HANDEL

9–10 DECEMBER 2017

CONCERT PROGRAM Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Rinaldo Alessandrini conductor Sara Macliver soprano Joslyn Rechter mezzo-soprano Ed Lyon Salvo Vitale bass Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Warren Trevelyan-Jones chorus master

Handel Messiah

Running time: 2 hours and 40 minutes, The MSO acknowledge the Traditional including a 20-minute interval after Act I Owners of the land on which we are performing. We pay our respects to In consideration of your fellow patrons, their Elders, past and present, and the the MSO thanks you for dimming the Elders from other communities who lighting on your mobile phone. may be in attendance.

mso.com.au (03) 9929 9600 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY RINALDO ALESSANDRINI ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR Established in 1906, the Melbourne In addition to his activities as Founder- Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an Director of Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo arts leader and Australia’s oldest Alessandrini is renowned as a recitalist professional orchestra. Chief on the harpsichord, fortepiano and Conductor, Sir Andrew Davis, has organ, and is considered one of the been at the helm of the MSO since most authoritative interpreters of 2013. Engaging more than 2.5 million Monteverdi worldwide. His profound people each year, and as a truly global knowledge and love of the Italian orchestra, the MSO collaborates with repertoire is naturally reflected in guest artists and arts organisations programmes in which he seeks to from across the world. reproduce the essential, but often elusive, expressive and cantabile The MSO performs a variety of elements so fundamental to Italian concerts ranging from core classical music in the 17th and 18th centuries. performances at its home, Hamer Hall at Arts Centre Melbourne, to its His recordings include not only annual free concerts at Melbourne’s Italian music, but Bach and his largest outdoor venue, the Sidney contemporaries as well. He has Myer Music Bowl. The MSO also garnered the highest critical delivers innovative and engaging plaudits including five Gramophone programs to audiences of all ages Awards, two Grand Prix du Disque, through its Education and Outreach three Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, initiatives. Prix Caecilia, the Premio Cini and four Midem Awards in Cannes. Image courtesy Daniel Aulsebrook He and Concerto Italiano appeared in Melbourne in February 2016 performing Monteverdi’s Vespers. Rinaldo has performed with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of Lyon House, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (2010), Washington Symphony Orchestra.

3 SARA MACLIVER JOSLYN RECHTER SOPRANO MEZZO-SOPRANO Sara Macliver is one of Australia’s Australian mezzo-soprano Joslyn most popular and versatile artists, Rechter has worked extensively and is regarded as one of the leading as a stage, concert and recital exponents of repertoire. artist, and has been a soloist with Opera Australia, and the Cologne Sara is a regular performer with all and Wuppertal Opera companies. the Australian symphony orchestras Joslyn studied at the Sydney as well as the Perth, Melbourne and Conservatorium of Music, gaining Sydney Festivals, , Bachelor of Music and a Diploma in the Australian Chamber Orchestra Operatic art. and Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Musica Viva, and a Joslyn's concert repertoire has number of international companies. included performances with the Melbourne, Tasmanian and In 2016, Sara sang the St John and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, the the St Matthew Passions for WASO Orchestra of the Welsh National and TSO respectively, and with the Opera and with many orchestras and Adelaide String Quartet, Auckland chamber ensembles in Germany, Philharmonic, Australia Ensemble, including Hagen, Wuppertal and Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, the Cologne Philharmonic. Major Australian Haydn Ensemble, awards have included study and St George’s Cathedral, Sydney performance opportunities with the Philharmonia Choirs and ANAM. Royal Northern College of Music Earlier in 2017 she performed in Manchester, and a scholarship Mozart’s with the MSO and awarded by The Wager Society in Richard Egarr. Cologne to attend performances at the Bayreuth Festival.

4 ED LYON SALVO VITALE TENOR BASS Ed Lyon is one of Britain's most Born in Catania, Salvo Vitale began versatile and sought after young his vocal studies at the Civica Scuola . Having studied History di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan, of Art at St John's, Cambridge, where he studied baroque repertoire he studied at the Royal Academy with Alan Curtis. of Music and the National Opera He has appeared at the Vienna Studio. As well as performing roles Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw at , English Amsterdam, Concertgebouw National Opera, Opera North, Bruges, Tokyo Opera City Concert Glyndebourne and Welsh National Hall, Palau de la Música Catalana in Opera, his international career Barcelona, Royal Opera of Versailles, has included performances in and Teatro Regio Turin. Madrid, Paris (Châtelet and Opéra Comique), as well as at Netherlands Recent recordings include Agostino Opera, the Brooklyn Academy of Steffani’s , Monteverdi’s Music, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Orfeo and The Return of Ulysses, and Lyon, Bordeaux, La Scala, Theater Davide Perez’s Mattutino de’ Morti. an der Wien, Lille and Opéra Recent performances have included National de Rhin. Monteverdi’s Orfeo at Belgium’s BOZAR, L'incoronazione di Poppea His busy concert schedule has in Schwetzingen and at Carnegie similarly taken him to some of Hall and Monteverdi’s Lamento della the greatest concerts halls in ninfa and Combattimento di Tancredi the world including Birmingham e Clorinda at the Utrecht Early Music Symphony Hall, the Royal Festival Festival. He has also performed Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, Berlin Monteverdi’s Vespers with Concerto Philharmonie, Alice Tully Hall New Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini in York, Palau de la Musica Valencia, Melbourne. Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon.

