LUMINOUS Directed by Richard Tognetti AUGUST 2019 Program Two Worlds, Standing A Beautiful in Short Together and Apart Cohesion Your five-minute read Peter Craven talks to Kate Holden speaks to before lights down Richard Tognetti & Bill Henson singer-songwriter Lior p.12 p.22 p.38 PRINCIPAL PARTNER Bill Henson Untitled, 2000/2003 CL SH 453 N9A Courtesy of the artist, Tolarno Galleries and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. Holding Performance To A Higher Standard. Just as a successful performance relies on an orchestra playing in harmony, successful investing requires the skills and perspectives of a diverse, global team working together. PIMCO is one of the world’s premier fixed income investment managers, with more than 785 investment professionals and over 2,600* employees around the world. pimco.com.au *As at 31/3/2019. Issued in Australia by PIMCO Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 54 084 280 508, AFSL 246862). 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INSIDE: Welcome Program Program in Short From the ACO’s Managing Listing and Your five-minute read Director Richard Evans concert timings before lights down p.4 p.9 p.12 Musicians Two Worlds, Standing A Beautiful on Stage Together and Apart Cohesion Players on stage for Peter Craven talks to Kate Holden speaks to this performance Richard Tognetti & Bill Henson singer-songwriter Lior p.18 p.22 p.38 PRINTED BY: PLAYBILL PTY LTD NATIONAL CONCERT SEASON 2019 4 WELCOME It’s been ten years since we last performed Luminous, Richard Tognetti’s evocative cross- artform collaboration with photographer Bill Henson. I can still clearly remember the first time I saw this work in Melbourne many years ago. We are delighted to bring it back, revived and refreshed and to welcome the wonderful singer-songwriter Lior in his ACO debut. On behalf of us all at the ACO, I thank Patrons Leslie & Ginny Green and all the generous individuals within the Luminous Circle who have made the restaging of this ambitious work possible. Thank you to the Luminous Circle I thank our audience who contributed to our for supporting this end of financial year Annual Giving Campaign. National Tour: Your support ensures the ACO will continue PATRONS Leslie & Ginny Green to bring world-class music to classrooms, SUPPORTERS regional centres and concert halls around Connie Kimberley & Australia and abroad for many years to come. Craig Kimberley oam Naomi Milgrom Foundation It’s a busy time of year for the ACO as on Martyn Myer ao & Louise Myer Wednesday 14 August, in the midst of this Peter & Victoria Shorthouse national tour, we will be announcing our 2020 FRIENDS Season. If you haven’t already, I urge you to sign Andrew Clouston up to our eNews on the website to be amongst Detached Hobart Peter Jopling am qc the first to explore next year’s exciting season. Patricia Mason & Paul Walker Thank you for joining us in the concert hall and I hope you enjoy this wonderful collaboration. COVER IMAGE Richard Evans Bill Henson Untitled Managing Director 2000/2003 LMO SH177 N2A Courtesy of the artist, Tolarno Galleries Join the conversation #ACO19 and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 5 Coming up News 2020 AUG ACO Academy Intimate Bach 2020 Season 12 JULY, CITY RECITAL HALL 19–30 OCTOBER Congratulations to all those Announced Sydney, Brisbane, Wollongong, involved in the 2019 ACO 14 AUGUST Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth Academy program and for their We will announce our exciting Richard Tognetti is joined spectacular performance! 2020 Season on Wednesday by Brett Dean, Erin Helyard 14 August. and ACO Principal Cello Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve for a celebration of Bach’s genius. Thank you SEP ANNUAL GIVING CAMPAIGN Thank you to all who supported Celebrating Mozart Serenades For Strings our Annual Giving Campaign. 5–17 SEPTEMBER 19–29 OCTOBER Your contribution will bring music Wollongong, Canberra, Melbourne, to classrooms and concerts halls Cairns, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Adelaide and Sydney Lismore, Bellingen and Armidale around Australia, inspiring the Pianist Dejan Lazic� reunites with next generation of musicians. ACO Principal Violin Helena Richard Tognetti and the Orchestra Rathbone leads ACO Collective for a celebration of Mozart’s with works by Beethoven, symphonies and concertos. Elgar and Mendelssohn. University of Melbourne Partnership ANNOUCEMENT OCT NOV We are delighted to annouce that Barbican Residency the University of Melbourne has Brahms & Dvor�ák 3–5 OCTOBER become our official University 9–22 NOVEMBER Partner. The partnership is made London Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, possible by the support of Martyn We return to London for the Newcastle, Sydney and Brisbane and Louise Myer through the second of our three seasons in An exuberant end to our Sidney Myer University Trust. residence at the Barbican Centre. 