Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

VIOLINS Natsuko Yoshimoto** (Concertmaster)Cameron Hill** (Associate Concertmaster) Gillian Braithwaite* (Acting Principal 1st Violin)Michael Milton** (Principal 2nd Violin)Lachlan Bramble ~(Associate Principal 2nd Violin)Janet AndersonAnn AxelbyErna BerberyanMinas BerberyanJulia BrittainHilary BruerJane Collins Judith CoombeAlison HeikeDanielle Jaquillard Zsuzsa LeonAlexis MiltonJennifer Newman Julie Newman Emma PerkinsAlexander Permezel Kemeri Spurr

VIOLAS Caleb Wright**Alex Brogan~ (Guest Associate)Linda GarrettRosi McGowranCarolyn MoozMichael RobertsonCecily SatchellHeidi von Bernewitz

CELLOS Simon Cobcroft**Christopher Handley~ (Acting Associate)Sarah DenbighSherrilyn HandleyGemma PhillipsDavid SharpCameron Waters

DOUBLE BASSES David Schilling**Jonathon Coco~Jacky ChangDavid PhillipsHarley GrayBelinda Kendall-Smith

FLUTES Geoff rey Collins**Lisa GillJulia Grenfell

PICCOLOJulia Grenfell*

OBOESCelia Craig**Peter DugganRenae Stavely

COR ANGLAIS Peter Duggan*

CLARINETS Mitchell Berick** (Acting Section Principal) Darren Skelton

Eb CLARINETDarren Skelton*

BASS CLARINETSamantha Webber* (Guest Principal)

BASSOONS Mark Gaydon**Jackie NewcombLeah Stephenson

CONTRA BASSOONJackie Newcomb*

HORNS Sarah Barrett** (Acting Section Principal)Emma GreganAlex MillerPhilip Paine

TRUMPETS Martin Phillipson** (Acting Principal)Gregory FrickTimothy Keenihan

TROMBONES Colin Prichard**Ian Denbigh

BASS TROMBONEHoward Parkinson*

TUBA Peter Whish-Wilson*

TIMPANI Robert Hutcheson*

PERCUSSION Steven Peterka** Jamie AdamGregory Rush

HARP Suzanne Handel*

PIANO Jamie Cock* (Guest Principal)

** denotes Section Principal~ denotes Associate Principal* denotes Principal Player

ASO BOARD MEMBERS

Colin Dunsford AM (Chairman)Vincent CiccarelloGeoff rey CollinsElizabeth DavisByron GregoryDavid LeonKaren LimbAndrew Robertson

ASO MANAGEMENT

EXECUTIVE

Vincent Ciccarello - Managing DirectorShecky Leask - Executive Administrator

ARTISTIC

Simon Lord - Director, Artistic Planning

Dr Jennifer Rosevear AM - Learning & Community Engagement CoordinatorKane Moroney - Audience Development CoordinatorKenan Henderson - Artistic Coordinator

FINANCE, OPERATIONS, PEOPLE & CULTURE

Guy Ross - Chief Operating Offi cerHilary Faulds - Manager People & CultureKaren Frost - Orchestra ManagerKatherine Zhang - AccountantJanet Carey - Orchestra CoordinatorDavid Khafagi - Production & Venue CoordinatorKarin Juhl - Accounts CoordinatorBruce Stewart - Orchestral LibrarianEmma Wight - Administrative AssistantSarah McBride - Payroll CoordinatorDeclan Smith - Production & Venue Assistant Terri Figueroa - People & Culture Coordinator

MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT

Paola Niscioli - Director, Marketing & DevelopmentAlexandra Bassett - Donor Relations ManagerTom Bastians - Customer Service ManagerRenato Capoccia - Marketing ManagerRae O’Connell - Corporate Partnerships ManagerCheree McEwin - PublicistAnnika Stennert - Marketing CoordinatorHannah Truth - Development & Events CoordinatorEmma Quinn - Marketing Assistant

FRIENDS OF THE ASOEXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

John Pike – PresidentAlison Campbell – Immediate Past PresidentLiz Bowen & Michael Critchley – Vice PresidentsJudy Birze – TreasurerJohn Gell – Membership SecretaryRuth Bloch – Secretary

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Wed 02 May 2018

ClassicsUnwrapped 2P l a y i n g w i t h F i r e

The ASO receives Commonwealth funding through the Australia Council; its arts funding and advisory body

Program

Guy Noble Conductor & Presenter Owen Morris Trumpet and player guest

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Guy Noble is a conductor, broadcaster, pianist, writer and producer who loves most genres of music and has played, conducted or talked about most of them. He regularly conducts the ASO, SSO, MSO, WASO, TSO and QSO and has worked with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, the Auckland Philharmonia, the Hong Kong and Malaysian Philharmonic orchestras. He has been Musical Director and Musical Supervisor of many major musicals including Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, South Pacific, Man of La Mancha, Gypsy, and The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

He was the host of the Breakfast show on ABC Classic FM from 1999-2001 and is still a regular guest presenter on the network. He writes a regular column for Limelight magazine and has worked with a wide variety of international and local artists including Harry Connick Jnr, Ben Folds, The Beach Boys, The Whitlams, The Pointer Sisters, Human Nature, Dianne Reeves, Glenn Frey, Randy Newman, Michael Bolton, Maggie Beer and Simon Bryant, and Clive James. Recent performances include Great Opera Hits for Opera Australia (Sydney Opera House), From Vienna With Love with Conchita Wurst (Sydney Symphony) and The Last Night of the Proms (Sydney Symphony).

He has recorded 12 CDs for ABC Classics and also presents the classical audio programs on Qantas, Air China and China Airlines.

