MSO 2011 Program by Ian Wheaton

MSO Musicians in the City SEASON 2011

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We are your Orchestra. The MSO’s commitment to bringing the very best musical experiences to the people of Melbourne and Victoria has never burned more brightly. On behalf of our Board, management team and the Orchestra, I invite you to join us in our “home-away-from-home”, the beautiful Melbourne Town Hall, in the heart of our city, for many of our major concert events in 2011. With our long-term performance home, the Arts Centre’s Hamer Hall, undergoing extensive renovation until 2012, we’re taking the MSO out into the community, performing in an incredible array of diverse locations, from the Australian Centre for the Moving Image to the Clocktower Centre in Moonee Ponds. As you’ll see in this Musicians in the City 2011 season brochure, featuring some of our musicians in Melbourne’s favourite spots, the year ahead promises to be an exciting adventure for you, our audience. Our first ever Education Week in June signals the beginning of a new era in our relationship with the communities we serve; our Beethoven Festival will deliver an outpouring of musical achievements and a depth of opportunities for you to engage with the Orchestra and Beethoven’s legendary genius. The Metropolis Festival celebrates Vienna at the Malthouse Theatre, as Brett Dean explores the world of 20th century and contemporary Viennese music, and we complement that exploration with our glorious 2011 Vienna package, offering Viennesethemed concerts throughout the year, and in anticipation of the National Gallery of Victoria’s 2011 Winter Masterpieces exhibition. 2011 will offer thrilling collaborations with great artists like conductors Sir Andrew Davis and Edo de Waart, flautist Emmanuel Pahud and pianists Simon Trpcˇeski and Angela Hewitt. Our Principal Guest Conductor, Tadaaki Otaka, whose performances of Britten’s War Requiem and Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony were such highlights of the 2010 season, returns for some wonderful programs in 2011, including a continuation of his Brahms symphony cycle, which we are recording

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with ABC Classics for our MSO Live CD label. Across the MSO’s immense spectrum of events we will also feature special concerts with comedian Tim Minchin, the Australian premiere of a new animated film and orchestra version of Peter and the Wolf, and the newly expanded series of Ears Wide Open events with Richard Gill, while the MSO takes to the road for three important tours to regional Victoria. The magnificent MSO Chorus joins the Orchestra on a number of important occasions this year, and will present a superb program in its own right in November and December, in Bendigo, Geelong and Melbourne. A season of such powerful diversity can only occur with the dedication of our many supporters and because of steadfast financial generosity, in particular from our government funding agencies the Australia Council, Arts Victoria and the City of Melbourne, all of which continue to be crucial to the MSO’s success. I must also thank our Principal Partner, Emirates, for their ongoing support and new three-year commitment to the MSO, and all our corporate partners and individual donors for their involvement in the life of the Orchestra. The care and generosity of our Patrons and Friends are equally important and inspiring to us. Our continuing relationship with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and, in particular, ABC Classic FM, allows our work to reach more than a million people a week across Australia. We are your Orchestra, and we invite you to join us to experience the MSO’s 2011 season.

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Tim Minchin vs the MSO

Peter and the Wolf

Master Series Thursdays and Fridays

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Master Series Saturday Matinee

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Great Classics Saturday Matinee

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Great Classics Mondays

Saturday Night Symphony

Randy Newman

MSO POPS

Choose Your Own

MSO Festival of Beethoven and Vienna 17 – 28 Metropolis

24 – 25

Education Week

29 – 31

Ears Wide Open

Melbourne Recital Centre Series

Monash Series

Geelong Series

Melbourne Town Hall Proms

Sidney Myer Free Concerts

MSO Chorus in Concert

Chamber Series

Powercor Regional Touring

Family Classic Kids

Patrons and Friends

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Your great year of music with Melbourne’s Orchestra You may love Gershwin as much as you do Mozart – or you may simply be looking for great musical entertainment for your family and friends. 2011 might be the year you experience your first classical concert, or orchestral music may already be your great passion. However music moves you, your Melbourne Symphony Orchestra offers you fantastic concert experiences all year round – as you’ll see when you look through this 2011 season guide. By subscribing to an MSO concert package, you get the best deal on every event you want to experience, including: • our once-in-a-lifetime Beethoven Festival • Brett Dean’s edition of the Orchestra’s Metropolis Festival • our special concerts with Tim Minchin and Randy Newman and all the other events in the season. Subscribing is the most flexible way to enjoy your symphony orchestra live in concert, offering you exceptional value and many great benefits, including:

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‘He plays like an angel, sings like the rock star he always wanted to be and has a devil sense of humour. This is an extraordinary performer.’

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Friday 25, Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 February at 8pm Palais Theatre, St Kilda

Comedy rock superstar, Tim Minchin, is back on the road with his biggest live show ever. This show includes brand new songs as well as those much-loved Minchin classics, but this time, as you’ve never heard them before with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra!

Since he was last in Australia in 2009, Tim has performed to sell-out crowds around the world with his award winning show Ready for this?, as well as written music and lyrics for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new musical version of Roald Dahl’s Matilda.

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It’s a wolf eat duck world. But it’s a world where little boys can find extraordinary courage and catch the wolf!

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‘My desire was to create a film which works on many levels for both children and adults, exploring our fear of, and fascination with, the wild beast, and witnessing a young boy discover his own strength and integrity.’ Suzie Templeton Prokofiev’s story of the irreverent Peter has resonated deeply with generations of children, enchanted by its power and sense of fun. Now BreakThru Films and Se-ma-for Studios, in collaboration with BAFTA-winning director Suzie Templeton, bring this mesmerising and enchanting classic to the big screen. Peter and the Wolf is the Academy Award ®-winning animated film version of Prokofiev’s children’s classic, directed by an extraordinary new animation talent, Suzie Templeton. This new film was made using stop-frame model animation, with state-of-the-art stills cameras. The film received its world premiere at the Royal Albert Hall and has had more than 50 orchestral screenings worldwide, including the US premiere

Peter and the Wolf

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performed by Philadelphia Orchestra, attended by over 9,000 people, and a special screening with educational events held at Warsaw Castle. Nominated for a BAFTA and a Royal Television Society Award, the film won the Rose D’Or for Best Arts Program of 2007 and collected the top two prizes at the world’s biggest animation festival, Annecy. In February 2008, Peter and The Wolf was awarded the Oscar ® for Best Animated Short Film.

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Tuesday 4 October at 10:30am, 12pm, 2pm and 3:30pm Wednesday 5 October at 10:30am, 12pm, 2pm and 3:30pm Thursday 6 October at 10:30am, 12pm, 2pm and 3:30pm

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Master Series 1 Thursday 24 March at 8pm Friday 25 March at 8pm

Master Series 2 Thursday 9 June at 8pm Friday 10 June at 8pm

Master Series 3 Thursday 30 June at 8pm Friday 1 July at 8pm

Master Series 4 Thursday 14 July at 8pm Friday 15 July at 8pm

Mahler’s Seventh: Song of the Night

The Creation

Sibelius and Tchaikovsky

Pahud’s Magic Flute

Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan makes his Australian debut in the most popular violin concerto of the 20th century. He is joined by a rising star of the international conducting scene, French maestro Ludovic Morlot, who conducts the autobiographical roller-coaster ride of a symphony in which Tchaikovsky wrestles with the concept of Fate.

Two dazzling young artists bring to the stage a program rich in charm and excitement. Emmanuel Pahud, Principal Flute of the Berlin Philharmonic, is soloist in Mozart’s beautiful concerto, while the concert concludes with Bartók’s galvanising orchestral showpiece.

‘Three night pieces; the finale, bright as day. As foundation for the whole, the first movement.’ – Gustav Mahler. Mahler’s masterpiece – at once epic and intimate, beautiful and terrifying – describes a journey from night to day in the world of nature, and moves from the shadow painting of its “Night Music” through to a wild, triumphant finale. It makes for an epic opening to the 2011 season, under the direction of charismatic maestro Mark Wigglesworth.

Bernard Labadie conductor Lydia Teuscher soprano Tilman Lichdi tenor Tim Mirfin bass

Mark Wigglesworth conductor

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Jonathan Grieves-Smith chorus master

Mahler Symphony No.7

Haydn The Creation

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Ludovic Morlot conductor Sergey Khachatryan violin

Edward Gardner conductor Emmanuel Pahud flute

Sibelius The Bard

Bartók Four Orchestral Pieces, Op.12 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Sibelius Violin Concerto

Mozart Flute Concerto No.2

Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4

Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

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Pre-concert Conversation: Bernard Labadie will be interviewed on Friday 10 June at 7pm.

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Wilma Smith Concertmaster – Yarra Rowing Sheds

“We’re lucky to belong to this City” Master Series 5 Thursday 1 September at 8pm Friday 2 September at 8pm

Master Series 6 Thursday 29 September at 8pm Friday 30 September at 8pm

Master Series 7 Thursday 10 November at 8pm Friday 11 November at 8pm

Sir Andrew Davis Returns

Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Chopin’s Love Song Shostakovich 5

One of the world’s great conductors, Sir Andrew Davis, returns to Melbourne for an exciting program featuring two Czech masterpieces: Dvorˇák’s bucolic, lyrical symphony and Janácˇek’s rousing Rhapsody for Orchestra based on the exploits of the legendary Slav hero Taras Bulba and his prophetic vision: ‘No flames, no torture of this world, will ever break the spirit of the Russian people.’

The glorious Italian symphony has been called ‘Blue sky in A major.’ Mendelssohn’s buoyantly tuneful work contrasts with Elgar’s valedictory concerto, which mourns the loss of an era in music both spectral and gravely beautiful.

Sir Andrew Davis conductor Nikolai Demidenko piano Dvorˇák Symphony No.8 Liszt Totentanz Janácˇek Taras Bulba

Bernard Labadie Edward Gardner

With this program we welcome to Melbourne multi-award winning Argentinean cellist Sol Gabetta, praised by the Washington Times as “a fabulous young cellist [who] envelops her instrument like a willowy reincarnation of Jacqueline du Pre.” The MSO is proud to open this program with the first performance of a new work by Melbourne-based composer Julian Yu. Mario Venzago conductor Sol Gabetta cello Yu Sinfonia Chaconnissima* WORLD PREMIERE

Chopin was 19 and in love when he wrote this delightful piano concerto, which explains the poetic sincerity of the love song at the centre of the work. Sibelius described his Sixth Symphony as the musical equivalent of spring water. This powerful, bracing work comes to life under the direction of Sibelius’ countryman John Storgårds. John Storgårds conductor Cédric Tiberghien piano Panufnik Landscape for Strings AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Chopin Piano Concerto No.2 Sibelius Symphony No.6

Master Series 8 Thursday 8 December at 8pm Friday 9 December at 8pm

From its darkly dramatic first movement to its apparently triumphant finale, Shostakovich’s Fifth is one of the emblematic symphonic works of the 20th century. Brahms, Schumann, Van Gogh and Ned Kelly – and letters by them ranging, in the composer’s words, ‘from private love letters to public manifesto’ – are the inspiration for Brett Dean’s magnificent violin concerto The Lost Art of Letter Writing. Jonathan Nott conductor Frank Peter Zimmermann violin Dean The Lost Art of Letter Writing Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Pre-Concert Conversation: Jonathan Nott will be interviewed on Thursday 8 December at 7pm.

