East Meets West Chinese New Year Concert

Saturday 28 February at 6.30pm Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall

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OFFICIAL LANGUAGE PARTNER Welcome to East Meets West Chinese New Year Concert

I am pleased to send my best I am pleased to welcome back Welcome to Hamer Hall for the wishes to everyone attending the Grammy award-winning - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conductor Tan Dun to the East Meets West Chinese New Year Chinese New Year Concert, East Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for Concert. Following its inaugural Meets West. the celebration of 2015 Chinese concert last year, the MSO again Chinese New Year is a time to New Year. offers a superb evening of music gather with family and friends, enjoy Whilst the memory of last year’s marking the Chinese New Year with good food and to anticipate and marvellous concert under the helm an inclusive cultural celebration. celebrate the year ahead. of Tan Dun is still fresh, we have come The Victorian Government is proud As we welcome the Year of the to recognise its theme ‘East Meets to support the MSO, which plays an Sheep, it is an opportunity to West’ – arts have no boundary and important role in Victoria’s diverse acknowledge the achievements of serve to deepen cultural contact creative industry. Under the baton of the past twelve months, and to look and mutual understanding. It is award-winning Chinese conductor forward to a year of happiness and therefore significant for Tan Dun and and composer, Mr Tan Dun, this prosperity. his fellow artists to explore creative impressive international collaboration ways for this very purpose. For this demonstrates the rich cultural The Sheep symbolises success reason I lend my greatest support to heritage, diversity and creativity achieved through quiet fortitude. their commitment and efforts. that defines Victoria. This is true of the Australian-Chinese I would also like to applaud the The East Meets West Concert community which contributes so dedication of the Melbourne not only exemplifies Victoria and much to our national life. Symphony Orchestra and it China’s shared passion for the arts, China has been significant to successful collaboration with but also our strong friendship that Australia almost from our very Tan Dun, which set an excellent continues to grow through further beginning as a settled country. paradigm to promote cultural understanding and respect between exchanges. I congratulate their our cultures. Victoria is home to a Thousands of Chinese joined the gold achievement and look forward thriving Chinese community which rushes from the 1850s. There were to a grand show again to ring in makes a valuable contribution Chinese ANZACs at Gallipoli and the year of the Goat. to our State and enriches our on the Western Front. Today, China multicultural society. is our greatest trading partner, and I trust you will enjoy this night of our largest source of migrants and wonderful music which confirms Thank you to all who have supported international students. the friendship between the people the event. I wish all attendees a of China and Australia. happy, safe and prosperous Chinese In every part of our national life, New Year. Australians of Chinese ancestry have helped to build our modern nation. I wish everyone attending the East Meets West concert good health and prosperity for the coming year. Ma Zhaoxu Ambassador of the People’s The Hon Daniel Andrews MP Rebuplic of China to Australia Premier of Victoria

