Pepe Romero: Guitar from the Heart

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Tonight you will experience the music-making of Pepe Romero – a living legend, not just of the guitar world but of classical music. He plays the best-loved and most beautiful of guitar concertos, the Concierto de Aranjuez by his countryman Joaquín Rodrigo, and a spirited Vivaldi concerto that you might recognise from the film Kramer vs. Kramer.

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PEPE ROMERO:GUITAR FROM THE HEARTTito Muñoz conductor Pepe Romero guitar

GIOACHINO ROSSINI (1792–1868) The Barber of Seville: Overture

JOAQUÍN RODRIGO (1901–1999) Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra

Allegro con spirito Adagio Allegro gentile

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ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678–1741) Guitar Concerto in D

(adapted from the Concerto for mandolin and two violins, RV 93)

Allegro giusto Largo Allegro

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) Symphony No.8 in F, Op.93

Allegro vivace e con brio Allegretto scherzando Tempo di Menuetto Allegro vivace

Saturday’s performance will be broadcast across Australia by ABC Classic FM on Sunday 3 August at 1pm.

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Estimated durations: 8 minutes, 22 minutes, 20-minute interval, 10 minutes, 26 minutes The concert will conclude at approximately 9.45pm.

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Pepe Romero: Guitar from the Heart

There’s a story told by Victoria Kamhi de Rodrigo: ‘In a nightclub, a singer is singing Aranjuez, mon amour. A patron says to his friend, “See what a great song that is. They’ve written a whole concerto from it!”’ In another of her anecdotes, a stranger in a bar pays for the composer’s coffee and asks just one thing: ‘Write us another Concierto de Aranjuez, but even better.’

Rodrigo did write many more concertos, for guitar and for other instruments; we played the harp concerto just last week. But he never did surpass the Concierto de Aranjuez. That first guitar concerto is unparalleled in its colour, its energy, its character and its sheer melodic beauty. It’s no surprise that the gorgeous, lamenting theme from the middle movement has entered popular culture. ‘Aranjuez, mon amour’ was just the beginning.

We’re delighted in these concerts to welcome the legendary guitarist Pepe Romero. And it’s a special treat to hear not just the Rodrigo concerto but a lively concerto by Vivaldi. Although two centuries separate the works there’s a feeling of common spirit. Perhaps you’ll sense the connection, like the little boy on Spanish television who declared that Rodrigo was ‘a great composer who lived in the 18th century’.

Music from Spain and music from Italy. The Rossini overture that begins the concert is both: written by an Italian for an opera set in Spain. And Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony with its cheerful character and witty gestures – combined with a finale that simply bursts with vitality – makes for a fitting conclusion to an evening that comes from the heart.

INTRODUCTION

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KeynotesROSSINI

Born Pesaro, 1792 Died Passy, France 1868

During the first half of the 19th century Rossini was the most famous composer of his age, enjoying prestige, wealth, and popular and critical acclaim. His delightful comic operas are among the very finest representatives of the style, and The Barber of Seville is easily the most popular of them all. Rossini clearly knew the winning formula! But to everyone’s surprise, in 1829 – at the age of 37 and with nearly 40 operas to his name – Rossini suddenly retired from operatic composition and wrote almost nothing for over 20 years. Soon, as The Record Guide points out, he was enjoying a second fame for ‘his wit, his epicurean tastes, and his Saturday evening receptions…’.

ABOUT THE MUSIC

Gioachino Rossini The Barber of Seville: Overture

In an opera overture recognition test, Rossini’s William Tell would be a clear winner, but only for its last two minutes, the rousing march. His overture to The Barber of Seville has one tune almost as instantly and universally known, and as a whole remains probably the most famous overture ever composed. A sure sign is its exploitation in popular entertainment. In the 1950s the French singing group Les quatre barbus (The Bearded Foursome) had a big hit singing ‘J’ai de la barbe’ (I have a beard) to the first theme of the overture’s fast section; Bugs Bunny shaved Elmer Fudd, and Jerry Seinfeld eluded his own barber to the same tune.

Yet the association with barbers and beards is almost an accident. Rossini originally composed the overture in 1813 for another opera, Aureliano in Palmira. Then he recycled it for Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra (Elizabeth, Queen of England, 1814), before linking it (inseparably) with The Barber of Seville (1816), where it makes so appropriate a curtain-raiser for Rossini’s operatic version of Beaumarchais’ comedy. This is an opera of crackling wit, with age-old comic themes: the attractive and nubile girl under the unwanted tutelage of an

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old and unattractive guardian; the servant (Figaro, the barber) who bids to outwit everybody, even his master; the introduction of the lover into the household under various disguises…

The portentous E major chords which begin the overture immediately give way to music which could be chucklingly conspiratorial, and the famous first Allegro subject, when it comes, is in E minor, implying seriousness. Here, it has an ironic flavour. That’s partly because we know the story. Rossini probably didn’t have appropriateness in mind – he aimed merely to provide the public with a piece of orchestral music to put them in a good mood, excited and ready for what was to follow. The purpose of Rossini’s overtures, as summarised by one of his biographers, was to electrify listeners, predisposing them to the sheer physical enjoyment of sound, and to declare from the start that the composer was in charge of proceedings. Thus, as another biographer puts it, the Rossini overture was ‘a musical visiting-card.’

Rossini’s trademarks, in his overtures, are the reduction to musical essentials – rhythm, treated as enlivening musical mechanism; a simple structure of slow introduction, first and second subject, recapitulation and coda. Then there is his love of sheer noise, achieved by brilliantly skilful orchestral means. This was essential if the attention of the public was to be captured, as they went about the talkative business of attending the opera house, which was meeting-place, casino, refreshment bar and theatre all rolled into one. And finally, the famous ‘Rossini crescendo’, the piling up of instruments and volume.

It is of mainly academic interest, then, that The Barber of Seville’s overture, contrary to Rossini’s usual practice, includes a theme (the second subject, in sustained notes, repeated by the horn) which comes from the opera to follow: not Barber, but Aureliano in Palmira! More interesting is the information that Rossini, for the Rome premiere, wrote an entirely new overture, using Spanish popular themes, which is lost. But The Barber is Spanish only by location. It is based on a French play, and the music is so Italian that it epitomises and crowns that nation’s genius for comic opera. The Barber of Seville overture has become the most representative of Italian opera overtures, and the most popular of Rossini’s inventive variants on his overture recipe.

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The overture calls for pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns and trumpets; timpani and percussion; and strings.

The first SSO concert performance of this overture was in 1941, conducted by Anderson Tyrer. Our most recent performances were in 2011, in a regional tour conducted by Nicholas Carter and a Parramatta Park concert conducted by Hans Graf. The most recent performance in a Sydney Opera House concert was in 2004, conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti.

Figaro’s master, Count Almaviva, woos his beloved with song

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Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestraAllegro con spirito Adagio Allegro gentile

Pepe Romero guitar

The Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra is Rodrigo’s most famous creation, the piece that immediately established his reputation as the leading Spanish post- war composer. It remains not only the best-known guitar concerto but one of the most popular of all concertos, its overwhelming fame mirroring that of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice in the works of Rodrigo’s teacher Paul Dukas.

In 1933 Rodrigo married the Turkish pianist Victoria Kamhi – who was to become the blind composer’s copyist – and the couple honeymooned in the exquisite surrounds of Aranjuez. Rodrigo left Spain again with the outbreak of civil war in 1936, and it was in Paris in the spring of 1939 that he composed the Concierto de Aranjuez for the virtuoso guitarist Regino Sainz de la Maza.

