MORNING SYMPHONY SERIES - Thursday 8 April 2021, 11.00am Perth Concert Hall MACA CLASSICS SERIES
←
→
Page content transcription
If your browser does not render page correctly, please read the page content below
MORNING SYMPHONY SERIES
Thursday 8 April 2021, 11.00am
Perth Concert Hall
MACA CLASSICS SERIES
Friday 9 April 2021, 7.30pm
Perth Concert Hall
MACA HAS BEEN
PARTNERING WITH WEST
AUSTRALIAN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA SINCE 2014
We are excited to continue our
support towards their mission
to touch souls and enrich lives
through music.
Over the last 10 years MACA has raised
more than $12 million for various charity
and community groups in support of the
performing arts, cancer research, medical
care, mental health and Aboriginal youth in
remote communities across Western
Australia. We pride ourselves on being a
leader in the community supporting a wide
range of initiatives.
MACA is an integrated services contractor
specialising in:
• Mining
• Crushing
• Civil Construction
• Infrastructure
• Mineral Processing Equipment
www.maca.net.au
www.maca.net.au
The West Australian Symphony Orchestra respectfully acknowledges the
Traditional Owners, Custodians and Elders of the Indigenous Nations across
Western Australia and on whose Lands we work.
MORNING SYMPHONY SERIES
Scheherazade
Nicolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV May Night: Overture (8 mins)
Nicolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade (47 mins)
Largo e maestoso – Lento – Allegro non troppo (The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship)
Lento (The Story of the Kalender Prince)
Andantino quasi allegretto (The Young Prince and the Young Princess)
Allegro molto – Vivo – Allegro non troppo e maestoso – Lento (Festival at
Baghdad – The Sea – The Ship Goes to Pieces on a Rock Surmounted by a
Bronze Warrior – Conclusion)
Benjamin Northey conductor
Wesfarmers Arts Pre-concert Talk
Find out more about the music in the concert with this week’s speaker Tim White
(see page 22 for his biography). The Pre-concert Talk will take place at 9.40am in the
Main Auditorium.
3MACA CLASSICS SERIES
Scheherazade
Nicolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV May Night: Overture (8 mins)
Iain GRANDAGE Dances with Devils – Percussion Concerto (24 mins)
The Chosen Vessel
The Conquering Bush
The Drover’s Wife
Lola Montez
Interval (25 mins)
Nicolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade (47 mins)
Largo e maestoso – Lento – Allegro non troppo (The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship)
Lento (The Story of the Kalender Prince)
Andantino quasi allegretto (The Young Prince and the Young Princess)
Allegro molto – Vivo – Allegro non troppo e maestoso – Lento (Festival at
Baghdad – The Sea – The Ship Goes to Pieces on a Rock Surmounted by a
Bronze Warrior – Conclusion)
Benjamin Northey conductor
Claire Edwardes percussion
Wesfarmers Arts Pre-concert Talk
Find out more about the music in the concert with this week’s speaker, Tim White
(see page 22 for his biography). The Pre-concert Talk will take place at 6.45pm in the
Terrace Level Foyer.
Wesfarmers Arts Meet the Artist (Friday only)
Join tonight’s soloist, Claire Edwardes for a post-concert interview, this will take place
immediately following the Friday evening performance in the Terrace Level Foyer.
Listen to WASO
This performance is recorded for broadcast on ABC Classic. For further details visit
abc.net.au/classic
4West Australian Symphony Orchestra
From the centre of Perth to the furthest WASO Chorus, to create exceptional
corners of our State, every year since 1928, performances for hundreds of thousands
we set hearts racing with extraordinary of people each year.
music and exhilarating performances for all
West Australians to share. Our Orchestra is led by Principal
Conductor and Artistic Adviser
West Australian Symphony Orchestra Asher Fisch. Israeli-born, Fisch is an
(WASO) is a not-for-profit company that internationally renowned conductor
thrives on the enthusiasm, passion and in both the operatic and symphonic
support of our entire community. We repertoire, and is a frequent guest at the
harness this energy to create events and world’s great opera houses including La
programs across the State to stimulate Scala, the Bayerische Staatsoper and the
learning and participation in a vibrant Metropolitan Opera in New York.
cultural life.
We are proud to call Perth Concert Hall
We are both fierce advocates for our home.
great classical musical heritage and
passionate leaders in the commissioning
and performance of new music by
leading Australian and international Connect With WASO
composers. Every year we mobilise and waso.com.au
nurture a new generation of young and
emerging artists to help secure a bright facebook.com/
future for music in Australia. WASymphonyOrchestra
We create the spark that sets off a lifelong twitter.com/WASymphony
love of music because we believe it has the
power to touch the soul and enrich lives. instagram.com/
wasymphonyorchestra
Our resident company of full-time
professional musicians are the beating
youtube.com/
heart of our organisation. The Orchestra WestAustSymOrchestra
plays a central role in the vibrancy of
our creative state, and they are also Stay up to date and sign-up to our
supported by hundreds of visiting SymphonE-news at waso.com.au
artists, alongside the volunteers of the
6On Stage
WASO
VIOLIN VIOLA PICCOLO TROMBONE
Laurence Jackson Daniel Schmitt Michael Waye Joshua Davis
Concertmaster Alex Brogan • Pamela & Josh Pitt • Dr Ken Evans and Dr
Glenda Campbell-Evans
Riley Skevington Kierstan Arkleysmith
Assoc Concertmaster OBOE Liam O’Malley
Nik Babic Liz Chee
Semra Lee-Smith George Batey^ BASS TROMBONE
Assistant Concertmaster A/Principal Oboe
Zak Rowntree* Benjamin Caddy Annabelle Farid° Philip Holdsworth
Principal 2nd Violin Alison Hall
COR ANGLAIS TUBA
Akiko Miyazawa Mirjana Kojic^
Leanne Glover Cameron Brook
A/Assoc Principal Allan McLean • Sam & Leanne Walsh • Peter & Jean Stokes
2nd Violin
Helen Tuckey
Sarah Blackman CLARINET TIMPANI
Fleur Challen CELLO Allan Meyer Alex Timcke
Stephanie Dean Rod McGrath Catherine Cahill^
Sara Duhig^ • Tokyo Gas PERCUSSION
Amy Furfaro^ Eve Silver* BASS CLARINET Brian Maloney
Beth Hebert Shigeru Komatsu Alexander Millier Francois Combemorel
Oliver McAslan Assoc Principal
Alexandra Isted BASSOON Percussion & Timpani
Jane Johnston^ Nicholas Metcalfe
Anna Sarcich^ Jane Kircher-Lindner Amanda Dean^
Sunmi Jung Adam Mikulicz Robyn Gray^
Christina Katsimbardis Tim South
Emma Vanderwal^ Paul Tanner^
Ellie Lawrence CONTRABASSOON
Jasmine Middleton^ DOUBLE BASS Chloe Turner HARP
Lucas O’Brien • Stelios Jewellers Yi-Yun Loei^
Andrew Sinclair*
Melanie Pearn John Keene HORN
Ken Peeler Louise Elaerts ★Section partnered by ★ Section partnered by
Margaret & Rod Marston • Chair partnered by
Louise Sandercock Christine Reitzenstein * Instruments used by these
David Evans
Jolanta Schenk Andrew Tait musicians are on loan from
Jane Serrangeli Robert Gladstones Janet Holmes à Court AC.