ADELAIDE TOWN HALL

Invitation to the DanceWed 07 Nov 6.30PM

In the Still of the NightWed 12 Sep 6.30PM

Guy Noble Conductor & PresenterCelia Craig Oboe

Guy Noble Conductor & PresenterSimon Cobcroft Cello

Imagine dance without music. Impossible. Tchaikovsky’s lush ballet scores and Bernstein’s wonderfully energetic West Side Story remind us all that it is the music that drives the dance. And forever the two art forms are entwined. Relish the final Classics Unwrapped for the year: you’ll be dancing in your seat!

Night-time. Those magical hours when the moon and stars come out and imagination takes flight. Many composers have contemplated this time of day to create works that evoke a gamut of emotions and transport us to dream-like states. Join your ASO and hear these works anew.

Manuel de FALLA (1876–1946)El Amor Brujo: Ritual Fire Dance

Franz Joseph HAYDN (1732–1809)Symphony No.59 in A major, ‘Fire’ 1. Presto

George Frideric HANDEL (1685–1759)arr. Hamilton HARTY (1879–1941)Music for the Royal Fireworks: Overture

Igor STRAVINSKY (1882–1971)The Firebird 3. Infernal dance of King Kashchei 4. Berceuse (Lullaby) 5. Finale

Jenő HUBAY arr. Rafael MENDEZ (1906–1981)Hejre Kati (Scènes de la csárda No.4)

Owen Morris Trumpet

MONTERDEarr. Charles KOFF (1909-1977)

La Virgen de la Macarena Owen Morris Trumpet

Ferde GROFÉ (1892–1972)Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise

Antonio VIVALDI (1678–1741)The Four Seasons: Winter 2. Largo

Cameron Hill Violin

Richard WAGNER (1813–1883)Die Walküre: Magic Fire Music

The fascination of fire! Who can resist it? De Falla draws us in with some trills (we’ll be hearing lots of those tonight), conjuring up the flickering flames of a Romani campfire somewhere in Andalusia. Then the Ritual Fire Dance begins: a lone figure whirling in the eerie light. Watch out! The ghost of her unfaithful husband appears – she is trying to lure his unquiet spirit into the blaze.

Fire moves quickly, and so when Haydn was required to provide appropriate music to prelude a play called ‘The Conflagration’ in the 1770s, he turned to a symphony he’d written some years earlier, whose first movement (Presto)

is unusually fast. Those dramatic silences make it sound somewhat dangerous too! ‘The Fire Symphony’ proved a catchier title than ‘No.59’ for the piece thereafter.

In 1749, King George II held a public celebration in London’s Green Park to mark the end of a war. Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, written especially for outdoor performance with lots of trumpets and drums, struck just the right tone of dignified rejoicing. But the crowning glory was to be a spectacular fireworks display, and that had not been planned so well…

The result was about as chaotic as ‘The Infernal Dance’ of Stravinsky’s first ballet – Handel could have done with some of those trombone glissandos and pounding syncopations! In this Russian fairy-tale, The Firebird appears, bewitching everyone into a frenzied dance, until they suddenly collapse in an enchanted sleep (‘Berceuse’), before a solo horn introduces the bright light of the ‘Finale’ and darkness is overcome.

What instrument does ‘fire’ best? Violas-as-firewood jokes aside, it’s probably the trumpet – capable of a bright, loud, almost burning quality of sound, especially when played in the style of the great Mexican virtuoso Rafael Mendez. We go to Hungary, known for its spicy paprika and fiery gypsy dances like Heijre Kati. La Virgen de la Macarena (the ‘Bullfighter’s Song’) take us out under the searing Spanish sun – without a hat!

What fire burns brighter than the sun? One of the most magical places in the world to watch it rise is on the edge of the Grand Canyon. And just when it finally peaks above the horizon and you think the show’s over, the whole canyon begins to be kindled in dazzling light. The opening movement of Ferde Grofé’s 1931 suite evokes this brilliantly.

The central movement of Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’ concerto from The Four Seasons has an unusual accompaniment for the solo violin, consisting of a fidgety bass line and pizzicato notes from the rest of the strings. This is all to create a cosy atmosphere – think the crackling of logs on a fire, and the tapping of rain at the window. It’s the contrast that makes the melody sound all the more comforting.

The fire that encircles Brünnhilde in the final scene of Wagner’s Die Walküre (the second of the four Ring Cycle operas) is both comforting and threatening. Wotan lights it as a protection for his daughter, now doomed to mortality. Only the very bravest man will dare to cross those magical flames. Who will it be? The heroic theme of Siegfried (heard in the low brass) gives the story away, while the dancing light of the fire (piccolo, harp, quivering violins) puts Brünnhilde into an enchanted sleep.

© David John Lang 2018

Guy Nob le Owen Mor r i s

Owen was appointed Principal Trumpet of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in 2016 and began lecturing trumpet at the Elder Conservatorium in 2017.

In his early 20s, Owen has had extensive orchestral experience including performing as guest principal trumpet with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. In 2015 Owen was appointed the inaugural trumpet fellowship position with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Owen also enjoys performing concertos regularly with orchestras and bands across the country and internationally. Some of these experiences include performing concertos with the Adelaide Youth Orchestra, Adelaide Wind Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Sinfonia and Sydney Youth Orchestra on their 2017 International Tour.

As a chamber musician, Owen has frequently worked with some of the countries finest small ensembles including the Omega Ensemble and Sydney Brass. He has also toured as guest artist with the Seraphim Trio. In 2013 Owen became a founding member of Bennelong Brass, who have toured throughout Italy, as well as putting on their own concerts in Sydney and regional New South Wales.