Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited June 2015 2015/2 Chin Alice and Mannequin Prokofieff Unsuk Chin has enjoyed a busy spring, with a multimedia staging of New York Included in this issue: Alice in Wonderland and first performances of her new orchestral archive Gruber work Mannequin. Interview on his new work The Serge Prokofiev Archive has relocated to New York for percussion and orchestra In the 150th anniversary year of Lewis Carroll’s classic book, and is now housed at the Photo: Prokofieff family Rare Books & Manuscript Library of Columbia Photo: Priska Ketterer performances of Unsuk Chin’s opera Alice in Wonderland drew packed University. This combines the collections from houses in Los Angeles and London. Goldsmiths College in London and the Following productions in Munich, Geneva, Bibliothéque Nationale in Paris, with materials Bielefeld and Saint Louis, the new staging by assembled over a century by Prokofieff and his multimedia artist Netia Jones was presented family. The archive move was launched with a by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt New York concert in April attended by the Disney Hall and the BBC Symphony composer’s grandchildren, great-grandchildren Orchestra at the Barbican. and trustees of the Serge Prokofiev Foundation. “This is a wonderland of When the composer returned to the Soviet Union in 1936, the papers and manuscripts a score…” The Times he had accumulated during his time in the Simpson West were stored in Paris and were reclaimed Premieres of new works “With the ever-fertile musical imagination of Unsuk by his wife Lina in 1974. She formed the Serge Israfel and The Immortal Chin, and with Netia Jones’s characteristically Prokofiev Foundation in 1983 and continued to brilliant meld of projected graphics and live action; track down her husband’s personal effects with pen-and-ink-blot drawings by veteran until her death in 1989, after which the archive cartoonist Ralph Steadman, and with a libretto-on- was established at Goldsmiths College and speed by the prolific David Henry Hwang, this opera on Lewis Carroll’s evergreen fable was a curated by Noëlle Mann. The Bibliothéque show of all the talents...” The Independent Nationale housed many of Prokofieff’s manuscript scores and the move to New York "Chin's opera is so brilliantly orchestrated that the signals the unification of the two collections. instruments alone are more than enough to steal all of an audience's attention... Finnish conductor The Serge Prokofiev Archive contains the Susanna Mälkki got a dazzling array of bright largest collection of published material on colours from the LA Phil. As Alice, soprano Photo: Mark Allan/Barbican Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland in Netia Jones’s new staging at the Barbican in London Prokofieff in the West, including 500 scores Rachele Gilmore took a listener to seemingly new and over 400 books and periodicals. The places; the higher her voice went, the more papers dating from the period 1919-36 wondrous the wonderland. But Chin's Alice is not Chin’s newest work is Mannequin, a gurgle of the contrabassoon, the story grips… Chin childish. It is a dream opera with a dark side.” collection of ‘tableaux vivants’ forming an is a gourmet, using vast resources with delicacy include correspondence with Igor Stravinsky, MacMillan Los Angeles Times orchestral choreography inspired by a and discipline” The Times Maurice Ravel and Serge Diaghilev, Sir Henry Symphony No.4 premiere surrealist short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann. Simon Rattle conducts the German premiere Wood, Sergei Koussevitzky and Feodor “The UK premiere conducted by Baldur Chaliapin. Manuscripts for over 50 works at the BBC Proms Brönnimann immediately confirmed Chin’s talents Following performances by the National of Le Silence des Sirènes with the Berlin as a composer... Chin’s Alice revels in paradox Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and Ilan Philharmonic and soprano Barbara Hannigan principally composed in the United States, and riddles, pastiche and parody. The timbres are Volkov on a UK tour including the Southbank on 24 June, and the Swedish premiere follows Germany and Paris include the orchestral ear-piercingly bright, precise and often Centre in London, the 25-minute work travels with the Gothenburg Symphony on Scythian Suite, his opera The Love for Three mesmerising.” The Observer to the Boston Symphony, Danish National 30 September. Recent features on Chin’s Oranges, Piano Concertos Nos. 2-5, and Symphony and Melbourne Symphony music have included a three-concert focus by Symphonies Nos.1, 3 and 4. Orchestras. the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in March. A Prokofieff highlight this summer is a “…Chin’s glittering, rattling, whirring sequence The Festival d’Automne in Paris presents a blockbuster BBC Proms concert on 28 July Andriessen based on ETA Hoffmann’s The Sandman, a story series of five concerts with six French containing all five piano concertos conducted of seductive automata, stolen eyes and broken