5 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY WARREN TREVELYAN-JONES ORCHESTRA CHORUS CHORUS MASTER For more than 50 years the Warren Trevelyan-Jones is Chorus Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Master of the MSO Chorus and Chorus has been the unstinting voice Head of Music at St James’, King of the Orchestra’s choral repertoire. Street in Sydney and is regarded as In 2017 the Chorus joins forces with one of the leading choral conductors the Orchestra on more than 20 and choir trainers in Australia. different occasions to perform some Warren has had an extensive singing of the most moving and inspiring career as a soloist and ensemble repertoire from the canon, as well singer in Europe, including nine as once again presenting its own years in the Choir of Westminster a cappella performances. Abbey, and regular work with the Gabrieli Consort, Collegium Vocale The MSO Chorus sings with the (Ghent), the Taverner Consort, The finest conductors, including Sir Kings Consort, Dunedin Consort, Andrew Davis, Edward Gardner, The Sixteen and the Tallis Scholars. Mark Wigglesworth, Bernard Labadie, Stephen Layton, Vladimir Warren has appeared on more Ashkenazy, Masaaki Suzuki and than 60 CD recordings, numerous Manfred Honeck, and is committed television and radio broadcasts, and to developing and performing new in many of the worlds' leading music Australian and international choral festivals and concert halls. repertoire.

6 PROGRAM NOTES

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL English capital would have to live down (1685–1759) ever after the indignity of knowing that , instead, had been vouchsafed Messiah: An , HWV 56 the first performance of Handel’s Words selected from the Holy Bible magnum opus, Messiah. by (1700–1773) Rinaldo Alessandrini conductor Handel had first turned his hand to Sara Macliver soprano oratorio in Rome. His La Resurrezione, Joslyn Rechter mezzo-soprano to a text in Italian, was a type of sacred Ed Lyon tenor music drama originally designed to fill in Salvo Vitale bass the gaps caused in public entertainment MSO Chorus by the church’s ban on opera In the English city of Chester one performances on certain days of the November morning in 1741, a schoolboy ecclesiastical calendar. Thus, on Easter observed a portly gentleman with a Day, 1708, Resurrezione’s brilliantly pronounced German accent smoking costumed cast enacted human a pipe at the Exchange Coffeehouse. and heavenly responses to Christ’s For the 15-year-old Charles Burney, miraculous rising-from-the-dead, in a later England’s great music historian, series of declamatory recitatives broken it was his first sighting of George up by arias, often overlaid with brilliant Frideric Handel, at 56 the embattled instrumental obbligati. Still following erstwhile dean of London’s cut-throat this musical schema, but now adapted opera world, and recently purveyor to English taste (and the English tongue), of a new and peculiarly English type Handel’s sacred had recently of oratorio. Burney watched Handel reached a peak of perfection in Israel ‘narrowly’ throughout his stay in in Egypt (1738), a retelling of the Exodus Chester, while he waited until better story that further expanded the form’s weather allowed him to embark musical resources with its sequences from Ellesmere Port for Dublin. of vivid, fugal and anthemic choruses. Even thus stranded, Handel was With this achievement only recently probably happy merely to be away behind him, Handel arrived in Dublin from London. Opera, his chief activity on 18 November 1741. He discovered no for 30 years, had brought him a share shortage of talented local musicians, of commercial unhappiness recently, and chose the best of them, including as a fickle public, following even more the violinist Matthew Dubourg, Master fickle patrons, effectively edged his of the State Music, to lead his orchestra. previously successful company out of Most of the chorus singers belonged to the market. By going to Dublin, Handel the choirs of Dublin’s two cathedrals, was denying London the premiere of St Patrick’s and Christ Church, to the not one new oratorio, Samson, but disapproval initially of St Patrick’s Dean, two. And in the case of the latter, the the redoubtable . Sixteen

