MUSIC INSPIRED BY THE MOVING IMAGE 4—16 May

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Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 Education Week Britten’s War Requiem FRIDAY 22 MAY MONDAY 1 JUNE TO THURSDAY 11 JUNE SATURDAY 23 MAY SATURDAY 6 JUNE FRIDAY 12 JUNE MONDAY 25 MAY Join the MSO and internationally Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, One of the world’s most sought- acclaimed music educator, Paul a haunting piece interweaving the after composers, Matthias Pintscher, Rissmann, for the MSO’s fifth annual traditional Latin Mass for the Dead returns to conduct the Australian Education Week at the Melbourne with the works of First World War premiere of idyll, an MSO co- Town Hall and Hamer Hall, with a poet Wilfred Owen, is paired with commission, in a program that series of events for schools and the profoundly moving Elegy in also includes Beethoven’s Seventh families which integrate learning and memoriam Rupert Brooke. Symphony and Saint-Saëns’s Third entertainment, and foster a lifelong Violin Concerto with Karen Gomyo. love of music.

Mahler 4 Yuja Wang Plays Prokofiev Tchaikovsky’s FRIDAY 19 JUNE THURSDAY 23 JULY Piano Concerto No.1 SATURDAY 20 JUNE FRIDAY 24 JULY FRIDAY 7 AUGUST MONDAY 22 JUNE SATURDAY 25 JULY SATURDAY 8 AUGUST A milestone in the MSO’s musical Chinese piano superstar Yuja Wang MONDAY 10 AUGUST evolution, Sir Andrew Davis’ brings her acclaimed virtuosity to The very epitome of Romantic Mahler Cycle series returns for Prokofiev’s tempestuous Second music, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto its fourth chapter, alongside Piano Concerto. Also featuring No.1 is performed by Simon Trpčeski. Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante. Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slave Also featuring Rimsky-Korsakov’s and Brahms’ luminous fourth and Capriccio espagnol, and Scriabin’s final symphony. Third Symphony.

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The Metropolis New Music Festival Metropolis 2015 contains many such Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has been an important part of confrontational works. But the series Established in 1906, the Melbourne Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s also contains music of reflection Symphony Orchestra has earned a schedule for many years. Through and hope, tranquillity and charm. reputation for excellence, versatility, our collaboration with the Melbourne Shaun Tan’s The Arrival is one such and innovation. It currently performs Recital Centre in recent years, this piece – a unique and sensitive work live to more than 200,000 people annual season-within-a-season accessible to audiences of all ages. annually, in concerts ranging from exposes audiences to many new I thank City of Melbourne for their subscription series at Hamer Hall at and exciting works. continued support and welcome Arts Centre Melbourne, to annual Over three fascinating MSO concerts all to this year’s Metropolis New free concerts at the Sidney Myer – Nostalghia, The Light, and There Music Festival performances with Music Bowl. The Orchestra also Will Be Blood – conductor André de Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, in delivers programs to audiences of Ridder, one of today’s most prolific which all the vastness, urgency and all ages through its Education and and passionate interpreters of brilliance of the moving image will Community Engagement initiatives. contemporary music, and the be related in music of extraordinary Sir Andrew Davis gave his inaugural musicians will explore aspects of strength and power. concerts as Chief Conductor in April the moving image. This year, we 2013, having made his debut with see how film has inspired the most the Orchestra in 2009. Highlights pioneering and creative composers of his tenure have included and artists: from Arnold Schoenberg André Gremillet collaborations with artists such as and Edgard Varèse to Philip Glass Managing Director, MSO Bryn Terfel, Emanuel Ax, and Truls and Nico Muhly. Mørk, recordings of music by Percy The third and final MSO Metropolis Grainger and Sir Eugene Goossens, concert, on Saturday 16 May, a 2014 European Festivals tour, takes its name from There Will Be and a multi-year cycle of Mahler’s Blood – a soundtrack composed symphonies. The Orchestra works by Jonny Greenwood, a member regularly with its Principal Guest of Radiohead, which essays the Conductor, Diego Matheuz, brutality of pioneer America. Associate Conductor, Benjamin Northey, the MSO Chorus, and with guest conductors such as Thomas Adès, John Adams, Tan Dun, Jakub Hrůša, Markus Stenz, and Simone Young, as well as non-classical musicians such as Burt Bacharach, Ben Folds, Nick Cave, Sting, and Tim Minchin. CONTENTS

What’s On 2 Managing Director’s message 3 About the MSO 3 Metropolis New Music Festival – overview of concerts 4 Shaun Tan’s The Arrival 6 About the Artists 7 MSO Concert One – Nostalghia 9 MSO Concert Two – The Light 11 MSO Concert Three – There Will Be Blood 13 The Orchestra 15 MSO and MRC Supporters 16