It’s hardly surprising, then, that for all its Spanish ambience, the Concierto is equally flavoured by French neoclassicism. Rodrigo captures perfectly the atmosphere of the palace at Aranjuez – summer home to the Bourbon kings in the 17th and 18th centuries. His Spain is a rococo Spain, just as Aranjuez is a Spanish Versailles. There is less of the deep spirit of Andalusia associated with Manuel de Falla, and more of an 18th-century manner, valuing all that is colourful, elegant and pleasing.

The choice of solo instrument ensures a passion that is never far from delicacy. ‘It would be unjust to expect strong sonorities from this Concierto,’ said Rodrigo, ‘they would falsify its essence and distort an instrument made for subtle ambiguities. Its strength is to be found in its very lightness and in the intensity of its contrasts. The Concierto de Aranjuez is meant to sound like the hidden breeze that stirs the treetops in the parks, and it should be only as strong as a butterfly and as dainty as a veronica.’ (A veronica is a particular type of pass in bull-fighting, requiring the utmost elegance and precision of execution.)

Rodrigo matches his orchestration to the strength of the butterfly, with a relatively small ‘classical’ orchestra of strings with pairs of woodwinds, and just two trumpets and two horns in the brass section. The first movement begins with the soloist playing strummed chords called rasgueados over a long, sustained note from the double basses; the rhythm comes

KeynotesRODRIGOBorn Sagunto, 1901 Died Madrid, 1999

Joaquín Rodrigo was born on 22 November, St Cecilia’s Day, and so was perhaps destined to a life in music. A bout of diphtheria at the age of three left him blind but didn’t prevent him from developing his musical talents as a pianist and composer. His teachers in Paris included Paul Dukas, and like Dukas he suffered the dubious blessing of becoming famous for just one piece, the Concierto de Aranjuez, which made his name when it was premiered by Regino Sainz de la Maza in 1940. He never played guitar, but Pepe Romero once described him as ‘the great guitarist’.

CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ

The inspiration for this guitar concerto came from the summer palace of Aranjuez, a place with happy associations for Rodrigo (he spent his honeymoon there), but also representing for him an idealised Spain. The music is a magical mix of rococo elegance and the vigour of traditional Spanish dance rhythms – ‘as strong as a butterfly and as dainty as a veronica’ said the composer. The popularity of the complete concerto is rivalled only by that of the slow movement, which has lent its beautiful melancholy to cover versions ranging from Miles Davis and Nana Mouskouri to the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.

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The royal palace of Aranjuez, whose musical associations gave Rodrigo the title and feeling of his concerto, was the favoured residence of the Bourbon kings of Spain. It is an elegant cream and terracotta coloured building, especially graced by its extensive landscaped gardens, whose avenues are lined with tall trees, and dotted with fountains drawing on the river alongside. Hidden in the gardens is the charming Casa del labrador (farmer’s house), a kind of Spanish version of Versailles’ Petit Trianon. Here kings and queens liked to sport in a well-groomed but natural setting.

Aranjuez is especially linked with the Spanish art and music of the Rococo. Here Domenico Scarlatti lived and worked in the mid-18th century, presumably composing at Aranjuez many of his harpsichord sonatas, and perhaps absorbing folksongs from the farmers of the surrounding countryside. The artist Mengs, Goya’s teacher, was brought to Aranjuez from Italy as artist-in-residence, adorning the palace with canvasses and painting its ceilings. In the 20th century, the painter Rusiñol lived at Aranjuez and explored the colours and patterns of its gardens. Now Rodrigo has made its name even more famous than that of Philip II’s massive, forbidding monastery-palace, the Escorial. If that 16th-century palace could be said to stand for Spain’s religious and imperial destiny, her tragic sense of life, Aranjuez in the Spanish consciousness could represent a lighter, playful enjoyment of beauty, not without a wistful longing for past simplicities.

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from the fandango, with its intoxicating alternations of two slow and three quick beats. After this tiny, spirited introduction, the guitar and orchestra weave an intricate dance – the soloist rising above the orchestra as well as accompanying it, colouring rather than competing with shimmering solos from the bassoon, cor anglais, oboe, flute and clarinet.

But it is the Adagio rather than the dance-like outer movements that has been responsible for the concerto’s immediate and enduring popularity, not to mention taking on a life of its own as a standalone hit. In what is probably the most irresistibly mournful solo written for any instrument, the cor anglais is given a theme based on an Andalusian lament sung during Holy Week. But there is also a hint of the idyllic and sensuous atmosphere of a Spanish summer evening – this romantic serenade is answered by equally ornate passages from the guitar soloist before the full orchestra takes up the theme.

As in the first movement, the finale balances the graceful precision of rococo dances with the compelling syncopated and irregular rhythms typical of so much Spanish music, in this case briskly alternating groups of two and three beats. Rodrigo is the native Spaniard but, as did Boccherini before him, he knows how to blend Spanish character with universal galanterie.

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The Concierto de Aranjuez calls for an orchestra of two flutes (one doubling piccolo), two oboes (one doubling cor anglais), two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, and strings.

The SSO first performed the Concierto in 1972 with Willem van Otterloo and guitarist John Williams and most recently in 2010 with Slava Grigoryan as soloist and Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducting. In 1986 the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performed the harp version of the concerto with soloist Marisa Robles and conductor Zdeněk Mácal.

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KeynotesVIVALDIBorn Venice, 1678 Died Vienna, 1741

In his lifetime Antonio Vivaldi went by the nickname ‘il prete rosso’ – his hair was red and he was a priest, although he ceased saying Mass about a year after his ordination. Instead he took a post as director of music for the famed Pietà orphanage in Venice and gained renown as a virtuoso violinist and as a composer of operas (neglected nowadays), sacred choral works such as his popular setting of the Gloria, and the instrumental concertos that have become his chief claim to fame. In fact Vivaldi wrote more concertos than just about anybody (500 and counting), of which the best-known are the Four Seasons violin concertos.

Antonio Vivaldi Guitar Concerto in D(adapted from the Concerto for mandolin and two violins, RV 93)

Allegro giusto Largo Allegro

Pepe Romero guitar

With the revival of his music in the 1950s, Antonio Vivaldi leapt from almost complete obscurity to popular renown, even more famous than he had been in his lifetime, when he was firmly established as ‘the most popular composer for the violin, as well as player on that instrument’. The Four Seasons alone would have assured Vivaldi a place in the modern repertoire, but there was more to be discovered, including hundreds upon hundreds of brilliant instrumental concertos – mostly for violin – that rival The Four Seasons in their virtuosity and inventiveness.

Nearly all these concertos were composed for the Conservatorio dell’ Ospedale della Pietà, one of four renowned music schools for girls in 18th-century Venice. At the Pietà, orphans and illegitimate daughters of the nobility were given an education and trained to sing and play instruments, preparing them for either a respectable marriage or a career on the stage. As music master at the Pietà (a post that he held in one way or another for nearly 40 years), Vivaldi established the orphanage-conservatory as something of a tourist attraction for musical people everywhere.

One tourist, Charles de Brosses, reported: ‘They sing like angels, play the violin, flute, organ, oboe, cello, bassoon – in short no instrument is large enough to frighten them…I swear nothing is more charming than to see a young and pretty nun, dressed in white, a sprig of pomegranate blossom behind one ear, leading the orchestra and beating time with all the grace and precision imaginable.’ Judging from the music Vivaldi wrote for them, the young musicians of the Pietà must have been very fine players indeed. And they seem to have inspired the first known concertos for cello, bassoon, mandolin and flautino.

