Evandale, Spring 2017 Fri 27—Sun 29 October 1 About the Festival A message from the How wonderful to be welcoming you Premier of Tasmania to listen to world-class chamber music in intimate venues sprinkled Welcome to the inaugural Tasmanian around Evandale. Chamber Music Festival. Thank you to our great line-up of This event promises a feast of fine musicians for agreeing to be in this classical music and gourmet cuisine, inaugural Festival. and is set among some of Tasmania’s most exquisite historic homes and Thank you to the Tasmanian gardens. Government through Events Tasmania for believing in this project. We have some of Australia’s oldest and best preserved heritage places We have a very special group of and precincts, including Evandale individuals who are passionate about in northern Tasmania where the music and pledged their financial Festival is taking place. The Festival support to become Founding Patrons, adds to our thriving arts and cultural I am totally indebted to Philip Bacon scene which attracts thousands of AM, Kay Bryan, Julia Farrell, Pauline visitors to our island state each year. Menz, Rosalind O’Connor and the Graeme Wood Foundation. The Tasmanian Government is a strong supporter of the cultural and To our sponsors, committees and creative industries, and is proud to many helpers, thank you for making support the inaugural Tasmanian this dream of a chamber music Chamber Music Festival. festival come true. I’m sure it will be an uplifting and Enjoy everything that this wonderful memorable experience for all state has to offer, great music, involved. heritage, food, wine and interesting people. Will Hodgman Premier Allanah Dopson Director 2 The Festival Program A weekend of superb Chamber music Friday Evening Saturday Sunday 27th October 28th October 29th October Tinalley String Quartet Genevieve Lacey and Piers Lane AO Marshall McGuire Quartets by Piano recital in the Mendelssohn, Barber A varied program for Barrel Hall followed and Dvořák, followed recorder and harp in the by lunch (3 courses by supper at Clarendon beautiful 1837 Anglican with matched wines). House Church Christopher Lawrence in 7.30pm 11am conversation with Piers Lane in the restaurant Tinalley String Quartet of the stunning Josef Quartets by Mendelssohn Chromy Vineyard. and Tchaikovsky at the 11am much photographed Uniting Church Marshall McGuire 2pm An intimate concert of harp music across the Van Diemen’s Band with centuries at Harland Genevieve Lacey Rise Barn Enter a rich world 4pm of Italian Baroque instrumental music at the Falls Pavillion, featuring recorder concertos by Sammartini and Vivaldi 7.30pm 3 TOURISM TASMANIA & MICHAEL WALTERS PHOTOGRAPHY Evandale Evandale sits perfectly above the the Australian landscape tradition. fertile South Esk River, 19km south Beginning with John Glover in 1831, east of Launceston. Named Collins of nearby Patterdale, thence Robert Hill by Governor Macquarie in Dowling, W.C. Piguenit and Tom 1811 and surveyed by G.W. Evans Roberts of the Heidelberg School. as a military station, it is one of The area became in the words of Tasmania’s finest Colonial landscape Roberts, ‘Glover Country’. Evandale ensembles. The great Cox Farm, is now home to Australia’s richest Clarendon, is nearby at Nile. The landscape prize: The Glover Prize. entry to the town sports a ‘Roman’ Each year Australian artists send water tower, Blenheim Inn and works responding to the Tasmanian portico (1832), and paired Grecian landscape, then hung in the airy and Gothic churches. At Solomon Evandale Falls Pavillion, judged House (1836), left into Russell St, against their subject. The inspiration painted by Colonial artists John continues. Richardson Glover, and convict Dr Costantini. Evandale sits at the centre Warwick Oakman of the Colonial landscape, launching 4 JENNIFER STACKHOUSE Why I enjoy spring in Tasmania Spring in a cool climate is an exciting spring by other blossom trees such time, especially for gardeners. Not as apple, cherry, crabapple and pear. only does the landscape spring By the time bluebells, tulips, iris, back into life from the grey depths clematis, wisteria, lilacs and of winter, but days get longer and rhododendrons add more colour, sunnier, and temperatures get gardens appear to have reached a warmer. Insects and birds reappear spring crescendo but there’s more as flowers bloom adding their sounds to come. Roses begin to flower too to the scented spring air. – first the climbers then the shrub As mild days continue, spring in roses – along with spring annuals northern Tasmania just gets better and perennials. as more flowers join those already In the vegetable garden, brown in full bloom. In warm climates, earth gives way to green leaves as spring can be transitory as sudden early plantings start to grow and hot spells or drying winds blow the flourish. Asparagus spears appear petals away but under Tasmania’s and rhubarb