Mark Tooby Principal 3rd Horn
Bao Di Tang Giovanni Vinci^ Julia Brooke Principal
Susannah Williams^ Dorée Dixon^ Associate Principal
Teresa Vinci^ FLUTE Assistant Principal
Andrew Nicholson Francesco Lo Surdo Contract Musician˚
David Yeh
• Anonymous Guest Musician^
TRUMPET
Mary-Anne Blades
• Anonymous Brent Grapes
• Anonymous
Jenna Smith
7About The Artists
Photo: Nat Cartney
Benjamin Northey Claire Edwardes
Conductor Percussion
Australian conductor Benjamin Northey is Internationally acclaimed Australian
the Chief Conductor of the Christchurch percussionist and artistic director of
Symphony Orchestra and the Associate Ensemble Offspring, Claire Edwardes
Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony is the only Australian to win the 'APRA
Orchestra. Northey also appears regularly as Art Music Award for Excellence by
a guest conductor with all major Australian an Individual' three times and as the
symphony orchestras, Opera Australia Australian Keychange Ambassador is a
(Turandot, L’elisir d’amore, Don Giovanni, committed advocate of gender equity in
Così fan tutte, Carmen), New Zealand Opera classical music. She has built a career on
(Sweeney Todd) and State Opera South innovative collaborations and projects and
Australia (La sonnambula, L’elisir d’amore, is one of the biggest direct commissioners
Les contes d’Hoffmann). His international of percussion solo and instrumental
appearances include concerts with the ensemble repertoire in Australia.
London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Undertaking her Bachelor of Music at
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mozarteum the Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Orchestra Salzburg, the Hong Kong (where she currently teaches) and then
Philharmonic, the Malaysian Philharmonic her Masters of Music at the Rotterdam
and the New Zealand Symphony, Auckland and Amsterdam Conservatories, she
Philharmonia and Christchurch Symphony performed widely in Europe from 1999-
Orchestras. Northey studied conducting with 2006 with groups such as Ictus Ensemble
John Hopkins at the University of Melbourne and Ensemble Modern. After winning the
and Jorma Panula at the Stockholm Royal Young Performers Award in 1999 she was
College of Music. With a progressive and the recipient of many international first
diverse approach to repertoire, he has prizes including at the Tromp Percussion
collaborated with a broad range of artists Competition and Llangollen International
including Maxim Vengerov, Julian Rachlin, Instrumentalist. In 2014 she was awarded
Karen Gomyo, Piers Lane, Alban Gerhardt, an Australia Council Music Fellowship
Johannes Moser, Piers Lane, Amy Dickson, and in 2019 Ensemble Offspring won
Slava Grigoryan & Marc-André Hamelin as the prestigious Sidney Myer Performing
well as popular artists Tim Minchin, KD Lang, Arts Award for an Organisation. Claire
Kate Miller-Heidke, Barry Humphries, Kurt has presented several times on Play
Elling, James Morrison and Tori Amos. In 2021, School and is extremely passionate about
he conducts the Christchurch Symphony, percussion music and new and exciting
the Australian Youth Orchestra and all six sounds being widely disseminated to new
Australian state symphony orchestras. audiences of all ages.
© Patrick Togher Artists’ Management 2021
8About the Music
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
(1844–1908)
May Night: Overture
The devil only knows what to make of it! If
Christian folk begin any task, they fret and
fret themselves like dogs after a hare, and
all to no purpose; but as soon as the devil
steps in, it only takes a twitch of his tail to
Illustration: Ilya Repin
get the thing done. – Gogol, Preface to
A May Night.
Gogol’s collection of stories Evenings near
the village of Dikana appealed to several
Russian composers; Tchaikovsky drew on of wild cherry timidly stretch their roots
it for Vakula the Smith and Mussorgsky into the cold of the water, and from time to
for Sorochintsy Fair. Rimsky-Korsakov time their leaves murmur, as though angry
began work on his May Night in February, and indignant when that sweet rogue - the
1878; it was his third opera and the first in night wind - steals up suddenly and kisses
which he attempted a blend of fantastic them. All the countryside is sleeping. But
and comic elements, a combination overhead all is breathing; all is marvellous,
which he often achieved with marked triumphal...
success. Reading Gogol’s A May Night And suddenly it all comes alive: the woods,
or The Drowned Maiden it is easy to see the ponds, the steppes. The glorious
why it appealed to Rimsky-Korsakov: clamour of the Ukrainian nightingale bursts
the analytical side of his nature was upon the night and one fancies the moon
counterbalanced by a deep attraction to itself is listening in mid-heaven.
nature and mysticism; and Gogol’s realistic
The opening of Rimsky-Korsakov’s
depiction of village characters, and his
overture conveys the mystery and majesty
story of a young man’s determination to
of this ‘May night’. The rest of the piece
marry his pretty maid, is interpenetrated
is richly and imaginatively orchestrated;
by a brooding tale of a wicked witch and
it explores the many innuendos of mood
magic descriptions of Ukranian nights:
which the story evokes.