The Hon. Tony Abbott, MP Prime Minister of Australia

CHINESE NEW YEAR CONCERT 3 In the air of the Year of the Sheep Tonight, in welcoming you to the On behalf of the Melbourne festivity, the Melbourne Symphony second Chinese New Year Concert, Symphony Orchestra, I welcome Orchestra Chinese New Year Concert I point out that the year of the you to tonight’s Chinese New Year 2015 – the MSO’s annual event sheep is also known as the year Concert. presents once again an ‘East Meets of the goat. Whatever the animal, In 2012, when I took my West’ cultural feature in this cultural though, the people born in this year appointment as the MSO’s Managing metropolis. are, like sheep (or goats), tender, Director, I was immediately struck by In collaboration with maestro polite, filial, clever, and kind-hearted, Melbourne’s astonishing and vibrant Tan Dun, the MSO has turned the with a special sensitivity to art and cultural diversity. beauty. Among notable sheep are Chinese New Year concert into an As such, last season we inaugurated annual cultural event and a shared Michelangelo, Mark Twain and Nicole Kidman. what is now an annual celebration celebration of artistic excellence, of the Lunar New Year. After all, following a great success in 2014. Chinese New Year has been an East and West have long been pillars The concert features great works intrinsic part of Melbourne’s cultural of this city’s social, economic and from Western and Eastern traditions. tradition since the city’s earliest days. cultural life. What better way to Tan Dun’s work of Nu Shu: The Last year, the Melbourne Symphony express Melbourne’s thriving global Secret Songs of Women exposes Orchestra honoured the Lunar New culture than through music? the audience to a the diversified Year with the first of what we hope Chinese culture of unique traditions. will become an annual celebration Tonight’s concert, as you will see, is a tribute to East and West. It is Chinese New Year is an auspicious – a natural linking of eastern and western music. conducted by the Chinese maestro occasion for family reunion and and composer, Tan Dun, and get-together among friends. As This concert recognises the diversity features some extraordinarily the Year of the Sheep unfolds, the and brilliance of music directly evocative and challenging music concert will bring us a joyous and related to, or inspired by, eastern – including, I am thrilled to say, one memorable experience. I believe themes. We are particularly of Tan Dun’s most ambitious and the cultural exchange will further delighted to welcome back the moving works. enhance the understandings and great Chinese composer, Tan Dun, friendship between our two peoples. who is tonight’s concert. Our ambition is to secure the The program includes one of Tan place of these annual concerts as Dun’s most important recent works, among Australia’s most significant Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women. multicultural events. We are deeply In addition to other Chinese music, grateful to our event partners and the program contains Ravel’s Boléro supporters who help make this and Puccini’s immortal ‘O, mio initiative possible which this year Song Yumin babbino caro’, from Gianni Schicchi, includes ANZ, the East Meets West Consul General of the with Chinese soprano Bing Bing Wang. Consortium and the invaluable People’s Republic of China assistance of the Ambassador of It is an exciting and culturally diverse in Melbourne the People’s Republic of China to program. I hope you enjoy it. Australia MA Zhaoxu and Consul Special thanks to the Li Family Trust General of the People’s Republic of who have so generously supported China in Melbourne Song Yumin. this concert. I am delighted that this concert is To those sheep and goats and all the being broadcast to the rest of the other animals of the Chinese zodiac, nation on ABC Classic FM, as well as I warmly say, Gong Xi Fa Cai! through China. This fulfills one of the MSO’s most important functions: to be Australia’s cultural ambassador.

Harold Mitchell ac André Gremillet Chairman Managing Director, MSO

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Melbourne Symphony Tan Dun Yinuo Mu Orchestra conductor harp

Tan Dun conductor Tan Dun is the winner of such Principal Harpist of the Melbourne Yinuo Mu harp prestigious honours as the Grammy Symphony Orchestra, Yinuo Mu is the Award, Academy Award, and winner of numerous music awards Bing Bing Wang soprano Musical America’s ‘Composer and solo competitions including of The Year’. As a composer Grand Prize at the American String Zhao Lei erhu and conductor, he has led the Teachers Association National Yuan Li world’s most renowned orchestras Solo Competition and American — including the Royal Concertgebouw Harp Society’s Ann Adams Award, LI HUANZHI Orchestra, London Symphony and has appeared with the Spring Festival Overture Orchestra, , Boston, Houston, and San Diego , Orchestre Symphony Orchestras and Florida GRIGORAŞ IONICĂ DINICU National de France and BBC Grand Opera as well as many ARR. VENTOURAS Symphony Orchestra among others. leading state symphony and opera The Lark His compositions include Internet orchestras in Australia. Symphony No. 1, the organic music Recent performance highlights GUAN XIA trilogy of Water, Paper and Earth include performing at the BBC Proms Hua Mulan concerti; The Map, premiered by and at music festivals at Edinburgh, GIACOMO PUCCINI Yo-Yo Ma and the Boston Symphony Amsterdam, Germany and Gianni Schicchi: ‘O mio babbino Orchestra; and Orchestral Theatre: Copenhagen as part of the MSO’s caro’ (O, my beloved father) The Gate, which crosses the cultural 2014 European Tour, Melbourne boundaries of , Western Ring Cycle with Opera Australia in MAURICE RAVEL opera and puppet theatre traditions. 2013 and the Malthouse Theatre’s Boléro Other projects include a percussion award‑winning production of — concerto for soloist Martin Grubinger, The Bloody Chamber. Interval 20 Minutes Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women, — inspired by the calligraphy of Tan TAN DUN Dun’s home province of , China and the operas , Nu Shu: The Secret Songs , Tea: A Mirror of of Women Soul, and .

This concert has a duration of approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes including one 20 minute interval.

Tonight’s performance will be recorded for future broadcast around Australia on ABC Classic FM on Sunday 1 March at 1pm.