Elgar Cello Concerto Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 Italian

*Commissioned by Symphony Australia for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with financial assistance from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Master Series Saturday 1 Saturday 19 March at 2pm

Master Series Saturday 2 Saturday 11 June at 2pm

Master Series Saturday 3 Saturday 2 July at 2pm

Master Series Saturday 4 Saturday 16 July at 2pm

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

The Creation

Sibelius and Tchaikovsky

Pahud’s Magic Flute

Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan makes his Australian debut in the most popular violin concerto of the 20th century. He is joined by French maestro Ludovic Morlot who conducts the autobiographical roller-coaster ride of a symphony in which Tchaikovsky wrestles with the concept of Fate.

One of the stars of the international concert scene, Akiko Suwanai partners with powerhouse maestro Mark Wigglesworth for one of the most popular of all violin concertos, in which passion, virtuoso fireworks and heart-rending lyricism are equal parts of the whole. Mark Wigglesworth conductor Akiko Suwanai violin Wagner Parsifal: Prelude Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Rachmaninov Symphony No.3 Pre-Concert Conversation: Mark Wigglesworth will be interviewed at 1pm.

The Creation is astounding in its scope and unforgettable in its breadth and majesty. For the MSO’s first presentation of the work in more than a decade, a cast of outstanding international soloists appears under the direction of early music specialist Bernard Labadie. Bernard Labadie conductor Lydia Teuscher soprano Tilman Lichdi tenor Tim Mirfin bass Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Jonathan Grieves-Smith chorus master

Ludovic Morlot conductor Sergey Khachatryan violin Sibelius The Bard Sibelius Violin Concerto Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4

Bartók Four Orchestral Pieces, Op.12 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Mozart Flute Concerto No.2 Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

Haydn The Creation

Pre-Concert Conversation: Edward Gardner will be interviewed at 1pm.

Master Series Saturday 5 Saturday 3 September at 2pm

Master Series Saturday 6 Saturday 12 November at 2pm

Master Series Saturday 7 Saturday 19 November at 2pm

Master Series Saturday 8 Saturday 10 December at 2pm

Sir Andrew Davis Returns

Chopin’s Love Song

Rococo Variations

Shostakovich 5

Chopin was 19 and in love when he wrote this delightful piano concerto, which explains the poetic sincerity of the love song at the centre of the work.

One of the world’s most exciting cellists, Alisa Weilerstein returns to the MSO in Tchaikovsky’s exquisite homage to the classical spirit. The concert opens with the world premiere of Barry Conyngham’s tribute to his friend and champion and, for many years the MSO’s Chief Conductor, Hiroyuki Iwaki.

From its darkly dramatic first movement to its apparently triumphant finale, Shostakovich’s Fifth is one of the emblematic symphonic works of the 20th century.

Sir Andrew Davis conductor Nikolai Demidenko piano Dvorˇák Symphony No.8 Liszt Totentanz Janácˇek Taras Bulba

Sibelius described his Sixth Symphony as the musical equivalent of spring water. This powerful, bracing work comes to life under the direction of Sibelius’ countryman John Storgårds. John Storgårds conductor Cedric Tiberghien piano Panufnik Landscape for Strings AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Chopin Piano Concerto No.2

Tadaaki Otaka conductor Alisa Weilerstein cello Conyngham The Gardener of Time WORLD PREMIERE Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme Elgar Symphony No.1

Brahms, Schumann, Van Gogh and Ned Kelly – and letters by them ranging, in the composer’s words, ‘from private love letters to public manifesto’ – are the inspiration for Brett Dean’s magnificent violin concerto The Lost Art of Letter Writing. Jonathan Nott conductor Frank Peter Zimmermann violin Dean The Lost Art of Letter Writing Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

Sibelius Symphony No.6

Mark Wigglesworth Tadaaki Otaka 8

Edward Gardner conductor Emmanuel Pahud flute

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“sharing the rhythm of conversation” Great Classics Saturday Matinee

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Great Classics Saturday 1 Saturday 19 March at 2pm

Great Classics Saturday 2 Saturday 11 June at 2pm

Great Classics Saturday 3 Saturday 2 July at 2pm

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

The Creation

Sibelius and Tchaikovsky

Great Classics Saturday 5 Saturday 26 November at 2pm

Sir Andrew Davis Returns

Otaka Conducts Brahms

A true master of the viola, Lawrence Power is renowned for his ‘...world-class combination of searingly intense tone, fabulous technique and consummate musicianship.’ (The Guardian)

Dvorˇák Symphony No.8 Liszt Totentanz Janácˇek Taras Bulba

Ludovic Morlot conductor Sergey Khachatryan violin Sibelius The Bard Sibelius Violin Concerto Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4

Haydn The Creation

Great Classics Saturday 4 Saturday 3 September at 2pm

Sir Andrew Davis conductor Nikolai Demidenko piano

Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan makes his Australian debut in the most popular violin concerto of the 20th century. He is joined by French maestro Ludovic Morlot, who conducts the autobiographical roller-coaster ride of a symphony in which Tchaikovsky wrestles with the concept of Fate.

He makes his MSO debut in a haunting evocation of the natural world by Japan’s greatest 20th century composer, To¯ru Takemitsu, in a concert conducted by Takemitsu’s friend and champion, Tadaaki Otaka. Here, Maestro Otaka also continues his journey through Brahms’ symphonies with the MSO, which he began in 2009.

Akiko Suwanai Nikolai Demidenko

Tadaaki Otaka conductor Lawrence Power viola Fauré Pelléas et Mélisande: Suite Takemitsu A String Around Autumn AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Lauren Brigden Viola – St. Ali

Brahms Symphony No.1

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Great Classics Monday 1 Monday 21 March at 6:30pm

Great Classics Monday 2 Monday 27 June at 6:30pm

Great Classics Monday 3 Thursday 8 September at 6:30pm

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Carmina Burana

The Lark Ascending

Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

One of the stars of the international concert scene, Akiko Suwanai partners with powerhouse maestro Mark Wigglesworth for one of the most popular of all violin concertos, in which passion, virtuoso fireworks and heart-rending lyricism are equal parts of the whole. The Third Symphony of Tchaikovsky’s countryman, and champion, Rachmaninov, displays the rhapsodic shifts of mood and seamless blending of lyricism and rhythmic excitement which are hallmarks of his music. Mark Wigglesworth conductor Akiko Suwanai violin

Jakub Hru˚sǎ conductor Simon Trpcˇeski piano Hyeseoung Kwon soprano Paul McMahon tenor José Carbó baritone Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Jonathan Grieves-Smith chorus master Concordis Chamber Choir Andrew Hunter artistic director

Wagner Parsifal: Prelude Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Rachmaninov Symphony No.3

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.1 Orff Carmina Burana

Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra

Great Classics Monday 5 Monday 28 November at 6:30pm

Mozart Masterworks

Otaka Conducts Brahms

A true master of the viola, Lawrence Power is renowned for his ‘...world-class combination of searingly intense tone, fabulous technique and consummate musicianship.’ (The Guardian)

Tadaaki Otaka conductor Lawrence Power viola

Mozart Symphony No.36 Linz

Takemitsu A String Around Autumn AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Fauré Pelléas et Mélisande: Suite

Brahms Symphony No.1

Walton Façade

Simon Trpcˇeski Yvonne Kenny Carolyn Sampson

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Jonathan Grieves-Smith chorus master

Great Classics Mondays

Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending

Please note the change in venue for this concert.

Great Classics Monday 4 Monday 31 October at 6:30pm

Mozart Mass in C minor, K.427

Musicologist Wilfred Mellers once said of Vaughan Williams: ‘By no other composer is the interdependence of man and Nature more movingly expressed,’ and The Lark Ascending – here with MSO Concertmaster Wilma Smith as soloist – virtually defines this aspect of his musical personality. Sir Andrew Davis conductor/narrator Yvonne Kenny narrator Wilma Smith violin

Pre-Concert Conversation: Jakub Hru˚sǎ will be interviewed at 5:30pm

Masaaki Suzuki conductor Carolyn Sampson soprano Miriam Allan soprano Paul McMahon tenor Christian Immler bass

Sir Andrew Davis is joined by Australia’s iconic soprano, Yvonne Kenny, as they recite Edith Sitwell’s poetry to the witty, tuneful musical settings the young William Walton created in Façade.

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Saturday Night Symphony

ALL CONCERTS AT MELBOURNE TOWN HALL*

Andrew Macleod Principal Piccolo Stephen Newton Double Bass Sylvia Hosking Assistant Principal Double Bass – Tattersalls Lane

Saturday Night Symphony 1 Saturday 26 March at 8pm

Saturday Night Symphony 2 Saturday 25 June at 8pm

Saturday Night Symphony 3 Saturday 10 September at 8pm

Mahler’s Seventh: Song of the Night

Carmina Burana

The Lark Ascending Mozart Masterworks Elisabeth Murdoch Hall,

From a collection of 13th century verse, composer Carl Orff created a ‘scenic cantata’ celebrating nature, chivalry, courtly love, sex and, not least, the pleasures of the grape. Carmina Burana is a powerful, primal, pulsating picture of medieval life. Jakub Hru˚sǎ conductor ̌ ski piano Simon Trpce Hyeseoung Kwon soprano Paul McMahon tenor José Carbó baritone Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Jonathan Grieves-Smith chorus master Concordis Chamber Choir Andrew Hunter artistic director Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.1

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Orff Carmina Burana

Melbourne Recital Centre Sir Andrew Davis is joined by Australia’s iconic soprano, Yvonne Kenny, as they recite Edith Sitwell’s poetry to the witty, tuneful musical settings the young William Walton created in Façade. Musicologist Wilfred Mellers once said of Vaughan-Williams: ‘By no other composer is the interdependence of man and Nature more movingly expressed,’ and The Lark Ascending – here with MSO Concertmaster Wilma Smith as soloist – virtually defines this aspect of his musical personality. Sir Andrew Davis conductor/narrator Yvonne Kenny narrator Wilma Smith violin Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra

Saturday Night Symphony 4 Saturday 29 October at 8pm

Mozart’s C minor Mass is one of the pinnacles of sacred music in the classical era. Tender, epic, profound and beautiful, it is a magnificent achievement. To conduct it we welcome one of the world’s leading early music scholars, Masaaki Suzuki, founder of Bach Collegium Japan. Masaaki Suzuki conductor Carolyn Sampson soprano Miriam Allan soprano Paul McMahon tenor Christian Immler bass Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Jonathan Grieves-Smith chorus master Mozart Symphony No.36 Linz Mozart Mass in C minor, K.427

Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Walton Façade Please note the change in venue for this concert.

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Saturday Night Symphony

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Randy Newman in concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ‘One of the great American songwriters and film scorers, as well as a performer who can win an audience over with the quality of his material plus a healthy dollop of self-deprecating humour.’

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Friday 29 and Saturday 30 July at 8pm State Theatre, the Arts Centre

Randy Newman is a living legend in the world of music. A gifted composer and social satirist, his movie soundtrack work has now earned him 17 Oscar® nominations for Toy Story, The Natural, Avalon, Awakenings, A Bug’s Life, Pleasantville, Meet the Parents, and for his sensational charttoppers Short People and You’ve Got a Friend in Me, among many others.

In this once-in-a-lifetime concert experience, Randy Newman will perform and present some his greatest successes, including You Can Leave Your Hat On and Girls In My Life, and music from his magnificent movie scores.