The moon gazes down from the middle First performance of the opera:
of the sky; the immense dome of heaven 21 January 1880, Saint Petersburg.
stretches farther, more immense than Eduard Nápravník conducting.
ever; it glows and breathes. The earth is First WASO performance: 22 October 1954.
all bathed in silvery light, and the exquisite John Farnswoth Hall, conductor.
air is refreshing and warm and full of
Most recent WASO performance: 04 December
voluptuousness, and stirs an ocean of
1977. John Hopkins, conductor.
fragrance. Divine night! Enchanting night!
The woods stand motionless, mysterious, Instrumentation: two each of flutes, oboes,
clarinets and bassoons; four horns, two
full of gloom, and cast huge shadows.
trumpets, three trombones; timpani and strings.
Calm and still lie the ponds; the cold and
gloom of their water are walled in by the
dark green gardens. The virginal thickets
9About The Music
Iain Grandage
(b.1970)
Dances with Devils – Percussion Concerto
I The Chosen Vessel
II The Conquering Bush
III The Drover’s Wife
IV Lola Montez
The Australian Bush – that great mythic
landscape – has always held a particular
grasp on the psyche of white Australians.
It is the great unknown – beyond the
realms of our control, and source of many
subliminal fears. Indigenous Australians The second movement is a subdued
are more than aware of the power and sarabande, based on Edward Dyson’s
mystery held within the earth, but those The Conquering Bush, a story in which a
are not my stories to tell or my songs woman, unable to cope with the searing,
to sing. This work is instead a response incessant noise of the birds around her
to a series of short stories that reside bush home, chooses a drowning death
within the Australian Gothic literary for her and her child instead. It features
tradition of the 19th century, a tradition series of instruments being transformed
where the tropes of the old world – in pitch and timbre by water.
ghosts, spectres, haunted houses and
mythological beasts – were transposed The third movement is a traditional
and transformed into events and scherzo, launching from a moment
situations that had particular resonance within Henry Lawson’s famous story The
with the Australian colonial experience. Drover’s Wife, where the principal female
character dreams of a different life, far
The opening movement of Dances with from the bush. This is juxtaposed with
Devils revolves around Barbara Baynton’s harsher sections that reflect the reality
1896 short story The Chosen Vessel. This of her current situation – namely staying
concise masterwork tells of the terror awake all night in a bush hut, awaiting a
of a young woman one twilight, who is snake’s reappearance.
dreading the return of a swagman to her
isolated hut. On hearing a passing horse, The final movement provides a moment
she mistakes it for a saviour. However, of hope amongst the gothic landscape.
the rider is a young religious man who It is a tarantella inspired by Lola Montez,
mistakes her for a ghost in her flowing whose famed Spider Dance was the
nightgown, with her cries of ‘For Christ’s talk of the goldfields when she toured
Sake’, and refuses to stop. She falls victim Australia in the 1850s.
to the lurking swagman. The movement
features the marimba and is dominated
by triplet rhythms redolent of horse
hooves.
10I am indebted to Claire Edwardes for all
she has brought to this collaboration.
Claire’s energy, virtuosity and musical
competence redresses the seemingly
impossible imbalance between a solitary
soloist and the massed forces of a
symphony orchestra that is inherent
within the concerto format. She stands
strong against that conquering noise and
casts doubt and darkness aside. I love her
for it.
Iain Grandage © 2015
First performance of the opera: 17 July 2015,
Melbourne. Claire Edwardes soloist, Benjamin
Northey conducting.
First WASO performance: This is the first
performance by the West Australian Symphony
Orchestra.
Instrumentation: two each of flutes (doubling
piccolo), oboes (doubling cor anglaise), clarinets
(doubling bass clarinet) and bassoons (doubling
contra-bassoon); four horns, two trumpets,
three trombones, tuba; timpani, percussion,
harp and strings.
Glossary
Sarabande – a slow and dignified dance from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is in triple time (three beats in a bar,
like a waltz or a minuet) but the typical saraband rhythm makes the second beat in the bar longer and the last
note shorter: instead of three even beats (1 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 2 - 3), the rhythm is 1 - 2 - - 3 1 - 2 - - 3.
Timbre – the distinctive sound quality or ‘colour’ produced by an instrument or a voice, or by particular
combinations of instruments and voices.
Scherzo – literally, a joke; the term generally refers to a movement in a fast, light triple time, which may involve
whimsical, startling or playful elements.
11About The Music
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
(1844–1908)
Scheherazade – Symphonic Suite, Op.35
Largo e maestoso – Lento – Allegro non
troppo (The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship)
Lento (The Story of the Kalender Prince)
Andantino quasi allegretto (The Young
Prince and the Young Princess)
Allegro molto – Vivo – Allegro non troppo e
maestoso – Lento (Festival at Baghdad
– The Sea – The Ship Goes to Pieces
on a Rock Surmounted by a Bronze
Warrior – Conclusion)
Rimsky-Korsakov considered
The Sultan Shahriyar, convinced of the Scheherazade one of those works in
duplicity and infidelity of all women, had which ‘my orchestration had reached
vowed to slay each of his wives after the a considerable degree of virtuosity
first night. The Sultana Scheherazade, and bright sonority without Wagner’s
however, saved her life by the expedient influence, within the limits of the usual
of recounting to the Sultan a succession of make-up of Glinka’s orchestra’. So
tales over a period of a thousand and one formidable is his instinct, that with
nights. Overcome by curiosity, the Sultan surprisingly modest forces (adding to the
postponed from day to day the execution traditional orchestra only piccolo, cor
of his wife, and ended by renouncing anglais, harp and percussion) Rimsky-
altogether his sanguinary resolution. Korsakov can convince his listeners of the
raging of a storm at sea, the exuberance
Rimsky-Korsakov conceived the idea of a
of a festival, and the exotic colour of the
symphonic suite based on episodes from
Orient.