2015 METROPOLIS NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 3 Festival Overview

Between two parts there is Undine – The Spirit of Water* Moonfall* an intermission of a hundred Syzygy Ensemble Forest Collective thousand years* WED 6 MAY 6PM THU 7 MAY 6PM Speak Percussion Salon Salon MON 4 MAY 7.30PM (60-mins no interval) (60-mins no interval) Elisabeth Murdoch Hall — — (80-mins no interval) TULVE HOLMS (arr. Lawson) — Stream Moonfall from Mystery of Edwin Drood LITTLE POZNIAK FJELLSTRÖM No Optic (world premiere) new work (world premiere) Odboy & Erordog episodes 1, 2 & 3 DE JAGER YEATS (Australian premiere) Fractured Timelines (world premiere) the half-life of facts LAWSON GARSDEN RØNSHOLDT Orpheus and the Cave Messages to Erice I & II (world premiere) Burning (world premiere) — — WEBBER Speak Percussion Syzygy Ensemble Texture of It (world premiere) Peter de Jager piano Agatha Yim visual artist — — — Forest Collective — Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Tickets $38 ($28 concession)

Delicacies of Molten Horror* The Arrival Dark Twin* Melbourne Piano Trio WED 6 MAY 7.30PM Zubin Kanga TUE 5 MAY 6PM Elisabeth Murdoch Hall FRI 8 MAY 6PM Salon (90-mins no interval) — Salon (60-mins no interval) The Arrival (100-mins including interval) — — illustrations & story by Shaun Tan DE GROOT Ben Walsh PRINS Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse — Piano Hero (Australian premiere) (world premiere) Orkestra of The Underground DAY SAKAMOTO — Dark Twin (world premiere) Babel – Bibono Aozora Tickets $55 ($50 concession) The Last Emperor CAREY _derivations Seven Samurai Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence Please see page 6 VAN DER AA Transit (Australian premiere) PAUL DEAN new work (world premiere) BLINKHORN — FrostbYte: Chalk Outline (world premiere) Melbourne Piano Trio Christopher de Groot HOPE live electronics The Fourth Estate (world premiere) — REICH (arr. Vincent Corver) Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Piano Counterpoint — Zubin Kanga piano — Tickets $38 ($28 concession)

*Please collect your one page program from the foyer prior to the performance.

4 A Bigger Picture* Nostalghia Light is Calling* Lisa Moore SAT 9 MAY 8PM Ensemble Offspring SAT 9 MAY 6PM Elisabeth Murdoch Hall THU 14 MAY 6PM Salon — Salon (90-mins no interval) Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (70-mins no interval) — Please see page 9 — GLASS GORDON Mad Rush The Light Light is Calling Metamorphosis One & Two WED 13 MAY 8PM MUHLY Satyagraha Act III Elisabeth Murdoch Hall It Goes Without Saying BRESNICK — PERREN For The Sexes: The Gates of Paradise Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Divers (world premiere) — Please see page 11 REICH Lisa Moore piano/voice Vermont Counterpoint William Blake text & original imagery Puppetsweat Theatre visuals RICKETSON — Fractured Again Suite Tickets $38 ($28 concession) — Ensemble Offspring — Tickets $38 ($28 concession)

There Will Be Blood SAT 16 MAY 8PM Elisabeth Murdoch Hall — Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Please see page 13

SOLOIST IN THE SPOTLIGHT IAN BOSTRIDGE

Renowned British tenor Ian Bostridge performs a selection of Schubert lieder, and Vaughan Williams’ nostalgic song cycle On Wenlock Edge with musicians of the MSO.

15 June at 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

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2015 METROPOLIS NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 5 Shaun Tan’s The Arrival