leaves unfurl as peas, benign temperatures, spring builds broad beans and delicately flavoured up in layers. English spinach and peppery radish The show begins slowly in late winter are ready to pick. New spring leaves with early bulbs including jonquils, on trees and shrubs add depth and narcissus, daffodils and snowflakes volume to the colourful floral mix showing gold and white against the while lawns grow lush and green all stark silver and grey of deciduous combining to erase the last of the plants. Magnolias and the pink and winter grey. white flowers of ornamental plums chime in to be followed in early Jennifer Stackhouse 5 Concert 1 Tinalley String Quartet Friday 27 October | 7.30pm | Clarendon Barn Performers Program Adam Chalabi – violin Mendelssohn String Lerida Delbridge – violin Quartet Op. 12 no.1 Justin Williams – viola Barber Adagio from Michelle Wood – cello String Quartet Op. 11 Dvorak String Quartet in F major Op.96b.179 American Followed by supper at Clarendon House 6 Program Notes String Quartet in E flat Major, Op. 12, No. 1 - Felix Mendelssohn(1809 -1847) i. Adagio non troppo - Allegro non tardante ii. Canzonetta: Allegretto iii. Andante espressivo iv. Molto allegro e vivace Written at the tender age of 20, the The second movement, the charming E flat Quartet was Mendelssohn’s Canzonetta, is quintessential second foray into string quartet Mendelssohn. It is difficult to think writing; his first Quartet, Op. 13 had of another composer so adept at been completed two years earlier. It creating such delicate textures is well recorded that Mendelssohn which charm at every turn. In the was a great admirer of Beethoven third movement, we feel the full and his first two quartets display weight of Beethoven’s presence. great reverence towards the Rich, expressive string writing; full compositions of the great master. bodied in its conception and with Mendelssohn reportedly wrote to a a dramatic tension one associates former teacher “nobody can forbid with the young Mendelssohn, always me to enjoy the inheritance left by wide-eyed and not yet suffering the great masters nor continue to the tempestuous of manhood. The work at it, because not everybody stormy finale is always restless has to begin at the beginning. But and unsettled, yet the charm of then it must be continued creation Mendelssohn is never far away and according to one’s ability, and combined with the perfect amount not a lifeless repetition of what is of ‘Beethovenian’ zeal and tumult. already there”. The first movement A fiery violin cadenza ushers in the opens with a poignant, lamenting closing moments of the movement, Adagio, pleading with its use of the entire quartet fleshing out ostinato quaver steps and diminished multiple unison passages before intervals, before launching into a the anguish of the opening bars of pastoral-like Allegro. Mendelssohn the first movement returns, quickly wrote his Op. 12 whilst traveling in melting into the opening Allegro. England, which comes as no surprise Mendelssohn brilliantly envelops the as the second violin and viola composition in a cocoon of warmth quavers may well be reminiscent of and sated passion. a babbling brook, just as the broad sweeping gestures of the first violin and cello may indeed evoke vistas of gently rolling hills and pastures. 7 Barber - Adagio from String Quartet Op. 11 Samuel Barber remains one of Europe into a stage of war, struck a the most performed American chord with the American public; it’s composers of the 20th Century. simplicity of expression presenting His Adagio for Strings is possibly raw feelings of bereavement in a his best-known work and is known distinctly honest way. throughout the world as an American The Adagio is most famous in its elegy. It was famously broadcast string orchestra arrangement, after the announcement of the deaths however Barber originally composed of President Franklin D. Roosevelt the Adagio as the second movement and President John F. Kennedy, and of his Op. 11 String Quartet in 1936, was performed at the BBC Proms in rearranging it for larger forces 2001 in memory of the victims of the shortly after completing the quartet September 11 attacks. It received version. Heard in its quartet version, its world premiere in New York in the immense expressive lyricism 1938 at the NBC Studios under the is more intimate and personal, and baton of the great Italian conductor although at the climax the breadth of Toscanini, who had fled Fascist Italy sound is not as great, the emotional a year earlier and had been warmly force is by no means confined. It is embraced by the American people. an example of simple contrapuntal Its premiere, at a time when America writing with masterful treatment that was still recovering from the Great communicates the core of the Depression and Hitler was turning human spirit. String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op.