MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MUSIC DAVID AUSTRALIA iOTA TIM ROGERS STEVE KILBEY BOWIE DEBORAH CONWAY NOTHING HAS CHANGED & ADALITA SAT 15—MON 17 OCTOBER Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall “The ultimate tribute to the late David Bowie.” ~ NOISE 11 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DAVID BOWIE NOTHING HAS CHANGED If David Bowie had not existed, it would have been impossible to invent him. Now that he’s undergone his final transformation, Australia’s finest pay tribute to the Starman. Few musicians can claim to have refashioned modern music so comprehensively as the man born David Jones. From the glam of Ziggy Stardust to the desolate Berlin years right up until his intensely personal final album Blackstar, Bowie always reflected contemporary culture back on itself while remaining truly alien. Now artists under the influence of the great man gather to perform his music in their own unique styles, alongside the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under conductor Vanessa Scammell and Creative Director Amanda Pelman. Duration 2 hrs 30 mins, with interval “We don’t have to say goodbye to him or his songs—not till this thing we call music evaporates or the world winks out.” ~ THE BRAG SET LIST ACT ONE ACT TWO Space Oddity Station to Station iOTA STEVE KILBEY Starman Moonage Daydream DEBORAH CONWAY ASHLEY NAYLOR All the Young Dudes Golden Years TIM ROGERS TIM ROGERS Rebel Rebel / DEBORAH CONWAY The Jean Genie Changes ADALITA STEVE KILBEY Stay / Diamond Dogs Young Americans STEVE KILBEY TIM ROGERS Ziggy Stardust / Boys Keep Swinging Suffragette City DAVEY LANE iOTA Modern Love/ DEBORAH CONWAY Let’s Dance/Fashion Fame ADALITA TIM ROGERS iOTA DEBORAH CONWAY Ashes to Ashes China Girl iOTA STEVE KILBEY ROBYN LOAU Lazarus TIM ROGERS Oh You Pretty Things DEBORAH CONWAY Sorrow TIM ROGERS ADALITA (Is There) Life on Mars? iOTA MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FIRST VIOLINS DOUBLE BASSES Dale Barltrop Concertmaster Steve Reeves Principal Eoin Andersen Concertmaster Andrew Moon Associate Principal Sophie Rowell Associate Concertmaster Sylvia Hosking Assistant Principal #The Ullmer Family Foundation Damien Eckersley Suzanne Lee Peter Edwards Assistant Principal Benjamin Hanlon Stephen Newton Kirsty Bremner Eleanor Mancini #Sophie Galaise Sarah Curro Mark Mogilevski Peter Fellin Michelle Ruffolo FLUTES Deborah Goodall Kathryn Taylor Prudence Davis Principal Lorraine Hook Michael Aquilina# #Anonymous Kirstin Kenny Robert John* Wendy Clarke Associate Principal Ji Won Kim Oksana Thompson* Sarah Beggs SECOND VIOLINS PICCOLO Matthew Tomkins Principal Andrew Macleod Principal #The Gross Foundation Robert Macindoe Associate Principal OBOES Monica Curro Assistant Principal #Danny Gorog & Lindy Susskind Jeffrey Crellin Principal Mary Allison Isy Wasserman Thomas Hutchinson Associate Principal Isin Cakmakcioglu Philippa West Ann Blackburn Freya Franzen Patrick Wong Cong Gu Roger Young COR ANGLAIS Andrew Hall Amy Brookman* Michael Pisani Principal Francesca Hiew Emily Long‡ Rachel Homburg CLARINETS VIOLAS David Thomas Principal Christopher Moore Principal Philip Arkinstall Associate Principal #Di Jameson Craig Hill Fiona Sargeant Associate Principal Lauren Brigden Cindy Watkin BASS CLARINET Katharine Brockman Caleb Wright Jon Craven Principal Christopher Cartlidge William Clark* Gabrielle Halloran Ceridwen Davies* Trevor Jones Isabel Morse* BASSOONS Jack Schiller Principal CELLOS Elise Millman Associate Principal David Berlin Principal Natasha Thomas #MS Newman Family Rachael Tobin Associate Principal CONTRABASSOON Nicholas Bochner Assistant Principal Brock Imison Principal Miranda Brockman Sarah Morse Rohan de Korte Angela Sargeant Keith Johnson Michelle Wood #Andrew & Theresa Dyer MUSIC HORNS All songs by David Bowie unless noted otherwise. Euan Harvey* Guest Associate Principal The orchestral arrangements have been specially Saul Lewis Principal Third commissioned for these concerts. Jenna Breen Trinette McClimont Space Oddity Station to Station Abbey Edlin Robert Shirley* arr. Daniel Denholm arr. Joe Twist TRUMPETS Starman Moonage Daydream Geoffrey Payne Principal arr. Joe Twist arr. Wells Shane Hooton Associate Principal All the Young Dudes Golden Years William Evans Julie Payne arr. Nicholas Buc arr. Wells TROMBONES Rebel Rebel Changes arr. Jamie Messenger arr. Twist Brett Kelly Principal The Jean Genie Young Americans Jessica Buzbee* Guest Associate Principal arr. Messenger arr. Wells Iain Faragher* Mike Szabo Principal Bass Trombone Stay Boys Keep Swinging arr. Jessica Wells TUBA Modern Love Diamond Dogs arr. Benjamin Northey Timothy Buzbee Principal arr. Wells Let’s Dance TIMPANI Ziggy Stardust arr. Northey arr. Wells Christine Turpin Principal Fashion Suffragette City arr. Northey arr. Wells PERCUSSION Ashes to Ashes Robert Clarke Principal Fame arr. Northey David Bowie, Carlos John Arcaro Robert Cossom Lazurus Alomar & John Lennon, Lara Wilson* arr. Twist arr. Messenger Five Years HARP China Girl arr. Buc David Bowie Yinuo Mu Principal & Iggy Pop, Heroes SAXOPHONES arr. Messenger David Bowie & Brian Eno, Oh! You