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Symphonic Stories MORNING SYMPHONY SERIES Thursday 29 April 2021, 11.00am Perth Concert Hall MASTERS SERIES Saturday 1 May 2021, 7.30pm Perth Concert Hall M2_A5_Program Cover.indd 1 22/3/21 11:39 am MW2957-WASO ADVERT.indd 3 16/4/21 10:25 am Creating those special moments in time. Boutique Jeweller specialising in Argyle pink diamonds, Australian South Sea Pearls and Diamonds. www.stelios.com.au 514 Murray St, Perth - (08) 9481 0548 West Australian Symphony Orchestra respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners, Custodians and Elders of the Indigenous Nations across Western Australia and on whose Lands we work. MORNING SYMPHONY SERIES Symphonic Stories Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Symphony No.35 Haffner (17 mins) Allegro con spirito Andante Menuetto – Trio Finale (Presto) Bedřich SMETANA Má Vlast: Vltava (The Moldau) (11 mins) Leoš JANÁČEK Taras Bulba (23 mins) The Death of Andriy The Death of Ostap The Prophecy and Death of Taras Bulba Johannes Fritzsch conductor Wesfarmers Arts Pre-concert Talk Find out more about the music in the concert with this week’s speaker Rosalind Appleby (see page 25 for her biography). The Pre-concert Talk will take place at 9.40am in the Main Auditorium. 3 MASTERS SERIES Symphonic Stories Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Symphony No.35 Haffner (17 mins) Allegro con spirito Andante Menuetto – Trio Finale (Presto) Carl Maria von WEBER Clarinet Concerto No.1 (18 mins) Allegro Adagio ma non troppo Rondo (Allegretto) Interval (25 mins) Bedřich SMETANA Má Vlast: Vltava (The Moldau) (11 mins) Leoš JANÁČEK Taras Bulba (23 mins) The Death of Andriy The Death of Ostap The Prophecy and Death of Taras Bulba Johannes Fritzsch conductor Ashley Smith clarinet Wesfarmers Arts Pre-concert Talk Find out more about the music in the concert with this week’s speaker, Rosalind Appleby (see page 25 for her biography). The Pre-concert Talk will take place at 6.45pm in the Terrace Level Foyer. Wesfarmers Arts Meet the Artist Join tonight’s guest artists, Johannes Fritzsch and Ashley Smith, for a post-concert interview. 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The Orchestra WestAustSymOrchestra plays a central role in the vibrancy of our creative state, and they are also Stay up to date and sign-up to our supported by hundreds of visiting SymphonE-news at waso.com.au artists, alongside the volunteers of the 6 WASO On Stage VIOLIN VIOLA PICCOLO TROMBONE Laurence Jackson Daniel Schmitt Michael Waye Joshua Davis Concertmaster Alex Brogan • Pamela & Josh Pitt • Dr Ken Evans and Dr Glenda Campbell-Evans Riley Skevington Kierstan Arkleysmith Assoc Concertmaster OBOE Liam O’Malley Nik Babic Liz Chee Semra Lee-Smith BASS TROMBONE Assistant Concertmaster Benjamin Caddy A/Principal Oboe Zak Rowntree* Alison Hall Annabelle Farid° Philip Holdsworth Rachael Kirk Principal 2nd Violin COR ANGLAIS TUBA Akiko Miyazawa Allan McLean A/Assoc Principal Leanne Glover Cameron Brook Elliot O’Brien • Sam & Leanne Walsh • Peter & Jean Stokes 2nd Violin Kathy Potter^ Sarah Blackman Helen Tuckey CLARINET TIMPANI Fleur Challen Allan Meyer Alex Timcke Stephanie Dean CELLO Geoffrey Bourgault PERCUSSION Amy Furfaro^ Rod McGrath du Coudray^ Rebecca Glorie • Tokyo Gas Brian Maloney Beth Hebert Eve Silver* BASS CLARINET Francois Combemorel Assoc Principal Alexandra Isted Melinda Forsythe^ Alexander Millier Shigeru Komatsu Percussion & Timpani Jane Johnston^ BASSOON Paul Tanner^ Sunmi Jung Oliver McAslan Nicholas Metcalfe Jane Kircher-Lindner HARP Christina Katsimbardis Adam Mikulicz Ellie Lawrence Anna Sarcich^ Yi-Yun Loei^ Sera Lee^ Fotis Skordas CONTRABASSOON Tim South ORGAN Jasmine Middleton^ Chloe Turner Stewart Smith^ Lucas O’Brien DOUBLE BASS • Stelios Jewellers Melanie Pearn Andrew Sinclair* HORN Louise Sandercock John Keene ★ Section partnered by Margaret & Rod Marston Jolanta Schenk Sarah Clare^ David Evans Jane Serrangeli Louise Elaerts Bao Di Tang Robert Gladstones Christine Reitzenstein Principal 3rd Horn Cerys Tooby Mark Tooby Julia Brooke Teresa Vinci^ Phil Waldron^ Francesco Lo Surdo Susannah Williams^ Arianne Rooney^ David Yeh FLUTE Andrew Nicholson • Anonymous