridgewater Hall.

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A symphony of experiences awaits within the Grade II*-listed Free Trade Hall, with award-winning dining, a tranquil setting for afternoon tea and a state-of-the-art spa retreat hidden below the historic colonnade.

The Edwardian Manchester, Free Trade Hall, Peter Street, Manchester, M2 5GP +44 (0)161 835 9929 theedwardianmanchester.com On 30 June 1996 Manchester’s Free Trade Hall and the home of the Hallé for over 138 years, closed for the last time. Fittingly the final concert was performed by the Hallé with a packed audience made up of concert regulars, local civic dignitaries and members of the Royal family. The concert included works by Weber, Sibelius, Berlioz, Handel, Elgar, Beethoven, Shostakovich and Wagner and was conducted by the then Hallé Music Director, Kent Nagano. The Free Trade Hall was more than a concert hall – in fact, it soon became relatively ineffectual as a concert hall – which was why Manchester demanded a world-class venue. The Bridgewater Hall was built just around the corner and it remains in the top 10 best concert halls in the world 24 years on. The Free Trade Hall was built in 1856 on the site of the 1819 as a symbol of the vital role Manchester played in the repeal of the . It remains an important and beautiful landmark and was lovingly and considerately restored by Edwardian Hotels London in 2004. Many of the original features were retained including the wonderful Grecian mouldings and the local authority crests – proudly displayed in the hotel lobby. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the hotel Edwardian Hotels London commissioned a special video featuring the Hallé as you’ve never heard them before with a medley of songs from the Bee Gees to the with a bit of Rachmaninov in between! As a long-term sponsor and supporter of the Hallé, The Edwardian Manchester is delighted to be part of the Orchestra’s Winter Season of virtual concerts. We look forward to welcoming you back to our award-winning contemporary Japanese and Mexican restaurant, Peter Street Kitchen, alongside our stunning afternoon tea experience in The Library curated by Assouline. In the meantime, we invite you to join us for what will undoubtedly be a memorable and thought provoking experience as the Orchestra makes its return to the stage at Hallé St Peter’s in Ancoats.

≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 7 BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913–1976) RUSSIAN FUNERAL (1936)

BENJAMIN BRITTEN, 1965 by Szalay Zoltán, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Funeral marches tramp their way through the music of Britten’s twenties: they occur in, to name but three, the Epilogue of the orchestral song-cycle Our Hunting Fathers, the Lament (‘Barcelona, July 1936’) from the suite Mont Juic and Russian Funeral, the composer’s only work for brass ensemble and percussion. All reveal the powerful influence of Mahler whose music, at that time, was rarely played in the UK. Composed at breakneck speed between 24 February and 2 March 1936, Russian Funeral was first performed under the titleDeath and War at a concert given by the

8 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 London Labour Choral Union, under the direction of the committed Marxist composer Alan Bush, that took place at the Westminster Theatre on 8 March. It prefaced the UK premiere of Das Maßnahme, an overt piece of left-wing propaganda written by the playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Hanns Eisler in 1930. Described in the programme as ‘an impression for brass orchestra’, the late Donald Mitchell, close friend and authority on Britten, aptly described Russian Funeral as a ‘short symphonic poem’, such is its superbly judged pacing and emotional impact. The work reflects the left-wing leanings of composers like Britten, Bush and Tippett, as well as writers such as W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, and other artists of the 1930s. Many of them looked to the still comparatively new Soviet state as a utopian alternative to the seemingly failed double standards of Western capitalism during that decade. Apart from Mahler, the other discernible influence on the work is Shostakovich, whose First Piano Concerto Britten was playing at that time. Cast in a tripartite form, the main melody of the outer ‘Death’ sections is a Russian proletariat song Vy zhertvoiu pali (‘You fell as victims’), which was sung to honour the dead massacred in the atrocity on 22 January 1905 when soldiers guarding the Tsar’s Winter Palace opened fire on demonstrators. Shostakovich was also to use the same song in the slow movement of his Eleventh Symphony, ‘The Year 1905’ composed in 1957. In the faster central ‘War’ section, Britten creates a baleful battlefield turmoil of fanfare and bugle calls that anticipate his War Requiem and pacifist operaOwen Wingrave. For many years this middle part of the work was assumed to be wholly by Britten but, in 1993, the Russian musicologist Ludmila Grigorievna Kovnatskaya drew attention to its similarity to the Komsomol Fleet March (Komsomol’skaya Krasnoflotskaya), a popular Russian patriotic/revolutionary song of the 1920s and 1930s, although she concluded that this was probably subconscious on Britten’s part. The sombre ‘Death’ funeral threnody returns, but now intensified, more harrowing, as if charged with the experience of the battlefield and carnage. After its premiere Britten withdrew Russian Funeral. 44 years later, thanks to the enterprise of the distinguished trumpet player, Philip Jones, the work was revived and recorded with his brass ensemble.

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≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 9 ARVO PÄRT (B. 1935) CANTUS IN MEMORY OF BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1977)

The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt became known in the 1960s for works such as Credo (1968) which involved collage and serial techniques, as well as showing the influence of J. S. Bach. With its avowed affirmation of Christianity,Credo caused a scandal in a country dominated, at that time, by communism. After Credo, Pärt reached an impasse in the development of his work, consequently immersing himself for several years himself in the study of early music and Gregorian Chant. The largest composition of this period was his Third Symphony (1971), its character reflecting these preoccupations. By 1976 Pärt had evolved a technique which he describes as ‘tintinnabuli’ – from the Latin ‘tintinnabulum’ meaning ‘a bell’, it was a simple style related to the composer’s mystical experiences with chant music. This technique formed the basis of a series of compositions composed in 1977 that spoke directly to audiences and brought him international recognition: Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten, Fratres and Tabula rasa. In 1982 he completed the St John Passion, a work regarded as the epitome of the composer’s ‘tintinnabuli’ style. Much of his subsequent work has been for choral forces including Miserere (1989) and the Stabat Mater (2008). His Fourth Symphony ‘Los Angeles’ (2008) and Greater Antiphons (2015) were both commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; also belonging to the last decade is Adam’s Lament for mixed chorus and string orchestra (2010). The increasingly religious basis of Pärt’s music brought him into conflict with the Soviet authorities, so much so that, in 1980, he emigrated, first to Vienna, then Berlin, where he lived for almost 30 years until his permanent return to his homeland in 2000. He and his wife, Nora, settled in Laulasmaa, Estonia, where, under their auspices, the Arvo Pärt Centre, housing his archive was opened in 2018. Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten, scored for strings and a single tubular bell, is Pärt’s most popular work – there are 51 recordings currently available. Pärt had come to know Britten’s music comparatively late in life and instinctively felt him a kindred spirit. Pärt spoke of his reaction to hearing of Britten’s passing in 1976: ‘Why did the date of Benjamin Britten’s death ... touch such a chord in me? During this time I was obviously at the point where I could recognise the magnitude of such as loss. Inexplicable feelings of guilt, more than that even, arose in me. I had just discovered

10 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 ARVO PÄRT by Woesinger, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Britten for myself. Just before his death I began to appreciate the unusual purity of his music ... for a long time I had wanted to meet Britten personally and now it would never come to that.’ The Cantus utilises a simple technique common to composers of the medieval and Renaissance periods, a canon where each musical line imitates exactly the other. Here, a slowly descending scale of A minor is imitated, but also overlapped and played at different speeds. The result is an elegiac mesmeric tangle of lines evoking a powerful expression of loss and melancholy. Also important is the silence, with which the piece begins and which is written into the score.

