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191025 A-Paris-Happening.Pdf 2019 CONCERT SEASON TEA AND SYMPHONY FRIDAY 25 OCTOBER, 11AM SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE CONCERT HALL The Lowy Chair of Chief Conductor and Artistic Director A Paris Happening Tea & Symphony with the Fellows Roger Benedict conductor Estimated durations: 16 minutes, 13 minutes, 10 minutes, 16 minutes. Nick Russoniello saxophone DARIUS MILHAUD (1892–1974) The concert will be performed without interval and will conclude at La Création du monde (The Creation of the World) approximately 12 noon. JACQUES IBERT (1890–1962) n n n n n n n n Chamber Concertino for alto saxophone and eleven instruments Cover image: Sydney Symphony Allegro con moto Double Bass Fellow David Barlow Larghetto – Animato molto (Photo by Anthony Geernaert) CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862–1918) Prélude à ‘L’aprés-midi d’un faune’ arr. Benno Sachs (1882–1969) JACQUES IBERT (1890–1962) Divertissement Introduction: Allegro vivo Cortège: Moderato molto – Animato subito Nocturne: Lento Valse: Animato assai Parade: Tempo di marcia Finale: Quasi cadenza – Vivo: Tempo di galop CONCERT DIARY NOVEMBER A Russian Gala Fri 8 Nov, 8pm Sat 9 Nov, 8pm BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV PERFORMS TCHAIKOVSKY Sydney Opera House TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No.1 RACHMANINOFF Symphony No.2 Lionel Bringuier conductor Behzod Abduraimov piano The Composer is Dead Sun 10 Nov, 1pm Sun 10 Nov, 2.45pm A SYDNEY SYMPHONY FAMILY EVENT Sydney Opera House STOOKEY & SNICKET The Composer is Dead Brett Kelly conductor Brendon Taylor The Inspector Andrew Haveron performs Mozart Mozart in the City Thu 14 Nov, 7pm BEETHOVEN The Ruins of Athens: Overture City Recital Hall MOZART Violin Concerto No.5 in A, K219 (Turkish) HAYDN Symphony No.100 (Military) Tea & Symphony Fri 15 Nov, 11am Andrew Haveron violin-director Sydney Opera House Lea Salonga in Concert Fri 15 Nov, 8pm Sat 16 Nov, 2pm WITH THE SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Sat 16 Nov, 8pm The Award-winning Broadway star and Disney legend, Sydney Opera House Lea Salonga, returns to Sydney following her 2017 sold out tour, performing songs from Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Aladdin, Frozen, The Greatest Showman and more. Lea Salonga Gerard Salonga conductor Paul Lewis in Recital International Pianists in Recital Mon 18 Nov, 7pm SCHUBERT Sonata in G, D894 City Recital Hall BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations Paul Lewis piano Turangalîla-Symphonie Thu 21 Nov, 7pm Sydney Opera House CELEBRATING DAVID ROBERTSON MESSIAEN Turangalîla-Symphonie David Robertson conductor Tengku Irfan piano Jacob Abela ondes martenot Skyfall in Concert Fri 22 Nov, 8pm Sat 23 Nov, 2pm James Bond on the big screen accompanied by the Sat 23 Nov, 8pm Sydney Symphony performing Thomas Newman's Sydney Opera House BAFTA-winning score live to the film! Nicholas Buc conductor SKYFALL LICENSED BY MGM. SKYFALL © 2012 DANJAQ, MGM. SKYFALL, AND RELATED JAMES BOND TRADEMARKS, TM DANJAQ. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. American Harmonies Thursday Afternoon Symphony Thu 28 Nov, 1.30pm CELEBRATING DAVID ROBERTSON Emirates Metro Series COPLAND Appalachian Spring: Suite Fri 29 Nov, 8pm ROUSE Bassoon Concerto Australian premiere Great Classics ADAMS Harmonielehre Sat 30 Nov, 5pm David Robertson conductor Sydney Opera House Todd Gibson-Cornish bassoon THE ARTISTS © KEITH SAUNDERS KEITH © Roger Benedict conductor Roger Benedict’s career as a conductor has been Roger has gained admiration for his adventurous enriched by more than two decades as a principal and imaginative programming and for his player in some of the world’s leading orchestras, dedication to outreach and community activity – by his extensive work as a soloist and chamber including through presenting concerts and musician, and through his deep involvement in workshops in schools, prisons and corporate orchestral training and development. settings. Equally passionate about using music to Roger holds the positions of Chief Conductor raise awareness and support for charitable and senior lecturer in viola at the Sydney causes, Roger conceived and conducted the Conservatorium of Music and has been Artistic highly successful Concert for Life at Sydney Town Director of the Sydney Symphony Fellowship Hall in September 2015, raising nearly $40,000 for Program since 2002. From 1991-2000 he was suicide prevention. Principal Viola of the Philharmonia Orchestra, As a viola soloist Roger has appeared with the London, before taking up the same position in the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic A frequent guest conductor with the Sydney Orchestra, and the Ulster Orchestra in the UK as Symphony Orchestra, Roger has conducted the well as the Sydney Symphony, Canberra Orchestra in subscription concerts as well as for Symphony, New Zealand Symphony and the special events. He regularly conducts the Sydney Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa. Symphony Fellows, including their concerts at the Roger Benedict’s recital CD Volupté was Sydney Opera House and on tour. He also appears selected as one of the 10 best recordings of 2010 as a conductor with other orchestras in the