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MSO POPS 1 Saturday 12 March at 7pm Sunday 13 March at 2pm Melbourne Town Hall

MSO POPS 2 Friday 27 and Saturday 28 May at 7pm Sunday 29 May at 2pm Melbourne Town Hall

Star Wars and Beyond: A Symphonic ABBA with Celebration of John Williams Rajaton and the MSO The force is with you as the maestro with the world’s sharpest light sabre, Anthony Inglis, returns to pay tribute to the man whose music has been mightier than the choc top for more than three decades. John Williams’ music has made us believe a man can fly, has helped dinosaurs terrify us, has fought Darth Vader and protected us from Lord Voldemort. Celebrate with the MSO as we salute the man who IS movie music, in this fabulous concert experience. Including music from Jaws, Lost in Space, Jurassic Park, Memoirs of a Geisha, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and all six movies in the Star Wars saga. Anthony Inglis conductor Presented in association with Raymond Gubbay International

Rajaton is Finnish for ‘boundless,’ a word which accurately describes the way this sixvoice a cappella ensemble approaches music of all kinds: ‘amazing’ does not begin to do them justice. An international vocal phenomenon, Rajaton’s album based on this symphonic ABBA show climbed to No.1 in Finland and achieved platinum sales in a month. Symphonic ABBA is an unforgettable entertainment experience, one that will leave you wanting to sing ‘Thank You for the Music’ as you dance down Swanston Street after the concert. Jaako Kuusisto conductor Rajaton vocal ensemble Includes Dancing Queen, Money Money Money, Mamma Mia, S.O.S., Fernando, Waterloo and many more.

MSO POPS 3 Saturday 5 November at 7pm Sunday 6 November at 2pm State Theatre, the Arts Centre

Rhapsody In Blue: The MSO Plays Gershwin and Friends Sassy, street-wise, soaring and sentimental, Gershwin’s music occupies a special place in our hearts, whether it’s the wailing clarinet which opens Rhapsody in Blue or the haunting ‘Summertime’ from Porgy and Bess. In this program, full of Gershwin’s “Fascinating Rhythms,” triple-threat British maestro Bramwell Tovey conducts, compères and, in Rhapsody in Blue, appears as piano soloist. He is joined by a thrilling North American vocal talent, soprano Tracy Dahl, for some of Gershwin’s enduring standards and music by Leonard Bernstein and William Walton that demonstrates the depth of George Gershwin’s influence. Who could ask for anything more? Bramwell Tovey conductor/piano Tracy Dahl soprano

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Sharon Draper Cello – Zomp

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A RESERVE Adult $492 Pensioner $396 Student $288

B RESERVE Adult $390 Pensioner $294 Student $198

C RESERVE Adult $258 Pensioner $204 Student $144

Choose Your Own 10

Adult $740 Pensioner $600 Student $440

Adult $580 Pensioner $480 Student $320

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THE MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS

BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL CONCERTS The complete symphonies conducted by Douglas Boyd

9 August – 22 August pg 19 – 21

BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL FESTIVITIES Talks, discussions, MSO Jams, a special edition of Richard Gill’s Ears Wide Open and more

6 August – 20 August pg 22 – 23

METROPOLIS Brett Dean’s Vienna: Four concerts and special events celebrating the spirit of the new in Viennese culture, directed by Brett Dean

27 April – 7 May

pg 24 – 25

THE GLORY OF VIENNA Six concerts celebrating the majesty of Vienna’s musical heritage, only available for 2011 18

pg 26 – 27

MSO PRESENTS

Beethoven AUGUST 6 – 22

Festival

THE COMPLETE SYMPHONIES CONDUCTED BY DOUGLAS BOYD

‘A mass of images, remembrances and ideals comes instantly to mind when we hear the word symphony. This mass, our idea of “symphony,” has been shaped for us overwhelmingly by the nine symphonies that Beethoven composed across a quarter of a century.’ – Michael Steinberg

Douglas Boyd

We all know “how they go”. They are the foundation of the orchestral repertoire, some of the most popular music ever written. Yet I feel we sometimes need to remind ourselves that they are also miracles of our civilisation. I was very fortunate, in my former life as Principal Oboe with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, to perform the complete works in a crazy twoweek period at the Salzburg Festival 20 years ago with Nikolaus Harnoncourt. To have travelled this journey from First to Ninth in such a short,

concentrated period, left us all staggering in awe at Beethoven the man and his music. Why is this? What is truly miraculous about Beethoven is that he is capable, through MUSIC, of expressing every emotion that human beings can express – joy, grief, beauty, terror, tragedy, comedy – ‘the celebration of the human in all things’, to quote Beethoven scholar Lewis Lockwood.

That is why his music is more relevant in 2011 than ever before. I very much hope that we can convey these emotions throughout the intensity of a complete cycle of the symphonies. I am really excited to be renewing my acquaintance with the wonderful MSO and I am truly honoured to be invited to explore these extraordinary works with them.

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Beethoven

Festival

Concerts IN THE MELBOURNE TOWN HALL

Beethoven Festival Concert 1 Tuesday 9 August at 8pm

Beethoven Festival Concert 2 Thursday 11 August at 8pm

Beethoven Festival Concert 3 Saturday 13 August at 8pm

Eroica

Fate

Pastoral

Not only a new century, but a new voice in symphonic thinking, dawns with the opening chords of Beethoven’s First Symphony of 1800. Four years later, Beethoven created, in the words of a contemporary critic, something ‘tremendously expanded, daring and wild’ in his Eroica symphony, in which his libertarian decision NOT to dedicate the symphony to Napoleon is as crucial as the work’s musical courage and breadth of vision.

The boldness which became Beethoven’s hallmark in the years of his greatest achievements virtually leaps off the page in the Second Symphony which, in scale and ambition, is altogether more assertive than its predecessor. In one of the most famous musical reviews in history, composer and author E.T.A. Hoffmann said of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony: ‘As it grows towards its climax, this symphony...tears the listener irresistibly away into the wonderful spiritual realm of the infinite.’ Arguably, no piece of instrumental music has been so influential, or continues to be so thought-provoking.

A study in contrasts: the ‘dangerous, lithe economy’ (in composer Robert Simpson’s phrase) of the Fourth, written with incredible swiftness, almost as a distraction while he was creating the Fifth; and the expansive, pictorial beauty of the Pastoral, replete with famous depictions of tempest, calm, and shepherd’s call. Beethoven himself said of this immortal song of nature: ‘Anyone who had ever had an idea of country life can imagine what the author [intends].’

Symphony No.1 Symphony No.3 Eroica

Symphony No.4 Symphony No.6 Pastoral

Symphony No.2 Symphony No.5

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A RESERVE Adult $450 Pensioner $375 Student $275

B RESERVE Adult $375 Pensioner $275 Student $175

C RESERVE Adult $250 Pensioner $200 Student $125

CONDUCTOR DOUGLAS BOYD WILL BE INTERVIEWED ONE HOUR PRIOR TO EACH PERFORMANCE

PLAY VIDEO

IN THE MELBOURNE TOWN HALL

Beethoven Festival Concert 4 Wednesday 17 August at 8pm

Dance The vital humanity of Beethoven’s music has made him a composer for the ages. His Seventh Symphony comes to us from a particular historical moment – specifically, the years of Europe’s Napoleonic torment – yet still carries an undimmed emotional power. Its rhythmic vitality is immense (Wagner famously called this symphony ‘the apotheosis of the dance’), but the heart of the work is the sublime Allegretto, a walking tune subject to transformations that must have seemed tremendously novel to the work’s first audience in 1813, but now seem dream-like in their perfection. The Eighth, a fireball of energy, is also one of Beethoven’s wittiest creations. Symphony No.8 Symphony No.7

Beethoven Festival Concert 5 Sunday 21 August at 5pm Monday 22 August at 8pm

Ode to Joy The pinnacle of Beethoven’s achievements, written many years after his earlier symphonies, traces a path from chaos and darkness to a light illuminated by Friedrich von Schiller’s ode To Joy, in which orchestra, chorus and vocal quartet convey an immortal message of universal brotherhood. Anita Watson soprano Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano Steve Davislim tenor Peter Rose baritone Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Jonathan Grieves-Smith chorus master Symphony No.9

Beethoven Festival Single Tickets only

These concerts are supported by

A RESERVE Adult $130 Pensioner $110 Student $80

B RESERVE Adult $100 Pensioner $80 Student $50

C RESERVE Adult $70 Pensioner $60 Student $35 21

Beethoven Festival

Festivities

IN THE MELBOURNE TOWN HALL

Saturday 6 August – Beethoven Open Day 11am – 12noon

Beethoven and You a beginner’s guide to Beethoven with Graham Abbott In the style that has won him a devoted national radio audience, broadcaster, conductor and host of ABC Classic FM’s Keys to Music, Graham Abbott, explains how Beethoven changed the world of music forever, and why his work is still so powerful and engrossing today.

12:15pm – 1:15pm

The new Barenreiter Edition of the Beethoven Symphonies: Why a new Edition? with Jonathan Del Mar Del Mar, editor of the new edition of Beethoven symphonies from which the MSO will perform in the Festival, explains why, until very recently, orchestras around the world performed these pieces from editions prepared in the 19th century, which contain many mistakes. As he says of his edition, the result of many years’ painstaking research: ‘These works were deprived for so long of an edition adequately reflecting Beethoven’s intentions...In all nine symphonies there are places where the new edition actually sounds materially different.’ 2pm – 3:15pm

Beethoven’s Letters

a chamber concert featuring John Stanton and the Tinalley Quartet ‘...as the leaves of autumn fall and are withered – so likewise my hope has been blighted... Even the high courage – which has so often inspired me in the beautiful

days of summer – has disappeared.’ – From Beethoven’s will, written in Heiligenstadt in 1802. Beethoven was a prolific correspondent, and revealed many of his innermost thoughts and feelings in his letters and papers, from the precepts of his moral code to his despair – and ultimate triumph – over his deafness. In this unique collaboration with Melbourne’s superb Tinalley Quartet, one of Australia’s most distinguished actors, John Stanton, brings his authority and drama to readings from Beethoven’s letters, illustrated by music from Beethoven’s string quartets. 4pm-5pm

The Sounds of Silence – Beethoven’s Deafness and Us with Peter Tregear ‘...how humiliating was it when someone standing close to me heard a distant flute, and I heard nothing, or a shepherd singing, and again I heard nothing...at times I was on the point of putting an end to my life – art alone restrained my hand.’ – So Beethoven wrote in 1802 of the condition that he rose to overcome and which has defined our perception of him as an archetypal Romantic hero. In The Sounds of Silence, singer, teacher and conductor Peter Tregear explores the ways in which Beethoven’s isolation from the world around him shaped his musical legacy and his status in cultural history. As Tregear says: ‘Beethoven’s decent into total deafness by 1818 was originally used by critics of the day to explain why his late works seemed so strange and difficult. By the end of the 19th century, however, Beethoven’s genius was thought to have come about because of his deafness, not despite it. This talk explores how this transformation might relate to how we hear Beethoven’s music today, and to our current anxiety about the increasing noisiness of modern life.’