But despite having hundreds concertos to his name, Vivaldi never wrote a guitar concerto. The ‘guitar concerto’ you hear in this concert was originally conceived as a chamber concerto – an intimate affair with just one musician per part. Those parts were for mandolin (a gut-strung mandolino milanese, the smallest member of the lute family), two violins and a

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The Baroque Concerto

Vivaldi effectively invented the solo concerto. In his hands it took its familiar three-movement form (fast – slow – fast), and the distinctive ritornello structure for individual movements reached its full development. (The legacy of both features was inherited by Classical composers such as Mozart.)

Ritornello form operates on a similar principal to chorus-and-verse. The ritornello theme (‘little return’) behaves like a chorus; between each appearance is a solo episode, providing contrasting musical ideas and an opportunity to explore foreign keys. This strategy gives the music its irresistible blend of brilliance and invention.

Practising priest or musical madman?

There were two views on why Vivaldi, who had taken orders, never said Mass. It’s likely that Vivaldi suffered from a form of asthma, based on an explanation he gave in a letter in 1737:

When I had been ordained a priest for a year or a bit more, I discontinued saying Mass, having had to leave the altar without completing it because of a chest ailment...that has burdened me since birth. For this reason I nearly always stay home, and I only go out in a gondola because I can no longer walk.

But he didn’t exactly ‘stay home’, often roving Europe as a composer and virtuoso violinist, and one 18th-century writer, P.L. de Boigelou, put forward this theory:

One day when Vivaldi was saying Mass, a musical theme came into his mind. He at once left the altar where he was officiating and repaired to the sacristy to write out his theme, then he came back to finish the Mass. He was reported to the Inquisition, which luckily looked on him as a musician, that is, as a madman, and merely forbade him to say Mass from that time forward.

continuo group (basso continuo being the baroque answer to the bass-and-chords function of a modern rhythm section).

As a chamber concerto it cleverly combines elements of solo display and cooperation between plucked and bowed strings – a characteristic retained even when the music is transcribed for guitar and the richer sound of a string orchestra. The concerto is a favourite of guitarists, but gained wider popularity in 1979 when it was adopted for the soundtrack of Kramer vs. Kramer, starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep.

The quickly flowing first movement loosely follows a ritornello structure in which the full ensemble plays a recurring theme interspersed by lightly accompanied solo sections from the guitar. The Largo, by contrast, is an extended soliloquy for the soloist above sustained, muted chords in the strings. The final movement is a cheerful, tripping gigue, returning to the ritornello structure of the opening movement.

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This arrangement of Vivaldi’s Concerto RV 93 calls for solo guitar, string orchestra and keyboard continuo.We believe this is our first performance of the concerto.

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KeynotesBEETHOVENBorn Bonn, 1770 Died Vienna, 1827

In orchestral repertoire at least, Beethoven’s busiest years were between 1800 and 1812, when he completed eight of his nine symphonies and the five piano concertos. And until 1808 he was also active as a piano soloist. During these years, Beethoven was stretching his audience, who (on the whole) were gamely following as he pushed the boundaries of structure, style and musical expression.

EIGHTH SYMPHONY

Beethoven may have been in his 40s when he wrote it, but the Eighth Symphony has a youthful energy and a definite humorous side. (Don’t feel alarmed if Beethoven’s sometimes startling effects prompt you to laugh out loud.) Surprisingly, given that his symphonies had been growing longer, this is one of Beethoven’s shortest – the result of a powerful concentration of musical material. It’s full of unexpected gestures including the abrupt ending he gives to the cheerful second movement and a ‘rogue’ note that intrudes on the opening of the fourth movement. The third movement, which by now his listeners would have expected to be an exuberant scherzo, is instead, a broad and flowing minuet. The finale – bursting with vitality – provides the ‘centre of gravity’ for the symphony, as if all the other movements have been leading to just this moment.

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No.8 in F, Op.93

Allegro vivace e con brio Allegretto scherzando Tempo di Menuetto Allegro vivace

Beethoven wastes no time in his Eighth Symphony: there’s no introduction, no suspenseful meandering of harmony – instead the conductor’s baton comes down on the first notes of the main theme. It’s fast (Allegro), it’s lively (vivace) and Beethoven asks that it be played with vigour (con brio). It sets the tone for the symphony as a whole, which is concentrated, as if Beethoven has taken the power and content of a longer symphony and compressed it to a work of smaller proportions but even greater intensity – ‘little, but vast’ was how Sir George Grove described it.

The result is only slightly longer than his first symphony, completed 12 years before, and it gives the impression that Beethoven had for once heeded the advice of his more reactionary critics and returned to Classical principles of balance in form and content, clarity of structure and wit and invention. The Eighth Symphony glows with inner calm and a classical perfection, but even so, this isn’t the kind of symphony that Mozart would have written, nor is it the Beethoven of the First Symphony.

That beginning is a bold stroke, setting off uncharacteristically with a straightforward tune. The tune suggests Haydn, but the gesture does not – Haydn would surely have preceded such a self-contained melody with a slow introduction. The mood verges on recklessness, and Beethoven keeps it up with a rich variety of musical ideas all presented within a very short space of time.

So much better!

Beethoven’s Seventh and Eighth symphonies were both completed in 1812 and given public premieres in Vienna in the winter of 1813–14. But, like the earlier pairing of the Fifth and Pastoral Symphonies (from 1808), it is a marriage of contrasts. The Seventh Symphony, long recognised for its compelling treatment of rhythm, enjoyed almost instant popularity and its second movement assumed the status of a hit. It was a great symphony, the composer himself thought so. The Eighth Symphony, however, was less of a success than the Seventh. ‘That’s because it’s so much better,’ Beethoven is reported to have said.

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There’s more that his audiences wouldn’t have been expecting. The symphony doesn’t have a slow movement, nor does it have a scherzo, the wildly playful movement that Beethoven had made a ‘standard’ element of his symphonies.

The place of the slow movement is taken by the Allegretto scherzando. This is supposedly a joking tribute to Maelzel, inventor of the metronome – the theme turns up in a canon, which Beethoven supposedly improvised at a supper where his friend Maelzel was present. Unfortunately the story (and the canon) are the invention of Beethoven’s biographer Schindler, but if you want to go along with the fiction, you can hear the ticking of Maelzel’s timekeeping device in the wind section’s spiky repeated chords, which underpin the beginning of the movement and return whenever the sudden changes in volume and whimsical melodies threaten to lead the music from its main idea.

The scherzo is replaced by something positively old-fashioned: a flowing movement in the tempo of a minuet, the dance form that Mozart or Haydn would have used at this point in their symphonies. It comes across as courtly and comfortable – and cheerful in every way. In the middle of the movement the horns, clarinet and a busy solo cello are given the spotlight.

The finale returns to the impetuous character of the first movement. It sets off in a rush with a light-footed, dashing theme, discreet enough until, barely 15 seconds in, Beethoven throws in a rogue note, a very loud C sharp that simply doesn’t belong in the symphony’s key of F major. Somehow he manages to continue as if nothing untoward had happened – just as you do when recovering from a stumble – and with good reason: he has plenty of other musical surprises in store, setting up expectations and then misleading his listeners. He hints at and then denies us the repeated exposition of themes expected of a movement in sonata form, misleadingly beginning the development section in the home key. When that C sharp intrudes again, it’s more insistent, a cue for the music to drag us off on excursions to remote and unexplored harmonies. So far does Beethoven wander, that it takes him longer than usual to bring the music home to F major – the result is a grand, extended coda (‘tail’) to bring this spirited symphony to its jubilant end.

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Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony calls for pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns and trumpets; timpani and strings.

The SSO first performed the symphony in 1941, conducted by Percy

Code, and most recently in 2010, conducted by Oleg Caetani.