6 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT Bing Bing Wang Zhao Lei Yuan Li soprano erhu guzheng

Chinese soprano Bing Bing Wang has A graduate of the Shanghai Yuan Li is the best guzheng solo appeared in opera houses in Europe, Conservatory of Music, Zhao Lei player in China today. the United States and Australia, in started learning the erhu at the age She played guzheng in Tan Dun’s such roles as Liù (Turandot), Nedda of six, studying under renowned film scores to The Banquet, and (Pagliacci), Micaëla (Carmen), erhu educators Lin Xinming, Wang Shaolin Temple Ceremony. She also Musetta (La bohème), and Adina Yongde and Huo Yonggang. When recorded and played The Song of (The Elixir of Love). he is not honing his skills on the erhu, Yue People and High Mountains Her engagements in 2015 include Zhao devotes himself to promoting and Flowing Waters in Sweden and Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 Chinese folk music, which includes Germany, which were also created in Guangzhou, China, and researching, writing and conducting and conducted by Tan Dun. performances in Italy at Teatro the seminar series Overview of Chinese Folk Music since 2012. In 2008, working with the composer Massimo Bellini and the Taormina and conductor Guan Xia, she and Pompei music festivals. He has collaborated with many played guzheng in the Symphony Other recent highlights include performing arts masters and famous Hua Mulan. She has performed concerts at the Atlanta Symphony performers, including Japanese for the former President of China, Hall and Opéra-Théâtre de Metz, gagaku master Hideki Togi, Hu Jintao and the President of the France, her debut as Nedda with the Japanese modern dance master International Olympic Committee Haifa Symphony Orchestra in Israel, Kazunori Kumagai, British electronic Jacques Rogge during the Adina at Slovene National Theatre music group Shrine, and ten-time Olympic Games. Maribor and Latvian National Opera, Grammy Award-winner Bobby McFerrin. Yuan Li has also performed guzheng Serpina (La serva padrona) at duet for US President Barack Obama Macau International Music Festival, Zhao was also invited to compose, in the Great Hall of the People during and a concert in the Venetian arrange and perform his work Erhu his visit to China in 2009. Theatre in Macau with the China Wu Xian Dong at the opening of the National Symphony Orchestra and Chinese Night at the 66th Cannes China’s Three Tenors. Film Festival in France, and has performed and toured extensively across Asia and internationally.

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This evening marks the Li Huanzhi before invoking the glorious spirit of second time that Tan Dun has Spring Festival Overture courageous warriors charging into battle. The piece is infused with the conducted the Melbourne The Spring Festival Overture (1956) provides a fitting opening to tonight’s classical aesthetics of theatrical Symphony Orchestra in a celebration of Eastern and Western music, noble and lyrical, never Chinese New Year concert. culture, as it is capable of being losing its elegance even in its livelier Chinese New Year, or the played on Western or traditional moments.

Spring Festival as it is known Chinese instruments or combinations of both. Its composer, Hong Kong- Giacomo Puccini in China, takes place over born Li Huangzhi was an important Gianni Schicchi: 15 days. Houses are swept figure in Chinese music and founded O mio babbino caro clean of evil spirits, red and the China Central There is often a Puccini-esque in 1960. For listeners of Western lyricism in contemporary Chinese gold decorations (symbolic classical music, the pentatonic music for orchestra. In Puccini’s of good fortune) are hung, flavour of Spring Festival Overture only comic opera, Gianni Schicchi, and family get-togethers may call to mind Dvorˇák’s folk- Schicchi is summoned by relatives are celebrated with influenced works. The overture may of the wealthy Buoso Donati to help have local associations but in 2007 them falsify Buoso’s will so that they, symbolic food. it was one of 30 musical selections rather than the church, will inherit beamed back to Earth from China’s his money. Lauretta, Schicchi’s first lunar-probe satellite in time for daughter, is in love with young the Lantern Festival, the formal end Rinuccio Donati. When Schicchi gets to the Lunar New Year holiday. into an argument with Zita, the head of the Donati family, and refuses Grigoraş Ionicˇa Dinicu to help them, Lauretta attempts to The Lark change her father’s mind. O mio The second half of this concert pays babbino caro is an appeal from tribute to an 800-year-old regional Lauretta to her father. culture which has stood distinct Puccini from the Chinese mainstream. There O mio babbino caro are pockets of non-mainstream European culture, too. Composer O mio babbino caro, of The Lark, Romanian violin virtuoso mi piace, è bello, bello; Grigoraş Ionicˇa Dinicu, was born vo’ andare in Porta Rossa into a family of lautari (gypsy a comperar l’anello! professional musicians). Many of his Sì, sì, ci voglio andare! arrangements, such as 1906’s Hora E se l’amassi indarno, staccato, were written for violin and andrei sul Ponte Vecchio, piano, but can also be heard in ma per buttarmi in Arno! various arrangements. Jazz violinist Mi struggo e mi tormento! Stéphane Grappelli was a great O dio, vorrei morir! admirer of lautareasca music and Babbo, pietà, pietà! Yehudi Menuhin considered it a musical link to India. Oh, my dear papa, I love him, he’s so handsome. Guan Xia I want to go to Porta Rossa Hua Mulan and buy the ring! Ravel’s Boléro was originally Yes, I want to go there! composed as a ballet for In a concert which celebrates East Russian actress and dancer and West, it is significant that Guan And if I love him in vain, Ida Rubinstein. Xia, current executive director of the I’ll go to Ponte Vecchio China National Symphony Orchestra, and throw myself into the Arno! has struggled with the question of I am consumed with torment! bridging Western and Chinese forms Oh God, I would rather die! in works such as Earth Requiem and Papa have pity! the operas Sorrowful Morning and Mulan Psalm. The story of Hua Mulan Text: Giovacchino Forzano taking her aged father’s place in the Translation: Symphony Australia/ army has always been a favourite Matthew Absalom © 2009 subject of writers and . This work by Guan Xia for guzheng and orchestra opens at an unhurried pace with a unique folk song-like melody. Through the expressive use of the guzheng, it exquisitely portrays Hua Mulan’s love for her father,

