LPO concert programme: 25 Mar 2022 - Movie Legends (Ludwig Wicki/Colin Currie) by London Philharmonic Orchestra

2021/22 concert season at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall

Concert programme

Principal Conductor Edward Gardner supported by Aud Jebsen Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski Patron HRH The Duke of Kent KG Artistic Director Elena Dubinets Chief Executive David Burke Leader Pieter Schoeman supported by Neil Westreich

Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Friday 25 March 2022 | 7.30pm

Movie Legends Howard Shore The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring for Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (45’) Interval (20’) Danny Elfman Percussion Concerto (world premiere) (25’) Danny Elfman Batman Suite (16’) Danny Elfman Alice in Wonderland Suite (8’) Ludwig Wicki conductor Colin Currie percussion Grace Davidson soprano London Philharmonic Choir Artistic Director: Neville Creed

The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide. CONCERT PRESENTED BY THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

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Glyndebourne concert for Ukraine: Sunday 3 April

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On Sunday 3 April at 3pm we will join our friends at Glyndebourne Festival Opera for a special oneoff concert to raise funds for the people of Ukraine. Conductor Robin Ticciati unites the Orchestra and a host of Glyndebourne artists – all of whom are donating their time – for an afternoon of music as we stand in solidarity with those affected by war. All ticket sales and any other proceeds from this event will be donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

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LPO Junior Artists: Applications open for 2022/23

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LPO Junior Artists is a free year-long programme for eight young musicians from backgrounds currently under-represented in professional UK orchestras, offering an immersive, behind-the-scenes experience with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. LPO Junior Artists become part of the LPO family, develop their musicianship, and gain unique insights into the orchestral profession.

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The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 22 April 2022. Visit lpo.org.uk/juniorartists to find out more. You can hear our talented 2021/22 LPO Junior Artists perform alongside LPO players and Foyle Future First musicians at a free pre-concert event on the Royal Festival Hall stage at 6.00pm on Wednesday 13 April. Conducted by Gabriella Teychenné, the programme includes music by Delius, Bartók, Bizet, and a new commission by Geoffrey King.

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On stage tonight First Violins

Pieter Schoeman* Leader

Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Kate Oswin

Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

Lasma Taimina

Chair supported by Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave

Minn Majoe Catherine Craig Katalin Varnagy

Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Martin Höhmann

Chair supported by Chris Aldren

Nilufar Alimaksumova Yang Zhang

Chair supported by Eric Tomsett

Alice Hall Gabriela Opacka Miranda Allen Ronald Long Gavin Davies John Dickinson

Second Violins

Tania Mazzetti Principal Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan

Emma Oldfield Helena Smart Ashley Stevens Nancy Elan Marie-Anne Mairesse Nynke Hijlkema Erzsébet Rácz Joseph Maher Claudia Tarrant-Matthews Sheila Law Georgina Leo Alison Strange Rebecca Dinning

Violas

Richard Waters Principal

Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Ting-Ru Lai Benedetto Pollani Laura Vallejo Katharine Leek Stanislav Popov Alistair Scahill Julia Doukakis

Cor Anglais

Charles Cross Rachel Robson Raquel López Bolívar Richard Cookson

Sue Böhling* Principal

Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi

Clarinets

Cellos

Benjamin Mellefont Principal Thomas Watmough

Pei-Jee Ng Principal

Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Chair supported by The Candide Trust

Paul Richards

Francis Bucknall David Lale Sue Sutherley Tom Roff Sibylle Hentschel George Hoult Iain Ward Louise Dearsley Auriol Evans

Bass Clarinets

Paul Richards* Principal Thomas Watmough

Contrabass Clarinet Paul Richards*

Bassoons

Double Basses

Jonathan Davies Principal

Kevin Rundell* Principal Hugh Kluger George Peniston Tom Walley

Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

Gareth Newman Dominic Morgan

Contrabassoon

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Laura Murphy Adam Wynter Sam Rice Elen Roberts

Flutes

Fiona Kelly Guest Principal Hannah Grayson Stewart McIlwham*

Piccolos

Alto Flute

Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal

Timpani

Simon Carrington* Principal Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

Percussion

Andrew Barclay* Principal

Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins

Keith Millar Owen Gunnell Karen Hutt Feargus Brennan

Harp

Rachel Masters Principal

Piano

Clíodna Shanahan

Celestes

Dominic Morgan

Richard Gowers Clíodna Shanahan

Horns

Synthesizers

John Ryan* Principal Alex Wide Guest Principal Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison

