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CIN EM ATIC HEROES AND HEROINES SAT 24 APR 2021 CONCERT HALL, QPAC PROGRAM | CINEMATIC I CONTENTS WELCOME 1 IF YOU'RE NEW TO THE ORCHESTRA 2 LISTENING GUIDE 6 ARTIST BIOGRAPHY 14 SUPPORTING YOUR ORCHESTRA 24 MUSICIANS AND MANAGEMENT 26 II PROGRAM | CINEMATIC WELCOME A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… a room full of musicians donned some wacky costumes and performed their favourite movie music. It’s my absolute pleasure to welcome you to our annual CINEMATIC concert and tell you why this concert means so much to me. Music can create tension or joy and keep you on the edge of your seat, and films have an incredible way of weaving story and music together to keep your eyes glued to the screen. Many film composers use the full might of a symphony orchestra to make audiences feel something, but the film industry can’t be credited for inventing emotional, edge-of-your-seat music. Classical music has been manipulating your emotions for hundreds of years, long before the invention of cinema. So, if you love movie music, you love classical music! When someone says to me, “I don’t understand classical music,” I say, “Yes, you do - you just don’t know it yet!” This year’s concert theme is Heroes and Heroines and as a horn player there are some fun horn features to look forward to. Many film scores give us a moment to shine - look out for us in the back left of the stage pumping out some heroic music from Star Wars, The Man From Snowy River and Gladiator. And they’re just some of the heroes! The heroines of our cinematic concert include powerhouse superhero Captain Marvel, Agatha Christie’s nosy Miss Marple and the inquisitive young Satsuki and Mei from My Neighbor Totoro. But what I’m most looking forward to is Ride of The Valkyries by Richard Wagner. While many think of Apocalypse Now, it’s hard not to also think of the true heroine of Wagner’s opera, The Ring Cycle, the intimidating Brünnhilde. We hope you enjoy this spectacular show and look forward to seeing you at the next one! Lauren Manuel French horn IN THIS CONCERT Conductor Nicholas Buc PROGRAM NEWMAN Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare 1’ WILLIAMS Main title from Star Wars Suite for Orchestra 6’ ZIMMER Music from Gladiator 6’ DESPLAT Main Title from The Imitation Game 3’ WAGNER 'Ride of the Valkyries' from The Valkyries 5’ SILVESTRI The Avengers Theme 2’ TOPRAK Captain Marvel Open World Suite 5’ ROWLAND The Man from Snowy River 5’ GRIEG In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op. 46 3’ GOODWIN Miss Marple Theme 4’ DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 12’ HISAISHI My Neighbor Totoro 4’ GIACCHINO Full Mayhem from The Incredibles 5’ Queensland Symphony Orchestra acknowledges the traditional custodians of Australia. We acknowledge the cultural diversity of Elders, both past and recent, and the significant contributions that Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples have made to Queensland and Australia. To ensure an enjoyable concert experience for everyone, please remember to turn off your mobile phones 1 and all other electronic devices. Please muffle coughs and refrain from talking during the performance. IF YOU'RE NEW TO THE ORCHESTRA WHO SITS WHERE Orchestras sit in sections based on types of instruments. There are four main sections in the symphony orchestra (strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion) and sometimes a keyboard section. STRINGS BRASS These instruments produce sound by bowing or Brass players create sound by vibrating their plucking stretched strings. lips. When this vibration is pushed through large First / Second Violin brass tubes, it can create significant noise. Viola French Horn Cello Trumpet Double Bass Trombone / Bass Trombone Harp Tuba WOODWIND PERCUSSION Wind instruments produce sound by being These instruments create sound by being blown into. struck or shaken. Some instruments just make Flute / Piccolo a sound; others play particular pitches. Clarinet / E-flat Clarinet / Bass Clarinet Timpani, Bass drum, Snare drum, Cymbals, Oboe / Cor Anglais Glockenspiel, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Bassoon / Contrabassoon Tam-tam, Triangle, Sleigh Bells. KEYBOARD Keyboard instruments are played by pressing keys. Piano Celeste 2 PROGRAM | CINEMATIC Pictured: Paul O'Brien PROGRAM | CINEMATIC 3 WHO’S ON STAGE TODAY CONCERTMASTER VIOLA PICCOLO TRUMPET Warwick Adeney Imants Larsens ~ Kate Lawson * Richard Madden = Yoko Okayasu >> Mark Bremner ASSOCIATE OBOE Charlotte Burbrook de Vere Chris Hudson CONCERTMASTER Sarah Meagher >> Nara Dennis Dani Rich Alan Smith Alexa Murray Nicole Greentree TROMBONE VIOLIN 1 Bernard Hoey COR ANGLAIS Jason Redman ~ Rebecca Seymour * Kirsten Hulin-Bobart Vivienne Brooke * Ashley Carter >> Camille Barry Darrin McCann CLARINET Christopher Thomson Lynn Cole Graham Simpson Irit Silver ~ Ann Holtzapffel Nicholas Tomkin Brian Catchlove = BASS