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Maurice Ravel once said that nowadays percussion After working as a rice planter during Boléro instruments ‘do more than merely the and then in Ravel composed his Boléro for mark out a rhythm when hit with a the Beijing Opera, Tan went to the the Russian dancer, Ida Rubinstein. stick’, but Boléro, where the most Central Conservatory in Beijing and As a ballet it was first performed exhilarating crescendo in orchestral from there to New York where he at the Paris Opéra in November literature is underpinned by the studied composition at with Chou Wen-Chung, 1928, with sets and costumes by repetition of a simple rhythm, shows a student of Edgard Varèse. Now Alexandre Benois. how exciting that straightforward function can be. based in New York, he is perhaps the The scenario: on a table in a Spanish most successful exponent of bringing inn, a woman begins to dance. Tan Dun non-Western cultures into orchestral She dances quietly at first to a Nu Shu: The Secret Songs music. This partly reflects his personal simple rhythm. But then, gradually of Women biography, and is partly due to his and beguilingly, the dancer winds broad concept of counterpoint the spectators up into a frenzy of Tan Dun is well known to the world as reaching beyond sound to turmoil and confusion. The music for his film scores: Crouching Tiger, encompass the working together reflects the simplicity of the plot. Hidden Dragon (2000), Hero (2002) (or meshing together) of sound and It is all really one long crescendo. and The Banquet (2006). Last year in image, West and East, nature and The rhythm of the snare drum is Melbourne Tan himself conducted culture, past and future. Nu Shu is a constant and the sinuous melody his Concerto and the Triple case in point. Resurrection, a work which continues is repeated again and again, with Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women Tan’s interest in the combination different orchestrations – flute at first, originates in Tan Dun’s discovery of film and music but this time with then clarinet; then bassoon, E flat several years ago that in the county clarinet, oboe d’amore, flute and music prompting the visuals. of Jiang Yong in his home province muted trumpet, tenor saxophone, Born in Hunan province, young there are women who have had sopranino saxophone (with soprano Tan grew up in a world where their own means of communication sax finishing the phrase as it drops modern China intersected with since the 13th century. ‘Nu Shu’ below the range of the sopranino) … indigenous traditions (shamans could means ‘women’s writing’. Advice, building and changing colour all the communicate with the past and the messages, instructional tales and time. Japanese composer Maki Ishii present, with leaves and stones). life lessons have been passed down