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≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 11 GEORGE BUTTERWORTH (1885–1916) ORCHESTRATED BY RODERICK WILLIAMS (B. 1965) SIX SONGS FROM ‘A SHROPSHIRE LAD’ (1909–11, ORCH. 2020) WORLD PREMIERE THIS HALLÉ COMMISSION WAS MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF PZ CUSSONS

Loveliest of trees • When I was one-and-twenty • Look not in my eyes Think no more, lad • The lads in their hundreds • Is my team ploughing?

George Butterworth is one of the tantalising ‘might have been’ figures of early 20th- century British music. A casualty of World War One, his loss was grievous, since his legacy, albeit small, suggests a composer of major stature. Educated at Eton and Oxford, and briefly at the Royal College of Music, he became a major force in the English Folk Dance Society, notating songs and dances mainly in Oxfordshire. By all repute he was a fine folk dancer himself. A shared enthusiasm for traditional music kindled a close friendship between Butterworth and Vaughan Williams. After hearing the latter’s A Sea Symphony, Butterworth badgered him to write a purely orchestral symphony and the result, A London Symphony, was later dedicated to Butterworth’s memory. Sadly, Butterworth destroyed most of his early compositions before departing for the Western front: his reputation stands in particular for his songs setting the poetry of A. E. Housman, and the orchestral rhapsody A Shropshire Lad conceived as an epilogue to the songs. Composed between 1909 and 1911, the Six Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’ were given their first performance on 20 June 1911, at the Aeolian Hall in London, by the baritone J. Campbell McInnes, accompanied at the piano by Hamilton Harty (later to become one of the Hallé’s illustrious chief conductors). This evening they are performed in a new orchestral version by tonight’s soloist, Roderick Williams, who writes: ‘It was a huge delight and thrill to be commissioned by the Hallé to orchestrate Butterworth’s iconic English songs. I have performed them many times with piano and the folk-like simplicity of the settings fits that instrument perfectly. But, just as Housman’s superficially simple poetry has much hidden depth and coded subtext, I found myself wondering what sort of deeper textures could be explored in an

12 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 orchestral setting. I had already scored the piece once for string chamber orchestra and voice. But the range of colours and textures, using a full symphony orchestra, that Butterworth employed in his own Shropshire Lad rhapsody, inspired me to think a little bigger. However, I’m aware that these songs are extraordinary miniatures and I was guided by that evergreen principle – Less is More.’

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ENGLISH RHAPSODY

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The folk song Brigg Fair was collected by Percy Grainger in Lincolnshire in 1905. In the following year, Frederick Delius heard Grainger’s choral setting of the tune and fell in love with the melody. He asked Grainger to allow him to use it for an orchestral rhapsody which was subsequently first performed in 1908, dedicated to Grainger. Both pieces, plus a recording of Jospeh Taylor singing the song in 1908, are included. A Shropshire Lad is dark pastoral indeed, set in a semi-mythical country of ‘blue remembered hills’. This was Butterworth’s first mature work for orchestra, followed only by a couple more before the composer was killed on the Somme at the age of 31.

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≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 13 THE MUSIC No other composer got under the skin of Housman’s bleak pessimism as well as Butterworth; equally, it was in these settings that English folk song was wholly absorbed into English art song, and no more so than in the perfection of the cycle’s first song, ‘Loveliest of trees’. Its opening is a tender descending phrase that encapsulates both the delicacy and transience of cherry blossom and, by extension, life itself. ‘When I was one-and-twenty’ is the only instance where Butterworth used a traditional folk tune in his Housman songs. The young man’s bitter realisation of the folly of spurning the ‘wise’ man’s advice is brilliantly emphasised by a mere one-bar extension of the tune at the song’s conclusion. In ‘Look not in my eyes’ Housman alludes to the myth of Narcissus. It is set to a flowing melody and has a fine moment of word-painting at the end of the first verse, where at the phrase ‘Gaze not in my eyes’ the music literally halts, encapsulating the long, deep, forbidden look. By contrast there follows a devil-may-care rendering of ‘Think no more, lad’, a fine piece of musical irony with a superficially carefree manner that masks the poem’s darker undertones. A characteristic of these songs is their economy of means, which is amply demonstrated in ‘The lads in their hundreds’, with its spare harmony, lilting melody and a refrain between verses derived from it. Arguably Butterworth’s greatest Housman setting, ‘Is my team ploughing?’, is a conversation between the quick and the dead, with melody and harmony that are heart-rending in effect. Irony, once again, is at the heart of the poem, where the ghost poses questions to his living friend about his former life and lover. The poignant falling sequence of bare chords uncannily suggests the cold of the grave; by comparison, the chords underpinning the friend’s answers course with life. After the chilling last response, side-stepping the truth about the fate of the dead man’s girl, the chords of the ghost fade to end the song in utter bleakness.

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14 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 1 LOVELIEST OF TREES 3 LOOK NOT IN MY EYES Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Look not in my eyes, for fear Is hung with bloom along the bough, They mirror true the sight I see, And stands about the woodland ride And there you find your face too clear Wearing white for Eastertide. And love it and be lost like me. One the long nights through must lie Now, of my threescore years and ten, Spent in star-defeated sighs, Twenty will not come again, But why should you as well as I And take from seventy springs a score, Perish? Gaze not in my eyes. It only leaves me fifty more. A Grecian lad, as I hear tell, And since to look at things in bloom One that many loved in vain, Fifty springs are little room, Looked into a forest well About the woodlands I will go And never looked away again. To see the cherry hung with snow. There, when the turf in springtime flowers, With downward eye and gazes sad, 2 WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY Stands amid the glancing showers When I was one-and-twenty A jonquil, not a Grecian lad. I heard a wise man say, ‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; 4 THINK NO MORE, LAD Give pearls away and rubies Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly: But keep your fancy free.’ Why should men make haste to die? But I was one-and-twenty, Empty heads and tongues a-talking No use to talk to me. Make the rough road easy walking, And the feather pate of folly When I was one-and-twenty Bears the falling sky. I heard him say again, ‘The heart out of the bosom Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Was never given in vain; Spins the heavy world around. ’Tis paid with sighs a plenty If young hearts were not so clever, And sold for endless rue.’ Oh, they would be young for ever: And I am two-and-twenty, Think no more; ’tis only thinking And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true. Lays lads underground.

≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 15 5 THE LADS IN THEIR HUNDREDS The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair, There’s men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold, The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there, And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old. There’s chaps from the town and the field and the till and the cart, And many to count are the stalwart, and many the brave, And many the handsome of face and the handsome of heart, And few that will carry their looks or their truth to the grave. I wish one could know them, I wish there were tokens to tell The fortunate fellows that now you can never discern; And then one could talk with them friendly and wish them farewell And watch them depart on the way that they will not return. But now you may stare as you like and there’s nothing to scan; And brushing your elbow unguessed-at and not to be told They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

6 IS MY TEAM PLOUGHING? ‘Is my team ploughing, ‘Is my girl happy, That I was used to drive That I thought hard to leave, And hear the harness jingle And has she tired of weeping When I was man alive?’ As she lies down at eve?’ Ay, the horses trample, Ay, she lies down lightly, The harness jingles now; She lies not down to weep: No change though you lie under Your girl is well contented. The land you used to plough. Be still, my lad, and sleep. ‘Is football playing ‘Is my friend hearty, Along the river shore, Now I am thin and pine, With lads to chase the leather, And has he found to sleep in Now I stand up no more?’ A better bed than mine?’ Ay, the ball is flying, Yes, lad, I lie easy, The lads play heart and soul; I lie as lads would choose; The goal stands up, the keeper I cheer a dead man’s sweetheart, Stands up to keep the goal. Never ask me whose.