6:30pm

No More These Sounds: Beethoven Re-imagined with the MSO/ArtPlay Graduate Ensemble and Fraser Trainer The MSO/ArtPlay program involves young musicians aged 13 or under, creating music as well as performing, each project leading to the composition and performance of new music. Throughout, the process is a working collaboration between the young people and the professional musicians of the MSO. In No More These Sounds (the first words sung by the baritone soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony), recent graduates of the MSO/ArtPlay program will work with members of the MSO and leading international educator, performer and composer Fraser Trainer, on a Beethovenbased composition project that will culminate in this exciting performance. 7:30pm

The Great De-Beethoven – A Debate in Four Movements chaired by Emma Ayres, with panelists including: Douglas Boyd, Julian Burnside, Jonathan Del Mar, Barry Jones, Wilma Smith and Michael Veitch A fun, interactive and informative debate and panel discussion on the topic: ‘Was Beethoven the Greatest Composer?’ featuring notable Melbourne music lovers Barry Jones and Julian Burnside, MSO concertmaster Wilma Smith and comedian, author and broadcaster Michael Veitch. The final part of the evening will be open to you, the audience, to ask the panel your questions. Will chair, ABC Classic FM’s Emma Ayres do a Tony Jones and say: “I’ll take that as a comment?” Be there at the Great De-Beethoven to find out.

As part of the Beethoven Festival, the MSO presents a series of talks, lectures, discussions, workshops and a special Beethoven Ears Wide Open with Richard Gill, all at the Melbourne Town Hall. All events are free with the exception of Ears Wide Open. If you are purchasing a Beethoven Festival concert package, simply indicate which of these free events you would like to attend; we will then send you – along with your Beethoven Festival tickets – tickets guaranteeing you entry to the free events you’ve chosen. These are general admission events, without reserved seating.

Saturday 13 August

Sunday 14 August

Saturday 20 August

Beethoven Jams with the MSO

7:30pm

from 10am

Ears Wide Open

Beethoven 9 in a Day, featuring Victorian choirs

led by Gillian Howell

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 with Richard Gill

The MSO’s popular series of Jams are part of the Beethoven Festivities for one day only. All Jams take place in Swanston Hall. This is an opportunity for people of all ages to jam with members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Richard Gill and the MSO investigate the inner workings of the symphony Wagner famously called ‘the apotheosis of the dance,’ in a fascinating 80-minute interactive event for audiences of all ages.

10 – 10:30am, 10:45 – 11:15am

MSO Jams for Juniors recommended for ages 0-5 Does your baby’s body bop to the beat? Your toddler tap their toes to the tune? Or your pre-schooler play your pots and pans? Well, don’t stop the music! Come and join in with members of the Orchestra in a 30-minute jam-packed Jam. Perfect for engaging those active minds and bodies, the MSO Jams for Juniors will keep your child absorbed with our percussive patterns and magical musicians.

See page 21 for information about the performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 taking place as part of The Beethoven Festival on Wednesday 17 August. Adults: $20 Concession: $15

Come to hear five Victorian choirs and the MSO Chorus rehearse the final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, his setting of Schiller’s ode To Joy. The event culminates in a performance with the choirs, the MSO, the MSO Chorus, vocal soloists and conductor Douglas Boyd at 5:15pm. Choirs participating are: Ballarat Choral Society Box Hill Chorale Heidelberg Choral Society Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Melbourne University Choral Society Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir 1:30 to 6:00pm

Sign-Singing Workshop led by music educator and composer Karen Kyriakou

12pm

MSO Family Jam recommended for children aged six and over

If you would like to learn a signed interpretation of Schiller’s ode To Joy and participate in the 5:15pm performance, please call the MSO on (03) 9626 1863.

Over the course of an hour participants will develop an original piece of music, using whatever instruments and ‘sound-makers’ are to hand. Voices, instruments, hands and feet, newspapers, chopsticks and other paraphernalia will be put to musical use in this afternoon workshop for families. The workshop culminates in a performance by participants, which is open to the general public. Participants require their own sound maker. Participation in the these MSO Jams is free, and REGISTRATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL. To book your place, email MSO Education at education@mso.com.au or call the MSO Education office on (03) 9626 1115. Refer to the MSO website for further information.

These events are supported by

directed by MSO chorus master Jonathan Grieves-Smith and conductor Douglas Boyd

Graham Abbott John Stanton

Julian Burnside Barry Jones Richard Gill Jonathan Grieves-Smith

Metropolis Brett Dean’s Vienna

M E R LY N T H E AT R E , C U B M A LT H O U S E AT 8 P M

The MSO celebrates Brett Dean’s 50th birthday, and his colossal contribution to music as composer, performer and teacher, in this special edition of the Metropolis Festival, dedicated to the spirit of the new in Viennese culture.

When most concert-goers hear the word Vienna, they no doubt think of Strauss waltzes, the Vienna Philharmonic and the State Opera, but this is only part of the story. One of the opportunities presented by Metropolis, the nation’s premiere annual orchestral examination of the new, recent and influential in music, is the chance to shine the torch on worlds of musical activity that would otherwise remain in the dark for most Australian music lovers. In accepting the MSO’s generous invitation to direct the 2011 Metropolis concerts, I have chosen to present a view of Vienna that paints a fuller picture of human creativity and diversity than the touristy clichés of a town in 3/4 time. Vienna is a city of monumental musical innovation as great as its monuments of musical tradition, as unexpected and daring as it is charming and conservative. That Viennese colossus of 20th century music, Anton Webern, serves as our guide in each program, the clean lines and magical, delicate aestheticism of his music providing points of repose and clarity against which

we hear extraordinary new music from some of the most influential and important voices of contemporary Vienna in works all written within the last ten years. It is also an honour to have been asked by the MSO to contribute one of my own works to each program, two of which are being heard in Melbourne for the very first time. It is a particular pleasure for me to welcome to Metropolis some of Australia’s finest soloists, as well as the musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music in a curtain-raising collaboration. Together with the mighty MSO, I will also present two brand new, Cybec Foundation-sponsored orchestral compositions by young Australian composers, a welcome and highly anticipated, yearly component in this most vital and inspiring of concert series.

Brett Dean

Metropolis 1 Wednesday 27 April Presented in association with the Australian National Academy of Music

Recollections Brett Dean conductor Members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Members of the Australian National Academy of Music Haas Antiphon Webern Five Movements for Quartet, Op.5 Dean Recollections Neuwirth Remnants of Song ... an Amphigory AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Metropolis 3 Wednesday 4 May

Metropolis 2 Saturday 30 April

Dancing in the Dark Brett Dean conductor Merlyn Quaife soprano Dean Wolf-Lieder Webern Four Lieder Op.13 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Gruber Dancing in the Dark AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE This concert will also include a new work commissioned as part of the MSO’s Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers Program.

Metropolis 4 Saturday 7 May PLAY VIDEO

Dean Plays Dean

Beggars and Angels

Brett Dean conductor/viola Fabian Russell conductor Brett Kelly trombone

Brett Dean conductor Michael Kieran Harvey piano

Staud Incipit III AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Webern Symphony Op.21 Dean Viola Concerto This concert will also include a new work commissioned as part of the MSO’s Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers Program.

METROPOLIS LATE NIGHTS

Webern Im Sommerwind Furrer Piano Concerto AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Webern Variations for solo piano Dean Beggars and Angels Pre-concert Conversation: Brett Dean will be interviewed at 7pm.

Following Metropolis performances in 2011, don’t miss our late night events at the Malthouse, featuring DJs, electronic musicians, and video artists from Vienna’s SoundFrame Festival. Admission is free to Metropolis ticket holders.

These concerts are supported by

Metropolis

FOUR-CONCERT PACKAGE Adult $172 Pensioner $132 Student $120 Schools $52

SINGLE TICKET Adult $57 Pensioner $44 Student $38 Schools $18 25

The Glory of Vienna SIX CONCERTS CELEBRATING THE MAJESTY OF VIENNA’S MUSICAL HERITAGE

The Glory of Vienna Concert 1 Friday 25 March at 8pm Melbourne Town Hall

The Glory of Vienna Concert 2 Saturday 21 May at 6:30pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

Mahler’s Seventh: Song of the Night ‘Three night pieces; the finale, bright as day. As foundation for the whole, the first movement.’ – Gustav Mahler. Mahler’s masterpiece – at once epic and intimate, beautiful and terrifying – describes a journey from night to day in the world of nature, and moves from the shadow painting of its “Night Music” through to a wild, triumphant finale. It makes for an epic opening to the MSO’s 2011 season, under the direction of charismatic maestro Mark Wigglesworth. Mark Wigglesworth conductor Mahler Symphony No.7

The Beethoven Concertos: The Journey Continues Visionary Finnish pianist, conductor and composer Olli Mustonen returns to Melbourne for the second event in his survey of the Beethoven piano concertos with the MSO. He brings together the transcription Beethoven created for piano of his violin concerto with the concerto in which Beethoven bid farewell to the 18th century, and ushered in a new era of heightened expression.

The Creation The Creation is astounding in its scope and unforgettable in its breadth and majesty. For the MSO’s first presentation of the work in more than a decade, a cast of outstanding international soloists appears under the direction of early music specialist Bernard Labadie. Bernard Labadie conductor Lydia Teuscher soprano Tilman Lichdi tenor Tim Mirfin bass

Olli Mustonen director/piano

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3

Jonathan Grieves-Smith chorus master Haydn The Creation

Mustonen Three Mysteries Beethoven Violin Concerto (transcribed for piano)

The Glory of Vienna Six-concert package

The Glory of Vienna Concert 3 Friday 10 June at 8pm Melbourne Town Hall

A RESERVE Adult $492 Concession $396 Student $288

B RESERVE Adult $390 Concession $294 Student $198

Pre-concert Conversation: Bernard Labadie will be interviewed at 7pm.

C RESERVE Adult $258 Concession $204 Student $144

Vienna has been a reference point for great music and music-making for more than four centuries. In collaboration with the National Gallery of Victoria, the MSO has created this special series to celebrate Vienna as a centre of music, taking in masterworks by Mozart – including his version of Handel’s Messiah, which he created for performance in the Hall of Vienna’s Imperial Library in 1789 – and the epic and intimate, beautiful and terrifying symphony

Mahler created in 1904 and 1905, while he was Director of Vienna’s Court Opera. In this superb six-concert package, available only for 2011, you’ll also experience Haydn’s monumental work for soloists, chorus and orchestra, The Creation and Beethoven piano concertos directed from the keyboard by one of the world’s great musicians, Olli Mustonen.

The Glory of Vienna Concert 4 Friday 23 September at 7:30pm Melbourne Town Hall

The Glory of Vienna Concert 5 Saturday 29 October at 8pm Melbourne Town Hall

Angela Hewitt Plays Mozart

Mozart Masterworks

‘It is one of the grandest efforts of the art that we ever witnessed…it rouses and affects every emotion of the soul.’ So London’s Morning Chronicle wrote of the premiere of Haydn’s 99th Symphony in 1794. Lyrical, grand-gestured and as fresh as the day it was first performed, this beautiful work is the finale to a thrilling program conducted by Baroque and Classical specialist Roy Goodman. Goodman is joined by the peerless Mozart pianist Angela Hewitt, in her only Australian orchestral appearance this year, for Mozart’s regal concerto. Roy Goodman conductor Angela Hewitt piano Beethoven Egmont: Overture Mozart Piano Concerto No.22

Mozart’s C minor Mass is one of the pinnacles of sacred music in the classical era. Tender, epic, profound and beautiful, it is a magnificent achievement. To conduct it we welcome one of the world’s leading early music scholars, Masaaki Suzuki, founder of Bach Collegium Japan, and an outstanding cast of soloists. Masaaki Suzuki conductor Carolyn Sampson soprano Miriam Allan soprano Paul McMahon tenor Christian Immler bass

Messiah Messiah is a unique musical experience: a dramatic story of faith, suffering and redemption and a masterpiece which offers a message of belief that continues to resonate through time. Mozart’s re-scoring of Messiah for classical forces is a rare and special experience in itself, often sounding like a new work. It is hard to imagine a better guide to this singular meeting of Handel and Mozart than early music legend Reinhard Goebel, returning to the MSO after his tremendous 2009 performances with a magnificent cast of soloists and the MSO Chorus.