Scheherazade in winter 1887–88, while
he and Glazunov were engrossed in the As if repeating in music Scheherazade’s
completion of Borodin’s unfinished opera feat of narrative woven from poetry and
Prince Igor. The following summer he folk tales, Rimsky-Korsakov drew on
completed the suite – ‘a kaleidoscope of isolated episodes from The Thousand
fairytale images and designs of Oriental and One Nights for his suite. At first he
character’. gave the four movements titles drawn
from these narratives. But he soon
‘All I had desired,’ he later wrote in My
withdrew the headings, which, he said,
Musical Life, ‘was that the hearer, if he
were intended to ‘direct but slightly the
liked my piece as symphonic music,
listener’s fancy on the path which my own
should carry away the impression that
imagination had travelled, and to leave
it is beyond doubt an Oriental narrative
more minute and particular conceptions
describing a motley succession of
to the will and mood of each’.
fantastic happenings and not merely
four pieces played one after the other According to the composer, it is futile
and composed on the basis of themes to seek in Scheherazade leading motifs
common to all the four movements.’ that are consistently linked with the
12same poetic ideas and conceptions. A cajoling melody played by solo bassoon
Instead, these apparent leitmotifs were represents a Kalender (or ‘beggar’) Prince
‘nothing but purely musical material… in the second movement. The similarity
for symphonic development’. The motifs between the two main themes of the third
unify all the movements of the suite, movement (for violin and then flute and
appearing in different musical guises so clarinet) suggests that the Young Prince
that the ‘themes correspond each time to and Princess are perfectly matched in
different images, actions and pictures’. temperament and character.
The ominous octaves representing the
An agitated transformation of the Sultan’s
stern Sultan in the opening, for example,
theme, in dialogue with Scheherazade’s
appear in the tale of the Kalender Prince,
theme, prefaces the final tale. The fourth
although Shahriyar plays no part in that
movement combines the Festival in
narrative. And the muted fanfare of the
Baghdad and the tale of the shipwreck.
second movement returns in the otherwise
Triangle and tambourines accompany the
unconnected depiction of the foundering
lively cross-rhythms of the carnival; and
ship.
the mood builds in intensity before all is
Rimsky-Korsakov did admit, however, swamped by the return of the sea theme
that one of his motifs was quite specific, from the first movement. But after the
attached not to any of the stories, but fury of the shipwreck, it is Scheherazade
to the storyteller: ‘The unifying thread who has the last word. Her spinning violin
consisted of the brief introductions to solo emerges in gentle triumph over the
the first, second and fourth movements Sultan’s bloodthirsty resolution.
and the intermezzo in movement three, Yvonne Frindle © 1998/2009
written for violin solo and delineating
Scheherazade herself as telling her First performance: 3 November 1888,
St Petersburg; composer conducting.
wondrous tales to the stern Sultan.’ It is
this idea – an intricately winding violin First WASO performance: 21 & 23 May 1949,
theme supported only by the harp – which Henry Krips conducting.
soothes the thunderous opening and Most recent WASO performance: 7 October
embarks upon the first tale: the sea and 2017, Christopher Dragon conducting.
Sinbad’s ship. For Rimsky-Korsakov, who Instrumentation: piccolo, two flutes, two oboes
was synaesthesic, the choice of E major for (one doubling cor anglais), two clarinets, two
the billowing cello figures can have been bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three
no accident: his ears ‘saw’ it as dark blue. trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, strings.
Glossary
Arpeggio/arpeggiated – a short, connecting piece of music or movement.
Motif/leitmotif – a short, distinctive melodic or rhythmic figure, often part of or derived from a theme. The
term ‘leitmotif’ (or Leitmotiv in German) is associated particularly with the later operas of Wagner, in which
recurring motifs represent characters, emotions, places or ideas.
Octave – interval between two notes separated by a distance of 12 semitones, for example, from middle C on
the piano to the C immediately above or below. The aural effect is that of one note duplicated by another that
sounds the same, but at a higher or lower pitch.
13Your Concert Experience
FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF ALL
When to applaud? Musicians love applause.
Audience members normally applaud:
• When the conductor walks onto the stage
• After the completion of each piece and
at the end of the performance
When you need to cough, try to do it
discreetly. Cough lozenges are available
from the WASO Ticket Collection Desk
before each performance and at the
interval.
FIRST AID
Hearing aids that are incorrectly adjusted
may disturb other patrons, please be There are St John Ambulance officers
mindful of those around you. present at every concert so please speak to
them if you require any first aid assistance.
Mobile phones and other electronic
devices need to be switched off or ACCESSIBILITY
silenced throughout the performance. • A universal accessible toilet is available
on the ground floor (Level 1).
Photography, sound and video • The Sennheiser MobileConnect
recordings are permitted prior to the start Personal Hearing Assistance system
of the performance. is available for every seat in the
Latecomers and patrons who leave the auditorium. Visit perthconcerthall.com.
auditorium will be seated only after the au/your-visit/accessibility/ for further
completion of a work. information.
Moving to empty seats. Please do not WASO BOX OFFICE
move to empty seats prior to the Buy your WASO tickets and subscriptions,
performance as this may affect seating for exchange tickets, or make a donation
latecomers when they are admitted at the Box Office on the ground floor
during a suitable break. (Level 1) prior to each performance and at
interval. Tickets for other performances
FOOD & BEVERAGES at Perth Concert Hall will be available for
You are now able to take your drinks to purchase only at interval. Please note that
your seat. 30 minutes prior to performance, the Box
Office will only be available for sales to
Foyer bars are open for drinks and coffee
that night's performance.
two hours before, during interval and after
the concert. To save time we recommend The Box Office is open Monday to
you pre-order your interval drinks. Friday, 9am to 5pm, and contactable on
9326 0000.
14Meet The Musician
Daniel Schmitt
Principal Viola
How does it feel to be back performing
for an audience at Perth Concert Hall?
It's fantastic to be back on stage. Live
music is a shared experience. With
all of these streaming services, we’ve
never had more access. But nothing can
replicate a live performance. It’s a totally
unique experience and a critical one, and
it's bringing us back together. Above all,
Perth Concert Hall is a wonderful hall
with superb acoustics!
What's the most challenging piece of
What do you like most about living in music you've ever had to play and why?