An engraved portrait of the composer made in 1814 by Blasius Höfel. Beethoven was 44 years old, with eight symphonies and the five piano concertos to his credit.

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Recently appointed Music Director of the Phoenix Symphony, Tito Muñoz is increasingly recognised as a gifted and versatile conductor. He previously served as Music Director of the Opéra National de Lorraine and Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy in France, and has held assistant conductor posts with the Cleveland Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and Aspen Music Festival.

An accomplished violinist, Tito Muñoz began his musical training at the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and Fiorello H LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, before studying at Queens College (CUNY) as a violin student of Daniel Phillips. From 2004 to 2006 he attended the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, where he studied with David Zinman and Murry Sidlin and participated in masterclasses with Asher Fisch, Leon Fleisher, George Manahan, David Robertson and Leonard Slatkin. He won the Aspen Music Festival’s 2005 Robert J Harth Conductor Prize and the 2006 Aspen Conducting Prize, returning as the festival’s Assistant Conductor in 2007 and later as a guest conductor.

Tito Muñoz made his professional conducting debut in 2006 with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, invited by Leonard Slatkin as a participant of the National Conducting Institute. That same year, at the invitation of David Zinman, he made his Cleveland Orchestra debut at the Blossom Music Festival.

Since then he has conducted orchestras throughout the United States, as well as summer festival engagements including the Chautauqua Symphony, Grant Park Orchestra and Chicago Philharmonic at the Ravinia Festival, and he returns annually to conduct the Cleveland Orchestra. Joint performances with the Joffrey Ballet and the Cleveland Orchestra in 2009 led to further collaborations, including a complete Nutcracker and the orchestra’s first staged Rite of Spring, as well as an invitation to tour with the Joffrey Ballet in the 2010–11 season.

Following debuts in Europe with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and the Opéra de Rennes, he conducted the Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Luxembourg Philharmonic, and the Orchestre National de Lorraine. Earlier this year he made his Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra debut.

Tito Muñozconductor

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One of the most celebrated and versatile musicians of his generation, Spanish-born guitarist Pepe Romero has enjoyed a varied and illustrious career since he first set foot on the concert stage aged seven. Together with his father, the legendary Celedonio Romero, and his brothers Celin and Angel – the ‘Royal Family of the Guitar’ – he established Los Romeros as the world’s leading guitar quartet. (Los Romeros gave the premiere of Rodrigo’s Concierto andaluz.) Known for his compelling and virtuosic classical performances, Pepe Romero is also a passionate advocate of the traditional flamenco of his native Andalusia.

He has appeared as soloist with the world’s greatest orchestras and ensembles, collaborating with the most celebrated conductors and composers. He has made more than 50 recordings, including more than 20 concertos with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Among his recent recordings are Concierto festivo, written for him by Ernesto Cordero, the song cycle Mi jardín solitario by Lorenzo Palomo, and a Spanish solo collection, Spanish Nights (which includes the premiere recording of Suite Madrileña No.1 by Celedonio Romero). In 2012, he received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Classical Album for his recording of Concierto festivo.

Last year he played many concerts worldwide honouring the 100th anniversary of the birth of his father. This year he is touring the world celebrating his own 70th birthday, a journey which began with an all-Bach recital in New York City, and will include birthday recitals in Hong Kong, Zurich, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Dallas, Munich, Berlin, Tokyo, Hamburg, Istanbul and Adelaide.

In 2004, he was named Distinguished Artist in Residence at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music; he also teaches master classes at USC, in the Salzburg Summer Academy, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival and the Córdoba Guitar Festival. Other honours include the Order of Isabel la Católica, honorary doctorates from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the University of Victoria, and the Premio Andalucia de Música, Spain’s highest recognition for contribution to the arts. He was featured in the award-winning film documentary Shadows and Light: Joaquín Rodrigo at 90.

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SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Founded in 1932 by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra has evolved into one of the world’s finest orchestras as Sydney has become one of the world’s great cities.

Resident at the iconic Sydney Opera House, where it gives more than 100 performances each year, the SSO also performs in venues throughout Sydney and regional New South Wales. International tours to Europe, Asia and the USA – including three visits to China – have earned the orchestra worldwide recognition for artistic excellence.

The orchestra’s first Chief Conductor was Sir Eugene Goossens, appointed in 1947; he was followed by Nicolai Malko, Dean Dixon, Moshe Atzmon, Willem van Otterloo, Louis Frémaux, Sir Charles Mackerras, Zdenĕk Mácal, Stuart Challender, Edo de Waart and Gianluigi Gelmetti. Vladimir Ashkenazy was Principal Conductor from 2009 to 2013. The orchestra’s history also boasts collaborations with legendary figures

such as George Szell, Sir Thomas Beecham, Otto Klemperer and Igor Stravinsky.

The SSO’s award-winning education program is central to its commitment to the future of live symphonic music, developing audiences and engaging the participation of young people. The orchestra promotes the work of Australian composers through performances, recordings and its commissioning program. Recent premieres have included major works by Ross Edwards, Lee Bracegirdle, Gordon Kerry, Mary Finsterer, Nigel Westlake and Georges Lentz, and the orchestra’s recordings of music by Brett Dean have been released on both the BIS and SSO Live labels.

Other releases on the SSO Live label, established in 2006, include performances with Alexander Lazarev, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Sir Charles Mackerras, Vladimir Ashkenazy and David Robertson. In 2010–11 the orchestra made concert recordings of the complete Mahler symphonies with Ashkenazy, and has also released recordings of Rachmaninoff and Elgar orchestral works on the Exton/Triton labels, as well as numerous recordings on ABC Classics.

This is the first year of David Robertson’s tenure as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director.

DAVID ROBERTSON Chief Conductor and Artistic Director

PATRONHer Excellency, Prof. The Hon. Dame Marie Bashir ad cvo

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FIRST VIOLINS Sun Yi ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER

Kirsten Williams ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER

Lerida Delbridge ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Jenny BoothBrielle ClapsonClaire HerrickGeorges LentzNicola LewisEmily LongAlexandra MitchellAlexander NortonElizabeth Jones*Andrew HaveronCONCERTMASTER

Dene OldingCONCERTMASTER

Fiona Ziegler ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Sophie ColeAmber Davis Léone Ziegler

SECOND VIOLINS Marianne Broadfoot Emma JezekASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Emma HayesShuti HuangStan W KornelBenjamin LiNicole MastersMaja VerunicaVivien Jeffery°Kirsty Hilton Marina Marsden Maria DurekPhilippa PaigeBiyana Rozenblit

VIOLASRoger Benedict Tobias Breider Sandro CostantinoRosemary CurtinGraham HenningsFelicity TsaiAmanda VernerLeonid VolovelskyAnne-Louise Comerford Justin Williams ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Jane HazelwoodStuart JohnsonJustine Marsden

CELLOSCatherine Hewgill Henry David Varema Fenella GillElizabeth NevilleAdrian WallisDavid WickhamUmberto Clerici Leah Lynn ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Kristy ConrauTimothy NankervisChristopher Pidcock

DOUBLE BASSESAlex Henery David CampbellSteven LarsonBenjamin WardKees Boersma Neil Brawley PRINCIPAL EMERITUS

Richard LynnDavid Murray

FLUTES Janet Webb Carolyn HarrisEmma Sholl Rosamund Plummer PRINCIPAL PICCOLO

OBOESShefali Pryor Alexandre Oguey PRINCIPAL COR ANGLAIS

Diana Doherty David Papp

CLARINETSFrancesco Celata Craig Wernicke PRINCIPAL BASS CLARINET

Lawrence Dobell Christopher Tingay

BASSOONSMatthew Wilkie Fiona McNamaraNoriko Shimada PRINCIPAL CONTRABASSOON

HORNSRobert Johnson Rachel SilverBen Jacks Geoffrey O’Reilly PRINCIPAL 3RD

Marnie SebireEuan Harvey

TRUMPETSDavid Elton Anthony HeinrichsPaul Goodchild

TROMBONESRonald Prussing Scott Kinmont Nick ByrneChristopher Harris PRINCIPAL BASS TROMBONE

TUBASteve Rossé

TIMPANIMark Robinson ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Richard Miller

PERCUSSIONRebecca Lagos Timothy Constable HARP Louise Johnson

HARPSICHORDStewart Smith*

BOLD = PRINCIPAL

ITALICS = ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

° = CONTRACT MUSICIAN

* = GUEST MUSICIAN

GREY = PERMANENT MEMBER OF THE SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA NOT APPEARING IN THIS CONCERT

The men of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra are proudly outfitted by Van Heusen.