Wednesday 6 May 7.30pm ‘A unique and sensitive adaptation is brought to life on the big screen — with my otherwise still and silent by the incredible 11-piece Orkestra ORKESTRA OF THE universe, taking it to a new level of The Underground. An amazing UNDERGROUND of intensity through a passionate live ‘sonic-scape’ combines with performance.’ Shaun Tan Shaun Tan’s exquisite illustrations to — Award-winner Shaun Tan is one of create a unique orchestral and visual BENJAMIN WALSH Australia’s most celebrated illustrators experience. Ben Walsh unveils his composer/drums of picture books for people young score using a tapestry of instruments and old. His masterful sepia-toned featuring violin, sousaphone, clarinet, SHENTON GREGORY wordless novel, The Arrival, is a unique guitar, tabla, synthesizers, drums and violin story and piece of art appealing to percussion, clarinet, saxophone, GREGORY SHEEHAN audiences of all ages. His story tells zithers, a collection of handmade percussion a melancholic, but hopeful tale of a instruments… and a vacuum cleaner. refugee’s adventure into a foreign, The Arrival enjoyed sold out MATTHEW KEEGAN new world and the challenges he audiences at Sydney Opera House’s brass faces. Shaun Tan weaves beautiful Graphic festival, Melbourne Writers TARLOCHAN KANDOLA images and articulate illustrations into Festival, Her Majesty’s Theatre, tabla an accessibly surreal story without Adelaide for The OZ Asia Festival, using one single written word. It has Darwin Festival and Mona Foma GREGORY SHEEHAN sold close to half a million copies. in Tasmania. percussion When Sydney musician/composer MATTHEW OTTIGNON Ben Walsh randomly discovered LUCIAN MCGUINESS The Arrival in a bookshop, he fell in & SAM GOLDING love with the work and immediately winds imagined the whole story brought EDEN OTTIGNON to life in sound. For three years Ben bass concentrated on developing his vision to make this project a reality. DANIEL PLINER Thanks to an initial commission by keys Sydney Opera House’s Graphic festival, you can experience this remarkable collaboration of two visionary Australian artists. The Arrival

6 Lindgren Memorial Award. literature prizes,Sweden’sAstrid largest children’s one oftheworld’s Shaun wasalsorecently awarded Academy Awards thisyear. earlier which wonhimanOscaratthe83rd association withPassionPictures, film adaptationofTheLostThingin Wall-E. In2010hedirected theshort animated films,includingPixar’s designer, andaconceptartistfor asatheatre has alsoworked Tales Shaun from OuterSuburbia. His mostrecently publishedbookis enjoyed byreaders ofallages. and translated throughout theworld havebeenwidely novel TheArrival Thing andtheacclaimedwordless The Rabbits,RedTree, TheLost dream-like imagery. Bookssuchas historical subjectsthrough surreal, that dealwithsocial,politicaland best knownforillustrated books a teenager, andhassincebecome stories insmall-press magazinesas images forsciencefictionandhorror Shaunbegancreating in Melbourne. time asafreelance artistandauthor full works Literature, andcurrently joint honoursinFineArtsandEnglish the UniversityofW.A. in1995with in everyclass.Hegraduated from for alwaysbeingtheshortestkid drawer’ whichpartlycompensated he becameknownasthe‘good Perth, Western Australia. Inschool of suburbs grew upinthenorthern Shaun Tan in1974and wasborn ABOUT THE ARTISTSABOUT THE SHAUN TAN composer

the SBSdocumentaryIBelong for collaborations whichinspired Bobby travelled toIndiaseveral times Ranglin andAirtoMoreira. Benand artists suchasBillyCobham,Ernest alongsidewell-known performances and Circle ofRhythm,withmusical oftwogroups, Dha to theformation percussionist BobbySinghhaveled His collaborations withmaster at the2007Green RoomAwards. himself anominationforBestScore for filmanddance,Benearned into compositionandsounddesign history.performance Transitioning releasing sixalbumsovertheir12year todate stillperforms, currently TheBird, withwhom he formed toAustralia, Ben Upon returning in Japan. Wadaiko andperforming drumform Hayashi, training extensivelyinthe Cleworth andmasterdrummerEitetsu later joinedTaikoz, withIan working the U.S.,CanadaandSingapore. Ben toured throughout Australia andto Percusso andforeightyearsthey thepopulartrioPablo He formed finding histruecallingasamusician. dance, drama andmusicbefore Arts,hestudied of thePerforming student ofNewtownHighSchool andabroad. A internationally himself aphenomenalreputation drummer sincetheageof18,earning professionally asamusicianand Ben Walsh hasbeentouring composer BEN WALSH

2015 NEWMUSICFESTIVAL METROPOLIS and Adelaide. York, Edinburgh, London,Sydney who havesoldoutseasonsinNew for theTom Tomand performer Crew 2015. Presently, Benisco-director OutdoorArtsFestival SummerSalt the BrisbaneFestival2014and recently seenat +Soda, Scotch of thecircus/live musicspectacular 2011. BenWalsh wasmusicdirector the 2011SydneyandPerthFestivals Loves You withLegsonTheWall for for thesoldoutseasonofMyBicycle Ben recently composedthemusic as partofthe2010Graphic festival. score toShaunTan’s book TheArrival Opera Housewhenhedebuteda a soldoutaudienceattheSydney to of TheUnderground performed musical adventures. Ben’sOrkestra series, featuringBenandBobby’s Everywhere, aspartoftheVIVA 7