Perth? Alban Berg's opera Lulu. It's an intense,
Perth is full of things you don't expect complex, and musically challenging work.
to find: You don’t have to go far to find When we take time to celebrate Berg's
kangaroos, yet many locals aren't even brainy and subtle score, its beauty is
aware they're there. If you go to Heirisson revealed.
Island early in the day or around sunset,
you’re almost guaranteed to spot them What is the most challenging thing
grazing in the wetlands or grasses. about playing the viola?
In a gang fight between violins and violas,
What’s your favourite city in the world even if the violas were extremely well
and why? organised, there are just too many violins
Tokyo. I’ve “properly” visited Tokyo to deal with. Not that I'm encouraging
maybe a handful of times. I love walking inter-section brawling or anything... The
around, and I found Tokyo to be one of jokes can be a bit much…
the most walkable cities in the world.
Every area of the city has its own charm, 'You pack your violin in a viola case?'
with little restaurants, cafés, and parks.
'Yep. Theft protection'
My favourite park is the nature reserve
of the Institute for Nature Study. It's
a sanctuary with natural forests and
marshlands in the heart of the city and
has been left as natural as possible.
How do you like to spend your down
time?
I’m starting to have more of a passion for
cooking and baking than I ever used to.
My grandma, famous for her Bavarian and
Austrian pastries and desserts, taught me
a few things here and there but I’m taking
it a little more seriously nowadays.
15WASO Community Engagement
ATAR 2021
WASO’s Education and Community
Engagement team are delighted to begin
our 2021 Schools’ Season with our ATAR
Western Art Music Designated Works
concerts.
On Thursday 18 February WASO
welcomed over 350 Year 11-12 students
from seventeen schools across Perth to
John Inverarity Music & Drama Centre,
Hale School across two performances of
the ATAR Western Art Music Designated
Works.
One of our most important Education
The 2021 program consisted of Haydn programs, the reaction to this years’ ATAR
Symphony No.101 mvt I&II, Mozart performances is perhaps best summed
Symphony No.41, mvt I and Bach up in just one response from feedback
Concerto for Two Violins in D minor from received:
the compulsory genres of and Concerto
(Year 11) and Symphony (Year 12). The An invaluable opportunity for our students,
performances presented both key excerpt it makes all the difference to their study of
analysis and full performances, with not only the works but across the course.
additional information and discussion As always, an excellent concert and very
around the cultural and historical context relevant to the ATAR course.
supported by both a written resource and Our sincere thanks to staff and parents
in-performance with presenter/conductor who facilitated student attendance at this
Peter Moore OAM. event.
The two performances featured
WASO's Assistant Concertmaster,
Semra Lee-Smith and Principal 2nd Violin,
Zak Rowntree. Both performed to great
acclaim and not only helped to illustrate
key compositional concepts, but also
provided incredible inspiration to students
around performance preparation
and presentation.
16WASO Philanthropy News & Events
Orchestral Partnerships
Supporting a Chair in the Orchestra
Our musicians love getting to know These partnerships often last for many
our Patrons and an Orchestral Chair years and can be deeply gratifying
Partnership is a great way to get to know experiences for both patrons and
a musician and learn more about your musicians. For further details or to
Orchestra. An Orchestral Partnership arrange your gift, please go to
enables you to deepen your connection waso.com.au/support-us/ways-to-give/
with the Orchestra and the musician who orchestral-partnerships or contact
you are supporting. Jacinta Sirr-Williams on (08) 9326 0014
or sirrj@waso.com.au.
Our musicians are the heart and soul
of WASO. They are highly talented,
hard working professionals who are
passionate about the presentation of
the finest classical music, be it at Perth
Concert Hall or at one of our varied
Education & Community Education
programs.Our Supporters
Philanthropic partnerships come in all shapes and sizes
Whatever the shape or size, your donation helps WASO make a difference and we thank
you for your support. WASO’s philanthropy program continues to grow, supporting
our vision now and into the future. It is an exciting time to be a part of this community,
to meet our musicians and to know you have helped your Orchestra to touch souls and
enrich lives through music. Together we can do amazing things.
Honorary Patron Jan & Bryan Rodgers Education &
Nigel & Dr Heather Rogers
Janet Holmes à Court AC
Jacinta Sirr-Williams Community
Endowment Fund for Ruth Stratton Engagement
the Orchestra Ruth & Neville Thorn Supporting our nationally
recognised Education & Community
Gavin Toovey & Jaehan Lee
Major Donations Agatha van der Schaaf Engagement programs
Tom & Jean Arkley Sheila Wileman Trusts & Foundations
Bendat Family Foundation Sagitte Yom-Tov Fund Bendat Family Foundation
Janet Holmes à Court AC Anonymous (39) McCusker Charitable Foundation
Minderoo Foundation Simon Lee Foundation
Sagitte Yom-Tov Fund Chairman’s Circle Education & Community
Supporting excellence Engagement Fund
Estates
Richard Goyder AO & Jean Arkley
Lee Bickford
Janine Goyder Annette Cottee
Rachel Mabel Chapman
Jean Arkley Penny & Ron Crittall
Malcolm Hood
Janet Holmes à Court AC Robyn Glindemann
Clive Knight
Torsten & Mona Ketelsen Journey Recruitment
Paul Lee
Tony & Gwenyth Lennon Deborah & Miles Protter
Anna Nottage in memory of
Rod & Margaret Marston* Eveline Read
Edgar Nottage
John Rodgers Dr Carol Warren
Wendy Scanlon
Leanne & Sam Walsh* Anonymous (1)
Judy Sienkiewicz
Mrs Roslyn Warrick The 2021 WASO Crescendo
Anonymous (7) Song Book Trusts & Foundations
Symphony Circle Supporting new works Crown Resorts Foundation
Packer Family Foundation
Thank you to all our Bequestors commissioned for the Orchestra for
2021 and beyond Feilman Foundation
Julian Agafonoff & David Escott
Janet Holmes à Court AC Stan Perron Charitable Foundation
Kevin ‘Joe’ Blake
Prue Ashurst Bunning Family
Ms Davilia Bleckly
Mr John Bonny In memory of Mary Rodoreda Crescendo Giving Circle
Dr G Campbell-Evans Geoff Stearn Jean Arkley
Deirdre Carlin Anonymous (1) Prue Ashurst
Dr Anne Chester Instrument Fund David & Suzanne Biddles
Anita & James Clayton John Albright & Susan Lorimer S Cherian
S & J Dale –EChO Double Bass and set of Brenda Cohen
Lesley & Peter Davies Trumpets Kaylene Cousins
Dr Michael Flacks Peter Ingram – Piccolo Megan & Arthur Criddle at the APS
John Foster Deborah Marsh – Conductor’s Foundation
Judith Gedero Podium and Cor Anglais Euroz Charitable Foundation
Robyn Glindemann Margaret & Rod Marston – Bass Sue & Clive Hovell
Gwenyth Greenwood Clarinet Madeleine King MP, Federal
The Guy Family Peggy & Tom Stacy – Cor Anglais Member for Brand
Angus Holmes and Piccolo LeMessurier Charitable Trust
Emy & Warren Jones Jean & Peter Stokes – Cello, Tuba, Rosalind Lilley
Barbara Joseph Tenor Trombone, Bass Trombone, Lommers Engineering Pty Ltd
Colin & Jo King Wooden Trumpet, French Horn & Louise & Bryant Macfie
Rachael Kirk & Tim White Music Score Folders Mrs Morrell
Wolfgang Lehmkuhl Judith Nash
Dr Mary Ellen MacDonald G & I Nicholas
Deborah Marsh Pamela Pitt
Lesley R. McKay & Murray R. McKay The Sheena Prince Memorial Fund
Suzanne Nash Dr Lance Risbey
Paula Phillips Tony Rudd
18Our Supporters
Annual Giving
We are proud to acknowledge the following Patrons for their generous
contribution to WASO in the last twelve months through WASO’s
Annual Giving program.