To see photographs of the full roster of permanent musicians and find out more about the orchestra, visit our website: www.sydneysymphony.com/SSO_musicians

If you don’t have access to the internet, ask one of our customer service representatives for a copy of our Musicians flyer.

MUSICIANS

David RobertsonCHIEF CONDUCTOR AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR SUPPORTED BY EMIRATES

Dene OldingCONCERTMASTER

Jessica CottisASSISTANT CONDUCTOR SUPPORTED BY PREMIER PARTNER CREDIT SUISSE

Andrew HaveronCONCERTMASTER

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BEHIND THE SCENES

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Rory Jeffes

EXECUTIVE TEAM ASSISTANT

Lisa Davies-Galli

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS

DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC PLANNING

Benjamin Schwartz

ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION MANAGER

Eleasha Mah

ARTIST LIAISON MANAGER

Ilmar Leetberg

RECORDING ENTERPRISE MANAGER

Philip Powers

LibraryAnna CernikVictoria GrantMary-Ann Mead

LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT

DIRECTOR OF LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT

Kim Waldock

EMERGING ARTISTS PROGRAM MANAGER

Mark Lawrenson

EDUCATION MANAGER

Rachel McLarin

EDUCATION OFFICER

Amy Walsh

ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT

DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT

Aernout Kerbert

ORCHESTRA MANAGER

Rachel Whealy

ORCHESTRA COORDINATOR

Georgia Fryer

OPERATIONS MANAGER

Kerry-Anne Cook

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Laura Daniel

STAGE MANAGER

Courtney Wilson

PRODUCTION COORDINATORS

Tim DaymanDave Stabback

SALES AND MARKETING

DIRECTOR OF SALES & MARKETING

Mark J Elliott

SENIOR SALES & MARKETING MANAGER

Penny Evans

MARKETING MANAGER, SUBSCRIPTION SALES

Simon Crossley-Meates

MARKETING MANAGER, CLASSICAL SALES

Matthew Rive

MARKETING MANAGER, WEB & DIGITAL MEDIA

Eve Le Gall

MARKETING MANAGER, CRM & DATABASE

Matthew Hodge

DATABASE ANALYST

David Patrick

SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Christie Brewster

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Tessa Conn

MARKETING COORDINATOR

Jonathon Symonds

SENIOR ONLINE MARKETING COORDINATOR

Jenny Sargant

ONLINE MARKETING COORDINATOR

Jonathan Davidoff

Box OfficeMANAGER OF BOX OFFICE SALES & OPERATIONS

Lynn McLaughlin

BOX OFFICE SYSTEMS SUPERVISOR

Jennifer Laing

BOX OFFICE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR

John Robertson

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVES

Karen Wagg – Senior CSR Michael DowlingKatarzyna OstafijczukTim Walsh

PublicationsPUBLICATIONS EDITOR & MUSIC PRESENTATION MANAGER

Yvonne Frindle

EXTERNAL RELATIONS

DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS

Yvonne Zammit

PhilanthropyHEAD OF PHILANTHROPY

Luke Andrew Gay

DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Amelia Morgan-Hunn

PHILANTHROPY COORDINATOR

Sarah Morrisby

Corporate RelationsBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Belinda Besson

CORPORATE RELATIONS MANAGER

Janine Harris

CommunicationsPUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER

Katherine Stevenson

COMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA MANAGER

Bridget Cormack

DIGITAL CONTENT PRODUCER

Kai Raisbeck

SOCIAL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY OFFICER

Caitlin Benetatos

BUSINESS SERVICES

DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

John Horn

FINANCE MANAGER

Ruth Tolentino

ACCOUNTANT

Minerva Prescott

ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT

Emma Ferrer

PAYROLL OFFICER

Laura Soutter

PEOPLE AND CULTURE

IN-HOUSE COUNSEL

Michel Maree Hryce

SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA STAFF

John C Conde ao ChairmanTerrey Arcus am

Ewen Crouch am

Ross GrantCatherine HewgillJennifer HoyRory JeffesAndrew Kaldor am

David LivingstoneThe Hon. Justice AJ MeagherGoetz Richter

SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA BOARD

SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA COUNCIL

Geoff Ainsworth am

Andrew Andersons ao

Michael Baume ao

Christine BishopIta Buttrose ao obe

Peter CudlippJohn Curtis am

Greg Daniel am

John Della BoscaAlan FangErin FlahertyDr Stephen FreibergDonald Hazelwood ao obe

Dr Michael Joel am

Simon JohnsonYvonne Kenny am

Gary LinnaneAmanda LoveHelen Lynch am

David Maloney am

David Malouf ao

Deborah MarrThe Hon. Justice Jane Mathews ao

Danny MayWendy McCarthy ao

Jane MorschelDr Timothy Pascoe am

Prof. Ron Penny ao

Jerome RowleyPaul Salteri am

Sandra SalteriJuliana SchaefferLeo Schofield am

Fred Stein oam

Gabrielle TrainorJohn van OgtropPeter Weiss ao HonDLittMary WhelanRosemary White

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SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PATRONS

MAESTRO’S CIRCLESUPPORTING THE ARTISTIC VISION OF DAVID ROBERTSON, CHIEF CONDUCTOR AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Peter Weiss ao Founding President & Doris WeissJohn C Conde ao ChairmanBrian AbelGeoff Ainsworth am Tom Breen & Rachael KohnThe Berg Family FoundationAndrew Kaldor am & Renata Kaldor aoVicki Olsson

Roslyn Packer aoDavid RobertsonPenelope Seidler amMr Fred Street am & Mrs Dorothy StreetMr Frank Lowy ac & Mrs Shirley Lowy oam

Brian & Rosemary WhiteRay Wilson oam in memory of the late James Agapitos oam

Through their inspired financial support, Patrons ensure the SSO’s continued success, resilience and growth. Join the SSO Patrons Program today and make a difference.

sydneysymphony.com/patrons (02) 8215 4674 • [email protected]

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHAIR PATRONS PROGRAM,

CALL (02) 8215 4619.