Alfred Edward Housman (1859–1936)

16 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949) METAMORPHOSEN, STUDY FOR 23 SOLO STRINGS IN C MINOR (1945)

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In August 1944 Strauss, depressed by the war, re-read Goethe and began a setting for male voices of one of his poems. Strauss clearly identified with the poems, the first of which begins: ‘No one can really know himself, detach himself from his inner being; yet he must daily put to the test … what he is and what he was, what he can and what he may. But what goes on in the world, no one really understands rightly.’ While contemplating this setting, he received a request from the Swiss musician Paul Sacher for a work for strings for Sacher’s Zürich Collegium Musicum. Strauss, it seems, converted the Goethe setting into this commission. By 30 September he could tell the conductor Karl Böhm that he had been working on ‘an Adagio for some 11 solo strings which will probably develop into an Allegro ...’ A few days later he seems to have

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≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 17 come to an impasse, for he laid the work aside while he made a new arrangement of waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier and revised a waltz about his birthplace of Munich which he had written in 1939. He returned to his Sacher sketches in late January 1945 and worked on them until the short score was completed on 8 March. The work was now called Metamorphosen, Goethe’s term to describe a work emerging to completion after a long gestation. It had grown to require 23 solo strings – ten violins, five violas, five cellos and three double basses – and was finished in full score on 12 April. (He also made a septet version which was not discovered until 1994.) He had begun work on the full score the day after the destruction by bombing of Vienna State Opera House. He had already been grieved by the destruction of opera houses in Munich, Berlin, Weimar and Dresden and Goethe’s house in Frankfurt (‘the most sacred place on earth’). Metamorphosen therefore became a memorial to the aspects of German culture which Hitler and his ‘criminals’ (Strauss’s word) had caused to be destroyed. The canard, begun by a Dutch journalist in 1946, that the work was a disguised elegy for Hitler, has absolutely no documentary or any other substantiation and is propagated only by those who seize upon any stick with which to beat Strauss and have never investigated the true nature of his complex relationship with the Third Reich. Metamorphosen is one of Strauss’s very greatest works and one of the most poignant expressions of grief ever composed. In it we hear the destruction of all his heroic artistic ideals. ‘The Hero’s Life’ in E flat is, quite simply, shattered in C minor. Structurally, it is a long and complex adagio with a faster middle section. A great arch of melody, its themes are symphonically developed in a complex texture of rich intertwining polyphony. There seem to be allusions to Wagner, perhaps to Brahms, but no direct quotation. Yet the main theme seems very familiar. Only at the end do we realise what it is, when Strauss quotes the main theme of the ‘Marcia funebre’ of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony in the bass and writes ‘In memoriam’ beneath the notes. Or does he quote it? He claimed that its use was unconscious – ‘it escaped from my pen’. On the day the war ended, the Eroica was played on German radio. ‘And yet Beethoven was a German,’ Strauss remarked to his sister. Late in 1945 Strauss went into exile in Switzerland taking several completed compositions with him, including Metamorphosen. He was in the audience in Zürich when Sacher conducted the first performance on 25 January 1946. Doubtful of how he would be received, he sat at the back of the hall. But a woman in the front row recognised him and led him forward to join her. At the dress rehearsal the previous evening, after Sacher had conducted the new work, Strauss asked if he might take the baton. Those who were present said that the transformation was astonishing.

Michael Kennedy © 2008

18 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 THE NEXT EPISODE .... FROM THURSDAY 14 JANUARY THE EVENT HORIZON

BROADCAST FROM HALLÉ ST PETER’S, MANCHESTER SIMON ARMITAGE the event horizon COPLAND Quiet City HANNAH KENDALL Where is the chariot of fire?world premiere GLAZUNOV Concerto for Alto Saxophone RAVEL Mother Goose Suite

Jonathon Heyward conductor Simon Armitage poet laureate • Jess Gillam saxophone

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RECORDED 26 NOVEMBER 2020 IN HALLÉ ST PETER’S, MANCHESTER

PRODUCTION BY Maestro Broadcasting Limited

AUDIO PRODUCER AND ENGINEER Stephen Portnoi

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OB ENGINEERING MANAGER HALLÉ DIGITAL MANAGER CAMERA OPERATORS James Poole Bill Lam Chris Goor Bruce Miller VISION SUPERVISOR HALLÉ VT PRODUCER Dave Brice John Mallows Riley Bramley-Dymond VIDEO EDITOR SOUND SUPERVISOR HALLÉ GFX DESIGNER Andy Barker Simon Scrivener Peter Naish

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20 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 CALLING ALL TEACHERS Goddess Gaia An exciting new resource for schools from the Hallé

for flute, harp, cello and narrator Words by Tony Mitton • Music by Steve Pickett Goddess Gaia, a brand new 20-minute animated cantata from the Hallé, explores the beauty and fragility of the natural world and takes us on a thought provoking journey around the globe, warning us about the danger of human greed on the environment A complete classroom resource for teachers, including three videos with opportunities for children to participate through singing and classroom percussion; audio files, creative music project, written teacher information and a comprehensive curriculum pack with suggestions and activities for a wide range of cross-curricular learning, including science, geography, art, citizenship, literacy, maths, DT and dance. Aimed at KS2 but all resources can be adapted to suit the needs of individual classes. SIR MARK ELDER CONDUCTOR

Sir Mark Elder has been Music Director of the Hallé since September 2000. He was Music Director of English National Opera (1979–1993), Principal Guest Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1992–1995) and Music Director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in the USA (1989–1994). He has also held positions as Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Mozart Players.

22 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 He has worked with many of the world’s leading symphony orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Budapest Festival Orchestra, London Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestras. He is a Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He has appeared annually at the BBC Proms for many years, including on the internationally televised Last Nights in 1987 and 2006, and with the Hallé every year since 2003. He works regularly in the major international opera houses, including Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Glyndebourne. He was the first English conductor of a new production at Bayreuth and has also guest- conducted in Amsterdam, Berlin, Bregenz, Geneva, Munich and Zürich. His large discography ranges from Verdi, Strauss and Wagner to contemporary music. Among his many acclaimed releases on the Hallé’s own CD label are Gramophone Award-winning recordings of The Dream of Gerontius, Götterdämmerung and Elgar’s Violin Concerto, while The Apostles was voted BBC Music Magazine’s Recording of the Year 2013; the recent release of Siegfried completed the Hallé’s Ring cycle on disc. As Artistic Director of Opera Rara (2012–2019), his recordings included a multi- award-winning release of Donizetti’s Les Martyrs and an International Opera Award- winning set of Rossini’s Semiramide. He has presented television films on the life and music of Verdi for the BBC and on Donizetti for German TV, co-presented BBC Four’s four-part series Symphony, fronted BBC Two’s Maestro at the Opera and, in 2015, presented BBC Four’s Sunday-evening series of symphony performances from the Proms. In March 2020, life within the performing arts came to an extraordinarily abrupt halt. Sir Mark Elder returned from Pittsburgh to prepare the Hallé for Vaughan Williams’s Ninth Symphony, but the concerts were not able to take place. However lockdown gave Sir Mark the chance to spend time with his family – especially his new granddaughter – to study unfamiliar music, read voraciously and exercise in the glorious spring weather. As restrictions continue to change, a variety of different opportunities have begun to arise including live streamed digital performances and concerts welcoming smaller, socially distanced audiences. As well as his commitment to the Hallé, recent and future work includes the OAE at Glyndebourne, London Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony and Britten Sinfonia. Sir Mark Elder was appointed a Companion of Honour in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours, knighted in 2008 and awarded the CBE in 1989. He won an Olivier Award in 1991 for his work at ENO and in 2006 was named Conductor of the Year by the Royal Philharmonic Society, of which he is now also an Honorary Member.

≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 23 RODERICK WILLIAMS obe BARITONE

Roderick Williams is one of the most sought after baritones of his generation, performing music from baroque to contemporary, in the opera house, on the concert platform and in demand as a recitalist worldwide. He enjoys relationships with all the major UK opera houses and has sung opera world premieres by David Sawer, Sally Beamish, Michel van der Aa, Robert Saxton and Alexander Knaifel as well as roles including Papageno, Don Alfonso, Onegin and Billy

24 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 Budd. He performs regularly with leading conductors and orchestras throughout the UK, Europe, North America and Australia, and his many festival appearances have included the BBC Proms (including the Last Night in 2014), Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Bath, Aldeburgh and Melbourne Festivals. Roderick Williams has an extensive discography. As a composer, he has had works premiered at the Wigmore and Barbican Halls, the Purcell Room and live on national radio. In December 2016 he won the prize for best choral composition at the British Composer Awards. In 2015 he started a three-year odyssey of the Schubert song cycles culminating in performances at the Wigmore Hall in the 17/18 season, which led to them being recorded for Chandos. Artistic Director of Leeds Lieder in April 2016, Roderick Williams is Artist in Residence for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra from 2020/21 for two seasons. In May 2016 he won the RPS Singer of the Year Award and, in both 2018 and 2019, he was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Opera at the Olivier Awards. He was awarded an OBE in June 2017. March 2020 saw Roderick’s entire diary of work cleared overnight. He was forced to stop, re-charge and re-evaluate what is important to him, both personally and professionally. Taking life at a slower pace, he notched up a record number of consecutive nights in the same house, enjoyed the company of his family and the local countryside, either on foot or by bicycle, and had time to write and arrange music. As musicians gradually began to come to terms with the technological possibilities forced upon them, Roderick responded with musical arrangements and video clips. During the summer, live voice and piano recitals became possible but, as orchestral musicians and choral singers were still unable to work, Roderick’s diary remained emptier than usual. However, this allowed him to answer the call when ENO announced it would stage a live outdoor opera, within the restrictions, at Alexandra Palace. Other opportunities have begun to present themselves including live streamed concerts, performances to restricted audiences and radio voice-overs. As the cultural world crumbled, Roderick became painfully aware of the daily struggle for those at the sharp end of the pandemic. As work begins to return, Roderick is particularly keen to continue supporting an initiative created by soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan entitled ‘Momentum’. This growing collective of leading solo artists shares returning performance opportunities with younger artists, ensuring it isn’t only established performers benefitting from a return to work. Having shared the stage on several occasions with younger colleagues, Roderick has found it to be an especially invigorating and rewarding experience.

≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 25 ≥ MUSIC DIRECTOR SIR MARK ELDER

FIRST VIOLINS CELLOS BASSOONS TUBA Paul Barritt Nicholas Trygstad Elena Comelli Ewan Easton mbe PERMANENT SECTION LEADER Simon Davies GUEST LEADER Simon Turner TIMPANI HORNS John Abendstern Sarah Ewins Dale Culliford † ASSOCIATE LEADER Laurence Rogers † Jane Hallett PERCUSSION Tiberiu Buta SECTION LEADER Jonathan Pether David Hext † Zoe Colman Matthew Head SECTION LEADER Peter Liang DOUBLE BASSES Julian Plummer † Riccardo Lorenzo Steven Proctor Daniel Storer Richard Bourn † Parmigiani Katie Jackson Yi Xin Han † Andrew Maher

Michelle Marsh Beatrice Schirmer † HARP TRUMPETS Rachel Meerloo Marie Leenhardt † SECOND VIOLINS Gareth Small † FLUTES Eva Thorarinsdottir SECTION LEADER Amy Yule Paulette Bayley Kenneth Brown † SECTION LEADER Rosemary Attree Tom Osborne Joanne Boddington Elizabeth Bosworth TENOR TROMBONES Yu-Mien Sun OBOES Katy Jones Diego Gabete Stéphane Rancourt SECTION LEADER Eva Petrarca SECTION LEADER Rosalyn Davies † Thomas Davey VIOLAS BASS TROMBONE Timothy Pooley † CLARINETS Kyle MacCorquodale SECTION LEADER Sergio Castelló Julian Mottram † López Martin Schäfer SECTION LEADER Piero Gasparini † James Muirhead † Chris Emerson Victoria Stephenson

† = 20 YEARS SERVICE

26 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 The Hallé, numbered amongst the world’s top symphonic ensembles, continues to seek ways to enhance and refresh what it undertakes, with aspirations to provide leadership through performance standards, education, understanding and training. 2020 sees the Hallé embarking on its very first digital season. During its 162-year history, the organisation has weathered many storms – from two world wars to financial crises, volcanic ash clouds and now a global pandemic – and not being allowed to work and make music with immediate effect in March 2020 was truly devastating for its passionate players and staff. To be able to return to the stages of The Bridgewater Hall and Hallé St Peter’s to once again make music for loyal and supportive audiences has the feeling of a true renaissance. Founded by Sir Charles Hallé in Manchester, the Hallé gave its first concert in the city’s Free Trade Hall on 30 January 1858. Following the death of Sir Charles, the orchestra continued to develop under the guidance of such distinguished figures as Dr Hans Richter, Sir Hamilton Harty, Sir and Sir Mark Elder. The Hallé has received many awards, notably from the Royal Philharmonic Society and the South Bank Awards, for its work in the concert hall and celebrated collaborations with other orchestras and Manchester organisations. The Hallé has a distinguished history of acclaimed performances, in Manchester and around Britain, as well as televised concerts, frequent radio broadcasts and international tours. Since launching its own recording label in 2003, a number of the Hallé’s recordings have won prestigious awards including fiveGramophone Awards, two Diapasons d’Or and a BBC Music Magazine Award. Over a quarter of a million people heard the Hallé live in the year up to April 2020 and more than 65,000 of those were inspired by the Hallé’s pioneering education programme. Working across the whole community – from schools to universities, care homes to prisons – to bring music in its broadest terms to those who may not attend the concert hall, the programme releases creativity and raises aspirations through very accessible and practical projects. Winter 2020 sees the launch of Goddess Gaia, a digital resource for schools featuring a twenty-minute animation and soundtrack based on a story by Tony Mitton. The Hallé is a Registered Charity No. 223882

≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 27 ≥ ST PETER’S ANCOATS, MANCHESTER

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28 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 Situated at the heart of the resurgent area of Ancoats, Hallé St Peter’s provides a home for the Hallé’s rehearsals and recordings, its choirs and Youth Orchestra, as well as a space for education workshops and small performances. Opened by the Hallé’s Patron HRH The Countess of Wessex in 2013, the facility is concentrated around a restored, Grade II listed, former church. A three-storey extension, The Oglesby Centre, was opened in November 2019 and includes a number of new practice rooms and performance spaces. The Hallé Kitchen space is now home to Café Cotton at Hallé St Peter’s. This independent café, restaurant and bar is open to the general public seven days a week offering great coffee, delicious homemade food and cakes and an excellent selection of quality wines, beers and spirits. Follow Hallé St Peter’s (@hallestpeters) for our latest opening times and information.

EVENTS AT HALLÉ ST PETER’S Hallé St Peter’s is a versatile venue suitable for a wide variety of events. The elegant interior provides a beautiful backdrop for weddings, parties, corporate events, meetings, conferences, receptions and more. Hallé at St Michael’s, our nearby sister venue also provides stylish space for events. Enquiries are welcome for weddings, conferences and events. Call us on 0161 806 0260.

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≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 29 ≥ CHAIR ENDOWMENTS

The Chair Endowment programme is an opportunity for you to be associated with one of our players and link your name with a position in the Orchestra. Your gift will help us to ensure the Hallé continues to develop artistically, attracting and retaining musicians of the highest quality. The key to a successful orchestra is the quality of the individual players. At the Hallé we are fortunate to have some of the country’s most gifted musicians whose talent and commitment help keep the Hallé among the finest orchestras in the world.