Rosalin Sadler in memory of Joyce Dale & Greg Higham Elisabeth & David Smith
Durbin Sadler Peter Ingram Michael Snell & Vicki Stewart
In memory of Robert & Joan Street Margaret & Peter James Brian Stewart
Ruth E Thorn Roger Jennings in memory of Tessa Tieleman
Reto Vogel Lilian Jennings Agatha van der Schaaf
WA Massed Choir Festival Keith & Gaye Kessell Stan & Valerie Vicich
Alan Whitham Dr Ronny Low & Dr Emma John & Nita Walshe
Mary Ann Wright Richardson Fred & Caroline Witting
Anonymous (3) Bryant & Louise Macfie Andrew & Marie Yuncken
Michael & Lesley Page Anonymous (4)
Principal Conductor’s Paula & John Phillips
Circle G. J. Seach Principal Patron
Gifts $20,000+ Geoff Stearn Gifts $1,000 - $2,499
Ros Thomson Caroline Allen & Sandy Dunn
Janet Holmes à Court AC
Gene Tilbrook & Anne Seghezzi Margaret Atkins
Jean Arkley in memory of Tom
Michael & Helen Tuite Stuart Anderson
Arkley
Dr John Woodall Catherine Bagster
Dr Glenda Campbell-Evans & Anonymous (6) Moira Bailey
Dr Ken Evans*
Betty Barker
Patricia New Virtuoso Patron Ross & Alecia Benzie
Joshua & Pamela Pitt*
Peter & Jean Stokes*
Gifts $2,500 - $4,999 Matthew J C Blampey
Dr Fred Affleck AO & Margaret Bloch
Anonymous (1)
Mrs Margaret Affleck Cathy Bolt in memory of Tony Bolt
Impresario Patron Neil Archibald & Alan R Dodge AM K & C Bond
David & Suzanne Biddles John & Debbie Borshoff
Gifts $10,000 - $19,999 Peter & Marjorie Bird Sue Boyd
Gay & Bob Branchi Dr & Mrs P Breidahl Laraine Brindle
Gavin Bunning Prof Jonathan Carapetis & Prof Elizabeth & James Brown
Prof Rachel & Rev Dr John Cardell- Sue Skull Adrienne & Phillip Buttrose
Oliver Kim & Bob Collins Stewart Candlish & Bianca Panizza
Gilbert George Ian & Elizabeth Constable Michelle Candy
Brian & Romola Haggerty Lesley & Peter Davies David Castillo & Marian Magee
Meg O’Neill & Vicky Hayes Dr Andrew Gardner Claire Chambers & Dr Andrea
Sue Hovell Roger & Ann Gillbanks Shoebridge
Frederick Wehr Jannette Gray Fred & Angela Chaney
Alan Whitham Maryllis & Paul Green-Armytage Constance Chapman
Trish Williams Danuta Julia Dr Peter Chauvel
Wright Burt Foundation Kay Giorgetta Dr Anne Chester
Anonymous (2) Jim & Freda Irenic Anthea Cheney
Maestro Patron Eleanor John & Finn Barrett
Michael & Dale Kitney
Jason & Su-Lyn Chong
Dr Keryn Christiansen
Gifts $5,000 - $9,999 Francis Landels Peter & Sue Clifton
Prue Ashurst in memory of Eoin Barrie & Jude Le Pley Lyn & Harvey Coates AO
Cameron Mi Kyung Lee & Colin Binns John Collins
Ruth Bailey Tony & Gillian Milne Dr David Cooke
Tony & Mary Beeley Mrs Morrell Hon June Craig AM
Dr John Blott Jane & Jock Morrison Dr Megan Davies
Lady Jean Brodie-Hall Val & Barry Neubecker Edwina Davies Ward in memory of
Maree Creighton & Kevin Davis Anne Nolan Wanda G Davies
Stephen Davis & Linda Savage Robyn Owens Monique De Vianna
Bridget Faye AM John Overton Kelly & Andrew Diong
Dr John Gladstones Thomas & Diana Potter Rai & Erika Dolinschek
Warwick Hemsley Roger Sandercock Simon Douglas
Dr Penny Herbert in memory of Melanie & Paul Shannon Prof Robert Durand
Dunstan Herbert Glenice Shephard Bev East
19Our Supporters
Lorraine Ellard Dr Tony Mander & Ms Loretta Byrd Jillian Thompson
Dr Jenny & Terry Fay Gregg & Sue Marshman Peter & Jane Thompson in memory
Tony & Sue Field Geoffrey Massey of Mrs Freda Stimson
Gilly Flower Pam Mathews & Dr Mark Brogan Mike Thomson & Rae Robinson
Don & Marie Forrest Judith McGuinness Ruth E Thorn
Toni Frank Betty & Con Michael AO Gavin Toovey & Jaehan Lee
Eléonore Fuchter Don & Moira McKinley Mary Townsend
George Gavranic Mrs Carolyn Milton-Smith in loving Tracey Family
Robyn Glindemann memory of Emeritus Prof John Gwen Treasure
Neville & Jane Gibbs Milton-Smith James & Rosemary Trotter
Prof Lelia Green Hon Justice S R Moncrieff Christopher Tyler
Pitsamai & Kevin Green Elizabeth Moran Bernardus Van Deijl
Deidre Greenfeld Mr & Mrs Geoffrey Morris Yvonne Varey
Grussgott Trust Dr & Mrs Peter Moss Karen Venard
Ann Hammer Patricia Murphy Maggie Venerys
Richard B Hammond Lyn Murray Geoff & Sandra Wackett
Nick Handran Smith & Judith Nash Rita Wager
Elizabeth Allan Family Nilant Adrienne & Max Walters AM
Pauline & Peter Handford Marianne Nilsson Diana & the late Bill Warnock