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CHAIR PATRONS

01 Roger Benedict Principal Viola Kim Williams am & Catherine Dovey Chair

02 Umberto Clerici Principal Cello Garry & Shiva Rich Chair

03 Lawrence Dobell Principal Clarinet Anne & Terrey Arcus am Chair

04 Diana Doherty Principal Oboe Andrew Kaldor am & Renata Kaldor ao Chair

05 Richard Gill oam Artistic Director, Education Paul Salteri am & Sandra Salteri Chair

06 Jane Hazelwood, Viola Bob & Julie Clampett Chair in memory of Carolyn Clampett

07 Catherine Hewgill Principal Cello The Hon. Justice AJ & Mrs Fran Meagher Chair

08 Kirsty Hilton Principal Second Violin Corrs Chambers Westgarth Chair

09 Robert Johnson Principal Horn James & Leonie Furber Chair

10 Elizabeth Neville Cello Ruth & Bob Magid Chair

11 Shefali Pryor Associate Principal Oboe Mrs Barbara Murphy Chair

12 Emma Sholl Associate Principal Flute Robert & Janet Constable Chair

13 Janet Webb Principal Flute Helen Lynch am & Helen Bauer Chair

14 Kirsten Williams, Associate Concertmaster I Kallinikos Chair

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The Sydney Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the music lovers who donate to the orchestra each year. Each gift plays an important part in ensuring our continued artistic excellence and helping to sustain important education and regional touring programs. Donations of $50 and above are acknowledged on our website at www.sydneysymphony.com/patrons

DIAMOND PATRONS: $30,000+Geoff Ainsworth am

Anne & Terrey Arcus am

Doug & Alison BattersbyThe Berg Family FoundationTom Breen & Rachael KohnMr John C Conde ao

Robert & Janet ConstableThe Estate of Dr Lynn JosephMr Andrew Kaldor am &

Mrs Renata Kaldor ao

In Memory of Matthew KrelMrs Roslyn Packer ao

Ian Potter FoundationPaul Salteri am & Sandra SalteriScully FoundationMrs W SteningMr Fred Street am &

Mrs Dorothy StreetPeter Weiss ao & Doris WeissMr Brian & Mrs Rosemary WhiteKim Williams am & Catherine

Dovey

PLATINUM PATRONS: $20,000–$29,999Brian AbelRobert Albert ao & Elizabeth

AlbertSandra & Neil BurnsJames & Leonie Furber

I KallinikosHelen Lynch am & Helen BauerMrs T Merewether oam

Mrs Barbara MurphyMr B G O’ConorVicki OlssonAndy & Deirdre PlummerDavid RobertsonMrs Penelope Seidler am

G & C Solomon in memory of Joan MacKenzie

Geoff StearnRay Wilson oam in memory of

James Agapitos oam

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GOLD PATRONS: $10,000–$19,999Bailey Family FoundationAlan & Christine BishopAudrey BlundenMr Robert BrakspearIan & Jennifer BurtonMr Robert & Mrs L Alison CarrBob & Julie ClampettMichael Crouch ao & Shanny

CrouchThe Hon. Mrs Ashley

Dawson-Damer am

Paul EspieEdward & Diane FedermanNora Goodridge

Mr Ross GrantMr Ervin KatzJames N Kirby FoundationRuth & Bob MagidThe Hon. Justice AJ Meagher &

Mrs Fran MeagherMr John MorschelDrs Keith & Eileen OngGarry & Shiva RichCaroline WilkinsonAnonymous (2)

SILVER PATRONS: $5000–$9,999Dr Francis AugustusStephen J BellDr Hannes & Mrs Barbara

BoshoffMr Alexander & Mrs Vera

BoyarskyPeter Braithwaite & Gary

LinnaneMr David & Mrs Halina BrettEwen Crouch am & Catherine

CrouchIan Dickson & Reg HollowayIn memory of Dr Lee

MacCormick EdwardsDr Stephen Freiberg & Donald

CampbellDr Colin GoldschmidtThe Greatorex Foundation

Rory & Jane JeffesThe late Mrs Isabelle JosephFrank Lowy am & Shirley

Lowy oam

J A McKernanDavid Maloney am & Erin

FlahertyR & S Maple-BrownJustice Jane Mathews ao

Mora MaxwellWilliam McIlrath Charitable

FoundationJohn & Akky van OgtropSeamus Robert QuickRodney Rosenblum am &

Sylvia RosenblumDr Evelyn RoyalThe late Greta C RyanManfred & Linda SalamonMrs Joyce Sproat &

Mrs Janet CookeMr John Symond am

David Tudehope & Liz DibbsMr Robert & Mrs Rosemary

WalshWestpac GroupMichael & Mary Whelan TrustIn memory of Geoff WhiteJune & Alan Woods Family

BequestAnonymous (2)

BRONZE PATRONS: PRESTO $2,500–$4,999Mr Henri W Aram oam

Ian BradyMr Mark BryantDr Rebecca ChinDr Diana Choquette &

Mr Robert MillinerMr B & Mrs M ColesMr Howard ConnorsGreta DavisFirehold Pty LtdWarren GreenAnthony GreggAnn HobanIrwin Imhof in memory of

Herta ImhofMr John Lam-Po-TangJames & Elsie MooreMr Darrol NormanMs Jackie O’BrienDr Agnes E SinclairTony StrachanYim Family Foundation

BRONZE PATRONS: VIVACE $1,000–$2,499Mrs Lenore AdamsonMrs Antoinette AlbertRae & David AllenAndrew Andersons ao

Mr Matthew AndrewsThe Hon Justice Michael BallDavid BarnesMr Garry BessonAllan & Julie BlighJan BowenLenore P BuckleMargaret BulmerIn memory of RW BurleyMrs Rhonda CaddyMrs Stella ChenMs Suzanne CollinsJoan Connery oam &

Maxwell Connery oam

Debby Cramer & Bill CaukillMr John Cunningham scm &

Mrs Margaret CunninghamLisa & Miro DavisElizabeth DonatiColin Draper & Mary Jane

BrodribbProf. & Mrs John EdmondsMalcolm Ellis & Erin O’Neill

Mrs Margaret EppsProfessor Michael Field am

Mr Tom FrancisMr Matt GarrettVivienne Goldschmidt &

Owen JonesMrs Fay GrearIn Memory of Angelica GreenAkiko GregoryMr & Mrs Harold & Althea

HallidayJanette HamiltonAngus HoldenDr & Mrs Michael HunterMichael & Anna JoelMrs W G KeighleyDr Andrew KennedyAron KleinlehrerMr Andrew Korda & Ms Susan

PearsonMr Justin LamMr Peter Lazar am

Professor Winston LiauwAirdrie LloydPeter Lowry oam & Dr Carolyn

Lowry oam

Kevin & Deirdre McCannIan & Pam McGawMacquarie Group Foundation

Barbara MaidmentJohn MarRenee MarkovicHenry & Ursula MooserMilja & David MorrisMrs J MulveneyDr Mike O’Connor am

Mr & Mrs OrtisMr Andrew C PattersonDr Natalie E PelhamAlmut PiattiIn memory of Sandra Paul

PottingerDr Raffi QasabianMichael QuaileyMr Patrick Quinn-GrahamErnest & Judith RapeeKenneth R ReedPatricia H Reid Endowment

Pty LtdDr Marilyn RichardsonLesley & Andrew RosenbergIn memory of H St P ScarlettMr Samuel F ShefferDavid & Alison ShilligtonDavid Smithers am & Isabel

SmithersDr Judy SoperMrs Judith Southam

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TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT BECOMING A

SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PATRON, PLEASE

CONTACT THE PHILANTHROPY OFFICE ON (02) 8215 4674

OR EMAIL [email protected]

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Ms Barbara SpencerMrs Elizabeth SquairCatherine StephenThe Hon. Brian Sully qc

Mrs Margaret SwansonThe Taplin FamilyKevin TroyJohn E TuckeyJudge Robyn TupmanDr Alla WaldmanMiss Sherry WangWestpac Banking CorporationHenry & Ruth WeinbergThe Hon. Justice A G WhealyDr Richard T WhiteMrs Leonore WhyteA Willmers & R PalDr Edward J WillsProf. Neville Wills & Ian