Find out more at www.halle.co.uk/chair-endowments

MUSIC DIRECTOR, FIRST VIOLINS SECOND VIOLINS SIR MARK ELDER CH CBE SARAH EWINS PRINCIPAL Mr Martin McMillan OBE and Elaine and Neville Blond Patrick and Tricia McDermott Mrs Pat McMillan Charitable Trust PAULETTE BAYLEY CHIEF EXECUTIVE, TIBERIU BUTA Karen Farquhar DAVID BUTCHER Dr Anne R Fuller Hamish and Sophie Forsyth ROSEMARY ATTREE ZOE COLMAN in memory of the late Marie and LEADER John Geddes Jack Levy Penny Moore PETER LIANG CAROLINE ABBOTT GUEST LEADER, PAUL BARRITT Jennifer MacPherson Peter and Mary Jones in memory of Geoffrey Robinson ALISON HUNT JULIA HANSON ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR, Mrs Vivienne Blackburn for Lou Page DELYANA LAZAROVA Michael PZ Cussons, Sir Mark and Lady JOHN PURTON Elder, The Garrick Charitable HELEN BRIDGES in loving memory of Michael Hall Professor Chris Klingenberg Trust HANNAH SMITH CHORAL DIRECTOR, [VACANT] Patrick and Tricia McDermott MATTHEW HAMILTON In loving memory of Kaye Tazaki, In memory of Alison Wilkie- from his family and the Hallé Davies

30 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 VIOLAS FLUTE TRUMPETS TIMOTHY POOLEY AMY YULE GARETH SMALL Dr Susan M Brown Mr Peter Heath Shared Trust JULIAN MOTTRAM KENNETH BROWN In loving memory of John PICCOLO Shared Trust Pickstone JOANNE BODDINGTON in memory of Ronald Marlowe TOM OSBORNE MARTIN SCHÄFER Penny Moore David and Beryl Emery OBOE PIERO GASPARINI VIRGINIA SHAW TROMBONE Mrs Jane Fairclough Alison Wilkinson KATY JONES Sylvia Kendal in memory of CHRIS EMERSON Ivor Rowe Bolton Opus Group COR ANGLAIS TOM DAVEY In loving memory of Douglas TIMPANI CELLOS Crawford JOHN ABENDSTERN NICHOLAS TRYGSTAD In memory of Alan and Martin and Sandra Stone Vivian Glass CLARINET SIMON TURNER SERGIO CASTELLÓ-LÓPEZ In memory of The Hallé Choir PERCUSSION Mrs G E Whitehead DAVID HEXT Rosemary Whitesman DAVID PETRI BASS CLARINET K and S Coen JAMES MUIRHEAD RICCARDO LORENZO PARMIGIANI Shared Trust Michael Eagles JANE HALLETT Professor Sir Netar Mallick ERIKA ÖHMAN BASSOONS Mrs R Russell in loving memory CLARE ROWE [POSITION VACANT] of her husband, Jim Russell RBA; Nina Harris In memory of Miss Amy Michael Eagles JONATHAN PETHER Alexandra Morris Charlotte Westwood ELENA COMELLI HALLÉ YOUTH ORCHESTRA POSITION VACANT Anonymous BASSOONS: In loving memory of Dorothy Hall Mr C R and Mrs E Anslow PERCUSSION HORNS I and E Brett in memory of Arthur Bevan DOUBLE BASSES Karen Brown POSITION VACANT and Enid Roper CELLOS Edmundson Electrical Ltd LAWRENCE ROGERS The Holland-Frickes YI XIN HAN in memory of C K Andrews Mr John Summers In memory of Stella and WIND AND STRINGS RICHARD BOURN Harold Millington The English-Speaking Union, Shared Trust Mid Cheshire Branch BEATRICE SCHIRMER ANDREW MAHER Anonymous Joyce Kennedy in loving memory Mr CR and Mrs E Anslow of Michael HALLÉ YOUTH CHOIR MATTHEW HEAD SOPRANOS AND ALTOS: NATASHA ARMSTRONG In loving memory of Mr and Mrs Smith John and Pat Garside Nora Dawson HALLÉ CHOIR RACHEL MEERLOO Jane Hampson In loving memory of Hilmary ALTOS: Quarmby, a lifelong lover of Chris Hughes music and friend of the Hallé Sincere thanks also to all those who have made general donations to the Chair Endowment programme during the recent months.

≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 31 ≥ PATRON PROGRAMME

By joining the Hallé Patron programme you can become part of a family of supporters who are helping to shape the future of the Hallé. Patrons have access to unique opportunities to experience many different facets of the Hallé alongside musicians, performers and fellow supporters in recognition of their regular support.

Find out more at www.halle.co.uk/become-a-patron

CONDUCTOR’S MAESTOSO CRESCENDO Chris Hughes, to mark CIRCLE Brian and Valerie Bailey Mr C. R. and Mrs E. 42 years with the Hallé John and Margaret Dr Christopher Brookes Anslow Choir Mr Kenneth Kay Allen Dr Susan M. Brown Mr Jon and Dr Carol Ashley Mr Michael Leach Dr Anne R. Fuller Mr David A. Budgett Mr Edward Astle Mr Colin Lomax Pat Kendall-Taylor Mr and Mrs J. Davnall Carole and David Baume David and Jane Murphy Professor Chris Valerie and Peter Mr John Biggins Sir Charles Nightingale Klingenberg Dicken Audrey and Richard Binch Mrs Kathy Noble Patrick and Tricia Mrs Juliet Gibbs David and Maggie Mr John D. Owens McDermott Andrew Hay and Nicola Blackburn Mr D. Pritchard Mr Martin Rayner David and Mary Kitching Mrs Vivienne Blackburn Clair Boyes A. C. and C. J. Riddington McKeith Mark Kenrick Professor R. A. Burchell Mrs Jackie Roberts Dr and Mrs Ian Jennifer MacPherson J. R. Bushell (Bolton) Ltd T. G. Roberts McKinlay OBE John Nickson and Laura and Peter Mr and Mrs R. J. W. Penny Moore, for Terry, Simon Rew Carstensen Rogers who loved the Hallé Martin and Sandra Dr and Mrs Michael and Judith and Patrick Rutter Dr Sambrook Stone Diana Cavanagh Sheila Rydz and in memory of Simeon Rydz Christine and David John and Pat Turner Lawrence David Cody and in memory of Mr and John and Susan Schultz Walmsley Judi Winterson and Mrs L. J. Cody Mr P. D. Senn In memory of Lynne David Hoyle Mr Julian Craddock Mr David Shipley In memory of Alfred Philip Crookall Mr Colin Smith OBE and and Brenda Burley Mr A. Fowell Mrs Marian Smith Mr and Mrs J. Fox Mrs E. G. Tonge Mr Richard Garnett Dr K. Whale Chris and Karen Halicki Joy White Miss Lynne Hamilton Professor and Mrs Philip Dr Andrew Hardman Wiles Mrs C. A. Harmer David and Veronica Yates David Haworth In memory of Brenda Mr John Hopwood and Dr Owens Julia Morrison