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Jonathan Grieves-Smith chorus master Mozart Symphony No.36 Linz Mozart Mass in C minor, K.427

Reinhard Goebel conductor Miriam Allan soprano Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano Angus Wood tenor Teddy Tahu Rhodes baritone Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus

J.C. Bach Endimione: Overture

Jonathan Grieves-Smith chorus master

Haydn Symphony No.99

The Glory of Vienna Single Tickets only

The Glory of Vienna Concert 6 Friday 16 and Saturday 17 December at 8pm Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

PLAY VIDEO

Handel (orch. Mozart) Messiah

CONCERTS IN MELBOURNE TOWN HALL

A RESERVE Adult $108 Concession $85 Student $64

B RESERVE Adult $85 Concession $64 Student $42

C RESERVE Adult $58 Concession $48 Student $32

CONCERTS IN MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE

PREMIUM Adult

A RESERVE Adult $113 Pensioner $93

B RESERVE Adult $93 Pensioner $77

$130

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Online

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MSO subscriptions can be purchased or renewed online at www.mso.com.au

Telephone (03) 9929 9600 for further details regarding group bookings. Please note group subscriptions cannot be exchanged.

Telephone Call the MSO Box Office on (03) 9929 9600 and charge your subscription to your credit card (Monday to Thursday between 9am and 5pm, Friday 9am to 6pm).

Mail Complete your booking form, available to download from the MSO website, and mail to: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Box Office, GPO Box 2992, Melbourne VIC 3001.

Facsimile Complete the booking form, available to download from the MSO website and, fax to (03) 9929 9601.

Individual Concert Tickets Individual tickets for 2011 concerts will go on sale from 1 November 2010. All concert tickets will be available to purchase from the MSO Box Office or via www.mso.com.au It is not possible to purchase tickets from the Arts Centre Box Office for any concerts other than those in the Arts Centre, State Theatre. Please note that individual concert tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded.

Payment You can pay by cheque, money order, cash (in person only) or with major credit cards*. Cheques should be made payable to Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Pty Ltd. *Except Diners Club Card

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Visit the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Box Office at 3 Driver Lane, Melbourne (just behind the GPO off Little Bourke Street). The Box Office is open 9am to 5pm Monday to Thursday and 9am to 6pm on Friday. Please note that your booking may not be processed immediately.

GENERAL INFORMATION Geelong Subscribers Special conditions apply for Geelong series subscribers. For bookings and further details, please contact the Geelong Performing Arts Centre on (03) 5225 1200.

Concessions Pensioner/Unemployed concessions are available to all beneficiaries of means-tested age, invalid, supporting parent and unemployed benefits.

Choose Your Own Subscribers In offering you great flexibility in the choice of your concerts in this package, we are not able to offer renewable seating. We will endeavour to allocate the best seating available to you, but please be aware that your seating may vary from concert to concert.

Student/Youth concessions are available to all full-time students, and to anyone aged 20 and under with a valid ID for 2011. Seniors Card concessions are only available for the Chamber Series and Melbourne Town Hall Proms. If you are booking concession or student subscriptions online, please contact the MSO Box Office on (03) 9929 9600 and supply our customer service staff with your student and concession details. Details can also be faxed to (03) 9929 9601, mailed to 3 Driver Lane, Melbourne, 3001 or scanned and emailed to boxoffice@mso.com.au

MSO Education Week 14 – 18 JUNE ALL CONCERTS AT MELBOURNE TOWN HALL

From pre-schoolers to adults, from participation to observation, our inaugural Education Week brings the magic of music to Melbournians of all ages in many different ways. The young musicians of the Melbourne Youth Orchestra will play side by side with MSO players on the Melbourne Town Hall stage in a project called Share the Chair; in a series of informal conversations, called Music that Moves Me, you’ll discover the music MSO musicians love and what it means to them. From the opportunity for the whole family to jam with the MSO to presentations by one of the world’s leading music educators, Paul Rissmann, Education Week at the Melbourne Town Hall is our open house invitation to the people of Melbourne to listen, learn and get involved in the work your Orchestra is doing in sharing the joy of great music with the community.

Matthew VanBesien MANAGING DIRECTOR

Nicholas Bochner Assistant Principal Cello – NGV International

MSO Education Week

ALL CONCERTS AT MELBOURNE TOWN HALL

Tuesday 14 June at 11:30am and 1:15pm Wednesday 15 June at 10am and 11:30am Saturday 18 June at 10am and 11:30am Melbourne Town Hall

Classic Kids: A Little Day Out with Justine Clarke Spend A Little Day Out with much-loved Play School presenter Justine Clarke. With songs featured in her latest album, Great Big World, this best-selling children’s singer, internationally acclaimed film star, and seasoned stage actor will enthral young audiences whilst introducing children to the joy of hearing a live Symphony Orchestra. This is an opportunity to enjoy A Little Day Out in a very big way! Suitable for children aged three to eight years of age, their schools, parents, guardians and special friends. David Thomas Principal Clarinet – Melbourne Aquarium

If you’re an MSO subscriber, you can book tickets to Classic Kids when you book your 2011 concert package. Please see the individual concert booking form for details. If you know a school or pre-school that would like to attend, a downloadable booking form is available on the MSO website at www.mso.com.au

Meet the Orchestra Thursday 16 June at 10am and 11:45am Melbourne Town Hall

Meet the Music Friday 17 June at 10am and 11:45am Melbourne Town Hall

Meet the Orchestra and Meet the Music presented by Paul Rissmann Benjamin Northey conductor PLAY VIDEO

‘Paul Rissmann is the Jamie Oliver of music animateurs.’ – Neue Musikzeitung The UK’s leading education presenter, Paul Rissmann, will present these MSO concerts designed for schools. As a music educationalist, Paul has devised and led projects for the BBC Proms, Glyndebourne Opera, the London Symphony Orchestra and many other major performing companies around the world.

Mairi Nicolson Paul Rissmann Justine Clarke

In the concert for upper primary schools, Meet the Orchestra, Rissmann will present music by Mozart, Saint-Saëns, John Williams and Danny Elfman (the theme from The Simpsons). This fun, interactive show is perfect for students in Years 3 – 6. Children are invited to bring their own instruments for a chance to play along with Rissmann’s original work BAMBOOZLED!, which, has been performed by more than 40,000 children across the globe – from the Barbican Centre in London to Daytona Beach, Florida. Practice sheets will be available for download from the MSO website from February 2011.

The secondary schools concert, Meet the Music, will take a more analytical approach with an engaging selection of pieces including Elgar’s Enigma Variations, Summer from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and highlights from Pirates of the Caribbean. Rissmann will add another dimension to the music by coupling it with visuals, tailored to highlight the themes and motifs in the works. These Meet the Orchestra and Meet the Music concerts are recommended equally to students, their parents, guardians and special friends. If you’re an MSO subscriber, you can book tickets to these events when you book your 2011 concert package. Please see the individual concert booking form for details. If you know a school that would like to attend, a downloadable booking form is available on the MSO website at www.mso.com.au

Tuesday 14 June at 6:30pm Melbourne Town Hall

Saturday 18 June at 2pm Melbourne Town Hall

Ears Wide Open

MSO Family Jam

Music from Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4 and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra

recommended for children aged six and over

Ears Wide Open is a fascinating 80-minute interactive event for audiences of all ages, featuring the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Australia’s Mr. Music, Richard Gill. In this special Education Week edition, Richard Gill and the MSO explore the hills and valleys of two big works featuring in forthcoming concerts: the autobiographical roller-coaster ride of a symphony in which Tchaikovsky, in moods passionate and lyrical, wrestles with the concept of Fate, and Bartók’s galvanising orchestral showpiece.

See pages 6 and 8 for information about the MSO’s performances of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4 on Thursday June 30, Friday 1 and Saturday 2 July in the Melbourne Town Hall. See pages 6 and 8 for information about the MSO’s performances of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra on 14, 15 and 16 July in the Melbourne Town Hall. If you’re an MSO subscriber, you can book tickets to this Ears Wide Open event when you book your 2011 concert package. Please see the individual concert booking form for details.

MSO Community Outreach Showcase Saturday 18 June at 4pm Saturday 18 June at 3:30pm Melbourne Town Hall Melbourne Town Hall

The MSO/ArtPlay Ensemble and Citybeats The MSO Community Outreach program has been associated with ArtPlay since its inception in 2003. The award-winning MSO/ArtPlay Ensemble program is a unique suite of collaborative projects between MSO players and musicians aged between seven and 17 years of age. The program focuses on composition and performance, and complements the young musicians’ instrumental learning by providing opportunities for intensive development in composition, improvisation, ensemble skills and performance.

Do you have an instrument, love music and want to play? Then YOU are what we are looking for! Bring yourself and your family along to a unique one hour musicmaking workshop where, over the course of an hour, you’ll work with musicians from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to develop an original composition. You don’t need to be afraid, either; we cater for all abilities. Our musicians will be there to guide those who are just starting out or inspire those aspiring to play in the Orchestra one day. And where better can you get musical guidance from than from the best in the industry!

Saturday 18 June at 7:30pm Melbourne Town Hall

The Pizzicato Effect Share the Chair The Pizzicato Effect, a collaborative Community Outreach project between Meadows Primary School in Broadmeadows and the MSO, gives the students opportunities to acquire new musical skills and engage in various new and challenging activities. In the process, they also gain important social skills and self-confidence. In these performances, the Meadows Primary School students and participants in the MSO/ArtPlay Ensemble program will perform with members of the MSO. See and hear the effect music can have on the lives of these children.

Stefan Asbury conductor The MSO joins musical forces for the first time with Victoria’s leading music organisation for students aged eight – 25 years, Melbourne Youth Music. Members of the Melbourne Youth Orchestra will have the unique opportunity to share the stage with their professional counterparts. This unique event will be the culmination of intensive rehearsals under the baton of conductor Stefan Asbury. The Share the Chair orchestra of students and professionals promises to be a tremendously rewarding experience for the MSO musicians, the students, and the audience. Don’t miss this extraordinary event.

Culminating with a performance which is open for passer-bys, this event is a great FREE family friendly activity. This program is recommended for children aged six and over, and participants require their own instrument. Participation in the MSO Family Jam is free, and REGISTRATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL. To book your place, e-mail MSO Education at education@mso.com.au or call the MSO education office on (03) 9626 1115.