Peter Hansen Jim & Wendy O’Neill Ian Watson
Dr & Mrs H Hansen-Knarhoi Dr Walter Ong & Graeme Marshall Joy Wearne
Julie Harris Ron Packer Alan Westle in memory of Jean
Paul & Barbara Harris Tim Pavy & Kathy Cole Moira Westmore
Vanessa Harvey Rosemary Peek Dr Chris & Mrs Vimala Whitaker
Rev Bill Hawley & Dr Rev Georgina Charmian Phillips in memory of Barbara Wilcox
Hawley Colin Craft Dai & Anne Williams
John & Christine Hedges Beth & Walter Pidgeon Mrs Jean & Mr Ian Williams AO
Elizabeth & Eric Heenan Italo Pizzale Jim & Gill Williams
Dallas Hickman & Alex Hickman Pamela Platt Simon & Alison Williams
Dr John & Patricia Hill Richard & Sharon Prince Judith Wilton & David Turner
Helen Hollingshead Dr Leon Prindiville Hilary & Peter Winterton AM
Dr Keith Holt Tony & Val Ramshaw Margaret Wood
Dr K & Mr J Hopkins OAM Rev Philip Raymont Kin Yung
Rosemary Howarth Prof Ian Reid & Dr Gale MacLachlan Anonymous (32)
Judith Hugo James & Nicola Ridsdill-Smith
Jan & Walter Hunter John & Alison Rigg Tutti Patron
Richard Isted Dr Lance Risbey Gifts $500 - $999
Cynthia Jee Will Riseborough Anne Acton
Diane Johnson Paul & Christine Roberts Kim Anderson & Paul Holmes
Emy & Warren Jones Wayne Robinson Kenneth & Judith Arkwright
Anthony Kane in memory of Bryan & Jan Rodgers Arron Arntzen
Jane Leahy-Kane Gerry & Maurice Rousset OAM Rebe Atlas
Bill Kean Dr J B & Mrs A Rowlands Phillip & Mary Bairstow
David Keast & Victoria Mizen Robin & Anne Salter Steven & Joanne Baitz
Noelle & Anthony Keller AM Robyn & Ted Sharp Barrie Baker
Patricia King Anne Sibbel Christine Baker
Nelly Kleyn In memory of Judith Sienkiewicz Shane Baker
Ulrich & Gloria Kunzmann Laurel & Ross Smith Bernard & Jackie Barnwell
Trevor & Ane Marie Lacy PAI Smith & DA Harry Shirley Barraclough
Irving Lane Geoff & Chris Soutar Lisa & Glenn Barrett
Dr Sunny & Ann Lee Malca & Graham Spencer-Laitt Berwine Barrett-Lennard
Dr Oon Teik Lee David Stevenson Peter Bath
Ruth & Malcolm Leske Donald & Laurel Stewart Noelle Beasley
Martin & Ruth Levit Ruth Stratton Colin & Sarah Beckett
Ann Lewis Iain Summerlin Alecia Benzie
Dr Rebecca Meegan-Lowe & Elizabeth Syme Ross Benzie
Richard Lowe Richard Tarala & Lyn Beazley AO Ingrid Berchem
Ian & Judith Lunt Janet & the late Stephen Thackray Michael & Nadia Berkeley-Hill
Dr Seamus MacDonald Ruth Thomas in memory of Ken & Ann Beveridge
Graham & Muriel Mahony Hazel Rowley Eric Bew
Denise Main Clare Thompson & Brad Power Eileen Bibby
20Minnie Biggs Beth Gow Deborah & David Piesse
Lea Bingemann Anne Gray Frank & Valda Pitman
John & Sue Bird in memory of Gwenyth Greenwood Julienne Prendergast
Penny Bird Nola Gregory Alan & June Prouse
Jane Blanckensee Bob & Jenny Greig Laura Raiter
Davilia Bleckly Sonia Grinceri & Paula Watt Eveline Read
E & G Bourgault in memory of Barbara Haddy Graeme Reynolds & Lesley Parker-
Betty Sagar Dr Roland Haehnel Reynolds
Diane & Ron Bowyer Michael & Helen Hawkins Shirley Ridgwell
Judith Brown Shona Hall Kim & Annemarie Riseborough
Christine Burson Jean Hamory Alison Robins
David & Pat Bussard Rosalind Hampton & David Dodd Leigh Robinson & Deborah Gellé
Ann Butcher & Dean R Kubank Alan Harvey & Dr Paulien de Boer Nigel & Dr Heather Rogers
Jennifer Butement Theresa Harvey Chris & Serge Rtshiladze
Kevin Button & Susie Lim Siew-Mung Ho Thelma Same
Maria Caesar Deidre Hodby Veronica Sass-Nielsen
R & R Cant Dr Annette Holland Esther Schenberg
Nanette Carnachan Ida Holt Elizabeth Scott
Joan Carney Alfred Huis Margaret & Roger Seares
Dr Charlene Caspersz & Dr Rob Will Lorna Hurst Maureen Sellick
S Barea Castillo Leif Jamvold Sarah Seymour & Evan Eble
Philip & Frances Chadwick John Jarvis The Sherwood Family
Renate Chandler Elinor Jenkins Rory & Susan Shiner
Tim & Claire Chapman Lynn & Michael Jensen Graham Simpson
Grant & Catherine Chappelle Tim Johnson & Nat Shulman Paul & Margaret Skerritt
Diane Christensen Sally Johnston Hendrik Smit
Roger Clarnette Leah Joseph Helen Smith OAM
Mark Clifton Dr Susan Joubert Kevin Smith
Shirley Cohen Kevin & Elissa Karlson Margaret & John Solosy
Chris & Swee See Colton Dr Ursula Kees Dr Louise Sparrow
Dr Christopher Cook & Ms Elise B M Kent Cisca Spencer
Chong Kerry Kerr John & Elizabeth Spoor