SHAUN TAN’S THE ARRIVAL ABOUT THE ARTISTS

André de Ridder Sophie Rowell Oliver Coates conductor violin cello

André de Ridder’s passion for the Recently appointed Associate Oliver Coates was the winner of the development of contemporary Concertmaster with the Melbourne Royal Philharmonic Society Young music covers the classical, pop and Symphony Orchestra, violinist Artist Award in 2011 and has been opera worlds. Recent highlights Sophie Rowell has had an extensive an Artist in Residence at Southbank include festival appearances of performing career as a soloist, Centre, London, since 2010. his musical collective ‘stargaze’, chamber musician and principal Oliver has performed as soloist with featuring world premieres and new orchestral violinist with the Scottish BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, collaborations with Nico Muhly, and Mahler Chamber Orchestras, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Bryce Dessner and Ben Shemie. and the Vancouver, Sydney and Britten Sinfonia, Aurora Orchestra, Other performances include the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras. London Contemporary Orchestra UK premiere of Terry Riley’s Organ Sophie was the ABC Young and the NEOJIBA Youth Orchestra of Concerto At the Royal Majestic with Performer of the Year in 2000, and Bahia. He has worked on solo cello the BBC Concert Orchestra, the shortly after founded Tankstream repertoire with many of the great Finnish premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Quartet, which won string quartet modern composers, including Helmut Émilie with Finnish National Opera, competitions in Cremona and Lachenmann, Jonathan Harvey, and appearances with the London Osaka. Having studied in Germany Kaija Saariaho, Sofia Gubaidulina, Sinfonietta, BBC National Orchestra with the Alban Berg Quartet, the David Lang and Thomas Adès, in of Wales, BBC Scottish Symphony quartet moved back to Australia in addition to performing with Steve Orchestra, Residentie Orkest, 2006 and became the Australian Reich. His continuing work with Orchestre de Paris, Copenhagen String Quartet. As First Violinist until Mica Levi includes the score to the Philharmonic, Le Poisson Rouge and 2011, she performed throughout movie Under the Skin, and his work Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Australia, Europe, North America, with Jonny Greenwood on the André de Ridder studied in Vienna Japan, China and New Zealand. soundtrack to The Master has led and London under Leopold Hager Sophie currently teaches at the to a project of new chamber music and Sir Colin Davis. He was Assistant Australian National Academy of shows with London Contemporary Conductor at the Hallé Orchestra Music, having previously taught at Orchestra. from 2005 to 2006, and was Principal the Elder Conservatorium in Adelaide In 2014 the British Council and PRS Conductor of Sinfonia ViVA until and the Australian Institute of Music for Music Foundation selected Oliver 2012. His discography includes Max in Sydney. to undertake an artist residency as a Richter’s reimagining of Vivaldi’s composer in Hong Kong. The Four Seasons, which was awardedan ECHO Klassik award in 2013.

8 MSO Concert One Nostalghia

ABOUT THE MUSIC

Saturday 9 May 8pm TŌRU TAKEMITSU ARNOLD SCHOENBERG — (1930–1996) (1874–1951) André de Ridder conductor Nostalghia Accompaniment to a ‘In memory of Andrei Tarkovsky’ Cinematographic Scene, Op.34 MSO CONCERT ONE: NOSTALGHIA Sophie Rowell — Sophie Rowell violin violin Schoenberg and Stravinsky both — lived in Hollywood for some time, Oliver Coates The death of Soviet film director and both flirted with the movies cello Andrei Tarkovsky in 1986 inspired but never, in the end, composed a — Tōru Takemitsu – himself a prolific score that was used in the cinema. composer of film-scores – to create TAKEMITSU Each bequeathed to generations this piece, which was premiered by Nostalghia ‘In Memory of film composers from Korngold to Yehudi Menuhin and the strings of of Andrei Tarkovsky’ Greenwood a battery of evocative the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at techniques and sounds. Earlier, SCHOENBERG the 1987 Edinburgh Festival. in 1929–30 Schoenberg lived in Accompaniment to a Tarkovsky’s last film before defecting Berlin, home to a flourishing film Cinematographic Scene to Europe, Nostalghia tells of a industry, where he composed his contemporary Russian poet in Italy SDRAULIG short Begleitungsmusik zu einer researching the life of an 18th- kaleidoscope* Lichtspielszene (Accompaniment to a century Russian composer who — Cinematographic Scene) as an essay becomes involved with a local in suggesting emotion through music. Interval 20 minutes ‘lunatic’. Takemitsu borrowed the There is no imaginary scenario, — title for his commemorative piece. merely, in Schoenberg’s words MUHLY At first the tone is elegiac, with ‘threatening danger, fear, Cello Concerto long, melancholy phrases from the catastrophe’. It might be more soloist over highly inflected, but BJARNASON accurately described as a study for slow-moving, harmony. Forceful, Blow bright the expression of such emotions, using double-stopped motifs announce the still-new twelve-note method, *kaleidoscope has been created as somewhat more contrapuntal music, in opera; Schoenberg had recently part of MSO’s Cybec 21st Century which gradually gains in emotive completed his domestic drama Von Australian Composers Program which intensity. The final section returns to heute auf morgen and was soon to nurtures the work and development of the more introverted character of begin work on Moses und Aron. Cast innovative young Australian composers. the opening. This program is generously supported as a kind of developing variation, the by the Cybec Foundation. This is the first performance of this work by Begleitungsmusik uses a relatively This concert runs for a duration of two the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. spare palette of constantly changing hours including one interval of 20 minutes. ensembles from within the orchestra.