Pretty Things Martin Corcoran* alto arr. Denholm Carlo Barbaro* tenor Sorrow Bob Feldman, Luke Carbon* baritone Jerry Goldstein, Richard Gottehrer, arr. Buc (Is There) Life on Mars? arr. Denholm # Position supported by * Guest Musician ‡ Courtesy of Sydney Symphony Orchestra BIOGRAPHIES iOTA TIM ROGERS iOTA, an award-winning Hailing from a mining singer, songwriter, town in WA, Tim has musician, producer, taken his talents to the playwright, stage world in a career that performer, film actor and encompasses music, visual artist, has been film, television and stage. very busy since his last As the frontman of You studio album release Am I, he has released back in 2006. Since then, he has performed in ten studio albums, three critically acclaimed productions of Hedwig and of which have debuted at #1: Hi Fi Way (1995), the Angry Inch, The Rocky Horror Picture Show Hourly, Daily (1996) and #4 Record (1998)— and Sydney Dance Company’s Berlin, while with the records receiving ARIA Awards and also writing and starring in the international platinum and gold status. The band has been fringe theatre hit Smoke & Mirrors, the Sydney released internationally and headlined shows Opera House show Young, Hard and Solo, and across North America and Europe. He has also most recently the controversial and acclaimed released critically acclaimed solo albums, and a B-Girl, also at the Sydney Opera House. Along number of collaborations with musicians such the way, he has picked up Helpmann and Green as Tex Perkins, The Temperance Union and Room awards for outstanding performances The Bamboos. In 2012 he released his fifth and and productions. On the silver screen he has most recent solo album, the acclaimed Rogers played the orchestra leader in Baz Luhrmann’s Sings Rogerstein. One of his most notable film The Great Gatsby and, more recently, was part roles was in the 2013 musical-thriller film The of the supporting cast in George Miller’s Mad Boy Castaways with fellow Australian musician Max: Fury Road. He has written, recorded and Megan Washington, and he appeared alongside produced two albums in the last 12 months: Mia Wasikowska in the film Tracks. He has a self-titled opus written while on set in the written for The Age and The Monthly, and has desert of Namibia shooting Fury Road, and Wolf encapsulated the passion of every AFL football Number Nine. Whatever role he finds himself in, fan as the face of the AFL final series on TV iOTA is finally living the role he was born to play: screens nationwide. He has stood in front of that of an exceedingly capable individual and 50,000 screaming rock fans, but is just as at powerful performer—no masks, no disguises, no home playing an acoustic guitar and joking with gimmicks, just himself. the locals in a country town venue. DEBORAH CONWAY STEVE KILBEY Deborah has been a Steve was born in significant and eloquent England in 1954 and—as contributor to Australian lead singer-songwriter music for more than 30 and bass guitarist— years. Her first band formed the psychedelic Do-Ré-Mi topped the rock band The Church charts; her first solo in Sydney in 1980. The album achieved platinum Church has released 24 sales while simultaneously becoming the most studio albums and 34 singles, including Under the shoplifted album of that year. She continues Milky Way (from Starfish, 1988), which brought to release albums that attract acclaim from the band international fame and was named reviewers and appreciative audiences alike, Single of the Year in the 1989 ARIA Awards. most recently Stories of Ghosts, described as The band was inducted into the ARIA Hall of ten dialogues around themes from the Torah, Fame in 2010, and the following year Steve was from an atheist Jewish perspective. Deborah inducted into the Australian Songwriters Hall has pursued a career of extracurricular of Fame. He has written three books, including activities alongside the core business of writing, Something Quite Peculiar, and released many recording and performing her songs. These musical collaborations. He now lives in Coogee. have included producing Broad, a national series of touring showcase concerts featuring ADALITA female singer-songwriters (2005–08); and roles Adalita, lead singer of as Artistic Director for the Queensland Music seminal band Magic Festival (2009–11) and Festival Director for Shir Dirt, has been one Madness Melbourne Jewish Music Festival. In of Australia’s most 2015 the 5/4 anthem Alive and Brilliant—written respected and influential with long-time collaborator Willy Zygier—was artists for nearly two inducted into the National Film and Sound decades. You may well Archive. Deborah and Willy have just released have grown up with her Everybody's Begging, a follow-up to 2013's music, watching it evolve from the free-form Stories of Ghosts. distortion-drenched darkness of the early 90s to the confident, poised rock ’n’ roll of the album Girl. Or you might be a new fan, just beginning to explore her solo work released under her own name, dynamic and introspective. The release of Adalita’s eponymous debut album in 2011 marked the advent of a remarkable new phase in an already illustrious career.