TRUMPET Brent Grapes Mary-Anne Blades • Anonymous • Anonymous Jenna Smith Peter Miller ★ Section partnered by • Chair partnered by * Instruments used by these musicians are on loan from Janet Holmes à Court AC. Principal Associate Principal Assistant Principal Contract Musician˚ Guest Musician^ 7 COVIDsafe A5 Ad.indd 1 11/2/21 2:58 pm About The Artists Johannes Fritzsch Ashley Smith Conductor Clarinet Johannes Fritzsch was appointed Principal Described as “Incandescent... a masterly Conductor and Artistic Adviser of the display of skill and insight... as an Queensland Symphony Orchestra in apologist for contemporary music- February 2021, having previously served making, you would search hard to find as their Chief Conductor (2008-2014). this young clarinettist's equal” (The Since 2018, Johannes has held the position Age), clarinettist Ashley William Smith of Principal Guest Conductor of the appears internationally as a soloist, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. chamber musician and director. He has From 2006-2013 he was Chief Conductor been recognised by a Music Council of and Artistic Director of the Oper Graz, Australia Freedman Fellowship, an ABC Grazer Philharmonisches Orchester Symphony International Young Performer (Austria). Prior to his appointment in Award, a Churchill Fellowship, and an Graz, Johannes held the position of Chief APRA Performance of the Year (Skipworth Conductor and Artistic Director of the Clarinet Concerto with the West Staatsoper Nürnberg. He regularly conducts Australian Symphony Orchestra). the major Australasian orchestras as well as leading productions for Opera Australia, Notable engagements include Opera Queensland, West Australian Opera performances for the Chamber Music and State Opera of South Australia. Society of the Lincoln Centre, Chamber In January 2015, Johannes was appointed Music Northwest, the Kennedy Centre Adjunct Professor, The Conservatorium of and the Beijing Modern Music Festival. Music, School of Creative Arts and Media Ashley is a Senior Lecturer and Chair at the University of Tasmania. In June 2019, of Woodwind and Contemporary he joined the Queensland Conservatorium, Performance at the University of Western Griffith University as Professor of Opera Australia Conservatorium of Music. and Orchestral Studies. A graduate of Yale University, the In 2017, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra University of Western Australia, and invited him to design and lead the newly a Fellow of the Australian National founded Australian Conducting Academy. Academy of Music, Ashley was awarded In 2021, he conducts the Auckland the highest honours as the most Philharmonia and the Sydney, Melbourne, outstanding performance graduate of Queensland, Tasmanian and West each institution. In 2020 he was awarded Australian Symphony Orchestras. a Doctor of Musical Arts from UWA. © Patrick Togher Artists’ Management 2021 9 COVIDsafe A5 Ad.indd 1 11/2/21 2:58 pm About The Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Symphony No.35 in D, K.385 Haffner Allegro con spirito Andante Menuetto – Trio Finale (Presto) This symphony, the first Mozart completed after moving from Salzburg to Vienna in 1781, shows the confidence and richness of the opera he had composed for Munich the previous year, Idomeneo, transferred to a grand piece for orchestra his score by adding flutes and clarinets to alone. It is called the ‘Haffner’ Symphony the first and last movements, and deleting because the music was composed for the march and the first minuet. It was festivities in Salzburg associated with the common for elaborate multi-movement ennoblement of Mozarts’ friend Siegmund serenades to be ‘reduced’ to three or Haffner the Younger. four movement symphonies in this way. When in 1782 he received his father’s In Mozart’s case, at least, there is little request for some new music appropriate distinction between ‘symphonic’ writing to the occasion, Wolfgang Mozart was and the grand festive style of his most preoccupied with the production of his ambitious serenades. opera The Abduction from the Seraglio, The first movement of theHaffner and his marriage to Constanze Weber.
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