Tonight’s concert will be broadcast and This is the first performance of this work by streamed live around Australia on the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. ABC Classic FM.

2015 METROPOLIS NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 9 ABOUT THE MUSIC

HARRY SDRAULIG NICO MUHLY DANÍEL BJARNASON (Born 1992) (Born 1981) (Born 1979) kaleidoscope Cello Concerto Blow bright — AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Harry Sdraulig is currently completing — Oliver Coates cello a Bachelor of Music (Honours) Daníel Bjarnason studied in Reykjavík, — at the University of Melbourne, Iceland and at the Freiburg University Nico Muhly has composed a having previously studied at the of Music, Germany. He has worked wide scope of work for ensembles Sydney Conservatorium of Music. with many different orchestras and including the American Symphony He has received awards including ensembles including the Los Angeles Orchestra, Boston Pops, Carnegie the Adolph Spivakovsky Award for Philharmonic, Ulster Orchestra, Britten Hall, Chicago Symphony, New York Composition (2013), Frank Albert Sinfonia, Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, Prize for Music (2011), and the VCE and Sinfonietta Cracovia. and Paris Opéra Ballet, soprano Premier’s Award for Music Styles and Jessica Rivera. Daníel has won numerous awards. Composition (2009). In 2008 and 2011 he was awarded Born in Vermont in 1981 and raised The composer writes: a special recommendation at the in Providence, Rhode Island, Muhly Kaleidoscopes are cylinders International Rostrum for Composers. graduated from Columbia University containing a small number of His 2012 compositions, The Isle Is Full with a degree in English Literature. In objects such as glass crystals that Of Noises and Over Light Earth won 2004, he received a Masters in Music are reflected by the mirrors to create him the prize for Best Composer at from the Juilliard School, where he a dazzling display of colour. In this the 2013 Icelandic Music Awards. studied under Christopher Rouse and work I have used very limited musical John Corigliano. In 2012 he contributed the score materials and motifs, analogous to to the feature film The Deep. The the crystals in a kaleidoscope. These The composer writes: When the composition was awarded Best ‘crystals’ are constantly transformed Barbican asked me to write a Film Score at the Icelandic Film and thrown into new light as the concerto for Olly Coates and And Television Awards in 2013 and musical kaleidoscope is turned. the Britten Sinfonia, I immediately nominated for Best Original Score at started making plans. I wanted to kaleidoscope begins with a the Harpa Nordic Film Composers write something formally traditional forceful gesture giving way almost Awards 2013. (fast-slow-fast) but with steadily immediately to a sequence of developing content. The first Blow bright was commissioned by ethereal, hushed string chords. movement is angular, the second the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Its title This sense of space and timelessness supple, and the third motoric; there is comes from Philip Larkin’s poem, is short-lived however, and a solo constant progression and no looking ‘Night-Music’: piccolo heralds the beginning of back. The first movement begins with a processional awakening of the Blow bright, blow bright a texture quite explicitly stolen from orchestra as energy slowly builds. the coal of this unquickened world. the first bar of Dutilleux’s Métaboles, This energy culminates in an initial and proceeds from there. A series The composer writes: climax which then gives way to the of ‘melting’ textures in the strings, One of the things I thought about was main section of the work: a quick, muted trumpet, percussion and the ocean and, more specifically, lively and colourful dance. piano antagonises the soloist, who seeing the Pacific Ocean for the first The first performance of this work was plays a quick perpetual motion time and realising how incredibly given by the Melbourne Symphony toccata before the entire structure different it was to the Atlantic Ocean, Orchestra on 31 January 2015. devolves into drones. The second which is what I have known my whole movement begins with a very long life. The brightness and energy and drone over which the cello spins the way it radiates is so powerful and short lyrical phrases. Decorative beautiful. I tried to put some of that chromaticism slowly becomes more into the music and Blow bright can pronounced, and the movement also refer to that in some ways. ends in a shimmer of bells and Program notes © Gordon Kerry 2015 rude brass. The third movement is and composers. a long piece of fast process music: essentially a digital delay applied to two lines of counterpoint. The result is bright and insistent. The concerto ends enigmatically, with foghorn brass and a long, sustained drone from the cello.