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in song form and in a distinct form Hu Xin, Mo Cuifeng, and Hu Meiyue). Tan Dun’s own description of of writing from mother to daughter Tan’s use of film is true to his concept each of the 13 movements is of counterpoint, in this instance and sister to sister over the past as follows: 800 years. Nicknames for the script incorporating a counterpoint of time. include ‘mosquito legs’ writing’ to The ‘archival’ footage denotes nu Prologue distinguish it from the square shapes shu’s past; the orchestra its future. 1 Secret Fan: To express the love of Hanzi, traditional Chinese writing. Tan gave considerable thought to felt between mother and daughter, Tan prefers its other moniker, ‘music the medium which should serve or among sisters, generations of note writing’. The language has as the bridge between these two women write in a common secret been the province of women only dimensions and settled on the language, Nu Shu, on paper and (often written on intimate items, such harp as being the most feminine fans. This forms the genesis of the as fans), but is now under threat. instrument and one bearing likeness ancient Nu Shu culture. The intimacy, Gao Yinxian, described by Tan as to a nu shu written character. At Nu compassion, and beauty of Nu Shu is the most important woman in Nu Shu’s first performance the harp solo a monumental tribute to women. Shu village, died some years ago, was played by Elizabeth Hainen, and Tan Dun promised the villagers principal harpist of the Philadelphia Mother’s Story that he would create an orchestral Orchestra, which commissioned 2 Mother’s Song: ‘Wisdom on piece which might help position the the work along with Tokyo’s NHK educating daughters’, the holy language in the future. Symphony Orchestra and Europe’s scripture that has been passed down It would be better not to think of Tan Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, from mother to daughter through Dun’s Nu Shu as an anthropological Amsterdam. countless generations, preserves the record. His response to the Nu Nu Shu has a very poetic structure cultural traditions regarding family, Shu culture is more poetic, but which could be considered under ethics and child-rearing, and what it in creating this work, filming and the themes of women, weeping, means to be a woman. recording the songs, he developed rivers and song. Tan sees the work 3 Dressing for the Wedding: Girls a vast archive that might assist in six parts: Prologue; Mother’s Story are typically married as early as age in preserving the culture, an aim (parts 2, 3 and 4); Nu Shu Village 15. Their wedding day is the most he regards among his highest. It is (part 5); Sisters’ Intimacy (parts 6, 7 beautiful day of their life. Sisters, on somewhat ironic that a man has and 8); Daughter’s Story (parts 9, 10, the verge of parting with each other, finally stepped into this role. 11 and 12); and Epilogue (part 13). help dress the bride. Underneath The work sees an orchestral frame Gordon Kalton Williams © 2014 the dazzling head piece and the around traditional nüshu songs sung gorgeous wedding gown, is a on film by women of the village reluctant heart bearing the weight (including He Jinghua, Pu Lijuan, of farewell. The fully attired bride Zhou Huijuan, He Yanxin, Jiang Shinu, captures the monumentality of life.

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of Nu Shu songs once heard by 4 Cry-Singing for the Marriage: 7 A Road without End: The life of a Gao as she sat there sewing come The wedding tradition features woman contains endless alleyways. from afar … three days of consecutive crying. She meanders from one to another, The resulting tear-soaked scarf searching for her childhood sisters. 11 The Book of Tears: Mo Cuifeng serves as a link between mother Household after household, gate cries on remembering her wedding and daughter, as well as between after gate, river after river, dynasty 50 years ago, when she was once a generations. After the wedding, any after dynasty … the woman daughter to her own mother. Half a communication between mother continues on her endless journey. century went by: her mother passed and daughter is conducted secretly away; Mo’s tears remain. 8 Forever Sisters: Reunion through rewriting the ‘Wisdom on between sisters dissipates all the 12 Soul Bridge: A bridge where a educating daughters’. sorrows, leaving behind laughter daughter walks to remember her Nu Shu Village at childhood memories and tears mother. at understanding adult life. The 5 Nu Shu Village: Every race and compassion shared between sisters Epilogue culture has a Mother River. In Nu Shu often accompanies them into their 13 Living in the Dream: Despite Village flows such a river since the marriages, providing strength in the hardship encountered by the Song Dynasty. Beside the river the moments of hardship. women of Nu Shu Village, why local women spend their lifetime are their songs and lives filled with nurturing their own language: Nu Daughter’s Story romanticism? That is because each Shu. Nu Shu Village has never been 9 Daughter’s River: River, or a day, when mothers, daughters relocated away from the river. body of tears? Only the water and sisters gather together to sing, The river has been serving as an knows the answer. River of Women write and sew in Nu Shu, the happy emotional connection between is the river for daughters, mothers, time shared provides them with a mother, daughter, and sisters for and grandmothers of countless wonderful, dreamlike reality. generations. generations – as their tears form the © Tan Dun Sisters’ Intimacy melancholic melody on which float their boats of dreams. 6 Longing for Her Sister: Besides the relationship between mother and 10 Grandmother’s Echo: Gao daughter, sisterly love is also featured Yinxian was the most important prominently in this work. Singing woman of the Nu Shu Village as she songs that reminisce about sisterly helped pass down the language love gives the woman a chance to from generation to generation. be reminded of her innocent, happy Gao passed away at the age of childhood. This serves as an anchor 88. In her former residence, her for her navigation of her current granddaughter sits on the stool state of loneliness. that Gao once sat on, as echoes