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years on from Gulliver’s Travels, the to biblical texts being given over to erratic septuagenarian inveighed ‘base actors’. Further public animosity against his choir-men for frequenting arose from the work being based Handel’s ‘club of fiddlers’ in Fishamble on the person of Christ, rather than, Street. But even Swift eventually as in Handel’s previous oratorios, conceded that Handel was ‘A German, on Old Testament personalities like and a Genius!’. and Saul. In this, Messiah’s librettist, Charles Jennens, may well Possibly an attraction for the choir- have drawn inspiration from Handel’s men, and cause of Swift’s earlier earlier Lutheran Brockes Passion, or disquiet, was Handel’s exotic La Resurrezione. However his Messiah entourage, centred on his soprano, libretto was far more sweeping in Signora Avoglio, prima donna at the scope, a scriptural survey of the Messiah premiere. By coincidence, the entire Christian salvation history, from popular actor Cibber, sister prophesies of Christ’s birth wishfully of composer Thomas Arne, was also in extracted from Jewish scriptures in Part town fleeing London and the scandal 1 (hence its continuing popularity at of her failed marriage, and created Christmastime), through reflections on such a favourable impression when she Christ’s passion and resurrection in Part sang first for Handel in March, that he 2, to the last judgement and second engaged her for Messiah, too. coming in the third and final Part. Of the premiere at the New Music Hall Keen to avert the potentially damaging on 13 April 1742, The Dublin Journal (if today scarcely credible) charges of commented: blasphemy that Messiah could earn The best Judges allowed it to be him, Handel initially advertised the the most finished piece of Musick. work in London not under its incendiary Words are wanting to express the title, but blandly as ‘A NEW SACRED exquisite Delight it afforded to ORATORIO’. Still, Londoners remained the admiring crowded Audience. wary of Messiah until the early 1750s, The Sublime, the Grand, and and the establishment of annual the Tender, adapted to the most Foundling Hospital performances, to elevated, majestick and moving benefit the society for Maintenance Words, conspired to transport and and Education of Exposed and charm the ravished Heart and Ear. Deserted young Children. According to the 18th-century music historian Handel was, as it transpired, wise John Hawkins, it was only then that to introduce Messiah first in Dublin. ‘a change of sentiment in the public Later, in London in 1743, it was began to manifest itself; the Messiah ‘indifferently relish’d’, drawing was received with universal applause.’ criticism from zealots who objected

8 Handel completed the full score of Dubourg’s small Dublin orchestra the work in three weeks in August- of strings, with trumpets and drums September 1741, a less extraordinary (added only as Messiah approaches feat then than it sounds today, and its celestial conclusion), plus the typical of the speed at which Handel chorus and soloists, numbered barely and his contemporaries composed. 50. Back in London, however, Handel He was assisted, moreover, by several expanded his forces, first adding notable instances of self-borrowing. oboes and bassoons, later even Handel mined the scores of several horns, and swelling strings and chorus blatantly erotic Italian cantatas he’d considerably. By the end of his life, composed 30 years earlier to produce performances with several hundred the triumphal last judgement duet-and- participants were becoming the norm. chorus, O Death, where is thy sting, and As to the effect of the Dublin premiere four more choruses, And he shall purify, on the work’s first audience of 700, All we like sheep, His yoke is easy, and Edward Synge, the upright bishop of the great For unto us a child is born. Elphin, judiciously summed up: Handel responded to the vicissitudes They Seem’d indeed throughly of performing the work by making engag’d frome one End to the other. countless alterations to it over the And, to their Great Honour, tho’ the years. Even in Dublin, he tampered Young & Gay of both Sexes were with the score, cutting the second present in Great Numbers, their half of the bass aria Why do the Behaviour was uniformly Grave & nations, and, to give his seven soloists Decent, which Show’d that they there (not the now usual four) more were not only pleas’d but affected to do, recast his solo setting of How with the Performance. Many, I hope, beautiful are the feet as a duet and were instructed by it, and had proper chorus. Handel’s own flexibility not Sentiments inspir’d in a Stronger only confirms Jennens’ description of Manner on their Minds. Messiah as a ‘Scripture Collection’, but renders ridiculous any search Abridged from Graeme Skinner © 2008 for a definitive version. Yet modern Messiah was first performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in association with the Melbourne performances can still provide Philharmonic Society on 25 December 1940, under historically accurate insights into the the direction of Bernard Heinze. The soloists were stages in the work’s evolution, whether Thea Philips, Joan Jones, William Herbert and Stanley Clarkson. The Orchestra’s most recent performance, based on the original 1741 score, or under Paul Goodwin, was on 10 December 2016 with the particular variants heard in, say, Emma Matthews, Luciana Mancini, Charles Daniels, Christopher Richardson, and the MSO Chorus. the 1742 Dublin first performance, the 1743 London premiere, or the 1754 Foundling Hospital performance.

9 Messiah An Oratorio, HW56

The words selected from Holy Scripture by Charles Jennens

10 Sinfony

Comfort ye (Isaiah 40:1-3) Accompagnato: Tenor Ev’ry valley (Isaiah 40:4) Air: Tenor Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God; speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplish’d, that her iniquity is pardon’d. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Ev’ry valley shall be exalted, and ev’ry mountain and hill made low, the crooked straight, and the rough places plain.

And the glory of the Lord (Isaiah 40:5) Chorus And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Thus saith the Lord (Haggai 2:6-7; Malachi 3:1) Accompagnato: Bass Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts; Yet once a little while, and I will shake the heav’ns and the earth; the sea and the dry land; And I will shake all nations; and the desire of all nations shall come. The Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the Covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, He shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts.