10 MSO Concert Two The Light

ABOUT THE MUSIC

Wednesday 13 May 8pm JULIA WOLFE TAN DUN — (Born 1958) (Born 1957) André de Ridder conductor Fuel Crouching Tiger Concerto AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE for cello and chamber orchestra Oliver Coates Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon cello Bill Morrison, Filmmaker — — Through the Bamboo Forest A co-founder and artistic co- WOLFE Silk Road: Encounters director of New York’s Bang on a Fuel Eternal Vow Can, Wolfe has written a major AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE body of work, from quartets for the To the South TAN DUN Kronos Quartet to orchestral works Farewell Crouching Tiger Concerto for the BBC Symphony and Munich Oliver Coates cello Chamber Orchestras. The influence — — of pop culture can be heard in Interval 20 minutes Tan Dun came to widespread public many of Wolfe’s works. Lick, based — attention after winning an Academy on fragments of funk, has become GARSDEN Award for his score for Ang Lee’s 2000 a manifesto for the new generation Faculties Intact (con tutta forza)* film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. of pop-influenced composers. my This music, and his subsequent scores GLASS lips from speaking for six pianos was for Hero (2002) and The Banquet inspired by the opening riff of the The Light (2006), helped redefine the musical Aretha Franklin tune ‘Think’. Dark Full landscape of the wuxia martial arts Ride is an obsessive and relentless *Faculties Intact (con tutta forza) has genre. Tan, who as a young man in been created as part of the MSO’s exploration of the drum set. In Lad, China worked with a Peking Opera Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers Wolfe creates a kaleidoscopic troupe before studying western Program which nurtures the work and landscape for nine bagpipes. She compositional techniques, has development of innovative young has also extended her talents to explained how this mix of influences Australian composers. This program is theatre and film. generously supported by the Cybec shaped his approach: The composer writes: The ideas for Foundation. The tradition of martial arts was Fuel began in conversation with This concert runs for a duration of one created from Chinese opera in filmmaker Bill Morrison. We talked hour and 50 minutes including one the 19th century. To me, the opera about the mystery and economy interval of 20 minutes. tradition is an ancient form of cinema of how things run – the controversy Tonight’s concert will be broadcast and cinema is the opera of the future. and necessity of fuel – the global

and streamed live around Australia MSO CONCERT TWO: THE LIGHT on ABC Classic FM. implications, the human need. The Basically, I hate martial arts film music takes its inspiration from the music in general. That’s why I turned fiery strings of Ensemble Resonanz. it completely upside down. Most of One of the founding members of my martial arts music was inspired the group, violinist Juditha Haeberlin, by [19th-century] Peking opera, not challenged me to write something 1970s martial arts films. rip-roaring and virtuosic, telling me The Crouching Tiger Concerto was that they were capable of so much the first work in Tan’s Martial Arts and not always pushed to the limit. Trilogy for which he drew on the Her request merged with the sounds music from the three films mentioned of transport and harbours – New York above. The three concertos were and Hamburg – large ships, creaking intended to be accompanied by docks, whistling sounds and a footage from the respective movies relentless energy. (although tonight’s performance Fuel was commissioned by Ensemble will be presented without the visual Resonanz and premiered in a multi- component). The Crouching Tiger media performance with a film by Concerto is in six movements with Bill Morrison at the Kaispeicher B. cello cadenzas connecting the Warehouse at the port of Hamburg, orchestral movements. Germany in 2007.

2015 METROPOLIS NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 11 ABOUT THE MUSIC

ALEXANDER GARSDEN PHILIP GLASS (Born 1987) (Born 1937)