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ARTIST CHAIR BENEFACTORS Robert & Jan Green Mr John Brockman OAM and Mrs Pat Harold Mitchell AC Konfir Kabo and Monica Lim Brockman Chief Conductor Chair Norman and Betty Lees Leith Brooke Patricia Riordan Mimie MacLaren Rhonda Burchmore Associate Conductor Chair Ian and Jeannie Paterson Bill and Sandra Burdett Joy Selby Smith Onbass Foundation Phillip and Susan Carthew and children Orchestral Leadership Chair Peter and Natalie Schiavello Oliver Carton Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO Glenn Sedgwick John and Lyn Coppock International Guest Chair Maria Solà, in memory of Malcolm Douglas Miss Ann Darby in memory of Leslie J. Darby MSO Friends Chair The Gabriela and George Stephenson Gift, Mary and Frederick Davidson AM The Gross Foundation in tribute to the great Romanian pianist Dinu Lauraine Diggins and Michael Blanche Principal Second Violin Chair Lipati Peter and Leila Doyle MS Newman Family Lyn Williams AM Principal Cello Chair Lisa Dwyer and Dr Ian Dickson Kee Wong and Wai Tang Principal Flute Chair – Anonymous Dr Helen M Ferguson Jason Yeap OAM Mr Bill Fleming PROGRAM BENEFACTORS Anonymous (1) Dina and Ron Goldschlager Meet The Music PRINCIPAL PATRONS $5,000+ Colin Golvan SC and Dr Deborah Golvan Made possible by The Ullmer Family Charles and Cornelia Goode Foundation John and Mary Barlow Michael and Susie Hamson East meets West Peter Biggs CNZM and Mary Biggs Susan and Gary Hearst Supported by the Li Family Trust Lino and Di Bresciani OAM Gillian and Michael Hund The Pizzicato Effect (Anonymous) David and Emma Capponi Rosemary and James Jacoby MSO UPBEAT Paul Carter and Jennifer Bingham Supported by Betty Amsden OAM Tim and Lyn Edward John and Joan Jones MSO CONNECT John and Diana Frew Connie and Craig Kimberley Supported by Jason Yeap OAM Jill and Robert Grogan Sylvia Lavelle Louis J Hamon OAM Ann and George Littlewood BENEFACTOR PATRONS $50,000+ Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM Allan and Evelyn McLaren Phillip Bacon AM Hartmut and Ruth Hofmann Don and Anne Meadows Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO Jenny and Peter Hordern Bruce Parncutt and Robin Campbell Jennifer Brukner Margaret Jackson AC Ann Peacock with Andrew and Woody Rachel and Hon. Alan Goldberg AO QC Kroger Jenkins Family Foundation The Gross Foundation Sue and Barry Peake Ilma Kelson Music Foundation David and Angela Li Mrs W Peart Vivien and Graham Knowles Annette Maluish Ruth and Ralph Renard David Krasnostein and Pat Stragalinos Harold Mitchell AC Max and Jill Schultz Elizabeth Kraus in memory of Bryan Hobbs MS Newman Family Diana and Brian Snape AM Dr Geraldine Lazarus and Mr Greg Gailey Roslyn Packer AO Mr Tam Vu and Dr Cherilyn Tillman Dr Elizabeth A Lewis AM Mrs Margaret S Ross AM and Dr Ian Ross William and Jenny Ullmer Mr Greig Gailey and Dr Geraldine Lazarus Joy Selby Smith Bert and Ila Vanrenen Peter Lovell Ullmer Family Foundation Brian and Helena Worsfold The Cuming Bequest Anonymous (10) IMPRESARIO PATRONS $20,000+ Mr and Mrs D R Meagher Betty Amsden OAM Wayne and Penny Morgan PLAYER PATRONS $1,000+ Perri Cutten and Jo Daniell Marie Morton FRSA Anita and Graham Anderson, Christine and Susan Fry and Don Fry AO Dr Paul Nisselle AM Mark Armour, Arnold Bloch Leibler, David and Beverlie Asprey, Marlyn and Peter John McKay and Lois McKay Stephen Shanasy Bancroft OAM, Adrienne Basser, Prof Elizabeth Proust AO Gai and David Taylor Weston Bate and Janice Bate, Bill Bowness, Rae Rothfield the Hon. Michael Watt QC and Cecilie Hall Michael F Boyt, M Ward Breheny, John Inés Scotland Barbara and Donald Weir Brockman OAM and Mrs Pat Brockman, Trevor and Judith St Baker Anonymous (3) Susie Brown, Jill and Christopher Buckley, Dr Lynda Campbell, Sir Roderick Carnegie MAESTRO PATRONS $10,000+ ASSOCIATE PATRONS $2,500+ AC, Andrew and Pamela Crockett, Natasha Michael Aquilina Dr Bronte Adams Davies, Pat and Bruce Davis, Merrowyn Kaye and David Birks Pierce Armstrong Foundation Deacon, Sandra Dent, Dominic and Natalie Mitchell Chipman Will and Dorothy Bailey Bequest Dirupo, John and Anne Duncan, Jane Edmanson OAM, Kay Ehrenberg, Gabrielle Jan and Peter Clark Barbara Bell in memory of Elsa Bell Andrew and Theresa Dyer Eisen, Vivien and Jack Fajgenbaum, Grant Mrs S Bignell Fisher and Helen Bird, Mr William J Forrest Future Kids Pty Ltd Stephen and Caroline Brain AM, Barry Fradkin OAM and Dr Pam Fradkin,