Daily from Tuesday 14 to Friday 17 June at 1pm Hoddle Room, Melbourne Town Hall

Music that Moves Me Hosted by ABC Classic FM broadcaster Mairi Nicolson, Music that Moves Me is a series of informal conversations with members from the MSO about the music that they hold dear to their hearts. These relaxed, halfhour chats will take place in the comfort of the Hoddle Room, where you’ll be able to enjoy a coffee and light lunch: the perfect way to escape from your busy work day. Admission free. Doors open at 12:30pm

Rachmaninov The Isle of the Dead The MSO Community Outreach Program looks at the power of music to connect people and creates opportunities for groups and individuals to interact and collaborate with musicians from the Orchestra in diverse ways. Admission free. Doors open at 3pm.

Prokofiev Symphony No. 3 Admission free. Doors open at 6:30pm.

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Ears Wide Open CONDUCTED AND PRESENTED BY RICHARD GILL

ALL CONCERTS AT MELBOURNE TOWN HALL*

Each Ears Wide Open is a fascinating 80-minute interactive event for audiences of all ages, featuring the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Australia’s Mr. Music, Richard Gill. In Ears Wide Open, Richard explores the worlds of the musical masterworks which will be featured in the MSO concert season, making each event an entertaining musical guide to your concert adventures. Ears Wide Open 1 Tuesday 8 March at 6:30pm

Ears Wide Open 2 Tuesday 14 June at 6:30pm

Music from Haydn’s The Creation

Music from Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4 and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra

The Creation is one of the supreme musical achievements of the classical era, a spacious, ambitious celebration of the beginnings of earthly existence that expresses, in the words of art historian Kenneth Clark, ‘a joy in the dance of life.’ See pages 6, 8 and 11 for information about performances of The Creation.

Richard Gill and the MSO explore the hills and valleys of two big works featuring in forthcoming concerts: the autobiographical roller-coaster ride of a symphony in which Tchaikovsky, in moods passionate and lyrical, wrestles with the concept of Fate, and Bartók’s galvanising orchestral showpiece See pages 6 and 8 for information about performances of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4 and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.

Richard Gill

Ears Wide Open 3 Tuesday 26 July at 6:30pm

Ears Wide Open 4 Sunday 14 August at 7:30pm

Ears Wide Open 5 Tuesday 13 September at 6:30pm

Music by Delius and Grainger

Music from Beethoven’s Symphony No.7

Music from Handel’s Messiah (Mozart Edition)

As part of the Beethoven Festival, Richard and the MSO investigate the inner workings of the symphony Wagner famously called ‘the apotheosis of the dance.’

Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre

The Walk to the Paradise Garden and Irish Tune from County Derry feature in the Melbourne Town Hall Proms concert on Friday 26 August, marking the 50th anniversary in 2011 of Percy Grainger’s death. Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden Grainger Irish Tune from County Derry (Danny Boy) See page 36 for information about this concert.

See page 21 for information about the performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No.7, taking place as part of the Beethoven Festival on Wednesday 17 August.

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Messiah is a unique musical experience: a dramatic story of faith, suffering and redemption and a masterpiece of the Baroque, one which offers a message of belief that continues to resonate through time. Mozart’s re-scoring of Messiah for classical forces is a rare and special experience in itself, often sounding like a new work. In this Ears Wide Open, Richard and the MSO will demonstrate some of the profound differences between Mozart’s edition and Handel’s original See page 27 for information about the performances of Handel’s Messiah in Mozart’s edition.

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Recital Centre Series 1 Thursday 14 April at 8pm Saturday 16 April at 6:30pm

Recital Centre Series 2 Thursday 19 May at 8pm Saturday 21 May at 6:30pm

Mozart and Schubert Favourites

The Beethoven Concertos: Labadie Conducts Bach The Journey Continues

Schubert, master of the lyrical idea, may have written no orchestral work more purely beautiful than his Fifth Symphony. Writer Geoffrey Crankshaw described it as ‘a jewel of infinite grace,’ and as such it provides a fitting companion to Mozart’s sublime concerto. It was during a rehearsal of the last movement of this concerto that Beethoven exclaimed to a fellow-pianist and composer: “Cramer! Cramer! You and I will never be able to do anything like that!”

Visionary Finnish pianist, conductor and composer Olli Mustonen returns to Melbourne for the second event in his survey of the Beethoven piano concertos with the MSO. He brings together the transcription Beethoven created for piano of his violin concerto with the concerto in which Beethoven bid farewell to the 18th century, and ushered in a new era of heightened expression.

Edo de Waart conductor Joyce Yang piano Adams Chamber Symphony Mozart Piano Concerto No.24

Olli Mustonen director/piano

Recital Centre Series 3 Thursday 2 June at 8pm Saturday 4 June at 6:30pm

Bernard Labadie, one of the world’s leading conductors of Baroque music, leads the MSO on this journey through the world of Bach. Exciting young German soprano Lydia Teuscher is soloist in arias which draw us into the gracious, beautiful world of Bach’s cantatas. Bernard Labadie conductor Lydia Teuscher soprano Bach Cantata BWV 42: Sinfonia Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.1

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3

Bach Cantata BWV 51 Jauchzet (Gott in allen Landen!)

Mustonen Three Mysteries Beethoven Violin Concerto (transcribed for piano)

Arias from Cantata BWV 10, Cantata BWV 21 and Cantata BWV 211 Bach Orchestral Suite No.4

Schubert Symphony No.5

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Monash Series

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Monash Series 1 Friday 15 April at 8pm

Monash Series 2 Friday 20 May at 8pm

Mozart and Schubert Favourites

The Beethoven Concertos: The Journey Continues

Schubert, master of the lyrical idea, may have written no orchestral work more purely beautiful than his Fifth Symphony. Writer Geoffrey Crankshaw described it as “a jewel of infinite grace,” and as such it provides a fitting companion to Mozart’s sublime concerto. It was during a rehearsal of the last movement of this concerto that Beethoven exclaimed to a fellow-pianist and composer: “Cramer! Cramer! You and I will never be able to do anything like that!”

ALL CONCERTS AT ROBERT BLACKWOOD HALL, MONASH UNIVERSITY, CLAYTON

Olli Mustonen director/piano Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3

Edo de Waart conductor Joyce Yang piano

Mustonen Three Mysteries

Adams Chamber Symphony Mozart Piano Concerto in C minor K.491

Beethoven Violin Concerto (transcribed for piano)

Schubert Symphony No.5

Monash Series 3 Friday 24 June at 8pm

Monash Series 4 Friday 4 November at 8pm

Monash Series 5 Friday 25 November at 8pm

Carmina Burana

Rhapsody In Blue: The MSO Plays Gershwin and Friends

Otaka Conducts Brahms

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.1

Sassy, street-wise, soaring and sentimental, Gershwin’s music occupies a special place in our hearts, whether it’s the wailing clarinet which opens Rhapsody in Blue or the haunting ‘Summertime’ from Porgy and Bess. In this program, full of Gershwin’s “Fascinating Rhythms,” triple-threat British maestro Bramwell Tovey conducts, compères and, in Rhapsody in Blue, appears as piano soloist. He is joined by a thrilling North American vocal talent, soprano Tracy Dahl, for some of Gershwin’s enduring standards and music by Leonard Bernstein and William Walton that demonstrates the depth of George Gershwin’s influence. Who could ask for anything more?

Orff Carmina Burana

Bramwell Tovey conductor/piano Tracy Dahl soprano

Jakub Hru˚sǎ conductor ̌ ski piano Simon Trpce Hyeseoung Kwon soprano Paul McMahon tenor José Carbó baritone Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Jonathan Grieves-Smith chorus master Concordis Chamber Choir Andrew Hunter artistic director

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A true master of the viola, Lawrence Power is renowned for his ‘...world-class combination of searingly intense tone, fabulous technique and consummate musicianship.’ (The Guardian) He makes his MSO debut in a haunting evocation of the natural world by Japan’s greatest 20th century composer, To¯ru Takemitsu, in a concert conducted by Takemitsu’s friend and champion, Tadaaki Otaka. Here, Maestro Otaka also continues his journey through Brahms’ symphonies with the MSO, which he began in 2009. Tadaaki Otaka conductor Lawrence Power viola Fauré Pelléas et Mélisande: Suite Takemitsu A String Around Autumn AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Brahms Symphony No.1

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Geelong Series

FRIDAYS

Geelong Series 1 Friday 18 March at 8pm

Geelong Series 2 Friday 3 June at 8pm

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Labadie Conducts Bach

One of the stars of the international concert scene, Akiko Suwanai partners with powerhouse maestro Mark Wigglesworth for one of the most popular of all violin concertos, in which passion, virtuoso fireworks and heart-rending lyricism are equal parts of the whole. The Third Symphony of Tchaikovsky’s countryman, and champion, Rachmaninov, displays the rhapsodic shifts of mood and seamless blending of lyricism and rhythmic excitement which are hallmarks of his music. Mark Wigglesworth conductor Akiko Suwanai violin Geoffrey Payne Principal Trumpet – Block Arcade

ALL CONCERTS AT COSTA HALL, DEAKIN UNIVERSITY, GEELONG

Wagner Parsifal: Prelude Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

Bernard Labadie, one of the world’s leading conductors of Baroque music, leads the MSO on this journey through the world of Bach. Exciting young German soprano Lydia Teuscher is soloist in arias which draw us in to the gracious, beautiful world of Bach’s cantatas. Bernard Labadie conductor Lydia Teuscher soprano Bach Cantata BWV 42: Sinfonia Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.1 Bach Cantata BWV 51 Jauchzet (Gott in allen Landen!) Arias from Cantata BWV 10, Cantata BWV 21 and Cantata BWV 211 Bach Orchestral Suite No.4

Rachmaninov Symphony No.3

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Geelong Series 3 Friday 5 August at 8pm

Geelong Series 4 Friday 9 September at 8pm

Geelong Series 5 Friday 28 October at 8pm

Beethoven’s Eroica

The Lark Ascending

Mozart Masterworks

In this exclusive preview of the Beethoven Festival, which commences in Melbourne the following day (see pages 18 – 23 for more details), Douglas Boyd conducts two of the world’s greatest symphonies. Although Beethoven’s debt to his classical masters is clear in his First Symphony, so too is the emerging sound of a musical personality. A few years later, Beethoven’s unshakable belief in freedom, and his determination to overcome the effects of his increasing deafness, led to the creation of the Eroica, the grandest and most ambitious orchestral work of its time.

Sir Andrew Davis is joined by Australia’s iconic soprano, Yvonne Kenny, as they recite Edith Sitwell’s poetry to the witty, tuneful musical settings the young William Walton created in Façade.

Mozart’s C minor mass remains one of the pinnacles of sacred music in the classical era. Tender, epic, profound and beautiful, it is a magnificent achievement. To conduct it the MSO and Chorus welcome one of the world’s leading early music scholars, Masaaki Suzuki, founder of Bach Collegium Japan, and an outstanding cast of soloists.

Musicologist Wilfred Mellers once said of Vaughan-Williams: ‘By no other composer is the interdependence of man and Nature more movingly expressed,’ and The Lark Ascending – here with MSO Concertmaster Wilma Smith as soloist – virtually defines this aspect of his musical personality.

Masaaki Suzuki conductor Carolyn Sampson soprano Miriam Allan soprano Paul McMahon tenor Christian Immler bass

Beethoven Symphony No.1

Sir Andrew Davis conductor/narrator Yvonne Kenny narrator Wilma Smith violin

Beethoven Symphony No.3 Eroica

Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Jonathan Grieves-Smith chorus master

Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending

Mozart Symphony No.36 Linz

Walton Façade

Mozart Mass in C minor, K.427

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This concert is supported by Fletcher Jones.