region by theclassicalreview.com. His recording of including the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Vaughan Williams’ Flos Campi with the Sydney the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, and in the Symphony was released in 2011, and a disc of UK with the Southbank Sinfonia. A devoted music by Hans Gál and Ernst Krenek (Voices in orchestral trainer, he has coached the European the Wilderness) in 2014. His latest recording, Union Youth Orchestra since 2000, and is a A Winter’s Tale, with pianist Simon Tedeschi, frequent conductor of Australian Youth Orchestra was released in 2018. and National Youth Orchestra (UK) programs. In his work with the Sydney Symphony Fellows, 5 © JACQUIE MANNING Nick Russoniello saxophone Nick Russoniello, one of Australia’s most dynamic Alongside his performance achievements Nick’s young artists, enjoys an exciting and varied original compositions for saxophone have been performance career both in Australia and abroad. performed internationally, including at the recent Nick has been the recipient of a number of major world saxophone congress in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2019 awards including the ABC Symphony Australia Young Nick composed a new original film score to Charlie Performer of the Year Award and the Fine Music Kruger Chaplin’s The Immigrant and will be recording his third Scholarship. Nick has appeared as a soloist with the studio album. Nick will also be presenting his original Adelaide, Canberra, Queensland, Melbourne and music at the Royal College of Music (London), Royal Sydney Symphony Orchestras. Northern College of Music (Manchester) and is Nick appears as a guest musician with Australia’s undertaking a composition residency at Strasbourg leading ensembles, these include the Sydney Conservatoire (France). Nick is currently a doctoral Symphony Orchestra, Australian World Orchestra, candidate at the University of Sydney, and an Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Acacia Quartet, associate artist of The Australian Music Centre. Omega Ensemble, and Sydney Camerata. He is a sought-after chamber musician and performs regularly as a member of Continuum Sax, Duo Histoire and the Golden Age Quartet. 6 ABOUT THE MUSIC Darius Milhaud (1892–1974) La Création du monde (The Creation of the World) Many of the jazz-inspired works of the 1920s by ‘serious’ composers now strike us as period pieces. Of those that do not, Milhaud’s La Création du monde stands out as pungently memorable, not only nostalgic, but an ever-fresh concert hall standard. It was composed for a ‘jazz’ ballet, on a scenario by poet, novelist and journalist Blaise Cendrars. Sets and costumes were by Fernand Léger, and the choreography by Jean Börlin. The commission was from the Ballets Suédois of Rolf de Maré, one of Diaghilev’s rivals among Paris impresarios, and the first performance Darius Milhaud, 1930s was given in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on 15 October 1923. Cendrars had recently edited a collection of African folk tales, and his IN BRIEF ballet scenario portrayed the creation myth as told in African legend. Milhaud’s The Creation of the World is Giant gods, trees which impregnate the earth with their seed, leaves one of the first ‘jazz ballets’ reflecting transformed into animals, men and girls emerging from the trees and what is sometimes called the Parisian performing a mating dance, until they disperse, leaving a single couple jazz age of the 1920s. The work is in six on stage, united in love. Léger’s setting was inspired by primitive African linked movements, although Milhaud art, with animal costumes in dazzling colours, with strange beaks, and pointedly leaves out any descriptive totem figures. The backdrop was cubed and squared, with horned titles in the printed score. The ballet, creatures and undulating clouds. Léger had wanted his animal skins to after an overture, depicted the earth be inflatable, an idea which had to be dropped because the sound of emerging from chaos, the creation of whooshing gas would have drowned out the orchestra! plants and animals, then a human Milhaud’s music was written for a band of 19 soloists, with prominent couple and their desire before the piano and percussion – the exact instrumentation of the African- coming of the first spring. American opera Liza, by Maceo Pinkard, which Milhaud had heard in New York’s Harlem. From his time in Rio as secretary to Paul Claudel, the French ambassador to Brazil (1916-18), Milhaud had travelled extensively and heard many exotic musics. But all their influences were thoroughly integrated into his evolving personal style. In Paris, Milhaud himself could be considered exotic. The prominent saxophone in La Création du monde, which presents in the prelude a darkly lyrical theme which will return in a kind of rondo structure, has obvious jazz associations. But it also recalls the pioneering saxophone part in Bizet’s L’Arlésienne, music for a play set in Milhaud’s native Provence. ‘Provence,’ Milhaud once wrote, ‘reaches all the way from Constantinople to Rio.’ The major/minor contours of the saxophone theme also recall Milhaud’s family origins, suggesting an affinity between the experience of the black and the Jewish races.
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