CHINESE NEW YEAR CONCERT 13 THANKS TO OUR WONDERFUL MSO SUPPORTERS

David Gibbs and Susie O’Neill, Merwyn Walters, Janet Whiting and Phil Lukies, Nic CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE and Greta Goldblatt, George Golvan QC and Ann Willcock, Marian and Terry Wills Current Conductor’s Circle Members: Jenny and Naomi Golvan, Charles and Cornelia Cooke, Pamela F Wilson, Joanne Wolff, Anderson, Lesley Bawden, Mrs Jenny Brukner Goode, Dr Marged Goode, Danny Gorog Peter and Susan Yates, YMF Australia, Mark and the late Mr John Brukner, Joyce Bown, and Lindy Susskind, Louise Gourlay OAM, Young, Panch Das and Laurel Young-Das, Kenneth Bullen, Luci and Ron Chambers, Ginette and André Gremillet. Dr Sandra Anonymous (21) Sandra Dent, Lyn Edward, Alan Egan Hacker AO and Mr Ian Kennedy AM. Jean THE MAHLER SYNDICATE JP, Louis Hamon OAM, Tony Howe, John Hadges. Paula Hansky OAM and Jack David and Kaye Birks, Jennifer Brukner, and Joan Jones, Sylvia Lavelle, Cameron Hansky AM, Tilda and Brian Haughney, Mowat, Laurence O’Keefe and Christopher Julian and Gisela Heinze, Henkell Family Mary and Frederick Davidson AM, Tim and Lyn Edward, John and Diana Frew, Louis James, Elizabeth Proust AO, Penny Rawlins, Fund, Penelope Hughes, Dr Alastair Jackson, Joan P Robinson, Neil Roussac, Anne Stuart Jennings, George and Grace Kass, Hamon OAM, The Hon Dr Barry Jones AC, Dr Paul Nisselle AM, Maria Solà in memory Roussac-Hoyne, Jennifer Shepherd, Pamela Irene Kearsey, Dr Anne Kennedy, Lew Swansson, Lillian Tarry, Dr Cherilyn Tillman, Mr Foundation, Norman Lewis in memory of Dr of Malcolm Douglas, The Hon Michael Watt QC and Cecilie Hall, Anonymous (1) and Mrs R P Trebilcock, Michael Ullmer, Mr Phyllis Lewis, Dr Anne Lierse, Violet and Jeff Tam Vu, Marian and Terry Wills Cooke, Mark Loewenstein, The Hon Ian Macphee AO FOUNDATIONS AND TRUSTS Young, Anonymous (22) and Mrs Julie Mcphee , Elizabeth H Loftus, Vivienne Hadj and Rosemary Madden In Annie Danks Trust THE MSO GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE memory of Leigh Masel in honour of Norma Collier Charitable Fund SUPPORT RECEIVED FROM THE ESTATES OF: and Lloyd Rees, Trevor and Moyra McAllister, Creative Partnerships Australia Gwen Hunt, Pauline Marie Johnston, C P H E McKenzie, David Menzies, Jan Minchin, The Cybec Foundation Kemp, Peter Forbes MacLaren, Prof Andrew John and Isobel Morgan, Ian Morrey, The Harold Mitchell Foundation McCredie, Miss Sheila Scotter AM MBE, Molly The Novy Family, Laurence O’Keefe and Helen Macpherson Smith Trust Stephens, Jean Tweedie, Herta and Fred Christopher James, Graham and Christine B Vogel, Dorothy Wood, Estate of Angela Ivor Ronald Evans Foundation, managed by Peirson, Andrew Penn and Kallie Blauhorn , Beagley John and Betty Pizzey, Lady Potter AC, Equity Trustees Limited and Mr Russell Brown Peter Priest, Jiaxing Qin, Eli Raskin, Peter and Ken & Asle Chilton Trust, managed by HONORARY APPOINTMENTS Carolyn Rendit, Dr Rosemary Ayton and Dr Perpetual Mrs Elizabeth Chernov Sam Ricketson, Joan P Robinson, Tom and Linnell/Hughes Trust, managed by Perpetual Education and Community Engagement Elizabeth Romanowski, Delina Schembri- The Marian and EH Flack Trust Patron Hardy, Jeffrey Sher, Dr Sam Smorgon AO and The Perpetual Foundation – Alan (AGL) Sir Elton John CBE Mrs Minnie Smorgon, Dr Norman and Dr Sue Shaw Endowment, managed by Perpetual Life Member Sonenberg, Dr Michael Soon, Geoff and The Pratt Foundation The Honourable Alan Goldberg AO QC Judy Steinicke, Mrs Suzy and Dr Mark Suss, Life Member The Robert Salzer Foundation Pamela Swansson, Prof Seong-Seng Tan Geoffrey Rush AC The Schapper Family Foundation and Jisun Lim, Dr Adrian Thomas, Frank and Ambassador Miriam Tisher, Margaret Tritsch, P & E Turner, The Scobie and Claire Mackinnon Trust Mary Vallentine AO, The Hon. Rosemary Varty, Leon and Sandra Velik, Sue Walker AM, Elaine Walters OAM and Gregory Grow your choices by getting to know your finances better.