But who may abide (Malachi 3:2) Air: Soprano But who may abide the day of His coming?

Please turn the page quietly 11 and who shall stand when He appeareth? For He is like a refiner’s fire.

And He shall purify (Malachi 3:3) Chorus And He shall purify the sons of Levi, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

Behold, a virgin shall conceive (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23) Recit.: Alto O thou that tellest (Isaiah 40:9 and 60:1) Air: Alto, and Chorus Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Emmanuel, ‘God with us’.

O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid, say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God. O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

For behold, darkness (Isaiah 60:2-3) Accompagnato: Bass The people that walked in darkness (Isaiah 9:2) Air: Bass For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; and they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

12 For unto us a child is born (Isaiah 9:6) Chorus For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)

There were shepherds abiding in the field (Luke 2:8) Recit.: Soprano And lo, the angel of the Lord (Luke 2:9) Accompagnato: Soprano And suddenly, there was with the angel (Luke 2:13) Accompagnato: Soprano Glory to God (Luke 2:14) Chorus And there were shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heav’nly host, praising God, and saying …

‘Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, goodwill towards men.’

Rejoice greatly (Zechariah 9:9-10) Air: Soprano Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold thy King cometh unto thee. He is the righteous Saviour; And He shall speak peace unto the heathen.

Please turn the page quietly 13 Then shall the eyes of the blind (Isaiah 35:5-6) Recit.: Alto He shall feed his flock (Isaiah 40:11; Matthew 11:28-29) Duet: Alto and Soprano Then shall the eyes of the blind be open’d, And the ears of the deaf unstopped; then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing.

He shall feed His flock like a shepherd: and He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and gently lead those that are with young. Come unto Him all ye that labour, come unto Him, that are heavy laden, and He will give you rest. Take His yoke upon you, and learn of Him; for He is meek and lowly of heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

His yoke is easy (Matthew 11:30) Chorus His yoke is easy, His burthen is light.

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14 Part the Second The death, resurrection and ascension of Christ; the spreading of the Gospel.

Behold the Lamb of God (John 1:29) Chorus Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world.

He was despised (Isaiah 53:3 a:6) Air: Alto He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. He gave His back to the smiters, and His cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: He hid not His face from shame and spitting.

Surely He hath borne our griefs (Isaiah 53:4-5) Chorus And with His stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5) Chorus All we, like sheep (Isaiah 53:6) Chorus Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows: He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him.

And with His stripes we are healed.

All we, like sheep, have gone astray, we have turned ev’ry one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

All they that see Him (Psalm 22:7 – Book of Common Prayer) Accompagnato: Tenor He trusted in God (Psalm 22:8 – BCP) Chorus All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn; they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads, saying:

He trusted in God that He would deliver him: let Him deliver Him, if He delight in Him.

Please turn the page quietly 15 Thy rebuke hath broken His heart (Psalm 69:20 – BCP) Accompagnato: Tenor Behold and see (Lamentations 1:12) Air: Tenor Thy rebuke hath broken His heart; He is full of heaviness. He looked for some to have pity on Him, but there was no man, neither found He any to comfort Him.

Behold, and see, if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow!

Let all the angels of God (Hebrews 1:6) Chorus Let all the angels of God worship Him.

Thou art gone up on high (Psalm 68:18) Air: Alto Thou art gone up on high; Thou hast led captivity captive, and received gifts for men, yea, even for Thine enemies, that the Lord God might dwell among them.

The Lord gave the word (Psalm 68:11 – BCP) Chorus The Lord gave the word: great was the company of the preachers.

How beautiful are the feet (Isaiah 52:7) Air: Soprano How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things.

Their sound is gone out (Romans 10:18) Chorus Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words unto the ends of the world.

16 Why do the nations (Psalm 2:1-2 – BCP) Air: Bass Let us break their bonds (Psalm 2:3) Chorus He that dwelleth in heaven (Psalm 2:4 – BCP) Recit.: Tenor Thou shalt break them (Psalm 2:9) Air: Tenor Why do the nations so furiously rage together: why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed.

Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes from us.

He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn; the Lord shall have them in derision.

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

Hallelujah (Revelation 19:6; 11:15; 19:16) Chorus Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth, Hallelujah! The Kingdom of this world is become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, Hallelujah!

There will be a short pause between Parts II and III, during which patrons are asked to remain in the auditorium.

Please turn the page quietly 17 Part the Third Victory over Death.

I know that my Redeemer liveth (Job 19:25-26; 1 Corinthians 15:20) Air: Soprano I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And tho’ worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. For now is Christ risen from the dead, the first fruits of them that sleep.

Since by man came death (1 Corinthians 15:21-22) Chorus Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Behold, I tell you a mystery (1 Corinthians 15:51-52) Accompagnato: Bass The trumpet shall sound (1 Corinthians 15:52) Air: Bass Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be chang’d, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be rais’d incorruptible, and we shall be chang’d.

