Joyous Reminiscence
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SYMPHONY SERIES 1 ADELAIDE SYMPHONY Joyous ORCHESTRA Reminiscence SEASON 2021 12 & 13 February Festival Theatre SYMPHONY SERIES 1 Joyous Reminiscence February Dane Lam Conductor Lauren Fagan Soprano Fri 12 & Sat 13, 6.30pm Festival Theatre Jack Buckskin and Jamie Goldsmith Pudnanthi Padninthi (arr./orch. Mark Simeon Ferguson) (‘The Coming and the Going’) Elena Kats-Chernin Big Rhap Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op.24 Lauren Fagan Soprano Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 in F Minor, Op.36 Andante sostenuto – Moderato con anima Andantino in modo di canzona Scherzo (Pizzicato ostinato) Finale (Allegro con fuoco) Duration Listen Later This concert runs for approximately 70 minutes, This concert will be recorded for delayed and will be performed without interval. broadcast on ABC Classic. You can hear it again at 1pm on 4 March. The ASO acknowledges that the land we make music on is the traditional country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains. We pay respect to Elders past and present and recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge that this is of continuing importance to the Kaurna people living today. We extend this respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are with us for this performance today. 3 Vincent Ciccarello MANAGING DIRECTOR I wonder if, like me, you breathed a In another significant initiative, we sigh of relief when we said ‘goodbye’ to greet you tonight with the premiere 2020? It was a year of unprecedented of our specially-commissioned Kaurna challenges for so many of us, one in Acknowledgment of Country, Pudnanthi which our inner reserves of strength were Padninthi (‘The Coming and the Going’), tested as never before. The community’s composed by two proud Kaurna support for the Orchestra during this Narungga men, Jack Buckskin and bleakest of periods was incredible, and Jamie Goldsmith. In the arranging and the ASO team is deeply thankful for orchestrating of this new music, they your continued engagement with us, have worked closely with fellow musician particularly during the many months Mark Simeon Ferguson. when the musicians could perform for Among the many Australian artists you only via your nearest screen. who will share the stage with the ASO When we returned to the Festival Theatre this year are tonight’s conductor Dane stage last September, I think everyone Lam, and your soloist, an exceptionally present was thrilled but, above all, talented young Sydney-born soprano Make a real difference with your savings and open a grateful, that the precious gift of live who has, until recently, been based in orchestral music-making was finally ours London; it’s a thrill to welcome Lauren Community Reward Account with Beyond Bank Australia. again. 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In fact, this very amended as we manage circumstances first Symphony Series concert includes a we cannot now foresee. big, colourful work by one of Australia’s In the meantime, we’re working hard favourite composers, Elena Kats-Chernin. behind the scenes to present an exciting, To ensure a greater representation eye-opening second half of the season of female composers – past, present for you; and we hope to be able to share and future – in the work of the ASO, those plans with you in May. we have established the Miriam Hyde Circle, named after one of Australia’s With all good wishes for your enjoyment foremost pianists, composers and music of tonight’s concert. educators. To find out how you can get involved in this initiative, please see page 10 of this program. 4 Beyond Bank Australia Ltd ABN 15 087 651 143 AFSL/ Australian Credit Licence 237 856 (Promoter). ©2020 Help raise money for the ASO, simply by saving. Make a real difference with your savings and open a Community Reward Account with Beyond Bank Australia. The more you save, the more Beyond Bank will donate to the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at no cost to you. Show your support and open a Community Reward Account today. Call 13 25 85 or go to www.beyondbank.com.au/reward Beyond Bank Australia Ltd ABN 15 087 651 143 AFSL/ Australian Credit Licence 237 856 (Promoter). ©2020 Dane Lam CONDUCTOR The young Australian-Chinese conductor, In his other musical home, the ancient Dane Lam, Principal Conductor of China’s city of Xi’an, the Xi’an Symphony Xi’an Symphony Orchestra, enjoys a Orchestra has grown in stature under career spanning three continents. With Dane’s leadership. Since assuming the a particularly close relationship with