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Bryn Terfel & Lisa McCune The Damnation of Faust Sarah Chang Plays Bruch SATURDAY 14 MARCH* FRIDAY 20 MARCH FRIDAY 10 APRIL SUNDAY 15 MARCH SATURDAY 21 MARCH SATURDAY 11 APRIL International superstar bass-baritone Don’t miss this definitive MONDAY 13 APRIL Bryn Terfel joins Lisa McCune, performance of Berlioz’s genre- Following her enormously popular Australia’s sweetheart of the stage, defying ‘concert opera’ based on concerts in 2013, celebrated violinist for this thrilling night of Broadway Goethe’s legendary dramatic poem Sarah Chang returns to perform classics. Faust about a man who sells his Bruch’s famous Violin Concerto in *Official opening night of MSO soul to the devil. Conducted by G minor. Conducted by MSO Chief season. Book for post concert Sir Andrew Davis, and featuring Conductor Sir Andrew Davis. cocktail party. Bryn Terfel as Méphistophélès.

Anzac Tribute Beethoven: the 1808 Yuja Wang plays Prokofiev THURSDAY 23 APRIL Vienna Concert THURSDAY 23 JULY FRIDAY 24 APRIL SATURDAY 2 MAY FRIDAY 24 JULY On the eve of the 100th anniversary With a line-up of internationally SATURDAY 25 JULY of the Gallipoli landings, Diego acclaimed soloists and the Royal Chinese piano superstar Yuja Wang Matheuz conducts Beethoven’s Melbourne Philharmonic Choir brings her acclaimed virtuosity to Ninth Symphony, and incidental joining the Orchestra for this rare Prokofiev’s tempestuous Second music to Goethe’s Egmont. With the event, we invite you to sit back Piano Concerto. Also featuring MSO Chorus and Australian and and relax in the company of one of Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slave and international soloists. music’s greatest creative minds. Brahms’ luminous fourth and final symphony.

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