Norah & Roger Cooper Leonie Kirke Mark Stacey
Nancy Cotterell Dr Elena Krylova Peggy & Tom Stacy
Glenn Coughlan John Kusinski & Ann Motherway
Alan & Jan Stewart
Pru Cowan Darryl & Jacky Lacey
Lois & Robert Stout
Penny & Ron Crittall Yvonne Lamble
Doll Syminton
Natalie Hall Cullity Louis & Miriam Landau
Anthony Taylor
Keith & Suzanne Cundale Joelle Larsen
Lisa & Andrew Telford
Brett Davies Dr Hoh Peng Lee
Ralph Ten Seldam
Gary & Judith Davis Rosalind Lilley
Hanneke & Jop Delfos Amanda & Desmond Thompson
Dr Warren Lilleyman
Alma Della Marta Ivan & Jeanette Thompson
Ruth Lilly
Ray & June Delmenico Dr George Lipton Dianne Thomson
Elizabeth Dempsey-Lees Beverley Lockley Janice Tiller
Daphne Devenish in memory of Dr John Male Loma Toohey
Bruce Devenish Oliver & Sophie Mark Joan Travis
Jilyan Dingle Dr Marie Martin Gordorn Trewern
Patricia & Roy Done David Maynier Prof David Tunley
Beth Duncan Diana McArthur Heather & Jim Tunmore
Camron Dyer John McDonald Dr Robert Turnbull
Christine Eilon Dennis & Maureen McKay Michael & Gwenda Upton
Patricia Elder Donna & Peter Millington Marilyn Van Heemst
Pamela Eldred Patricia & Kevin Morgan Rae & Murray Wackett
Mary Ellen in memory of Kerensa Louis Mostert Claire Walkley
Maxine & Bill Farrell AM Margaret & Bruce Murdoch Janet Wallis
Susan & Gavin Fielding AM Michael Murphy Alex Waterhouse
Sue & Paul Fisher G & I Nicholas Barry Watson
Owen & Judy Fletcher Phuong Nguyen Patricia Weston
Mr & Mrs J & J Forgan Mary O’Hara Barbara Wheatley
Archa Fox & Charlie Bond Marjan Oxley Margaret Whitter
John & Margaret Freeman Valetta Parr Violette William
Margaret Furphy Heather Passmore Sally Willis
Rony Gabbay Dr John Pearce Pari Willis-Jones
Margaret Gadsdon Bev Penny Rowena Withers
Jennifer & Stephen Gardiner Prof Suvendi Perera Karen Wood
Dr Rhona Giles Anne Pickard Elizabeth Woods
21Our Supporters
Alison Woodman Friend
Sara Wordsworth
Andrew Yeates Gifts $40 - $499
Edward Young Thank you to all our Friends who
Dr Susan Young support WASO through their gift.
Chris & Kathy Ziatis * Orchestral Chair Partnership
Maxim Zuvela
Anonymous (31)
If you are interested in becoming a Patron or learning more about WASO Philanthropy please
contact Jacinta Sirr-Williams, Philanthropy & Annual Giving Manager, on 9326 0014 or
email sirrj@waso.com.au
WASO Philanthropy brochures are available from the WASO Programs and Information Desk
located in the main foyer of Perth Concert Hall, or you can visit waso.com.au
All donations over $2 are fully tax deductible.
About The Speaker
Tim White
Pre-concert Speaker
Tim White is Head of Classical Music Tim has played with all of Australia’s
at WAAPA (the WA Academy of professional symphony, opera and
Performing Arts). He was born in ballet orchestras, and performed
Canberra and grew up on Christmas numerous percussion concertos in
Island, where he fell in love with Australia and Germany. He holds two
recordings of orchestral music and Masters degrees and won a Churchill
the Beatles. Tim studied percussion in Fellowship in 1999. Tim has led the
Sydney, Denmark and Germany, and percussion programme at WAAPA
became Principal Percussionist of the since 1994, and 58 of his percussion
WASO in 1985 – a role he held for 28 graduates have established fulltime
years. In 2013, after more than 3,000 careers as professional musicians. Tim
concerts with the WASO, Tim moved to won the Australian Award for Teaching
the WA Academy of Performing Arts as Excellence in 2015, and is married to
a Senior Lecturer in Music. WASO violist Rachael Kirk.
222021 Corporate Partners
PLATINUM PARTNERS ACCESS PARTNER SYMPHONY PARTNER
CONCERTO PARTNERS OVERTURE PARTNERS
SONATA PARTNERS
KEYNOTE PARTNERS
ORCHESTRA SUPPORTERS
MEDIA PARTNERS
FUNDING PARTNERS SUPPORTING BY
The West Australian Symphony Orchestra
is assisted by the Australian Government
through the Australia Council, its arts
funding and advisory body.
To share in our vision and discuss the many opportunities extended through corporate partnerships please contact
Corporate Development on 08 9326 0020.West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Wesfarmers Arts, creating the spark that sets off a lifelong love of music. Julia Brooke – WASO Horn
You can also read
