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Your Window Onto a World of Music, Community and Friendship TSO Friends — your window onto a world of music, SHARE your passion for orchestral music with REGIONAL TOUR community and like-minded enthusiasts. FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY friendship ENJOY sneak previews 13 MARCH 14 MARCH 15 MARCH of concerts and come to 7.30PM 7.30PM 2.30PM LATROBE STANLEY BURNIE TOWN know TSO musicians. MEMORIAL HALL TOWN HALL HALL DEEPEN your Richard Gill conductor INTERVAL engagement at special Lloyd Hudson flute & piccolo Duration 20 mins fundraising events. CORELLI GEMINIANI ENRICH your life as a Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 8, Concerto Grosso in E minor Christmas Concerto Preludio: Largo member of TSO Friends. Vivace – Grave Allemanda: Allegro Allegro Sarabanda: Largo SIGN UP TODAY! Adagio – Allegro – Adagio Giga: Allegro Vivace Duration 11 mins Allegro Largo. Pastorale ad libitum. VIVALDI Duration 12 mins Piccolo Concerto in C RV443 Allegro VIVALDI Largo Flute Concerto in G RV435 Allegro molto Allegro Duration 11 mins Largo Allegro GRIEG Duration 10 mins Holberg Suite Praeludium WARLOCK Sarabande Capriol Suite Gavotte Basse-Danse Air Pavane Rigaudon Tordion Duration 20 mins Bransles Pieds-en-l’air The Latrobe and Stanley concerts will Mattachins end at approximately 9.30pm; the Burnie Duration 12 mins concert at approximately 4.30pm. Presented by Tasmanian SPONSORED BY International Arts Festival and www.tsofriends.com.au Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra We would appreciate your cooperation in keeping coughing to a minimum. Please ensure that your mobile phone is switched off. 23 5393 TSO Friends Ad for Program.indd 1 22/08/13 10:55 PM ARCANGELO CORELLI ANTONIO VIVALDI (1653-1713) (1678 – 1741) Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 6 No 8, Concerto for Flute, Strings and Continuo Christmas Concerto in G, RV435 Vivace – Grave Allegro Allegro Largo RICHARD GILL LLOYD HUDSON Adagio – Allegro – Adagio Allegro Vivace Vivaldi enjoyed a colourful career as Richard Gill OAM, founding Music Director Lloyd Hudson took up the position of Allegro a priest, music master at a high-class and Conductor Emeritus of Victorian Opera, Second Flute/Principal Piccolo in the Largo. Pastorale ad libitum. orphanage for girls in Venice, the Ospedale has been Artistic Director of the Education Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in 2002. della Pietà, and a violin virtuoso. He pioneered certain violin techniques that Program for the Sydney Symphony He studied at the Canberra School of Arcangelo Corelli has a double claim to a place in the history of music: firstly, as soon became standard and composed a Orchestra, Artistic Director of OzOpera, Music at the Australian National University a great violinist and the most influential huge number of works to display them. Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the graduating with a Bachelor of Music in teacher of his time (who counted Having established the ground plan of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, and Dean 1997. As a student, he was Principal Flute amongst his students Vivaldi, Geminiani Baroque solo concerto (three movements – of the West Australian Conservatorium in the Australian Youth Orchestra, including and Locatelli); and, secondly, for his fast-slow-fast), Vivaldi began composing for instruments other than the violin. Judging of Music. He is currently Artistic Advisor the AYO’s tour of China. Engagements compositions, which were known and to Musica Viva’s In Schools program. He revered throughout Europe. His music from these works, the young musicians of include Guest Principal Flute with the the Pietà must have been very fine players; has conducted all of the major Australian has been an inspiration for many other Australian Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra indeed, they gave concerts, discreetly symphony orchestras, youth orchestras composers: J S Bach, Tartini, Rachmaninov Victoria and the Auckland Symphony and Tippett are just some of those who hidden behind a grille, for the benefit of and opera companies, the New Zealand Orchestra, and guest Principal Piccolo with have borrowed material from his works. the tourists who even then visited Venice in symphony and youth orchestras, Sydney large numbers. Vivaldi wrote some of the the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Published in 1712, although possibly Chamber Choir and Sydney Philharmonia first known concertos for cello, bassoon, Australian Chamber Orchestra and the composed as early as 1690, the Christmas Choir. In 2015 he will conduct Gondwana mandolin and flautino (a sopranino recorder, Canberra Symphony Orchestra. He has Concerto is one of a set of 12 concertos Choir’s National Choral School, Discovery though the piccolo tends to be used today). performed as soloist with the Tasmanian written for performance in the palace of and Anzac concerts with the SSO, Ears Roman cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, Corelli’s The opening movement of this flute Symphony Orchestra and Virtuosi Tasmania, Wide Open with the Melbourne