Then shall be brought to pass (1 Corinthians 15:54) Recit.: Alto O Death, where is thy sting? (1 Corinthians 15:55-56) Duet: Alto and Tenor But thanks be to God (1 Corinthians 15:57) Chorus Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written; Death is swallow’d up in victory.

18 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.

But thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

If God be for us (Romans 18:31, 33-34) Air: Soprano If God be for us, who can be against us? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth: Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again; who is at the right hand of God, who makes intercession for us.

Worthy is the Lamb (Revelation 5:12-13) Chorus Amen Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by His blood, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Blessing and honour, glory and power be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever.

Amen.

19 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Sir Andrew Davis SECOND VIOLINS CELLOS Chief Conductor Matthew Tomkins David Berlin Benjamin Northey Principal Principal Associate Conductor The Gross Foundation# MS Newman Family# Tianyi Lu Rachael Tobin Cybec Assistant Conductor Robert Macindoe Associate Principal Associate Principal Hiroyuki Iwaki Conductor Laureate (1974-2006) Monica Curro Nicholas Bochner Assistant Principal Assistant Principal Danny Gorog and Miranda Brockman FIRST VIOLINS # Lindy Susskind Geelong Friends Dale Barltrop Mary Allison of the MSO# Concertmaster Isin Cakmakcioglu Rohan de Korte # Eoin Andersen Freya Franzen Andrew Dudgeon Concertmaster Anonymous# Keith Johnson Sophie Rowell Cong Gu Sarah Morse Associate Concertmaster The Ullmer Family Foundation# Andrew Hall Angela Sargeant Andrew and Judy Rogers# John Marcus Michelle Wood # Principal Isy Wasserman Andrew and Theresa Dyer Peter Edwards Philippa West DOUBLE BASSES Assistant Principal Patrick Wong Steve Reeves Kirsty Bremner Roger Young Principal Sarah Curro Ingrid Homburg* Andrew Moon # Michael Aquilina Anne-Marie Johnson* Associate Principal Peter Fellin Jenny Khafagi* Sylvia Hosking Deborah Goodall Assistant Principal Lorraine Hook VIOLAS Damien Eckersley Kirstin Kenny Christopher Moore Benjamin Hanlon Ji Won Kim Principal Suzanne Lee Di Jameson# Eleanor Mancini Stephen Newton David and Helen Moses# Fiona Sargeant Sophie Galaise and Associate Principal # Mark Mogilevski Clarence Fraser Lauren Brigden Esther Toh* Michelle Ruffolo Tam Vu, Peter and # Kathryn Taylor Lyndsey Hawkins FLUTES # Michael Aquilina Katharine Brockman Prudence Davis Tiffany Cheng* Christopher Cartlidge Principal Anne Martonyi* Michael Aquilina# Anonymous# Oksana Thompson* Anthony Chataway Wendy Clarke Gabrielle Halloran Associate Principal Trevor Jones Sarah Beggs Cindy Watkin PICCOLO Elizabeth Woolnough Andrew Macleod Caleb Wright Principal

20 OBOES TRUMPETS MSO BOARD Jeffrey Crellin Geoffrey Payne Chairman Principal Principal Michael Ullmer Thomas Hutchinson Shane Hooton Associate Principal Associate Principal Managing Director Ann Blackburn William Evans Sophie Galaise The Rosemary Norman Rosie Turner Foundation# Board Members TROMBONES Andrew Dyer COR ANGLAIS Danny Gorog Brett Kelly Michael Pisani Principal Margaret Jackson AC Principal Richard Shirley David Krasnostein CLARINETS David Li BASS TROMBONE Hyon-Ju Newman David Thomas Mike Szabo Principal Helen Silver AO Principal Philip Arkinstall Company Secretary Associate Principal TUBA Oliver Carton Craig Hill Timothy Buzbee Principal BASS CLARINET TIMPANI## Jon Craven Principal Christine Turpin*

BASSOONS PERCUSSION Jack Schiller Robert Clarke Principal Principal Elise Millman John Arcaro Associate Principal Tim and Lyn Edward# Natasha Thomas Robert Cossom

CONTRABASSOON HARP Brock Imison Yinuo Mu Principal Principal

HORNS ORGAN Saul Lewis Calvin Bowman* Principal Third Abbey Edlin HARPSICHORD Nereda Hanlon & Michael Hanlon AM# Donald Nicolson* Trinette McClimont # Position supported by ## Timpani Chair position supported by Lady Potter AC * Guest Musician