TROMBONE Anne Horton Nicolas Thomson ^ CELLO Kate Travers Joan Shih Matthew Kinmont = Brenda Sullivan TUBA Kaja Skorka + BASS CLARINET Jason Tong Thomas Allely * Kathryn Close Nicholas Harmsen * Stephen Tooke Andre Duthoit TIMPANI Claire Tyrell BASSOON Matthew Jones Tim Corkeron * Brynley White Nicole Tait ~ Robert Manley David Mitchell >> PERCUSSION Alison Smith-O’Connell VIOLIN 2 Evan Lewis David Montgomery ~ Craig Allister Young Gail Aitken ~ Josh DeMarchi >> Wayne Brennan ~ CONTRABASSOON DOUBLE BASS Jacob Enoka Natalie Low ^ Claire Ramuscak * Phoebe Russell ~ Troy Greatz Katie Betts Dušan Walkowicz >> FRENCH HORN Jane Burroughs HARP Anne Buchanan Malcolm Stewart ~ Faina Dobrenko Lucy Reeves ^ Justin Bullock Nicholas Mooney + Simon Dobrenko Georgia Lloyd Ian O’Brien * CELESTE / PIANO Delia Kinmont Paul O’Brien Vivienne Collier-Vickers Brett Sturdy ^ Tim Marchmont Lauren Manuel Nicholas Thin FLUTE SYNTHESIZER / CELESTE Helen Travers Hayley Radke >> Luke Volker ^ Harold Wilson Stephanie Vici ~ Section Principal = Acting Section Principal >> Associate Principal + Acting Associate Principal * Principal ^ Acting Principal PROGRAM | CINEMATIC 4 Pictured: Imants Larsens (front) and Graham Simpson (behind) PROGRAM | CINEMATIC 5 LISTENING GUIDE In this concert, Queensland Symphony Orchestra will take you on an epic journey diving into some of the most heroic and heartracing movie music. Read on to discover how these famous tunes came to be. 20th Century Fox Fanfare Alfred Newman (1900–1970) Star Wars (Main Title) John Williams (b. 1932) In 1933, Hollywood composer Alfred Newman wrote a fanfare for the film company 20th Century Fox. It was the studio’s standard logo music for a couple of decades but gradually Fox used it less and less. Until in 1977 a film director named George Lucas decided he wanted to resurrect Newman’s fanfare for the opening of his new film Star Wars, which was itself meant to be a nostalgic throwback to old-fashioned swashbucklers – but set in space. Not only this, composer John Williams decided to write an opening melody that would also be a fanfare to match Newman’s music. That fanfare, now known as the Star Wars Main Title theme, has surely become the most iconic film music of all time. We can think of no better way to open this concert than with these two fanfares together. Gladiator (Suite) Hans Zimmer (b. 1957) When Ridley Scott’s film of Gladiator burst on the scene, it caused a stir. While Roman epics had been popular in the classic Hollywood days of the 1950s, they were rare in the late 90s. Scott’s film turned that on its head, with a film that brought the Roman era to life in a new and contemporary way. Hans Zimmer (along with the astonishing singing of his Australian co-composer Lisa Gerrard) created a brand new sound for the film - a distinctive Eastern flavour with an emphasis on “wailing” vocals - which has since been copied many times by films wanting to sound exotic. However, he also threw in a couple of sneaky references to famous classical composers. This suite (or collection) of music from Gladiator opens with a noble and majestic theme for the first shot of the Roman capital - and it draws on the majestic sound of German composer Richard Wagner. Then, as the music morphs into the opening battle sequence, Zimmer borrowed some key ideas from “Mars, the Bringer of War” from The Planets by Gustav Holst. However, there is plenty of Zimmer originality in here as well! You might also notice an early version of what later became The Pirates of the Caribbean theme as well as the beautiful “Earth” theme that closes this suite. 6 PROGRAM | CINEMATIC The Imitation Game Alexandre Desplat (b. 1961) Morten Tyldum’s 2014 film The Imitation Game tells a story of a little known hero and heroine from World War II. Alan Turing (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) was a mathematician who assisted the British government during World War II. His job was to decode the Enigma machine, which the Nazis used to send coded messages to each other during the war. Abrasive and difficult though he was, Turing was a genius and was eventually able to crack the code - an act which eventually helped the Allies win the war. Assisting him in this all-but-impossible task was Joan Clarke (played by Keira Knightley), a clerk who was brilliant enough to work with the cryptographer, but had to do so in secret so her parents didn’t find out. Sadly, neither character was ever publicly recognised for this in their lifetime both because of the secrecy of the work and because Turing was prosecuted later in his life as a gay man – which was still considered a criminal offence in the 1950s. French composer Alexandre Desplat’s theme for the film sums up Turing and Clarke’s partnership perfectly - the mathematical precision of the code-cracking is captured in the endlessly repeating notes of the piano and keyboards, while the melody that sits on top of this repetition captures the poignancy of the tale.