MUSIC INSPIRED BY THE MOVING IMAGE 4—16 May MSO In Concert Program MSO Principal Partner Supported by What’s On May — August Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 Education Week Britten’s War Requiem FRIDAY 22 MAY MONDAY 1 JUNE TO THURSDAY 11 JUNE SATURDAY 23 MAY SATURDAY 6 JUNE FRIDAY 12 JUNE MONDAY 25 MAY Join the MSO and internationally Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, One of the world’s most sought- acclaimed music educator, Paul a haunting piece interweaving the after composers, Matthias Pintscher, Rissmann, for the MSO’s fifth annual traditional Latin Mass for the Dead returns to conduct the Australian Education Week at the Melbourne with the works of First World War premiere of idyll, an MSO co- Town Hall and Hamer Hall, with a poet Wilfred Owen, is paired with commission, in a program that series of events for schools and the profoundly moving Elegy in also includes Beethoven’s Seventh families which integrate learning and memoriam Rupert Brooke. Symphony and Saint-Saëns’s Third entertainment, and foster a lifelong Violin Concerto with Karen Gomyo. love of music. Mahler 4 Yuja Wang Plays Prokofiev Tchaikovsky’s FRIDAY 19 JUNE THURSDAY 23 JULY Piano Concerto No.1 SATURDAY 20 JUNE FRIDAY 24 JULY FRIDAY 7 AUGUST MONDAY 22 JUNE SATURDAY 25 JULY SATURDAY 8 AUGUST A milestone in the MSO’s musical Chinese piano superstar Yuja Wang MONDAY 10 AUGUST evolution, Sir Andrew Davis’ brings her acclaimed virtuosity to The very epitome of Romantic Mahler Cycle series returns for Prokofiev’s tempestuous Second music, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto its fourth chapter, alongside Piano Concerto. Also featuring No.1 is performed by Simon Trpčeski. Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante. Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slave Also featuring Rimsky-Korsakov’s and Brahms’ luminous fourth and Capriccio espagnol, and Scriabin’s final symphony. Third Symphony. MelbourneSymphony @MelbourneSymphonyOrchestra Download our free app at mso.com.au/msolearn Sign up for our monthly e-news at @MelbSymphony TheMSOrchestra mso.com.au and receive special offers from the MSO and our partners. Welcome to the 2015 Metropolis New Music Festival MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Metropolis New Music Festival Metropolis 2015 contains many such Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has been an important part of confrontational works. But the series Established in 1906, the Melbourne Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s also contains music of reflection Symphony Orchestra has earned a schedule for many years. Through and hope, tranquillity and charm. reputation for excellence, versatility, our collaboration with the Melbourne Shaun Tan’s The Arrival is one such and innovation. It currently performs Recital Centre in recent years, this piece – a unique and sensitive work live to more than 200,000 people annual season-within-a-season accessible to audiences of all ages. annually, in concerts ranging from exposes audiences to many new I thank City of Melbourne for their subscription series at Hamer Hall at and exciting works. continued support and welcome Arts Centre Melbourne, to annual Over three fascinating MSO concerts all to this year’s Metropolis New free concerts at the Sidney Myer – Nostalghia, The Light, and There Music Festival performances with Music Bowl. The Orchestra also Will Be Blood – conductor André de Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, in delivers programs to audiences of Ridder, one of today’s most prolific which all the vastness, urgency and all ages through its Education and and passionate interpreters of brilliance of the moving image will Community Engagement initiatives. contemporary music, and the be related in music of extraordinary Sir Andrew Davis gave his inaugural musicians will explore aspects of strength and power. concerts as Chief Conductor in April the moving image. This year, we 2013, having made his debut with see how film has inspired the most the Orchestra in 2009. Highlights pioneering and creative composers of his tenure have included and artists: from Arnold Schoenberg André Gremillet collaborations with artists such as and Edgard Varèse to Philip Glass Managing Director, MSO Bryn Terfel, Emanuel Ax, and Truls and Nico Muhly. Mørk, recordings of music by Percy The third and final MSO Metropolis Grainger and Sir Eugene Goossens, concert, on Saturday 16 May, a 2014 European Festivals tour, takes its name from There Will Be and a multi-year cycle of Mahler’s Blood – a soundtrack composed symphonies. The Orchestra works by Jonny Greenwood, a member regularly with its Principal Guest of Radiohead, which essays the Conductor, Diego Matheuz, brutality of pioneer America. Associate Conductor, Benjamin Northey, the MSO Chorus, and with guest conductors such as Thomas Adès, John Adams, Tan Dun, Jakub Hrůša, Markus Stenz, and Simone Young, as well as non-classical musicians such as Burt Bacharach, Ben Folds, Nick Cave, Sting, and Tim Minchin. CONTENTS What’s On 2 Managing Director’s message 3 About the MSO 3 Metropolis New Music Festival – overview of concerts 4 Shaun Tan’s The