Symphony, patron. It is a concerto grosso, contrasting concerto begins with a ritornello, that is, and gave the Tasmanian première of Paul ‘Unwrap the Music’ with the Auckland a larger orchestra or ripieno, usually a passage for the whole orchestra which Stanhope’s Piccolo Concerto with the TSO “returns” to form structural “pillars” Philharmonia, Britten’s A Midsummer consisting of strings and harpsichord, in 2013. He is a founding member of the against a small band of soloists (concertino). between which more lightly scored Night’s Dream at the West Australian contemporary ensemble Opus House. In The soloists play along with the ripieno, passages allow the flute to show off. We Academy of Performing Arts and work remain in G major for the contrasting slow 2012 he received the Mr and Mrs Gerald so that solo passages emerge when the at the International schools in Taipei and orchestra falls silent, rather than making a movement. The ritornello is based upon Frank New Churchill Fellowship, awarded Singapore. His extensive operatic repertoire dramatic entrance. a simple pattern of sequences and the for the achievement of performance soloist is given plenty of opportunities includes Giulio Cesare, Così fan tutte, Don Corelli’s Op 6 concertos are written for a Giovanni, Macbeth, La forza del destino, excellence in classical music or voice. The to demonstrate a beautiful, even sound concertino group of two violins and a cello. through the sustained notes. As per usual Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor, Il trovatore, Fellowship enabled him to undertake a The eighth of this set is subtitled “Per la custom, the concerto is rounded off with six-week tour of Asia, Europe and North The Rake’s Progress, The Threepenny Opera, notte di Natale” (For Christmas Night). The a spirited finale. But Vivaldi has a surprise Bluebeard’s Castle and The Eighth Wonder. America where he studied with some of Christmas connection is revealed in the last in store when, very close to the end, he Among his many accolades are the Bernard the world’s leading piccolo performers and movement, Pastorale, which uses a gentle takes us into some unstable tonal regions. lilting rhythm and a simple, drone-like bass Heinze Award, honorary doctorates from teachers. He lectures in flute performance But these are only momentary. Order is – standard Baroque gestures for pastoral at the Conservatorium of Music at restored! the Edith Cowan University of Western scenes – suggesting, in this instance, the Australia and the Australian Catholic the University of Tasmania and gives shepherds in the hills outside Bethlehem. © Gordon Kerry 2015 University, and the Australia Council’s Don masterclasses to students in Tasmania and Abridged from a note, Banks Award. interstate. © Symphony Australia 2004 24 25 PETER WARLOCK (1894-1930) FRANCESCO GEMINIANI ANTONIO VIVALDI (1687-1762) Capriol Suite The Basse-Danse has a lively rhythm but Concerto for Piccolo in C, RV443 Basse-Danse its steps involved keeping the feet close Concerto Grosso in E minor Allegro to the floor (Arbeau recommended it for Pavane (after Corelli, Sonata Op 5 No 8) Largo ‘modest matrons’ even though the dance Tordion was out of fashion by the time he wrote Preludio: Largo Allegro molto Bransles his treatise). Warlock begins with typically Allemanda: Allegro In his role as music master at the Venetian Renaissance harmony but soon adds Pieds-en-l’air Sarabanda: Largo orphanage the Ospedale della Pietà, Vivaldi pungent dissonances. Mattachins Giga: Allegro composed concertos for his young charges, The Pavane is a stately dance in duple who played a variety of instruments. All The Capriol Suite is a tale of two metre (perhaps named for the gait of After Vivaldi, the most influential composer up, he composed over 500 concertos, pseudonyms. Peter Warlock was the the peacock, or pava) popular in the of the Italian Baroque was Rome-based the great majority for solo violin, but also nom de plume of Philip Heseltine, an Renaissance and often paired with a faster violinist and composer Arcangelo Corelli. concertos for cello, flute, oboe, bassoon English composer and critic whose soured triple-time galliard. Corelli was significant in codifying the and mandolin. Common to all concertos is formal models for the Baroque concerto friendship with D.H. Lawrence saw him Here, that contrast is hinted at it in the a soloist (or soloists, in the case of concerti and the sonata. He made a distinction thinly disguised in the novelist’s Women short, gossamer-textured Tordion, but grossi) set against the main body of the between sonatas and concertos that begin in Love. Thoinot Arbeau, who published a is delivered by the following Bransles orchestra. The word “concerto” is probably with a slow movement (so-called sonata/ treatise on dance in Paris in 1588, was in (pronounced ‘brawl’) in which Warlock derived from the Latin word “concertare”, concerto da chiesa) and those that are reality Jehan Tabourot (the pseudonym is an threads together five tunes from Arbeau’s which can mean “to dispute” and “to work collections of dances (sonata/concerto anagram), a priest who for various reasons treatise.
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