Clíodna Shanahan Richard Gowers

Trumpets

Dulcimer

Paul Beniston* Principal Anne McAneney Tom Nielsen David Hilton

Stewart McIlwham* Principal Hannah Grayson

Tuba

Guitar

Daniel Thomas Edward Cervenka * Holds a professorial appointment in London

Cornet

Stewart McIlwham*

David Hilton

Whistle

Stewart McIlwham*

Trombones

Oboes

Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Mark Templeton* Principal

Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday Sue Böhling*

David Whitehouse

Bass Trombones

Lyndon Meredith Principal Simon Minshall

The LPO also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: David & Yi Buckley Bianca & Stuart Roden

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

One of the finest orchestras on the international stage, the London Philharmonic Orchestra balances a long and distinguished history with its reputation as one of the UK’s most forward-looking ensembles. As well as its concert performances, the Orchestra also records film soundtracks, releases CDs and downloads on its own label, and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families, schools and local communities.

the Orchestra takes up its annual residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where it has been Resident Symphony Orchestra for over 50 years. The Orchestra also tours internationally, performing to sell-out audiences worldwide. In 1956 it became the first British orchestra to appear in Soviet Russia and in 1973 made the first ever visit to China by a Western orchestra. The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded many blockbuster film scores, from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to Lawrence of Arabia, East is East, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Thor: The Dark World. It also broadcasts regularly on television and radio, and in 2005 established its own record label. There are now over 100 releases available on CD and to download. Recent highlights include Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 under Vladimir Jurowski; a commemorative box set of historic recordings with former Principal Conductor Sir Adrian Boult; and works by Richard Strauss under Klaus Tennstedt, featuring soprano Jessye Norman.

The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932, and has since been headed by many great conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In September 2021 Edward Gardner became the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor, succeeding Vladimir Jurowski, who became Conductor Emeritus in recognition of his transformative impact on the Orchestra as Principal Conductor from 2007–21. Karina Canellakis is the Orchestra’s current Principal Guest Conductor and Brett Dean is the Orchestra’s current Composer-in-Residence.

In summer 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed as part of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames, and was also chosen to record all the world’s national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics. In 2013 it was the winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble.

The Orchestra is resident at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, where it gives around 40 concerts each season. It also enjoys flourishing residencies in Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden, and performs regularly around the UK. Each summer

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Pieter Schoeman

The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians, and recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of its Education and Community department, whose work over three decades has introduced so many people of all ages to orchestral music and created opportunities for people of all backgrounds to fulfil their creative potential. Its dynamic and wide-ranging programme provides first musical experiences for children and families; offers creative projects and professional development opportunities for schools and teachers; inspires talented teenage instrumentalists to progress their skills; and develops the next generation of professional musicians. The Orchestra’s work at the forefront of digital technology has enabled it to reach millions of people worldwide. Over the pandemic period the LPO further developed its relationship with UK and international audiences through its ‘LPOnline’ digital content: over 100 videos of performances, insights, and introductions to playlists, which collectively received over 3 million views worldwide and led to the LPO being named runner-up in the Digital Classical Music Awards 2020. From Autumn 2020 the Orchestra was delighted to be able to return to its Southbank Centre home to perform a season of concerts filmed live and streamed free of charge via Marquee TV.

Leader

Pieter Schoeman was appointed Leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, having previously been Co-Leader since 2002. He is also a Professor of Violin at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance. Pieter has performed worldwide as a soloist and recitalist in such famous halls as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Moscow’s Rachmaninov Hall, Capella Hall in St Petersburg, Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and London’s Royal Festival Hall. As a chamber musician he regularly appears at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. His chamber music partners have included Anne-Sophie Mutter, Veronika Eberle, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Boris Garlitsky, JeanGuihen Queyras, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Martin Helmchen.

September 2021 saw the opening of a new live concert season at the Royal Festival Hall, featuring many of the world’s leading musicians including Sheku KannehMason, Klaus Mäkelä, Renée Fleming, Bryn Terfel and this season’s Artist-in-Residence, Julia Fischer. The Orchestra is delighted to be continuing to offer digital streams to selected concerts throughout the season through its ongoing partnership with Intersection and Marquee TV.

Pieter has performed numerous times as a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Highlights have included an appearance as both conductor and soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the Royal Festival Hall, the Brahms Double Concerto with Kristina Blaumane, and the Britten Double Concerto with Alexander Zemtsov, which was recorded and released on the LPO Label to great critical acclaim.

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Pieter has appeared as Guest Leader with the BBC, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon and Baltimore symphony orchestras, and the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras. Pieter’s chair in the LPO is generously supported by Neil Westreich.