FenwickeAnn & Brooks C Wilson am

Dr Richard WingDr Peter Wong & Mrs Emmy K

WongGeoff Wood & Melissa WaitesSir Robert WoodsMr & Mrs Lindsay WoolveridgeIn memory of Lorna WrightDr John YuAnonymous (15)

BRONZE PATRONS: ALLEGRO $500–$999Ms Jenny AllumMr Peter J ArmstrongGarry & Tricia AshMr & Mrs George BallDr Lilon BandlerBarlow Cleaning Pty LtdMichael Baume ao & Toni BaumeBeauty Point Retirement ResortMr Michael BeckDr Andrew BellRichard & Margaret BellMrs Jan BiberMinnie Biggs

G D BoltonMr Colin G BoothDr Margaret BoothIn memory of Jillian BowersMrs R D Bridges obe

R D & L M BroadfootDr Peter BroughtonDr David BryantArnaldo BuchDr Miles BurgessPat & Jenny BurnettEric & Rosemary CampbellMr JC Campbell qc &

Mrs CampbellBarrie CarterMr Jonathan ChissickMrs Sandra ClarkIn memory of Beth HarpleyMr Phillip CornwellDom Cottam & Kanako ImamuraDr Peter CraswellMr David CrossPhil Diment am & Bill ZafiropoulosDr David DixonSusan DoenauMrs Jane DrexlerDr Nita DurhamJohn FavaloroMrs Lesley FinnMs Julie Flynn & Mr Trevor CookMrs Paula FlynnMr John GadenClive & Jenny GoodwinRuth GrahameMr Robert GreenRichard Griffin am

Dr Jan GroseBenjamin Hasic & Belinda DavieMr Robert HavardMrs Joan HenleyRoger HenningSue HewittIn memory of Emil HiltonDorothy Hoddinott ao

Mr Kevin Holland & Mrs Roslyn Andrews

Bill & Pam HughesMs Cynthia KayeMrs Margaret KeoghDr Henry KilhamDr Joyce KirkChris J KitchingMrs Patricia KleinhansAnna-Lisa KlettenbergSonia LalL M B LampratiElaine M LangshawDr Leo & Mrs Shirley LeaderMargaret LedermanMrs Erna LevyMrs A LohanMr Gabriel LopataPanee LowDr David LuisMelvyn MadiganMs Jolanta MasojadaHelen & Phil MeddingsI MerrickLouise MillerPatricia MillerKenneth Newton MitchellHelen MorganChris Morgan-HunnMr Graham NorthE J NuffieldMr Sead NurkicDr A J PalmerDr Kevin PedemontDr John PittMrs Greeba PritchardThe Hon. Dr Rodney Purvis am

& Mrs Marian PurvisMiss Julie RadosavljevicRenaissance Tours

Anna RoMr David RobinsonAgnes RossMrs Christine Rowell-Miller Mr Kenneth RyanGarry Scarf & Morgie BlaxillPeter & Virginia ShawV ShoreMrs Diane Shteinman am

Victoria SmythDoug & Judy SotherenColin SpencerJames & Alice SpigelmanAshley & Aveen StephensonMargaret & William SuthersDr & Mrs H K TeyDr Jenepher ThomasMr Michael ThompsonMs Rhonda TingAlma TooheyMrs M TurkingtonGillian Turner & Rob BishopMr Robert VeelRonald WalledgeIn memory of Denis WallisIn memoriam JBL WattMiss Roslyn WheelerThe Wilkinson FamilyAudrey & Michael WilsonYetty WindtDr Richard WingateMr Evan WongMrs Robin YabsleyAnonymous (45)

SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA VANGUARDA MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM FOR A DYNAMIC GROUP OF GEN X & Y SSO FANS AND FUTURE PHILANTHROPISTS

Vanguard CollectiveJustin Di Lollo ChairBelinda BentleyAmelia Morgan-HunnJonathan PeaseShefali PryorSeamus R QuickCamille Thioulouse

MembersJames ArmstrongJoan BallantineAndrew BaxterMar BeltranNicole BilletDavid BluffPeter BraithwaiteBlake Briggs

Andrea BrownMelanie BrownProf. Attila BrungsIan & Jennifer BurtonHelen CaldwellHilary CaldwellPaul ColganJuliet CurtinAlvaro R FernandezAlastair FurnivalAlexandra GibsonSam GiddingsMarina GoJeremy GoffTony GriersonLouise HaggertyRose HercegPhilip Heuzenroeder

Francis HicksPeter HowardJennifer HoyKatie HryceJustin JamesonJonathan KennedyAernout KerbertPatrick KokAlisa LaiTristan LandersGary LinnaneGabriel LopataKylie McCaigRebecca MacFarlingDavid McKeanTaine MoufarrigeNick NichlesKate O’Reilly

Sudeep RaoMichael ReedePaul ReidyChris RobertsonDr Benjamin RobinsonJacqueline RowlandsBenjamin SchwartzCaroline SharpenKatherine ShawRandal TameSandra TangMichael TidballMark TimminsKim WaldockJonathan WatkinsonJon WilkieYvonne Zammit

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SALUTE

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra is assisted by the

Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council,

its arts funding and advisory body

GOVERNMENT PARTNERS

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra is

assisted by the NSW Government

through Arts NSW

PRINCIPAL PARTNER

EDUCATION PARTNERPLATINUM PARTNER

MAJOR PARTNERS

GOLD PARTNERS

REGIONAL TOUR PARTNER MARKETING PARTNERVANGUARD PARTNER

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❝Tuning, tuning, tuning…

❞‘With the harp being a solo instrument in the orchestra, I tend to prepare everything as though it’s going to be a solo.’ It’s certainly true that composers often use the harp as a special colour within the orchestra, rather than treating it as part of a larger section. And cadenzas and other soloistic passages are not uncommon in the music of Ravel, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.

Performing as soloist out the front of the orchestra does allow certain refreshing freedoms, however. ‘I have the freedom to decide my own dynamics, the shape of phrases and other musical elements, rather than having to realise just the conductor’s intentions.’ Legends of the Old Castle, then, will offer Louise the chance to exercise her own self-expression. ‘I’m free to have my own ideas about this work,’ she says with relish.

There’s a lovely synergy in the fact that Simone Young is conducting this harpstravaganza – her own daughter is a gifted young harpist. ‘I’ve no doubt we’re going to get along famously,’ smiles Louise.

Louise Johnson is a soloist in Harp Legends on 24, 25 and 28 July. Simone Young conducts.

It’s a rare sight to see a harpist and their instrument out the front of the orchestra for a concerto performance. When Principal Harp, Louise Johnson appears as soloist with us in July, performing Lee Bracegirdle’s Legends of the Old Castle, it will be as part of the World Harp Congress – a weeklong celebration of this most ancient and beguiling instrument. The program features not one, but two concertos for harp (the other being Rodrigo’s Concierto serenata performed by Sivan Magen), and two orchestral works featuring multiple harps within the orchestra.

What’s the collective noun for a bunch of harpists then? An arpeggio? A cloud? ‘A haggle,’ replies Louise, without a moment’s hesitation and with a cheeky twinkle in her eye. And what are the challenges of having so many harpists in the one program? ‘Tuning, tuning, tuning,’ she says. ‘Each instrument needs to be tuned before every rehearsal and every performance. With 47 strings on each instrument you can imagine the tuning schedule we have to create!’

Preparing for a concerto is not necessarily so different to preparing an orchestral part.

MAGICAL COLOURPrincipal harpist Louise Johnson celebrates her instrument in all its guises and with all its challenges.