21 MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS

CHORUS MASTER ALTO TENOR Warren Trevelyan-Jones Aleksandra Acker Tony Barnett Satu Aho Steve Burnett REPETITEUR Catherine Bickell Geoffrey Collins Tom Griffiths Jane Brodie James Dipnall Jill Giese Simon Gaites SOPRANO Ros Harbison Lyndon Horsburgh Eva Butcher Sue Hawley Jessop Maticevski Shumack Veryan Croggon Kristine Hensel Dominic McKenna Rita Fitzgerald Helen MacLean Michael Mobach Catherine Folley Christina McCowan Jean-Francois Ravat Susan Fone Rosemary McKelvie Daniel Riley Camilla Gorman Alison Ralph Tim Wright Jillian Graham Mair Roberts Karling Hamill Helen Rommelaar BASS Juliana Hassett Annie Runnalls Richard Bolitho Penny Huggett Lisa Savige Paul Alexander Chantler Tania Jacobs Helen Staindl Roger Dargaville Gwen Kennelly Libby Timcke Phil Elphinstone Lynne Muir Andrew Ham Caitlin Noble Andrew Hibbard Karin Otto Jordan Janssen Tanja Redl Edward Ounapuu Jo Robin Liam Straughan Lynda Smerdon Matthew Toulmin Elizabeth Tindall Tom Turnbull Tara Zamin Maurice Wan Maciek Zielinski

22 Season Opening Gala

Sir Andrew Davis conductor Nelson Freire piano Stuart Skelton tenor

Program includes Carl Vine’s Microsymphony, Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, plus arias and orchestral excerpts from Fidelio, Götterdämmerung, Die Walküre and Otello.

SATURDAY 3 MARCH 2018 | 7.30pm Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall Pre-concert talk at 6.15pm