The Crouching Tiger Concerto Faculties Intact (con tutta forza) The Light reflects Tan’s interest in the cultures — — of the Silk Road in China’s Xinjiang Alexander Garsden is a Melbourne- Philip Glass’ The Light was province. The cello melody in the based composer, guitarist and commissioned by the Michelson- third cadenza is a folk song from electro-acoustic musician whose Morely Centennial Celebration this region. Instruments indigenous work re-conceives and applies pure and premiered by the Cleveland to these Silk Road cultures are the harmonic relationships through Orchestra conducted by Christoph tar (a North African frame drum) various microtonal approaches and von Dohnányi in 1987. It is, as the and the bawu (a bamboo, copper- electro-acoustic media. composer explains: a portrait in reed flute which came into China Recent works include commissions music of the scientists Albert A. from Southeast Asia – represented from Golden Fur, Jessica Aszodi, Michelson and Edward W. Morley in tonight’s performance by alto Eugene Ughetti, Elizabeth Welsh, and their studies of the velocity flute). The rawap (a high-pitched, the Atticus Quartet, Jon Heilbron of light through their memorable plucked string instrument native to and Chamber Made Opera, and experiments concluded at Case the Uighur culture of the Taklimakan performances with Slave Pianos Western Reserve University, area) is prominent in the film score (Melbourne/Yogyakarta), Kim Myhr Cleveland, Ohio in 1887. and represented in the concerto + Ole-Henrik Moe (Nor), Grand Salvo The Light is the first composition of a in melodies and articulations and Quiver. series of symphonically conceived transcribed to the cello and the ‘portraits of nature’ … In the past orchestra. The erhu (a Chinese He has received multiple awards, I have written portrait operas – bowed string instrument which has its prizes and scholarships; most recently Einstein, Gandhi, Akhnaten are the roots in India) is evoked throughout including the APRA 2013 Professional subjects of the first trilogy. In this the concerto in the melodic contours Development Award. He holds a case, this is a portrait not only of the and sonorities called for in the cello’s Master of Music from the University two men for whom the experiments melodies and cadenzas. of Melbourne, and has studied with Anthony Pateras, Keith Rowe, Ole- are named but also that historical The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra first Henrik Moe and Elliott Gyger. moment heralding the beginning of performed Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger the modem scientific period. Concerto as part of the Martial Arts The composer writes: Trilogy in 2013 under the direction of the Faculties Intact (con tutta forza) This is the first performance of this work by composer. Tan Wei was the erhu soloist. describes an arc from heterogeneous the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. and indistinct timbral composites Notes © composers; Tan Dun adapted to discrete and independent from a note Peggy Monastra © 2000 homogenous partitions of orchestral forces. This principle (perhaps more evident in the strings than any other family of acoustic instruments) is the central focus of the piece. Several approaches are taken over the opening panel of the piece to allow for a maximum degree of ‘shading’ between instruments and families, including technical (a vast battery of mimetic extended techniques) and harmonic approaches (the generally chromatic language is partitioned into discrete frequency blocks to mask and colour much of the traditional spectral ‘identity’ of the instrumental families). Gestures are often coloured by a ghosting gesture from another instrument.

The first performance of this work was given by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on 31 January 2015.

12 MSO Concert Three There Will Be Blood

ABOUT THE MUSIC Saturday 16 May 8pm JONNY GREENWOOD — (Born 1971) GREENWOOD There Will Be Blood: Suite There Will Be Blood: Suite Orchestra and more recently the Open Spaces London Contemporary Orchestra. CORIGLIANO He has composed in a variety of Future Markets The Red Violin: Chaconne for classical genres and in 2007 was Violin and Orchestra HW/Hope of New Fields nominated for Breakout Composer — Henry Plainview of the Year by the International Interval 20 minutes Proven Lands Film Music Critics Association. His — Oil film scores include Bodysong, PENDERECKI Norwegian Wood, We Need to AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Talk about Kevin and The Master. Polymorphia — His score for Paul Thomas VARÈSE Jonny Greenwood joined Anderson’s 2007 film There Will Be Déserts Radiohead while still at school, and left university after one term to Blood is steeped in the musical pursue a recording career with the language of mid-20th century This concert runs for a duration of band for the EMI label. A one-time British string music, inflected by the 1 hour and 30 minutes including one plangent tones of oboe or ondes interval of 20 minutes. violist, Greenwood’s early musical martenot. Helping to depict the Tonight’s concert will be broadcast interests included contemporary composers like Messiaen and Ligeti; treacherous, bleak world of the and streamed live around Australia Californian oil fields at the turn on ABC Classic FM. the influence of the former is evident in the use that Greenwood made of of the last century, the opening the ondes martenot (an electronic is dominated by sighing pairs of instrument beloved of Messiaen) spacious chords, while busy motoric on Radiohead’s immaculately rhythms evoke ‘Future Markets’ and engineered album Kid A (2000), and ‘Proven Lands’. There is seraphic the slewing, ondes-like string writing music for HW, the adoptive that creates a dissolving sheen of son of the central character sound towards the end of a track like Daniel Plainview, and menacing ‘How to disappear completely’. His music for his long-lost brother, first published composition, smear, Henry, who turns out, with tragic features two ondes martenot and consequences, to be an impostor. ensemble and has been recorded by the London Sinfonietta. He has subsequently been composer in residence with the BBC Concert