Douglas Boyd conductor

Ticketholders can enjoy pre-concert talks one hour prior to each performance.

Geelong Series

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C RESERVE Adult $160 Pensioner $130 Student $105 School $75

Melbourne Town Hall Proms FRIDAYS

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Town Hall Proms 1 Friday 4 March at 7:30pm

Town Hall Proms 2 Friday 26 August at 7:30pm

Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony

Tribute to Percy Grainger

This musical tour de France takes in a spectacular variety of moods, from the languorous serenity of Chausson’s Poème to the marvellous orchestral mayhem caused by the unwitting spells of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Under the direction of dynamic Australian conductor Antony Walker – Music Director of Pittsburgh Opera in the USA – the concert culminates in a piece ideally suited to the Melbourne Town Hall and its superb organ, Saint-Saëns’ mighty Organ Symphony. You WILL feel the earth move!

‘Grainger was a profoundly generous man to his colleagues, and the things that inspire me in the world of art are the marvellous and the generous.’ – Richard Mills

Antony Walker conductor Sophie Rowell violin Berlioz Overture: Le corsaire Chausson Poème for violin and orchestra Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Percy Grainger in 2011, Richard Mills conducts a beautifully crafted program which draws together the many strands of Grainger’s life and legacy: his friendships – and musical kinship with – Grieg and Delius; his extraordinary imagination, which resulted in such colourful works as his suite In A Nutshell; and his uniquely iconic status in the history of Australian music, which continues to inspire composers such as Mills himself. In his Organ Concerto, subtitled Like a sound from heaven, Mills had created a work which, as he says, “celebrates humanity’s potential for change, growth and renewal.”

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Richard Mills conductor Calvin Bowman organ Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No.1 Mills Organ Concerto de caelo sonus* WORLD PREMIERE Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden Grainger The Immoveable Do Grainger Irish Tune from County Derry (Danny Boy) Grainger In a Nutshell: Suite *Commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Wadley Family in honour of Denise Wadley.

Ticketholders can also enjoy a free 30-minute recital before each concert on the magnificent Town Hall organ, commencing at 6:30pm

Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3 Organ Town Hall Proms 3 Friday 23 September at 7:30pm

Town Hall Proms 4 Friday 18 November at 7:30pm

Angela Hewitt Plays Mozart Rococo Variations ‘It is one of the grandest efforts of the art that we ever witnessed…it rouses and affects every emotion of the soul.’ So London’s Morning Chronicle wrote of the premiere of Haydn’s 99th Symphony in 1794. Lyrical, grandgestured and as fresh as the day it was first performed, this beautiful work is the finale to a thrilling program conducted by Baroque and Classical specialist Roy Goodman. Goodman is joined by the peerless Mozart pianist Angela Hewitt, in her only Australian orchestral appearance this year, for Mozart’s regal concerto. Roy Goodman conductor Angela Hewitt piano

Tadaaki Otaka conductor Alisa Weilerstein cello

Beethoven Egmont: Overture

Conyngham The Gardener of Time WORLD PREMIERE

Mozart Piano Concerto No.22 J.C. Bach Endimione: Overture

Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme

Haydn Symphony No.99 This concert is also being performed at the Frankston Arts Centre on Thursday 22 September at 8pm. For further information please call (03) 9784 1060.

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One of the world’s most exciting cellists, Alisa Weilerstein is soloist in Tchaikovsky’s exquisite homage to the classical spirit. Awarded the prestigious Elgar medal for his advocacy of the composer’s music, Tadaaki Otaka directs Elgar’s mighty Symphony No. 1, a grand, beautiful, gloriously involving orchestral showpiece that embodies, in the composer’s words, ‘a massive hope for the future.’ The concert opens with the world premiere of Barry Conyngham’s tribute to his friend and champion and, for many years the MSO’s Chief Conductor, Hiroyuki Iwaki.

Elgar Symphony No.1

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MSO Principal Guest Conductor Tadaaki Otaka

B RESERVE Adult $212 Pensioner $168 Student $116

C RESERVE Adult $144 Pensioner $112 Student $88

Sidney Myer Free Concerts FRIDAYS WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS - FREE ADMISSION

ALL CONCERTS AT SIDNEY MYER MUSIC BOWL

John Arcaro Percussion – Birrarung Marr

Summer in the city means Melbourne’s favourite musical treat, the MSO’s Sidney Myer Free Concerts, presented by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in association with the University of Melbourne. Celebrating their 52nd year in the Bowl in 2011, these glorious events bring beautiful music and great artists from around the world to Australia’s finest outdoor space for music. Sidney Myer Free Concert 1 Wednesday 9 February at 7pm

Sidney Myer Free Concert 2 Saturday 12 February at 7pm

Sidney Myer Free Concert 3 Wednesday 16 February at 7pm

Sidney Myer Free Concert 4 Saturday 19 February at 7pm

Mozart and Mahler

Beethoven’s Fifth

Romeo and Juliet

Made in Australia

Tadaaki Otaka conductor Clemens Leske piano

Tadaaki Otaka conductor Miki Tsunoda violin

Tadaaki Otaka conductor Andrea Lam piano

Benjamin Northey conductor

Mozart Piano Concerto No.21

Bernstein Candide: Overture

Mozart Symphony No.41 Jupiter

Mahler Symphony No.5

Barber Adagio for Strings

Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

Barber Violin Concerto

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet

Beethoven Symphony No.5

Soloists of the Consort of Melbourne Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Jonathan Grieves-Smith chorus master Westlake Missa Solis* WORLD PREMIERE Grainger Blithe Bells Green Bushes Country Gardens Irish Tune from County Derry (Danny Boy) Tribute to Foster

For conditions of entry and other information about the Sidney Myer Free Concerts, see www.mso.com.au *Commissioned by Symphony Australia for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with financial assistance from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

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Saturday 19 November at 7:30pm Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo

Sunday 20 November at 3pm St Mary’s Basilica, Geelong

Friday 2 December at 8pm St Patrick’s Cathedral, East Melbourne

Pilgrimage to Santiago In the north-west corner of Spain lies the end of the known world. Here is Finisterre, where a curtain hangs between the mortal and the divine. Here are found St James the Apostle’s bones beneath a strange constellation: here is built the city of Santiago de Compostela – St James of the Field of Stars – where for more than a thousand years pilgrims come to touch the hem of the divine curtain. Along their weary, arduous, dangerous journeys, Renaissance pilgrims were refreshed by the music of perhaps the most glorious of all Spanish Renaissance

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composers, Tomas Luis de Victoria, who died 400 years ago in 1611. In a program that pays homage to the pilgrim’s way and to Victoria himself, the MSO Chorus recreates a taste of the rich melange of European music known in Spain’s magnificent abbeys and cathedrals along the pilgrimage routes. One of these cathedrals, an astonishing building standing in Leon, is the subject of an exquisite contemporary tribute, Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles. Here receiving its world premiere, To the Field of Stars is an exquisite commission from an outstanding English composer Gabriel Jackson. His music is steeped

Bendigo Presented by The Capital, Bendigo. Tickets available from February 2011. Box office: (03) 5434 6100.

in music of the past, transformed with genius into a singular, ecstatic language. His is music that gently, persistently disturbs the curtain at the end of the known world and allows us a heart-stopping glimpse of what lies beyond.

Anon Tota Pulchra Est

Sharon Draper cello

Anon Nigra Sum

Clemens non Papa Sanctus Victoria Vidi Speciosam

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Clemens non Papa Jonathan Grieves-Smith conductor Ego Flos Campi Talbot Leon (from Path of Miracles) Jackson To The Field Of Stars AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE* Anon *co-commissioned with the Netherlands Chamber Dum Esset Rex Choir and St Jacob’s Chamber Choir, Stockholm Lassus Justorum Animae Geelong Presented by the Geelong Friends of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Tickets available from GPAC and at the door. Adult: $30 Concession: $25 (including GFMSO members) Box office: (03) 5225 1200.

Melbourne Presented by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Tickets available from September 2010. Adult: $30 Concession: $25 Box office: (03) 9929 9600.

Chamber Series

FRIDAYS

SUNDAY MORNINGS

ALL CONCERTS AT IWAKI AUDITORIUM, ABC SOUTHBANK CENTRE

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Intimate performances in an exciting and diverse range of music, featuring musicians from the MSO (with the occasional special guest) on four Sundays at 11am in the Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre.

Chamber Series 1 Sunday 3 April at 11am

Chamber Series 2 Sunday 22 May at 11am

Chamber Series 3 Sunday 25 September at 11am

Chamber Series 4 Sunday 23 October at 11am

Schubert Octet

Mozart Horn Quintet

Tchaikovsky in Italy

Schumann Quintet

Wilma Smith violin Fiona Sargeant, Simon Collins viola Rohan de Korte cello Andrew Bain French horn Brett Kelly trombone Joe Chindamo, Amir Farid, David Hirschfelder, piano John Arcaro, Robert Clarke percussion

Roy Theaker, Matthew Tomkins violin Lauren Brigden, Justin Williams viola Sharon Draper, Rohan de Korte, Michelle Wood cello Philip Arkinstall clarinet Louisa Breen piano

FaurĂŠ Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 15

Piazzolla Libertango transcribed for clarinet, cello and piano

Mozart Horn Quintet K407

Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor

Hirschfelder Branches of Vayu WORLD PREMIERE

Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence

Christine Johnson, Eleanor Mancini, Anne Martonyi, Michelle Ruffolo violin Trevor Jones, Cindy Watkin viola Sharon Draper, Keith Johnson cello Sylvia Hosking double bass Andrew Macleod flutes Craig Hill clarinet Andrew Bain French horn Brock Imison bassoon Kats-Chernin Reinventions Schubert Octet

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Adult Pensioner Student

Peter Edwards, Kirstin Kenny violin Fiona Sargeant viola Nicholas Bochner cello Louisa Breen piano Boccherini Piano Quintet Op.57, No.3 Westlake Piano Trio Schumann Piano Quintet

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Family Classic Kids

David Thomas Principal Clarinet – Melbourne Aquarium

MSO Musicians – Melbourne Town Hall

The MSO in concert around Victoria Tuesday 5 April at 8pm Her Majesty’s Theatre, Ballarat Wednesday 6 April at 8pm The Capital, Bendigo’s Performing Arts Centre Thursday 7 April at 8pm Eastbank Centre, Shepparton Performing Arts Centre

Wednesday 11 May at 8pm Gwen and Edna Jones Theatre Kings College, Warrnambool

Nicholas Carter conductor Ji Won Kim violin Beethoven Coriolan: Overture Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

All-Mozart program

Mozart Idomeneo: Ballet Music

La clemenza di Tito: Overture

Dvorˇák Slavonic Dances from Op. 46

Così fan tutte: Overture Symphony No.38 Prague

Tuesday 4 October at 8pm Clocktower Centre, Moonee Ponds Wednesday 5 October at 8pm Warragul Performing Arts Centre Paul Fitzsimon conductor Nicholas Bochner cello Dvorˇák Cello Concerto Dall’Ongaro Perpetuum mobile Mozart Symphony No.40 The MSO will also perform concerts for schools in most Powercor Regional Touring centres. For full details please go to www.mso.com.au

With the children sitting right next to the Orchestra, there are opportunities to sing along, respond to the music with movement and actions, follow a story and maybe even conduct! If you’re an MSO subscriber, you may purchase Family Classic Kids tickets when you book your 2011 subscription package. Please see your individual concert booking form for details.