32 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 INTERMEZZO SCHERZO Mrs Mary Glynn Mary McPeake Joan Ball Gill and Barrie Adams Christopher Grafham Mrs Bernice Meagher Tony Bates Mr Peter Adamson Mr and Mrs S. R. Lancelyn Mr David Miers Professor Tony Berry Mr Timothy R. Ades Green Mr David Milner Mr K. A. Bevan Dr Katherine Adler Mrs Caroline Greenwood Mr Jeff Milner Mrs Margaret Bradshaw Mrs J. Ainsworth John D. Gregory Dr Brian Molyneaux Mrs P. Cate Mr Roger Ainsworth Dr R. Gregory Mr Peter Moorhouse Monica and Mick Clark Vin Allerton Mr J. B. Haddow Ms Kathleen Morris Mr J. Cooney Dr P. J. Alvey Dr I. M. Hall Miss Jean Motler Sarah Crouch Dr D. Yvonne Aplin Paul and Amanda Hamblyn Mr P. K. Murphy Mr Antony Doust Professor and Mrs R. D. Mr C. W. Hampson Mr David Odling Mr Micheal Dowling Arnell Mrs Thora Harnden Professor Damian Chris Dumigan Mr Barry J. Ball Brian and Bridget Harris O’Doherty Dr George A. Eccleston Dr Peter Barberis Mr Simon Harrison William and Janet Ollier Revd and Mrs J. F Ellis Mr Michael Barley Mrs J. M. Hartley Mr John Peaker Mrs Anne Fitzpatrick Mrs J. E. Baxendale Mrs Dorothy Heaton Dr John Pearson Charlie Fleischmann Andy Bent Mr Cliff Heckle Revd David Peters Ann Flowerday Mr Paul K. Berry Donald and Caroline David and Elizabeth Pioli Jeremy and Gillian French Steve Best Henderson Mr Victor Potapczuk Mrs Ruth Gooddie Mr D. J. Bird Mrs G. Hewitt Professor James Powell Mr and Mrs R. Green Mr Stuart Bishop Miss Pauline Hickey OBE Mr John Hannah Dr Howard Booth Mr and Mrs J. M. Hill Dr R. E. Price Mrs Bessie Harper Ms Annie Bracken Peter and Charlotte Hill Mrs Jean Proud Callum Harvey Arnold and Brenda Mrs J. M. Hindshaw Mr D. Radley Mr and Mrs D. Hawkes Bradshaw Mrs Dorothy Holt Mrs Beryl Ratcliffe Peter and Audrey Hewer Philip Broughton Mrs Janet Holwill Angus and Jenny Reynolds Mr Simon Hutchence Mr Dean Brown Dr W. Hoyle Mr Paul Reynolds Mrs Wendy Jeffs Karen Brown Mr H. Hughes and Mrs F. David and Elly Roberts Mr Nicholas and Dr Mary Miss S. R. Brown Hughes Mrs A. Rose Jones Peter Burgess David Humphries David and Maggie Mr J. G. Knox Barbara and Anthony Mrs Glynis Hunter Rowlands Mr and Mrs B. H. Lawrence Butcher Dr Steven Hurst Mrs Susan Rowlands Mr and Mrs R. W. Lee Miss Christine Bywater Joyce Hytner Professor Michael G. Mel Littler Miss Christine S. Catherall Mrs Heather Jobling Rusbridge Alan Lowe Mrs B. Y. Chubb Mr Howard Johnson Mrs J. Ryner Mr T. Marsden Mrs Kathleen Cleary Mrs Jean Johnson Martin and Gail Sanderson Stephen and Jacqueline Mrs Gina Collison Mr Alan Jones Mrs Jan Schofield Miley Mr David Cooke David and Fae Jones Mr James A. Scott Mrs Alison Milford Mr H. C. Cowen Christine and Michael Mr Simon Shelbourn Gordon and Jess Minton Mrs Frances Critchley Jones Mr C. and Mrs T. Shepherd Philip and Margaret Morey Mr John Critchley Alma Jones and in memory Mr Michael J. Shiels Miss Maire Morton TD of Frank Jones Mr and Mrs C. Smith Mr and Mrs J. P. Platt Mrs J. D. Darwent Mr Trefor Jones Charles and Helen Smith Malcolm and Morag Dr D. Dawson Miss Brunhilde Kay Mr Roger Smith Ranson Mr and Mrs B. A. DeSousa Mr and Mrs Rex Keen Mr Alan Spier Mr Michael Redhead Mrs Joyce Dewhurst Ian Leonard Mr and Mrs R. T. and C. M. Canon C. Roberts Mrs Marie Dixon Jennifer and Paul Stafford Joan and Graham Rogers Ann and Donald Docker Lingwood Mr Dennis Staunton Dr T. and P. E. Schur Mr Paul Durham Mr Harry Lipson Mr Frank Stoner and Mrs Phil Thornley Mrs D. Dyer Mrs Dorothea Livesey Margaret Dudley-Stoner Mr John Turner Mr E. Alan Eaves Virginia and Peter Lloyd Mrs Carla Suter Mrs M Warrener Miss E. Evans Mr and Mrs M. and A. Mrs Norma Swan Mr J. C. White David Farrow Losse Mrs M. E. Thompson Professor Richard Whitley Dr Larissa Fast Mr Kevin Lyons Mr John Thomson Mr John Wildman Mr B. Fitton Mr F. P. S. and Mrs D. A. B. Mrs Jean Tracy Jack and Elizabeth Miss Charlotte Fitzgerald Marriott Mrs Jackie Tucker Wimpenny Mr George Fletcher Dr and Mrs P. J. Marriott Tom Uprichard Joan Wood Mr Alan Freeman Mrs C. Mason Mrs Barbara Upton In loving memory of Helen Dr Tim Gartside Mr Michael Mattison Mr Peter and the late Mrs Brave Mrs Elaine M. Gavin Mrs E. McCrone Diana van der Feltz In memory of Albert Mr Adrian Gerrard Mrs Angela McMenemy Derek Vernon Mesrie Mrs J. Gill John McPeake

≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 33 Jeffery and Judith Mr and Mrs S Beckett Mrs Margaret R Croker Mr A. L. Griffith Wainwright John Begg Mr and Mrs J. B. and Mrs Audrey Griffiths Mr Brian Walker Ms Rowena Beighton- Sylvia Crummett John Groarke Mr R. B. Walsh Dykes Dr C. S. Cundy Mr J. F. Austin Hall F. T. Walters Mrs Lois Beldon Hilary and Adrian Curtis James Hallows Mrs Anne Ward Mr P. Beresford Mr Alan Dagger Mrs Eveline Hamilton Mr George Watson Mr I. C. Berridge Mr Gerard Dale Mrs Sheila Hardy John and Christine Weller Mr G. N. Berry Jennifer Dale Mrs Helen Harrington Mrs Lynn Wharton Mr R. Berryman Mrs Jackie Dalingwater Dr W. David Harrison Mr Peter R. White Ms Rosemary Betterton Ms Maria Davies Mrs Judith Harrop J. Christopher Whitehead Mr David Bimson Mr G. J. Davison Mr David Hartley Mr A. Whittaker Mr A. Birch Mr Alan Dean Peter and Susan Mr Thomas Williams Mrs A. Birch Anne and John Dempsey Haslehurst Mr C. F. Winter Michael S. Birkett Mrs Wendy Dewey Tony Hayter Barry Wood Mr Robin Bissell Mr and Mrs I. Disley Mrs Susan Heard Hilary and the late Noel Mrs Diane Blackburn Professor Alexander Mr R. Heaton Woodhead Marilyn Booth Donnachie Mrs P. A. Hemstock Mrs Ann Woolliscroft Mrs Marjorie Boothby Mrs M. Downing Dr Kenneth Henderson Dr J. M. Worth MBE Helen Drew Mr John Herod D and M. Wright Mr John M. J. Bowden Miss Margaret Dunn Mr Thomas A. Heyes Dr David Yorke Mr Alan Brant Ms Louise Durose Mr and Mrs G. D. Heyward Mr Roger Brentnall Dr S. Dymock Dr Pamela Hobson A Music Lover John Bridgman Mr Gary East Mr Alex Hodgeon In memory of Margaret Mrs Susan Briggs Mr Barry Eastwood Mr Paul Holder Brailsford Mr David Britnor Mrs Stella Eberlein Mr Derek Hollingsworth In memory of O. Calvert Mr and Mrs Andrew R Ellershaw Dr Michael J Holloway In memory of Mr Tom Brochwicz-Lewinski Mr M Ellis Mr and Mrs M. Holmes Chadwick Ms Patricia Brock Mr and Mrs K. Else Mr R. Holmes In memory of Liz Glynn Mrs Gwyneth Brown Mr Peter English Miss Jeanne Holt In memory of D. S. Goodes Miss V. Brown Mrs J. M. Evans Mr Brian Hooley In memory of Dr D. B. Mr Ian Brownlee Mrs Christine Everett Mrs Ann Hooper Jones Mr A. Budworth Ms Julie M. Fallon Mrs M. Horan In memory of my parents Mrs Sarah Bunting Ms N. E. Farrell Mr John David Howard In memory of Mrs M. Mr and Mrs P. Burns Mr Steven Farrell Mrs C. M. Hughes McDonald Dr Kathy Burton Mrs Margaret Faulkner Mr J. G. B. Hunter In memory of Patsy Pringle David Burtson Mrs Cynthia Fenton Mrs Jacqueline Hurdle In memory of Dr Barbara Mrs Pauline Bushnell Mrs Wendy Fermor John Hytner Smith Peter Callon Steven Fidler Miss Susan Ingham In memory of John Mr Gerard Cambridge Mr Howard Fisher Mrs Helen Margaret Wallace Tonge Ms Shirley Campbell Mrs P. Fitzgerald Ireland Mr Geoffrey Carter Raymond and Eileen Flint Dr Melanie Isherwood ALLEGRO Mrs Pamela Carter Mr R. Foster Mr Paul Jabore Mr A. C. Abbas Mr J. K. Chadwick Ms Wendy Foulger Bridget Jackson Mrs Brenda Ackroyd Mr William Chadwick Mrs Augusta Fox Mrs J. A. Jackson Mr Chris Adams and Austin Chambers Mr Charles R. Fox Mrs I. J. Jackson Professor Rosemary Mrs J. Chambers Mr J. W. Fox Mr John Jackson Lucas Ms K. Chapple Miriam and Michael Fox Mr M. D. Jackson Mr Paul Adkins Mrs Margaret L. Chatfield David and Sylvia Francis Mrs Pauline Jackson Mr Paul Ager Mr Eric Chilton Mr R. F. Fry Mrs Emma Jacobs Mr Richard Alliss V. K. F. Ciaputa David and Joyce Fuller Miss Hilary Jarvis Mohammed Amin Mrs Betty Clee Miss A. M. Furphy Dr K. Jeffery Voxra Andersen Mrs Anne Clegg Mrs E. Galloway Mrs Christine Jenkinson Miss D. M. Ashworth Mrs C. Connor Peter Gannon Mr Mark Johnson Mr G. Aspey Mr Michael Connor John Gardner Mr R. Johnson Mrs Barbara Aspin Mrs Olive Cook Eileen Goodwin in memory Mrs A. Johnstone Mrs Barbara Austin Mr D. Cooper of Jack Mrs A. Jones Ms Elaine Bagley Mr Geoffrey D. Copage Mrs F. B. Grant Mrs J. M. Jones Mrs P. Barlow James Coppock Mr T. Greene Mr Fred Jones Mr C. Barton Mrs Joyce Cotgrave Ms Joy Greenwood Shirley Jones Dr A. J. Basey Mrs Barbara Cotterill Pamela Greenwood Mr D. J. Kay Mr and Mrs Melvyn Mr Richard Cowley Mr Stephen Gregory Mrs Angela Kendrick Bathgate Mr David Cresswell Mr J. C. B. Gregson Mr Andrew Kennaugh

34 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 Jack Kirby Mr and Mrs A. Newton Mr C. Rudd Dr Stephen Ward Miss B. Knight Mr Peter Newton Miss S. M. Salmon Mrs and Mr Susan and Dr W. F. Knox Mr Edward Nicholls Mr Peter Sampson Michael Warrington Mr Rainer Kolbeck Mr and Mrs Jonathan Mr J. B. Sangster Mr and Mrs J. M. Watson Mrs Pat Kundi Noble Mr Gerald Francis Schultz Mr and Mrs Bill Webb Dr Louis Kushnick Mr Thomas Nuhse Mrs Margaret Scott Miss Judith Weller Mr and Mrs Vivian Labaton Mrs L O’Connor Mr Robert Scott Mrs Pamela Wells Mrs Lillian Langshaw Mr Stephen O’Hagan Mrs Carol Selby Mr Robert Wensley Dr Hugh Laverty Mr Stephen Oliver-Watts Alison Sellars Mr Werbel Mrs Alison Lawrence Mr Martin Olley Mr Andrew Senior Mrs A. G. Whaley Mr and Mrs E. Layland Mr B. H. O’Neill Mr Maurice Setton Mr P. N. Whitaker David and Pam Leaver Ms Angela Owen Mr Christopher Sharp Mrs H. Whitehead Charles Ledigo Mrs M. Owen Mr David J. Shearing Eric Whittaker Mr R. Lee Mr Michael Owen Mr S. W. Shone Mrs Petronella Whittle Mr Graham J Lees Mrs Christine Owens Mrs Eileen Short Mr Kenneth Wigley Mrs S. Leete Graham and Dorothy Mr P. Sidwell Mrs L. Wilkinson Mr Howard Leigh Palmer Mr Chris Simon Professor Arthur Williams Mr John K. Lewis Mr and Mrs K. Parker Mrs J. K. Slack Mr and Mrs A. J. Williams Mrs S. Lewis Mr R. K. Parker Dr A. J. and Mrs J. M. Mrs Margaret Williams Mrs Susan G. Lewis Mrs Rosemary Parsons Smith Mrs H. J. Williamson Mrs A. Leyland Mrs Ann Patterson Mrs Anne Smith Mr A. Willows Mr John Liles Mrs M. Pattinson Mr Lionel Smith Mrs Margaret Wilson Mrs Anne Livesey Mr Alan Pearson Dr J. Spangler Mr Stephen Wilson Pam and Gordon Lorimer Mrs Pauline Pedlar Mr M. Spoors Mrs Kathleen Mrs Barbara Lowe Mr J. D. Perry Mrs Joyce Stafford Winterbottom Mr C. A. Lowe Mary Pexton Mrs C. M. Stead Ms Janet Wolff Dr Marion E. Mackay R. and E. Philburn Mrs P. Steed Mr and Mrs Chris Mr David MacKley Dr Max Pilotti Mrs Jane Stephens Wolstenholme Mrs Sarah C. Maddock Mr John Piper Mr Paddy Stephenson Mrs Margot Wood Mrs Barbara Maitra Mr M. Pittam Mr J. R. Stuart Mr and Mrs S. Wood Mr D. F. Mardon Mr J. Platt Mrs Sally Sturt Dr Zoe and Roderick Mrs B. Marples Mrs Lynne Powell Mrs C. Summerfield Woodhead Dr and Mrs Martin Mr Lee Price J. B. and J. W. Sutcliffe Mr Terry Woodhouse Mr Michael Martindale Mrs Frances Prince Miss Sykes-Howden Mr T Woolfenden Mrs Dianne Massey Mrs Jean Pugh Dr D. P. M. Symmons Miss A. F. W. Woolley Mr M. D. Masters Mrs Jennifer Rae Mr J. P. Syner Mr Norton Wragg Mrs Wendy Maunders Mrs Sheila Ramsay Mr T. Tarpey Dr M. Wren Mrs Anne McCormack Mr Stuart Ramsden Mr J. Taylor Anna Wright Mr J. McCrory Mr and Mrs Alan K. Mrs J. Taylor Mrs Helen Wright Mr J. McGough Rawson Mrs Lesley Taylor Mr Keith Wright Mrs T. R. McGough Mr Paul Raynor Mr M. Taylor Mr Angus Yeaman Mr Brian McGrath Dr Redford Rosemary and Roger Mrs Sylvia McKellar Mrs M. Redmond Taylor Mrs Hinda Meggit Miss Karen Redmore Mr D. F. Thickbroom A Music Lover Mr John Meriton Mrs Susan Renshaw Jim and Stella Thomas In memory of Roger Bogg Miss Audrey Messenger Mrs A. Richardson Michael Thomas In memory of Margaret Dr John P. Miller Mrs S. Rigby Mrs S. K. Thomas Cooke Mr Roger Miller Mrs Christina Roberts Miss Marie Thompson In memory of Mr G. E. Mr Robert Millington Elizabeth and Hugh Mr Philip Thompson Huggins Mr Andrew C. Mitchell Roberts Mr Terence P. Thornton In memory of Bill and Mr Tim Mitchell Mrs Winifred Robertson Mrs J. Tims Florrie Mathews Miss G. Mobb Mrs Doreen Robinson Mr D. Allan Townsend In Memory of Derek Anthony and Linda Mooney Mrs Kathleen Robson Mr and Mrs P. Trickett Michael Melluish obe Mrs Gillian Moorhouse Mr Mark Robson Mr and Mrs Brian Tuffery In memory of Dr Nathan Mrs Jennifer Moorhouse Mr Colin Rogers Mrs J. Turner and Mrs Shlosberg Dr Richard Morgan Valerie and Howard Mrs Barbara Twiney Mr S. J. Morley Rogerson Mr W. W. Wagstaff Dr M. G. Mortimer Mr Philip Roper Mr Angus Walker Mr and Mrs Muir Mrs J. A. Round Mr P. R. Walker Mr A. Murray Mr J. Roundell Mrs Sylvia Walker Mr V. Murray Mr Raymond Rouse Mr W. A. Walker Dr Granville Neath Miss P. Rowland Mr John Ward

≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 35 MANY THANKS TO ...

HOLDERS OF THE HALLE SILVER MEDAL SUPPORTERS OF THE OGLESBY CENTRE AT FOR PHILANTHROPY HALLÉ ST PETER’S Stewart Grimshaw The Oglesby Charitable Trust Michael and Jean Oglesby The Monument Trust Terry and Penny Moore The Dunard Fund Arthur Reynolds The Foyle Foundation Jurgen Maier Garfield Weston Foundation Granada Foundation The Kirby Laing Foundation Victoria Wood Foundation 2058 FOUNDATION The Wolfson Foundation PRINCIPAL BENEFACTORS and all those who supported The Oglesby Challenge Mr Martin McMillan obe and and those who wish to remain anonymous Mrs Pat McMillan The Oglesby Charitable Trust Fred Nash and Carole Nash obe AMERICAN PATRONS Tiger Developments Carol E. Domina CIM Investment Management Ltd Caroline Firestone DLA Piper LLP Rita Z. Mehos Rothschild Christa Percopa Arthur Reynolds MAJOR BENEFACTORS Annette Vass Peter Heath David and Mary McKeith Brother (UK) Ltd PZ Cussons plc LONDON PATRONS Nigel Warr Joyce Hytner David Wertheim and Family John Nickson and Simon Rew Kirby Laing Foundation Kobler Trust Martin and Jacqueline West

The 2058 Foundation is a restricted fund of the Hallé Concerts Society established in the Hallé’s 150th Anniversary year to support specific artistic and education projects.

36 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 THE HALLÉ WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE HALLÉ FAMILY OF BENEFACTORS FOLLOWING TRUSTS FOR THEIR ONGOING Mrs A. Alford SUPPORT Mr C. K. Andrews The Monument Trust Mr and Mrs Black The Oglesby Charitable Trust In Memory of Rabbi Felix Carlebach from his family, friends and supporters Pamela Cate Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Mr Peter Copping The Foyle Foundation Miss Rebecca Louise Finch Granada Foundation Mrs Vivian Glass Garfield Weston Foundation Mr Harry Johnson The Kirby Laing Foundation Mr A. and the late Mrs A. Johnson The Liz And Terry Bramall Foundation Kenneth Kay The Victoria Wood Foundation Mr C. H. Pooley The Wolfson Foundation Brian and Glenna Robson The Zochonis Charitable Trust Bernadette Rudman Mr and Mrs R. P. Shepherd JP DL Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Lynne and Bob Spencer The Ann Susman Charitable Trust Mr and Mrs Brian Tetlow The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust Trust The Boltini Trust Boshier Hinton Foundation Church Burgesses Educational Foundation D’oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dunard Fund The Gladys Jones Charitable Trust The Grand Trust CIO The Harding Trust The Derek Hill Foundation John Horniman’s Children’s Trust The Irving Memorial Trust Land & Co. Foundation The Leche Trust Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust McLay Dementia Trust The N Smith Charitable Settlement Paul Hamlyn Foundation Peter Cunningham Memorial Fund Cecil Pilkington Charitable Trust The Pilkington General Charity PRS for Music Foundation The Radcliffe Trust The Rainbow Dickinson Trust The Rix_Thompson-Rothenberg Foundation RUSI (The Royal United Services Institute) Schroder Charity Trust The Sobell Trust Sir George Martin Trust Sale Mayoral Fund The Thriplow Charitable Trust and others who wish to remain anonymous

≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 | 37 ≥ SEASON SPONSORS

Diamond Partner Major Sponsor

With thanks to Manchester Airports Group for 30 years of support.

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38 | ≥ WINTER SEASON 2020/21 NEW YORK

Many thanks to our family of Workplace Choirs

HALLÉ BUSINESS CLUB

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PATRON CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S OFFICE HALLÉ CONNECT HRH The Countess of Wessex gcvo David Butcher * EDUCATION VICE PRESIDENTS Alison Lever Steve Pickett * Isabelle Orford Joanna Brockbank A. Martin McMillan obe Edward Pysden FINANCE Hayley Parkes Ruth Harkin * HALLÉ CONNECT BOARD Matthew Wyatt ENSEMBLES ELECTED DIRECTORS Lourdes Román Naomi Benn * David McKeith [CHAIRMAN] Jo Pink Sharon Amesu VENUES Martin Glynn * Isabelle Orford Alex Connock Verity Riley Darren Drabble Tyrone Holt Tim Edge Everett Parry † CHORAL LEADERSHIP NETWORK Edward Cittanova Anna Stutfield Juergen Maier cbe Linda Merrick David Roberts SPONSORSHIP AND John Phillips cbe ARTISTIC PLANNING FUNDRAISING Merryl Webster Anna Hirst * Kath Russell * Aileen Wiswell mbe Louise Hamilton Eleanor Roberts Andrea Stafford Susanna Caudwell NOMINATED DIRECTORS Sue Voysey Amy Adebola GREATER MANCHESTER COMBINED Charlie Widdicombe AUTHORITY CONCERTS DEPARTMENT Eamonn Boylan Stuart Kempster * † COMMUNICATIONS Councillor Janet Emsley Lois Boa Andy Ryans * † ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT Peter Naish Liz Barras Councillor Azra Ali Chris Lewis Jenny Espin Harriet Hall CHIEF EXECUTIVE Anna Shinkfield David Butcher LIBRARY Louise Brimicombe DIGITAL FINANCE DIRECTOR Alice McIlwraith Bill Lam Ruth Harkin Riley Bramley-Dymond STAGE MANAGEMENT ORCHESTRAL NOMINEE Dan Gobey ARCHIVE Caroline Abbott Lawrie Bebb Eleanor Roberts Stuart Robinson †

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