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MSO PATRON MSO Audience Access VIRTUOSO PRINCIPAL The Honourable Linda Crown Resorts PATRONS $50,000+ PATRONS $5,000+ Dessau AC, Governor Foundation Di Jameson ◊ Christine and of Victoria Packer Family David Krasnostein and Mark Armour Foundation Pat Stragalinos John and Mary Barlow ARTIST CHAIR MSO Education Mr Ren Xiao Jian and Stephen and BENEFACTORS supported by Mrs Li Quian Caroline Brain Anthony Pratt Mrs Margaret Ross Harold Mitchell AC Prof Ian Brighthope Associate Conductor AM and Kim Williams AM David and Emma Chair Dr Ian Ross Capponi MSO International IMPRESARIO Wendy Dimmick Joy Selby Smith PATRONS $20,000+ Andrew Dudgeon AM ◊ Orchestral Leadership Touring supported by ◊ ◊ ◊ Andrew and Theresa Chair Harold Mitchell AC Michael Aquilina The John and Jennifer Dyer ◊ MSO Regional Touring ◊ The Cybec Foundation Brukner Foundation Tim and Lyn Edward Creative Victoria Cybec Assistant Perri Cutten and Mr Bill Fleming The Robert Salzer Conductor Chair Jo Daniell John and Diana Frew Foundation The Ullmer Family Mary and Frederick Susan Fry and Don Foundation The Pizzicato Effect Davidson AM Fry AO Associate Collier Charitable Fund Rachel and the late Sophie Galaise and ◊ Concertmaster Chair The Marian and E.H. Hon. Alan Goldberg Clarence Fraser Flack Trust AO QC Geelong Friends of the Anonymous Schapper Family Hilary Hall, in memory MSO ◊ Principal Flute Chair Foundation of Wilma Collie Jennifer Gorog The Gross Foundation Scobie and Claire Margaret Jackson AC HMA Foundation Principal Second Violin Mackinnon Trust Andrew Johnston Louis Hamon OAM Chair Supported by the Mimie MacLaren Hans and Petra Henkell Di Jameson Hume City Council’s John and Lois McKay Hartmut and Ruth Principal Viola Chair Community Grants Hofmann Program MAESTRO PATRONS Jack Hogan MS Newman Family (Anonymous) $10,000+ Doug Hooley Foundation Jenny and Peter Principal Cello Chair Sidney Myer Free Kaye and David Birks Concerts Mitchell Chipman Hordern Marc Besen AC and Supported by the Sir Andrew and Dr Alastair Jackson Eva Besen AO Myer Foundation Lady Davis D & CS Kipen on behalf 2018 Soloist in and the University of Danny Gorog and Lindy of Israel Kipen ◊ Residence Chair Melbourne Susskind Dr Elizabeth A Lewis AM Robert & Jan Green Peter Lovell PROGRAM CHAIRMAN’S Nereda Hanlon and Lesley McMullin ◊ BENEFACTORS CIRCLE $100,000+ Michael Hanlon AM Foundation Suzanne Kirkham Mr Douglas and Cybec 21st Century Marc Besen AC and The Cuming Bequest Mrs Rosemary Meagher Australian Composers Eva Besen AO Ian and Jeannie Paterson David and Helen Moses ◊ Program John Gandel AC and ◊ Lady Potter AC CMRI Dr Paul Nisselle AM The Cybec Foundation Pauline Gandel Elizabeth Proust AO The Rosemary Norman The Gross Foundation ◊ Cybec Young Rae Rothfield Foundation ◊ David and Angela Li Composer in Glenn Sedgwick Ken Ong, in memory of MS Newman Family Residence made Helen Silver AO and Lin Ong Foundation ◊ possible by Harrison Young Bruce Parncutt AO Anthony Pratt ◊ Maria Solà The Cybec Foundation Jim and Fran Pfeiffer The Pratt Foundation Profs. G & G Pzena Investment East Meets West Joy Selby Smith Stephenson, in honour Charitable Fund supported Ullmer Family of the great Romanian Andrew and Judy by the Li Family Trust Foundation ◊ musicians George Rogers ◊ Meet The Orchestra Anonymous (1) Enescu and Dinu Lipatti Max and Jill Schultz made possible by Gai and David Taylor The Ullmer Family Juliet Tootell Foundation Alice Vaughan Kee Wong and Wai Tang Jason Yeap OAM 24 Anonymous (1) Stephen Shanasy John and Dr John Brookes Kerry Landman Mr Tam Vu and Dr Margaret Mason Suzie and Harvey Brown William and Cherilyn Tillman ◊ H E McKenzie Roger and Col Buckle Magdalena Leadston The Hon. Michael Watt Allan and Evelyn Jill and Christopher Andrew Lee QC and Cecilie Hall McLaren Buckley Norman Lewis, Lyn Williams AM Don and Anne Bill and Sandra Burdett in memory of Anonymous (2) Meadows Lynne Burgess Dr Phyllis Lewis Marie Morton FRSA Peter Caldwell Dr Anne Lierse ASSOCIATE Annabel and Rupert Joe Cordone Andrew Lockwood PATRONS $2,500+ Myer AO Andrew and Violet and Jeff Dandolo Partners Ann Peacock with Pamela Crockett Loewenstein Will and Dorothy Bailey Andrew and Woody Dominic and Elizabeth H Loftus Bequest Kroger Natalie Dirupo Chris and Anna Long Barbara Bell, in memory Sue and Barry Peake Marie Dowling The Hon. Ian Macphee of Elsa Bell Mrs W Peart John and Anne Duncan AO and Mrs Julie Bill Bowness Graham and Christine Ruth Eggleston Macphee Lynne Burgess Peirson Kay Ehrenberg Vivienne Hadj and Oliver Carton Ruth and Ralph Renard Jaan Enden Rosemary Madden John and Lyn Coppock S M Richards AM and Valerie Falconer and Eleanor and Phillip Miss Ann Darby, M R Richards the Rayner Family Mancini in memory of Tom and Elizabeth in memory of Keith Dr Julianne Bayliss Leslie J. Darby Romanowski Falconer In memory of Leigh Natasha Davies, for the Jeffrey Sher QC and Amy and Simon Feiglin Masel Trikojus Education Fund Diana Sher OAM Grant Fisher and Ruth Maxwell Merrowyn Deacon Diana and Brian Snape Helen Bird Jenny McGregor AM Beryl Dean AM Barry Fradkin OAM and and Peter Allen Sandra Dent Dr Norman and Dr Pam Fradkin Glenda McNaught Peter and Leila Doyle Dr Sue Sonenberg Applebay Pty Ltd Wayne and Penny Lisa Dwyer and Geoff and Judy David Frenkiel and Morgan Dr Ian Dickson Steinicke Esther Frenkiel OAM Ian Morrey and Jane Edmanson OAM William and Jenny David Gibbs and Geoffrey Minter Dr Helen M Ferguson Ullmer Susie O'Neill JB Hi-Fi Ltd Mr Peter Gallagher and Elisabeth Wagner Merwyn and Greta Patricia Nilsson Dr Karen Morley Brian and Helena Goldblatt Laurence O'Keefe and Dina and Ron Worsfold Colin Golvan QC and Christopher James Goldschlager Peter and Susan Yates Dr Deborah Golvan Alan and Dorothy Louise Gourlay OAM Anonymous (7) George Golvan QC and Pattison Peter and Lyndsey Naomi Golvan Margaret Plant Hawkins ◊ PLAYER PATRONS Dr Marged Goode Kerryn Pratchett Susan and Gary Hearst $1,000+ Max Gulbin Peter Priest Colin Heggen, in David and Cindy Abbey Dr Sandra Hacker AO Treena Quarin memory of Marjorie Christa Abdallah and Mr Ian Kennedy AM Eli Raskin Drysdale Heggen Dr Sally Adams Jean Hadges Raspin Family Trust Rosemary and James Mary Armour Michael and Bobbie Renard Jacoby Arnold Bloch Leibler Susie Hamson Peter and Carolyn Rendit Jenkins Family Philip Bacon AM Paula Hansky OAM Dr Rosemary Ayton and Foundation Marlyn and Peter Merv Keehn and Dr Sam Ricketson C W Johnston Family Bancroft OAM Sue Harlow Joan P Robinson John Jones Adrienne Basser Tilda and Brian Cathy and Peter Rogers George and Grace Kass Prof Weston Bate and Haughney Doug and Elisabeth Scott Irene Kearsey and Janice Bate Penelope Hughes Martin and Susan Shirley M J Ridley Janet Bell Basil and Rita Jenkins Dr Sam Smorgon AO and The Ilma Kelson Music David Blackwell Stuart Jennings Mrs Minnie Smorgon Foundation Anne Bowden Dorothy Karpin John So Kloeden Foundation Michael F Boyt Brett Kelly and Dr Michael Soon Bryan Lawrence The Late Mr John Cindy Watkin Lady Southey AC Ann and George Brockman OAM and Dr Anne Kennedy Jennifer Steinicke Littlewood Mrs Pat Brockman Julie and Simon Kessel Dr Peter Strickland