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Live at the Cortile with the SSO

From left: Kirsten Williams, Lerida Delbridge, Lawrence Dobell, Rosemary Curtin and Elizabeth Neville

Winter is definitely here but plenty of musical food lovers still ventured out into the cold for the second event in our intimate concert series in the Cortile bar and lounge at the InterContinental Sydney. Executive chef Tamas Palmer treated guests to a winter-time canapé menu, including mulled-wine martinis, chestnut veloutés and tartes Tatin, designed to match the music, which included movements from the Brahms and Mozart clarinet quintets, Elgar’s Salut d’Amour and Gershwin’s Embraceable You played by members of the SSO. The event sold out, so book now for the next SSO Live at the Cortile event on Thursday 7 August, when a quartet featuring oboist Shelfali Pryor will take you on an operatic journey of opulence and drama. Visit bit.ly/SSOLiveattheCortile

I am wondering what a musician does in a live concert when he or she suddenly feels the need to sneeze, not to mention what a soloist might do. Maybe it doesn’t happen because of the intense concentration. I haven’t ever noticed it, but I do wonder! Anne Irish

What a good question! I sometimes marvel that I don’t sneeze in a concert! I think you are right – the concentration required in performance overrides any desire to sneeze. I also find that if I have a cold

and my sinuses are blocked up, just before I have to play – especially if it’s an important solo – suddenly my head clears and I can forget that I’m unwell for a few minutes. That must be the adrenaline of performance at work.

Unfortunately coughing seems to be a different matter. I have had many coughing fits in various slow movements (it always seems to happen in the slow movement!), as have most of my colleagues. It’s awful, and there’s no escape. Very occasionally a coughing fit will necessitate leaving the stage so as not to be too distracting, either to colleagues onstage or for the audience listening.

If the concert is being broadcast live on radio, or recorded for later broadcast, then that adds another level of awareness.

Professionalism means overcoming these challenges, so I’m glad if you’ve never noticed these moments. We’re all in the service of the music.Rosamund Plummer, Principal Piccolo

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I never experienced the sound of an orchestra,’ Sebastian said. ‘It’s what I want to do for the rest of my life, but I never played in an orchestra until I started my undergraduate degree.’

This tour, 2000 children did have a chance to experience the sound of an orchestra and a wide variety of music – the big hit was LiteSPEED by Australian composer Matthew Hindson. ‘The music was obviously very stimulating for our “groovy” little bodies,’ praised a teacher from Morgan St Public School, Broken Hill. Kim Waldock, SSO Director of Learning and Engagement, says ‘we met students with some experience of orchestral music but the majority – especially in Cobar and Broken Hill – had absolutely no idea of what to expect. Staff and children of Cobar Public School created an “event”, arriving in tinfoil bow ties and tiaras, even the principal wore a dinner suit!’

In Broken Hill, the city’s Community Orchestra and Brass Band had great fun rehearsing with the SSO players. And five SSO players gave a lesson for the School of the Air in Broken Hill, which was later broadcast by ABC Regional Radio to other children in remote areas.

We might have returned from our third visit to China but we’ve only just made it to Cobar! Every year approximately 60 SSO players (including Fellows and Sinfonia musicians) tour to regional centres throughout NSW. Some of those towns and cities are old friends – Dubbo, Broken Hill – others are new acquaintances, like Cobar. It was a first visit that we won’t forget in a hurry: Cobar takes its footy seriously, so having our concert start during the State of Origin game presented a challenge. Cobar’s mayor Lillian Brady was thrilled the orchestra was in town but was ‘keeping an eye on the score, don’t you worry’. Conductor Daniel Carter is also a footy tragic: ‘It’s such a great cultural mix. To come somewhere like Cobar and in one night to experience great romantic Russian masterworks that are over 150 years old – and a game of NRL.’ Everyone was still able to get to the pub in time to see the Blues triumph.

Our return to Dubbo allowed Sebastian Dunn, a horn player in our Sinfonia training orchestra, to perform in his home town, not just in the public concert but also playing for his younger brother and friends at his old school. ‘Coming from Dubbo,

Regional Tour

TIARAS AND TOUCHDOWN

In Cobar, the children dressed up for the orchestra, wearing tiaras and tinfoil crowns.

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The ScoreSymphonies to SpareOrchestral concerts tend to have a standard ‘menu’: an overture or short concert opener, a concerto with a soloist, then the symphony – the big work. Sometimes the concerto is so ‘symphonic’ we put it last (the Brahms piano concertos, for example), but most of the time that’s the pattern we follow. But at the end of August, David Robertson has taken a slightly different approach, with a program that looks – at first glance – as if it has nothing but symphonies!

Brahms’s Third Symphony is serious music, sometimes melancholy, sometimes blissful, with a shimmering, floating pianissimo ending. We hope that, by playing it first rather than at the end, you’ll be able to hear it with fresh ears.

Our ‘concerto’ with soloist Vadim Repin is Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole, a ‘Spanish symphony’ composed for Sarasate. Lalo imagined the violin ‘soaring above the rigid form of an old symphony’ and the result is colourful and vibrant.

And from Janácek there’s a sinfonietta. Technically, that’s a ‘little symphony’ although this one is little only in duration – the orchestra is huge, with 12 trumpets! We’ve placed it last because it’s so striking and spectacular that really nothing could possibly follow it.

Symphonic InspirationEmirates Metro Series 29 August, 8pmGreat Classics 30 August, 2pmMondays @ 7 1 September, 7pm

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GUEST EDITOR Jacqui Smith | MUSICIAN PROFILE Genevieve Huppert sydneysymphony.com/bravo

SSO CHINA TOUR BLOGCatch up on all the highlights of our third tour to China, which took in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Jinan, Hangzhou, Zi’an and Beijing, where we performed in the famous National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing (more commonly referred to as ‘The Egg’!).

Sharing in the tour spirit, the staff back in Sydney invited chef Gary Au to visit our office in the Rocks and demonstrate the ancient art of making Dragon Beard Candy. Check out the blog for the photo evidence, including some very sticky ‘beards’.blog.ssoontour.com

SSO CHAMBER MUSICFancy a more intimate setting for your next concert? Our musicians are busy performing chamber music alongside the big concerts…WED 23 JUL, 1.15pm St James’, King St Our Fellows perform the Elgar String Quartet and a new piece by James Wade. Entry by donation.

SUN 3 AUG, 1.30pm Turramurra Uniting Church The Chanterelle Quartet plays string quartets by Haydn, Lalor and Mozart. WED 6 AUG, 1.15pm St James’, King St Janet Webb leads a program of wind chamber music treats. Entry by donation. WED 6 AUG, 7pm, Verbrugghen Hall The SSO Brass Ensemble performs music by Barber, Terracini, Rautavaara and Copland at the Sydney Conservatorium.

SUMMER STOPOVERS IN DUBAIEmirates has announced a free 24-hour stopover package for passengers travelling from Australia on eligible flights to destinations beyond Dubai. With transfers, a 36-hour UAE entry visa and a 24-hour hotel stay, including breakfast, this is your chance to explore the vibrant city that Emirates calls home. As Principal Partner of the SSO, Emirates offers our patrons an exclusive 10% online discount on all Emirates flights. Make sure you’ve signed up to our

Stay Tuned e-newsletter to receive the special booking code. bit.ly/EmiratesDubaiStopoverSSO

STUDENT RUSHDid you know we offer student rush tickets to many of our concerts? Follow our Facebook page to find out when. Tickets are always strictly limited but you’ll often spend no more than $15. Bargain!

NEW ARRIVALSOur Bravo! editor (and regular guest harpist) Genevieve Huppert is taking a few issues off to enjoy the company of newborn Felix Islay. And Associate Principal Cello Henry Varema has been in Estonia for the birth of his daughter. Congratulations!

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