post of Principal Conductor in 2014, London’s Opera Holland Park (OHP), XSO’s classical subscription offering has he is equally at home in the theatre as almost doubled, while attendance has on the concert platform. increased commensurately. He led the first staged, professional operas in this Dane made his debut, aged only 18, 3000-year-old city with Tosca in 2015 with the Sydney Symphony at the and Le nozze di Figaro in 2016; he has Sydney Opera House and has since raised the artistic standard and profile of conducted many leading international the orchestra to attract such soloists as orchestras and opera companies José Carreras, Nikolai Demidenko, Midori including: the Queensland, Adelaide, Goto, Stephen Hough, Yundi Li, Anne Canberra, Dunedin, Kunming, Shandong Sophie Mutter, Feng Ning and Liwei Qin. and Suzhou Symphony Orchestras, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Het Last season’s engagements included Residentie Orkest, City of London Dane’s debut with Opera Australia, Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, South conducting La bohème; a return to Bank Sinfonia, Liverpool Philharmonic OHP for a new production of L’arlesiana; Ensemble 10/10, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, his mainstage debut with Opera Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Verbier Queensland in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice; Festival Orchestra, Juilliard Orchestra Carl Davis’s A Christmas Carol with Het and Opera Australia, Opera Queensland, Residentie Orkest and De Dutch Don’t Scottish Opera, Chelsea Opera Group Dance Division in The Hague; concerts and Bury Court Opera. with the Adelaide and Suzhou Symphony Orchestras and the Orchestra of Scottish His London mainstage debut with OHP’s Opera; as well as a full season of La Cenerentola attracted widespread concerts with the XSO featuring soloists critical and popular acclaim. Subsequent Nikolai Demidenko, Barry Douglas, appearances at OHP have included Così Kirill Gerstein and Angela Hewitt, fan tutte, L’arlesiana, Don Giovanni, and masterworks including Mahler’s Aida, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Norma Symphony No. 6. and Will Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Dane was honoured by Previously, Dane was Assistant Conductor the broader opera community with a to Kurt Masur at the Orchestre National nomination as Best Newcomer in the de France and a Young Artist with Opera International Opera Awards 2018. Queensland. He is an International Ambassador for the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. 6 Lauren Fagan SOPRANO A graduate of Covent Garden’s prestigious (Debussy’s L’enfant prodigue), Blue Fairy Jette Parker Young Artist Program (Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio) and (JPYAP), Lauren Fagan has developed Giulia (Rossini’s La scala di seta). Recent into one of today’s most accomplished highlights elsewhere have included Roxana young sopranos and had the honour of (Szymanowski’s Krol Roger) under Sir representing her native Australia in the Antonio Pappano with the Accademia 2019 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Donna Elvira Competition. Her recent role debuts, in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the NHK including Alcina for the Internationale Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi, Händel-Festspiele in Karlsruhe, Violetta in as well as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) Rodula Gaitanou’s new production of La and Musetta (Puccini’s La bohème) for her traviata for Opera Holland Park and Mimi company debuts with Opera Holland Park in La bohème for Opera North, were met and Welsh National Opera, respectively. with unanimous critical acclaim for her A frequent performer on the concert richness of tone, thrilling top notes and stage, recent successes have included compelling stage presence. joining Sakari Oramo for Vaughan Plans for the 20/21 season included Williams’ Serenade to Music as part of two major company debuts for Lauren: the Last Night of the BBC Proms, Grieg’s as ‘Norma’ in the highly-anticipated Peer Gynt with Orchestre national de special project 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, Lyon under Leonard Slatkin, R. Strauss’ conceived by Marina Abramovic for Vier letzte lieder for Malmö Opera under Bayerische Staatsoper and conducted by Karen Kamensek, and Agnès in concert Yoel Gamzou, and as Giulietta in Andreas performances of George Benjamin’s Homoki’s new production of Les Contes Written on Skin with the Melos Sinfonia d’Hoffmann at Opernhaus Zürich under at LSO St Luke’s, London and in St.