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Pamela Swansson The Pratt Foundation Mr and Mrs R P PRINCIPAL PARTNER The MSO relies Jenny Tatchell The Robert Salzer Trebilcock Frank Tisher OAM and Foundation Michael Ullmer on your ongoing Dr Miriam Tisher Alan (AGL) Shaw Ila Vanrenen philanthropic support P and E Turner Endowment, managed The Hon. Rosemary Varty to sustain our The Hon. Rosemary Varty by Perpetual Mr Tam Vu artists, and support Leon and Sandra Velik Telematics Trust Marian and access, education, community Sue Walker AM Terry Wills Cooke GOVERNMENT PARTNERS Elaine Walters OAM CONDUCTOR’S Mark Young engagement and and Gregory Walters CIRCLE Anonymous (23) more. We invite our Edward and Paddy White Jenny Anderson suporters to get close Nic and Ann Willcock David Angelovich The MSO gratefully to the MSO through Marian and G C Bawden and acknowledges the a range of special Terry Wills Cooke L de Kievit support received from events. Lorraine Woolley Lesley Bawden the estates of PREMIER PARTNERS VENUE PARTNER Richard Ye Joyce Bown Angela Beagley The MSO welcomes Panch Das and Mrs Jenny Brukner Neilma Gantner your support at any Laurel Young-Das and the late Mr John Gwen Hunt level. Donations Anonymous (22) Brukner Audrey Jenkins of $2 and over are Ken Bullen Joan Jones tax deductible, THE MAHLER Peter A Caldwell Pauline Marie Johnston and supporters are SYNDICATE MAJOR PARTNERS EDUCATION PARTNERS Luci and Ron Chambers C P Kemp recognised as follows: David and Kaye Birks Beryl Dean Peter Forbes MacLaren $1,000+ Mary and Frederick Sandra Dent Joan Winsome Maslen (Player) Davidson AM Lyn Edward Lorraine Maxine Tim and Lyn Edward Alan Egan JP Meldrum $2,500+ John and Diana Frew Gunta Eglite Prof Andrew McCredie (Associate) Francis and Robyn Mr Derek Grantham Miss Sheila Scotter AM $5,000+ Hofmann Marguerite Garnon- SUPPORTING PARTNERS MBE (Principal) The Hon. Dr Barry Williams Marion A I H M Spence Jones AC Louis Hamon OAM Molly Stephens $10,000+ Dr Paul Nisselle AM Carol Hay Jean Tweedie (Maestro) Maria Solà Tony Howe Herta and Fred B Vogel $20,000+ The Hon. Michael Watt Laurence O'Keefe and Dorothy Wood (Impresario) QC and Cecilie Hall Christopher James $50,000+ Audrey M Jenkins HONORARY Quest Southbank e CEO Institute Ernst & Young Bows for Strings TRUSTS AND John Jones APPOINTMENTS (Virtuoso) FOUNDATIONS George and Grace Kass Sir Elton John CBE $100,000+ TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS Ken and Asle Chilton Mrs Sylvia Lavelle Life Member (Chairman’s Circle) Trust, managed by Pauline and David The Hon. Alan Perpetual Lawton The MSO Conductor’s Goldberg AO QC* Collier Charitable Fund Cameron Mowat Circle is our bequest Life Member Crown Resorts Rosia Pasteur program for members Foundation and Elizabeth Proust AO Geoffrey Rush AC who have notified of a the Packer Family Penny Rawlins Ambassador planned gift in their Will. Foundation Joan P Robinson John Brockman OAM* Neil Roussac The Cybec Foundation Life Member ENQUIRIES The Marian and E.H. Anne Roussac-Hoyne Ila Vanrenen* Phone Flack Trust Suzette Sherazee Life Member (03) 8646 1551 The Scobie and Claire Mackinnon Trust Gandel Philanthropy Michael Ryan and Linnell/Hughes Trust, Wendy Mead *Deceased Email e Gross Foundation, Li Family Trust, MS Newman Family Foundation, e Ullmer Family Foundation managed by Perpetual Ann and Andrew Serpell philanthropy@ Jennifer Shepherd The Scobie and Claire ◊ Signifies Adopt an MSO mso.com.au MEDIA AND BROADCAST PARTNERS Mackinnon Trust Profs. Gabriela and Musician supporter The Harold Mitchell George Stephenson Foundation Pamela Swansson The Myer Foundation Lillian Tarry Dr Cherilyn Tillman

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