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Wendy Plays MATINEE 4 MATINEE SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2.30PM FEDERATION CONCERT HALL Gérard Korsten conductor DUKAS Wendy Page horn Villanelle Duration 6 mins HAYDN Symphony No 83, The Hen Allegro spiritoso INTERVAL Andante Duration 20 mins Menuet: Allegretto Finale: Vivace SCHUMANN Duration 23 mins Symphony No 3, Rhenish Lebhaft MOZART Scherzo: Sehr massig Horn Concerto No 2 Nicht schnell Allegro maestoso Feierlich Andante Lebhaft Rondo Duration 32 mins Duration 16 mins We are proud to support the This concert will end at approximately Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra 4.30pm. Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra concerts are broadcast and streamed throughout Australia and around the world by ABC Classic FM. We would appreciate your cooperation in keeping coughing to a minimum. Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off. 27 5580 TSO Milton Ad for Program 2015_July.indd 1 17/07/2015 9:43 am JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809) Symphony No 83 in G minor, The Hen Allegro spiritoso Andante Menuet: Allegretto Finale: Vivace GÉRARD KORSTEN WENDY PAGE Haydn’s Symphony No 83, nicknamed “The Hen”, was one of six symphonies Gérard Korsten is Principal Conductor Wendy Page was born in Darwin and grew (Nos 82-87, written in 1785-86) of the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra, commissioned by Count Claude-Claude- up in Derby in the Kimberley region of François-Marie-Rigoley d’Ogny for the Bregenz. Born in South Africa, he began Western Australia, and Narrogin, south-east aristocratic Concert de la Loge Olympique his career as a violinist after studying in Paris where Haydn, in his mid-50s, was of Perth. There she began her formal music with Ivan Galamian at the Curtis Institute writing for easily the biggest orchestra and and Sándor Végh in Salzburg. Following education, commencing with the piano probably the most glittering audience so far in his career. The “Paris” works were his studies in the US and Europe, he and, as part of the local government school tried out “at home” at his patron’s estate, music program, took up the euphonium, JOSEPH HAYDN became Concertmaster and Assistant Ezsterháza in Hungary, but the effect of the Music Director of the Camerata Salzburg followed by the horn at age 16. She works in the French capital (where Haydn, and later Concertmaster of the Chamber completed her Bachelor of Music at the it must be remembered, never actually but in this work he writes a new theme – Orchestra of Europe. He held the position heard them) must have been shattering. the one that gives the piece its nickname. School of Music, University of Western The music director of the Orchestre de la (Needless to say, the nickname came a long of Principal Conductor of the State Theatre Australia, studying modern horn with Loge Olympique was the flamboyant Afro- time after Haydn, and had nothing to do in Pretoria and the Uppsala Chamber Heidi Kepper and Classical and Baroque French composer (and fencing champion) with him). It’s easy to spot: the oboe starts an Orchestra before he was appointed Music Saint-Georges, who had assembled a band obsessive repetition on one note, while the Director of the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico horn with Darryl Poulson. In her final year which was vast by the standards of the first violins play the tune whose grace notes di Cagliari. In Cagliari he conducted of study she was appointed Associate Ezsterháza ensemble, with 40 violins, 10 gave someone the idea that it sounded like double basses and a correspondingly large a hen. In fact though, the work’s greatest the first Italian performances of Richard Principal Horn of the West Australian wind section. The orchestra’s uniform – sky interest arguably lies in the dramatic Strauss’ Die ägyptische Helena, Weber’s Symphony Orchestra and, in 2002, blue with swords – must have been quite outbursts of the slow movement, the rustic Euryanthe, Delius’ A Village Romeo and Principal Horn of the Tasmanian Symphony something too. charm of the menuet and the energy of the finale. Juliet and Schubert’s Alfonso und Estrella, Orchestra. Her solo engagements with the The Symphony No 83 is a little unusual in addition to the core operatic repertoire. for the set for a couple of reasons. It is Abridged from a note by Gordon Kerry TSO have included Schumann’s Adagio and In 2009 he was appointed Music Director (nominally at least) in a minor key, which © 2006 Allegro, Concertstück for Four Horns (which of the London Mozart Players, a position harks back to the emotionally volatile works of Haydn’s so-called Sturm und Drang he relinquished in 2014. Recent highlights she performed with the other members of The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra first performed symphonies of the mid-1770s. It should the TSO horn section), Britten’s Serenade this work with conductor Patrick Thomas in Hobart have included debuts with the Deutsche be said, though, that Haydn gets any on 23 August 1979 and, most recently, with Howard Oper Berlin, Hungarian State Opera, BBC for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Haydn’s Horn minor angst out of his system in the first Shelley in Hobart on 27 May 2006. Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Hong Concerto No 2, Mozart’s Horn Concerto movement; by the time we reach the finale Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. In the all is pretty unambiguously major. The other No 4 and Richard Strauss’s Horn Concerto major difference between this work and its 2015/16 season Gérard Korsten returns No 1. She has a special interest in the stablemates is the use of a new theme as to Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Classical hand horn. In addition to her second subject in the first movement. Put Gävle Symphony Orchestra and Adelaide simply, almost every first movement of a orchestral career, she is active as a chamber Symphony Orchestra, and makes his debut classical symphony will establish its key with a first subject or theme, and then modulate with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, musician and educator, mother of two to a new key for a second subject. Haydn young children and keeper of several hens Orchestre de chambre de Paris and was unusual for his time in preferring to Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. and a garden. re-use the first subject in the new key, 28 29 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791) PAUL DUKAS (1865-1935) ARR DONALD MILLER (BORN 1933) Horn Concerto in E flat major, K 417 Allegro maestoso Villanelle Andante In June 1906 Gabriel Fauré, then director In concert, Villanelle is commonly Rondo of the Paris Conservatoire, commissioned performed with orchestra – against Dukas’ The early months of 1783 were particularly Paul Dukas to write a challenging horn dying wishes. The composer felt ambivalent happy ones for Mozart. He had established piece for students to perform in their July about the piece’s accompaniment. his credentials as an opera composer examinations. Though Dukas composed his Though he wrote it for horn and piano, with Die Entführing aus dem Serail (The Villanelle for horn and piano in a few weeks, he had initially planned to whip up an Abduction from the Seraglio), he had a it was far from a rushed job. “It ended up orchestral accompaniment when he had number of piano students and he very greatly amusing me to write”, he said in “more leisure”. But in 1919, the highly astutely carved a niche for himself as a a letter to his publisher, Jacques Durand, self-critical Dukas wrote a letter to his composer and performer of brilliant piano on 24 June, the day after finishing the friend, the music reviewer Robert Brussel concertos. These were the mainstay of his manuscript. The composer had completed condemning the piece from being heard in career and income from late 1782 to 1786. the work at 1.30am – only after receiving such an arrangement: “I do not want this He had been married the previous year, and a telegram from Fauré urging him to get a examination piece to become a concert WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART piece, and the best way to do this is never as he wrote: move on. Villanelle received its premiere at the Opéra-Comique hall on 28 July – to orchestrate it.” My whole company consists of my little that the poor horn player put them in order the students’ public examination in which Dukas did indeed orchestrate the Villanelle, wife who is pregnant, and hers consists again. Often Leutgeb would find “messages” Dukas was also an adjudicator. The work but destroyed the arrangement. In fact, of her little husband, who is not pregnant, scrawled on his music by the composer: has since been warmly accepted into the he burned many unpublished manuscripts but fat and flourishing. “Go it, Signor Asino” [little ass] – “Take a little breath” – “Wretched pig” – “Thank horn repertoire, and the joy Dukas gained shortly before he died and left us with just The Mozarts’ first child, Raimund Leopold, God, here’s the end.” And Mozart’s from writing it can be heard across various 12 major pieces, each in a different musical was born in June. dedication of the Horn Concerto, K 417, modern arrangements. form. The Villanelle is his only surviving chamber work, but over the years Dukas’ Composers’ states of mind don’t necessarily notes that he “has taken pity on Leutgeb, The short work takes its name from the initial orchestral instincts have been realised have a direct connection with the music ox, ass and fool, at Vienna, 27 March l783...” villanella, a 16th-century Italian song which by others, and popular orchestrations have they produce. With the Horn Concerto, is simple and dance-like in style.

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