Thursday 12 May at 8pm Hamilton Performing Arts Centre

Garry Walker conductor Prudence Davis flute

Flute Concerto No. 1

Family Classic Kids is the MSO’s popular program of concerts for children aged three to eight years of age – and a great way to introduce young people to the wonders of orchestral music.

Saturday 17 September at 10am, 11:30am, 1:30pm and 3pm Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre

Saturday 22 October at 10am, 11:30am, 1:30pm and 3pm Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre

Movement Makes Music

Clowning Around

Brett Kelly conductor This unique collaboration between the MSO and the Australian Ballet Dance Education Ensemble will engage children aurally and kinetically. Performers will highlight the links between movement and music during this 50-minute show, in which audience members will be inspired and enchanted.

with Melvin Tix Melvin Tix will make his debut with the MSO in these Family Classic Kids concerts. Petter Vabog has been performing as Melvin Tix for more than 21 years throughout the world. In these concerts he presents a delightful program of classical favourites, warmed by his own unique humour and magic. His concerts are a mixture of music, balloon sculptures and lots of laughs. Melvin Tix is not only the conductor, but the master of ceremonies, the soloist, the balloon-making genius and the music arranger. Clowning around with Melvin Tix will be an exciting performance for everyone. This 50-minute, interactive and highly engaging show is suitable for children aged between three and eight years old.

You can make a world of difference ‘I urge you to: • Donate with your subscription. Every gift will help someone new to experience the brilliant, live performances we treasure. It’s an easy way to give your support to our youth access and education projects in 2011. • Make a bequest to the MSO as part of your estate planning. And join the MSO Conductor’s Circle in 2011 with this inspirational long-term support. • Become an MSO Patron. Your annual pledge will contribute to a unique financial reserve, which will guarantee the Orchestra’s artistic independence and long-term sustainability.’

All our donors are special. You may like to make your gift as an individual, or to acknowledge a special friendship. Equally, you may wish to band together with friends to show your support. Every gift is tax-deductible and will be gratefully received and acknowledged. In anticipation of your generous support for your MSO, thank you! For all enquiries, please contact Jessica Frean T (03) 9626 1107 E philanthropy@mso.com.au The MSO relies on donations to support a rich variety of musical, educational and community outreach programs. This is your opportunity to play your part.

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Wilma Smith Concertmaster

Participate in the MSO Friends’ 2011 Season and add an extra dimension to your enjoyment of our fine Orchestra

The MSO friends offer you the following opportunities and experiences:

How the Friends support the Orchestra:

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Conversations and receptions with guest artists

Advocacy

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Four Open Rehearsals

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Opportunities to enjoy the company of MSO personnel, and other music lovers, in a social environment

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Recitals by MSO members and outstanding young musicians

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Touring opportunities, offered exclusively to the Friends

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Social gatherings including a network of Home Music Groups

All new members will be invited to a complimentary function to meet the Committee and other members.

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Promoting the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in the community

Support Giving targeted financial and volunteer support

Involvement Offering concertgoers an extra dimension of involvement with the MSO

By joining the Friends for the modest annual fee of $40 Single $60 Joint/Family $25 Single Pensioner or Student $30 Joint/Family Pensioner you too will become part of the MSO family, will receive the regular newsletter In Tune with details of all the Friends has to offer, and will be giving our Orchestra greatly valued support. Enquiries: Phone Lyn Edward on 9512 0924 or Clare Maloney on 9802 6413 Or visit the Friends pages on the MSO website: www.mso.com.au, click on BELONG, then FRIENDS and download and complete the Friends Membership Application Form.

If you would like to become involved more closely with the MSO and reside in the Geelong and Surf Coast area, please contact the Hon. Secretary, Geelong Friends of the MSO, PO Box 1140, Geelong, VIC 3220 41

How to Book Your Five Easy Ways:

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Online

Subscriber Group Bookings

MSO subscriptions can be purchased or renewed online at www.mso.com.au See opposite page.

Telephone (03) 9929 9600 for further details regarding group bookings. Please note group subscriptons cannot be exchanged.

Individual Concert Tickets

Telephone

Individual tickets for 2011 concerts will go on sale from Monday 1 November 2010.

Call the MSO Box Office on (03) 9929 9600 and charge your subscription to your credit card (Monday to Thursday between 9am and 5pm, Friday 9am to 6pm).

All concert tickets will be available to purchase from the MSO Box Office or via www.mso.com.au

Mail Complete your booking form, available to download from the MSO website, and mail to: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Box Office, GPO Box 2992, Melbourne VIC 3001.

Facsimile Complete the booking form, available to download from the MSO website, and fax to (03) 9929 9601.

In Person

It is not possible to purchase tickets from the Arts Centre Box Office for any concerts other than those in the Arts Centre, State Theatre. Please note that individual concert tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded.

Payment You can pay by cheque, money order, cash (in person only) or with major credit cards*. Cheques should be made payable to Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Pty Ltd. *Except Diners Club Card Please refer to Terms and Conditions of Sale at www.mso.com.au for further details.

GENERAL INFORMATION Geelong Subscribers Special conditions apply for Geelong series subscribers. For bookings and further details, please contact the Geelong Performing Arts Centre on (03) 5225 1200. Choose Your Own Subscribers In offering you great flexibility in the choice of your concerts in this package, we are not able to offer renewable seating. We will endeavour to allocate the best seating available to you, but please be aware that your seating may vary from concert to concert.

Concessions Pensioner/Unemployed concessions are available to all beneficiaries of means-tested age, invalid, supporting parent and unemployed benefits. Student/Youth concessions are available to all full-time students, and to anyone aged 20 and under with a valid ID for 2011. Seniors Card concessions are only available for the Chamber Series and Melbourne Town Hall Proms. If you are booking concession or student subscriptions online, please contact the MSO Box Office on (03) 9929 9600 and supply our customer service staff with your student and concession details. Details can also be faxed to (03) 9929 9601, mailed to 3 Driver Lane, Melbourne, 3001 or scanned and emailed to boxoffice@mso.com.au

Subscription

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How to Book Online From the MSO website you can: • Renew your 2011 Season subscription • Purchase a new 2011 Season subscription • Purchase 2011 Season individual concert tickets • Purchase parking vouchers • Make a donation to the Orchestra (all donation over $2 are tax-deductable) • Subscribe to eNews or receive MSO Concert Programs free via email • Update your contact and address details

If you have any queries regarding the online purchasing process, please call our Box Office team on (03) 9929 9600 during business hours.

What’s new in 2011?

Print your tickets at home Once you purchase your 2011 Season subscription you will have the option to either • •

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To renew your 2011 Season subscription and purchase additional 2011 concert tickets, please enter your account ID or email address and your password and click the log-in button. If you cannot remember your password please click the Forgot Password button. If you are a not an existing MSO subscriber and would like to purchase a 2011 Season subscription, please enter your email address and then click Submit. This will take you to the MSO online purchasing options screen.

Free Gift Voucher Book your 2011 Season subscription online by Friday 19 November 2010 at www.mso.com.au and receive a free $50 gift voucher towards a future ticket purchase. The voucher is valid for the purchase of single concert tickets to a concert taking place within the MSO 2011 season and is redeemable only at the MSO Box Office. The voucher can be redeemed for all 2011 MSO events except the following: Tim Minchin vs the MSO, Randy Newman or Peter and the Wolf. No refunds will be issued in the event that you redeem the vouchers for tickets with lesser monetary value than the value of the vouchers

Receive your ticket by mail or Print your tickets at home.

From 2011, all MSO tickets will be bar-coded. This means that, at all venues, tickets you print at home will be honoured in the same way as tickets mailed to you by the MSO or Ticketmaster.

Change Of Plans? No longer able to attend the concert? Exchange your tickets electronically If you’re an MSO subscriber, and you choose the ‘print your tickets at home’ option when you make your purchases for 2011, you may simply email your ticket/s to a friend if you find that you are not able to attend a concert. Alternatively, if you wish to exchange your tickets for a different concert, you can email your tickets to the MSO Box Office. You will receive your exchanged tickets via email the next business day. Please note you will need to email the tickets to the concert you cannot attend at least one business day before the concert date.

Single Ticket Prices

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A Reserve

B Reserve

C Reserve

Adult Pensioner Student/Youth

$108.00 $85.00 $64.00

$85.00 $64.00 $42.00

$58.00 $48.00 $32.00

Monash Series/Geelong Concerts

Adult Pensioner Student/Youth Schools

$88.00 $70.00 $46.00 $34.00

$70.00 $58.00 $36.00 $25.00

$44.00 $37.00 $29.00 $22.00

Beethoven Festival Concerts

Adult Pensioner Student/Youth

$130.00 $110.00 $80.00

$100.00 $80.00 $50.00

$70.00 $60.00 $35.00

MSO POPS Concerts

Premium*

Melbourne Town Hall Concerts* *Excluding Beethoven Festival

Star Wars and Rhapsody in Blue

Adult Pensioner Student/Youth

Symphonic ABBA

Adult Pensioner Student/Youth

Melbourne Recital Centre Concerts

$135.00 $110.00 $85.00

*available for Rhapsody in Blue concerts only.

$100.00 $80.00 $60.00

$80.00 $60.00 $40.00

$55.00 $45.00 $30.00

$110.00 $90.00 $70.00

$90.00 $70.00 $50.00

$70.00 $60.00 $40.00

$113.00 $93.00

$93.00 $77.00

Premium Adult Concession

MSO Special Concerts

SINGLE TICKETS ON SALE 1 NOVEMBER 2010

$130.00

Premium

Tim Minchin

Adult Concession

$129.00 $119.00

$99.00 $89.00

$79.00 $69.00

Randy Newman

Adult Concession

$170.00 $136.00

$135.00 $110.00

$110.00 $90.00

Peter and the Wolf

Adult Concession Child

$25.00 $20.00 $15.00

Family (2+2) Adult and Child

$50.00 $30.00

$80.00 $70.00

Classic Kids, Family Classic Kids, Meet the Orchestra and Meet the Music

Adult Child Family (2+2)

$18.00 $12.00 $50.00

Ears Wide Open

Adult Concession

$20.00 $15.00

Metropolis

Adult Pensioner Student/Youth Schools

$57.00 $44.00 $38.00 $18.00

Chamber Series Concerts

Adult Concession Student/Youth

$38.00 $31.00 $23.00

Seating Maps

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Melbourne Recital Centre

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Acknowledgements Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Pty Ltd ABN 47 078 925 658

Harold Mitchell AC Chairman

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Dr Bronte Adams Director

Postal Address GPO Box 9994, Melbourne VIC 3001

Hon. Alan Goldberg AO, QC Director

Email info@mso.com.au www.mso.com.au

Alastair McKean Director

Honorary Life Members Sir Elton John, John Brockman OAM, Professor John Hopkins

Matthew VanBesien Managing Director Peter Biggs Director Cr Jennifer Kanis Director Ann Peacock Director Michael Ullmer Director

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is funded principally by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. It is generously supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria, Department of Premier and Cabinet. It is also funded by the city of Melbourne, Principal Partner Emirates and individual corporate partners and donors. All details are correct at the time of printing. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra reserves the right to vary without notice programs, artists and/or venues as may become necessary.

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