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JOHN CORIGLIANO KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI EDGARD VARÈSE (Born 1938) (Born 1933) (1883–1965)

The Red Violin: Polymorphia Déserts Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra — — Polish composer Penderecki came Sophie Rowell violin Bill Viola to international notice in the late Déserts, 1994 — 1950s, when his works began to be Music by Edgard Varèse The composer writes: The Red Violin: programmed at important festivals of Concert film, colour, 28:09mins Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra new music such as Donaueschingen draws upon music I composed for Kira Perov: Executive Producer in Germany. His breakthrough piece the film of the same name. The film Peter Kirby: Producer was composed in 1960. Originally spans three centuries in the life of a Harry Dawson: Director of Photography given the Cagey title of 8’37”, the Philip Esposito: Actor magnificent but haunted violin in its work soon assumed the name Dennis Kightley: Art Director travels through space and time. A by which it has continued to be story this episodic needed to be tied Commissioned by ZDF German Television known: Threnody ‘to the victims of together with a single musical idea. For and Ensemble Modern Hiroshima’. For 52 strings, the Threnody this purpose I used the Baroque device — demonstrated the composer’s love of a chaconne: a repeated pattern of French-born composer Edgard of dramatic gesture and rhetoric with chords upon which the music is built. Varèse moved to the United States extended instrumental techniques in 1915 and made his debut there Against the chaconne chords I and searing bands of dissonant conducting Berlioz’s Requiem in 1917. juxtaposed Anna’s theme, a lyrical sound. He continued on this path All the music he had written in Europe yet intense melody representing the in Polymorphia, for 48 strings, of the was destroyed in a fire, and the first violin builder’s doomed wife. From following year. The ‘many forms’ of work on the clean slate of music these elements I wove a series of the title do not refer to the piece’s composed in his new homeland was, virtuosic etudes for the solo violin, simple ternary structure, but perhaps fittingly, his celebration of discovery, which followed the instrument to the constantly shifting microtonal Amériques. from country to country, century to polyphony of the outer sections or century. I composed these elements the rapid fire of seemingly random Prone to depression, Varèse before the actual filming, because percussive sound at the work’s centre. completed fewer than 20 surviving the actors needed to imitate actual The surprising final chord is, according works. Dubbed, somewhat performance of the music. Then, while to the composer, the germ of the maliciously, the ‘matinée idol of the film itself was shot, I made – from whole piece, and incidentally, the modernist set’ he composed Anna’s theme, the chaconne, and opens a homage to Penderecki, for then-unusual ensembles. Like the etudes – this concert work. While 48 Responses to Polymorphia, Poulenc, he disliked string instruments, I scored the film just for the soloist and composed by Jonny Greenwood and like Stravinsky he enjoyed string orchestra (to emphasise the in 2012. the sound of wind ensembles ‘stringness’ of the picture), I composed and was a pioneer of writing for this 17-minute concert work for violin The first performance in Australia of percussion. He was very interested Penderecki’s Polymorphia was given and full orchestra. in the developing technique for in Melbourne on 13 March 1970 by recording and pioneered the fusion As the piece begins, diaphanous the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra of electronic and ‘acoustic’ sounds, ascending string lines unveil the under Andrzej Markowski. This is the notably in Déserts which depicts first performance of the work by the chaconne chords, voiced in ‘physical deserts, those of the earth, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. incantatory dotted rhythms, in low the sea and sky, of sand, of snow, winds and brass. Then solo violin and of interstellar space, or of great orchestra utter, and expand on, Anna’s cities, but also those of the spirit, of theme. Virtuosic etudes quicken the that distant interior space which no pace, lead to a rushing climax; these telescope can reach, where man yield to a stratospherically high, gravely is alone’. slow melody, which remembers, against slowly shifting string sonorities, He had begun work on this piece, Anna’s romantic theme. The string for 14 woodwinds, piano and five chords louden, strengthen with winds percussion, in 1949 or 1950. Given and brass: then the soloist reclaims, an Ampex tape recorder in 1953, in determined accents this time, the he constructed three interpolations diaphanous string line that opened the of what he called ‘organised score. The orchestra halts to launch sound’ between the work’s four the soloist’s cadenza, impetuous and main episodes, by recording and songful by turns; then the chaconne, manipulating the sounds of factories, in strings chords rendered brittle by and percussion instruments. The latter sharp attacks with the wood of the link the interpolations back to the bow, gradually climax in a grand sound world of the live band. tutti restatement of the incantatory This is the first performance of Déserts by opening and a whirlwind coda for all. the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

This is the first performance of this work by © Gordon Kerry, John Corigliano 2015 the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

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