Arrival 6 About the Artists 7 MSO Concert One – Nostalghia 9 MSO Concert Two – The Light 11 MSO Concert Three – There Will Be Blood 13 The Orchestra 15 MSO and MRC Supporters 16 2015 METROPOLIS NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 3 Festival Overview Between two parts there is Undine – The Spirit of Water* Moonfall* an intermission of a hundred Syzygy Ensemble Forest Collective thousand years* WED 6 MAY 6PM THU 7 MAY 6PM Speak Percussion Salon Salon MON 4 MAY 7.30PM (60-mins no interval) (60-mins no interval) Elisabeth Murdoch Hall — — (80-mins no interval) TULVE HOLMS (arr. Lawson) — Stream Moonfall from Mystery of Edwin Drood LITTLE POZNIAK FJELLSTRÖM No Optic (world premiere) new work (world premiere) Odboy & Erordog episodes 1, 2 & 3 DE JAGER YEATS (Australian premiere) Fractured Timelines (world premiere) the half-life of facts LAWSON GARSDEN RØNSHOLDT Orpheus and the Cave Messages to Erice I & II (world premiere) Burning (world premiere) — — WEBBER Speak Percussion Syzygy Ensemble Texture of It (world premiere) Peter de Jager piano Agatha Yim visual artist — — — Forest Collective — Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Delicacies of Molten Horror* The Arrival Dark Twin* Melbourne Piano Trio WED 6 MAY 7.30PM Zubin Kanga TUE 5 MAY 6PM Elisabeth Murdoch Hall FRI 8 MAY 6PM Salon (90-mins no interval) — Salon (60-mins no interval) The Arrival (100-mins including interval) — — illustrations & story by Shaun Tan DE GROOT Ben Walsh PRINS Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse — Piano Hero (Australian premiere) (world premiere) Orkestra of The Underground DAY SAKAMOTO — Dark Twin (world premiere) Babel – Bibono Aozora Tickets $55 ($50 concession) The Last Emperor CAREY _derivations Seven Samurai Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence Please see page 6 VAN DER AA Transit (Australian premiere) PAUL DEAN new work (world premiere) BLINKHORN — FrostbYte: Chalk Outline (world premiere) Melbourne Piano Trio Christopher de Groot HOPE live electronics The Fourth Estate (world premiere) — REICH (arr. Vincent Corver) Tickets $38 ($28 concession) Piano Counterpoint — Zubin Kanga piano — Tickets $38 ($28 concession) *Please collect your one page program from the foyer prior to the performance. 4 A Bigger Picture* Nostalghia Light is Calling* Lisa Moore SAT 9 MAY 8PM Ensemble Offspring SAT 9 MAY 6PM Elisabeth Murdoch Hall THU 14 MAY 6PM Salon — Salon (90-mins no interval) Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (70-mins no interval) — Please see page 9 — GLASS GORDON Mad Rush The Light Light is Calling Metamorphosis One & Two WED 13 MAY 8PM MUHLY Satyagraha Act III Elisabeth Murdoch Hall It Goes Without Saying BRESNICK — PERREN For The Sexes: The Gates of Paradise Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Divers (world premiere) — Please see page 11 REICH Lisa Moore piano/voice Vermont Counterpoint William Blake text & original imagery Puppetsweat Theatre visuals RICKETSON — Fractured Again Suite Tickets $38 ($28 concession) — Ensemble Offspring — Tickets $38 ($28 concession) There Will Be Blood SAT 16 MAY 8PM Elisabeth Murdoch Hall — Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Please see page 13 SOLOIST IN THE SPOTLIGHT IAN BOSTRIDGE Renowned British tenor Ian Bostridge performs a selection of Schubert lieder, and Vaughan Williams’ nostalgic song cycle On Wenlock Edge with musicians of the MSO. 15 June at 7.30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre BOOK NOW MSO.COM.AU | (03) 9929 9600 2015 METROPOLIS NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 5 Shaun Tan’s The Arrival Wednesday 6 May 7.30pm ‘A unique and sensitive adaptation is brought to life on the big screen — with my otherwise still and silent by the incredible 11-piece Orkestra ORKESTRA OF THE universe, taking it to a new level of The Underground. An amazing UNDERGROUND of intensity through a passionate live ‘sonic-scape’ combines with performance.’ Shaun Tan Shaun Tan’s exquisite illustrations to — Award-winner Shaun Tan is one of create a unique orchestral and visual BENJAMIN WALSH Australia’s most celebrated illustrators experience. Ben Walsh unveils his composer/drums of picture books for people young score using a tapestry of instruments and old. His masterful sepia-toned featuring violin, sousaphone, clarinet, SHENTON GREGORY wordless novel, The Arrival, is a unique guitar, tabla, synthesizers, drums and violin story and piece of art appealing to percussion, clarinet, saxophone, GREGORY SHEEHAN audiences of all ages. His story tells zithers, a collection of handmade percussion a melancholic, but hopeful tale of a instruments… and a vacuum cleaner. refugee’s adventure into a foreign, The Arrival enjoyed sold out MATTHEW KEEGAN new world and the challenges he audiences at Sydney Opera House’s brass faces. Shaun Tan weaves beautiful Graphic festival, Melbourne Writers TARLOCHAN KANDOLA images and articulate illustrations into Festival, Her Majesty’s Theatre, tabla an accessibly surreal story without Adelaide for The OZ Asia Festival, using one single written word. It has Darwin Festival and Mona Foma GREGORY SHEEHAN sold close to half a million copies. in Tasmania.