premieres in October/November and the BBC by Valery Gergiev, with soloists Daniil Trifonov, hearts… From the first icy touch of the celesta to Scottish Symphony Orchestra explores Chin’s Sergei Babayan and Alexei Volodin with the new opera the speakeasy muted trumpets and the last oily concertos throughout the 2015/16 season. London Symphony Orchestra. Louis Andriessen’s new opera, Theatre of Offenbach the World, has been announced with first Fantasio returns to stage performances in Los Adams Scheherazade.2 Dean in Offenbach Edition Keck Angeles and at the John Adams’s new dramatic symphony for Holland Festival in violin and orchestra, Scheherazade.2, reboots unveiled summer Amsterdam in May Rimsky Korsakov’s exotic Arabian Nights and June 2016. The tableaux for a modern, grittier world. festivals Photo: Mark Coulsen Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, production by Pierre Brett Dean’s trumpet concerto Dramatis Royal Concertgebouw – hall and orchestra– Audi is to be personae is on a festival journey this designed by the and Sydney Symphony, the 50-minute score Photo: Francesca Patella summer, performed by Swedish virtuoso is Adams’s most ambitious concert work since brothers Quay, and Håkan Hardenberger. Since its premiere Naïve and Sentimental Music in 1999. Written Reinbert de Leeuw will conduct the Los at the Grafenegg Festival in 2013 the work for Leila Josefowicz, who has played Angeles Philharmonic and Dutch National has received 30 performances – to date Adams’s concertos over 100 times, the Opera with the Asko|Schönberg ensemble. or scheduled – in 12 countries. The cast includes Leigh Melrose, Lindsay violinist delivered a musical tour de force as Kesselman and Christina Zavalloni. protagonist at the premiere in March. The concerto is toured by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in August from the The opera is inspired by the German Jesuit Tanglewood Festival to the BBC Proms in scholar Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680), who “…aflame with staggered, London and the Lucerne Festival, with was seen as the last true Renaissance man: pulsing chords and a further performance at the Cologne Egyptologist, Sinologist, mathematician, Philharmonie, all conducted by Andris desire…” New York Times physicist, volcanologist, music theoretician and Nelsons. Also at the Proms, Dean’s a composer. One of the tasks of the Jesuits Pastoral Symphony is paired with was to seek God’s presence in everything, the “What would a Scheherazade for our own time be Photo: Pete Matthews/Feast of Music Beethoven’s, performed by the Aurora results being shown visually in a ‘theatre of the like? This work offers [Adams’s] answer in the John Adams with Leila Josefowicz in New York Orchestra under Nicholas Collon. world’. In Andriessen’s opera Kircher travels portrait of a beautiful, empowered and fearless through time and space with a twelve-year-old woman confronting oppression… Ms. Josefowicz almost as if it were a spoken text. She brought a As violist, Dean travels widely in Europe this gave a dazzling and inspired performance, backed measure of physicality to the part as well: In June, joining quartets for his Epitaphs for boy, recapturing the memories of a lifetime of by the glittering, rhapsodic and supremely learning and experience. Scheherazade’s disputes with the True Believers, string quintet and for classic chamber confident playing of the orchestra under Ms. Josefowicz’s moves were overtly dramatic – repertoire. Performances are scheduled in As well as the world premiere of Theatre of Mr. Gilbert.” New York Times more combative trial lawyer than solo fiddler.” Cologne, Brussels, the Wigmore Hall in the World, the Los Angeles Philharmonic “…a grand dramatic narrative that turns the Wall Street Journal London and the West Cork Chamber Music also presents the US premiere of central character of the Arabian Nights into a Following its premiere in New York the Festival. Back in his native Australia, Dean’s Andriessen’s orchestral work Mysterïen, feminist heroine who rebels against a patriarchal work travelled under the baton of the arrangement of Debussy’s Ariettes oubliées conducted by Gustavo Dudamel on society... The four movements introduce composer to the Cincinnati and Atlanta is premiered in Sydney on 29 July under the 15 October. In London Andriessen is Scheherazade and her independent spirit and set Symphony Orchestras, and crosses the baton of Simon Rattle, with Magdalena her in flight; show her in love; have her face a trial celebrated next season at the Barbican with and condemnation; then describe her escape Atlantic in October for performances by the Kozená and the Australian World Orchestra. the series M is for Man, Music & Mystery and journey to freedom…” Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Next season sees Dean as soloist in his (9-13 February). Highlights include the UK New York Classical Review Amsterdam and the London Symphony Viola Concerto with the Royal Scottish premieres of his Grawemeyer Award-winning “The premiere was electrifying, not least because Orchestra.