2019 concert season! NATIONAL CONCERT SEASON 2019 Bill Henson Untitled, 2000/2003 LMO SH103 N19 Courtesy of the artist, Tolarno Galleries and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. New Season announced 14 August Sign up to our enews and we’ll send our 2020 Season announcement straight to your inbox aco.com.au/signup ACO 2020 BOOKINGS JOIN THE CONVERSATION GOVERNMENT PARTNERS aco.com.au #ACO20 9 PROGRAM Richard Tognetti Director and Violin Bill Henson Photography, Cinematography, Editing Lior Vocals Australian Chamber Orchestra New Season announced 14 August PRE-CONCERT 45 mins prior to the performance mins Sign up to our enews and we’ll send our TALK See page 12 for details 2020 Season announcement straight to your inbox aco.com.au/signup PAUL HEALY Sound Sculpture 5 SCHNITTKE (arr. Bashmet) Trio Sonata: II. Adagio 15 BRITTEN (arr. Tognetti) Corpus Christi Carol 3 SCHNITTKE (arr. Bashmet) Trio Sonata: I. Moderato 17 GABRIEL YARED (arr. Tognetti) The Talented Mr Ripley: Lullaby for Cain 4 R.E.M. (arr. Tognetti) I’ve Been High 4 PAUL HEALY Sound Sculpture 3 PURCELL King Arthur, Z.628: “What power art thou?” 3 INTERVAL 20 PAUL HEALY Sound Sculpture 3 PE�TERIS VASKS Concerto for Violin and Strings “Distant Light” 33 ACO PAUL HEALY Sound Sculpture 1 JANÁC�EK (arr. Burghauser) On an Overgrown Path: Good night! 3 Creative and Production Paul Healy Sound Sculptor Bob Scott Sound Engineer Nigel Jamieson Stagecraft Advisor Hayley Miro Editing and Cinematography (Purcell) Joseph Nizeti Multimedia Producer 2020 Suzy Brooks Lighting Designer Callum Walker Video Systems Operator Please note that the works in each half will be played without a break. The concert will last approximately two hours, including a 20-minute interval. The Australian Chamber Orchestra reserves the right to alter scheduled artists and programs as necessary. BOOKINGS JOIN THE CONVERSATION GOVERNMENT PARTNERS ACO concerts are regularly broadcast on ABC Classic. aco.com.au #ACO20 NATIONAL CONCERT SEASON 2019 Bill Henson Untitled, 1998 CL SH 237 N17 Courtesy of the artist, Tolarno Galleries and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. 12 Pre-concert talks Pre-concert talks take place 45 minutes before the start of every concert. See the ACO information desk for location details. Canberra Kim Cunio Sat 10 August, 7.15pm Arts Centre Melbourne Lucy Rash Sun 11 August, 1.45pm PROGRAM Mon 12 August, 6.45pm Adelaide Town Hall Kane Moroney IN SHORT Tue 13 August, 6.45pm Your five-minute read Perth Concert Hall before lights down. Roslind Appleby Wed 14 August, 6.45pm Sydney – City Recital Hall Anna Melville Sat 17 August, 6.15pm Tue 20 August, 7.15pm Wed 21 August, 6.15pm Fri 23 August, 12.45pm Sydney Opera House Anna Melville Sun 18 August, 1.15pm Brisbane – QPAC Gillian Wills Mon 19 August, 6.15pm Pre-concert speakers are subject to change. AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 13 The Music of Luminous Luminous is a harmonious marriage of music and image. The sound sculptures of Paul Healy were commissioned for this project to be the tissue that binds music and imagery. The industrial and cityscape backdrops of Bill Henson’s imagery serve as Healy’s sonic inspiration, as well as the feelings one has when contemplating Henson’s photographs: “I have laced these environmental sounds with distant fragments of the musical phrases and human voice, both whispers and singing.” Just as Henson’s images are contemporary works that reference traditions of visual art, so too does the music of Alfred Schnittke, whose “polystylism” encompasses many musical traditions. His Trio Sonata, composed in 1985 to mark 100 years since the birth of Alban Berg (and 50 years since his death), is inspired by the Viennese tradition, from the dark serialism of Berg to its light café waltzes. Benjamin Britten’s setting of the Corpus Christi Carol serves as an interlude between the two movements of Schnittke’s Trio Sonata. The words of this ancient carol are rich in the imagery of Christ’s Passion, the Holy Grail and the Eucharist, intertwined using the Medieval image of a bleeding knight laying at his final resting place, mourned by a grieving maiden. Gabriel Yared’s haunting “Lullaby for Cain” from The Talented Mr Ripley explores the relationship between the sociopathic Tom Ripley and playboy Dickie Greenleaf, whom Ripley murders in order to assume his identity. The song explores this through the parallel Biblical story of Cain and Abel, where Cain murders Abel in an envious rage.