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Ludwig Wicki conductor

Lucerne. This professional ensemble, led by Wicki as its sole Artistic Director, currently offers a series of more than ten projects every season, as well as guest appearances in London, Paris and New York. It has developed partnerships with renowned film composers including Howard Shore, Michael Giacchino, James Horner, Danny Elfman, Patrick Doyle, Randy Newman, Martin Böttcher and George Fenton. The 21st Century Orchestra also accompanies the silent classics with Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, as well as cult films such as Nosferatu. In 2008 Ludwig Wicki led the 21st Century Orchestra and Chorus in the world premiere of The Fellowship of the Ring at the KKL in Lucerne. This was the first-ever screening of the first part of The Lord of the Rings trilogy with a live performance of the original soundtrack. In the following years he performed the work in Munich, Washington DC, London, Chicago, Amsterdam, Lyon, Sydney, and other cities. The performances at London’s Royal Albert Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and at Radio City Music Hall in New York with the 21st Century Orchestra were the highlights of this highly successful project, which went on to include the world premieres of The Two Towers in 2009 and The Return of the King in 2010, all under Wicki’s baton. He has since directed the orchestra in the world premieres of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man’s Chest, At World’s End and On Stranger Tides. He also conducted the world premieres of Gladiator, Fantasia, Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, The Perfume and Alice in Wonderland. In 2015 Wicki conducted the entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy in seven concerts at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York. In 2015 he also conducted the world premieres of Titanic at London’s Royal Albert Hall, the premiere of Ratatouille in Paris, and Indiana Jones in Lucerne. Several world premieres followed: in 2016, Batman in Lucerne and Amadeus, Jurassic Park and Aliens at the Royal Albert Hall; in 2017, The English Patient and Winnetou; in 2019, Baahubali and Sissi.

A native of Lucerne, Switzerland, Ludwig Wicki grew up in a musical environment influenced by church and folk music. As a child and young adult he studied trombone and became a member of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, eventually expanding his studies to include orchestral and choral conducting. After several years at the music school in Bern, Wicki continued his education in Dresden with Cantor Martin Flämig and in Pescara with Professor Donato Renzetti. During this period he also devoted much of his time to chamber music, and founded the Lucerne Philharmonic Brass Quintet. Following the success of the ensemble’s recordings, Wicki was invited to play with the Empire Brass Quintet at the Tanglewood Academy in Boston. As a Baroque trombonist, Wicki frequently performed with various period instrument orchestras and ensembles, which further informed his approach to conducting. He was fortunate to collaborate with such luminaries as Andrew Parrott, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Jeremy West and Simon Standage. As a conductor, Ludwig Wicki enjoys working in a variety of musical genres. In his role as the Chorus Master of the Lucerne Abbey Court Church, he covers a wide range of repertoire from Gregorian chants to contemporary sacred music, with a primary focus on the classical choral masterworks of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn, the Baroque music of Bach and Handel, as well as the Renaissance masters: Palestrina, Monteverdi and Schütz. He also directs the Renaissance ensemble ‘Il Dolcimelo’.

Ludwig Wicki teaches chamber music and conducting at the conservatoires in Lucerne and Bern. In 2007 he was honoured by the city of Lucerne for his accomplishments as a musician and educator, and in 2013 he received the Award for Excellence in Cultural Creativity from the Global Thinkers Forum.

Wicki’s long-time passion for film music was fulfilled in 1999 with the creation of the 21st Century Orchestra

Tonight is his Royal Festival Hall debut with the LPO.

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Colin Currie percussion

ensemble have performed at many venues and festivals internationally.

In 2017 Currie launched Colin Currie Records in conjunction with LSO Live, as a platform for recording his diverse projects celebrating the extraordinary developments for percussion music in recent times. Since the label’s first release – the Colin Currie Group’s debut recording of Steve Reich’s Drumming, hailed as ‘thunderously exciting’ (The Times) – Currie has released three further discs in the catalogue: The Scene of The Crime with trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger; ‘Colin Currie & Steve Reich Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton’, once again featuring the Colin Currie Group; and most recently, HK Gruber Percussion Concertos with the BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena and John Storgårds.

Colin Currie is a solo and chamber artist at the peak of his powers. Championing new music at the highest level, he is hailed as being ‘at the summit of percussion performance today’ (Gramophone). Currie is the soloist of choice for many of today’s foremost composers and conductors, and he performs with the world’s leading orchestras including the London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw and Minnesota orchestras.

A major highlight of Currie’s 2021/22 season is the world premiere of a significant new work by Steve Reich, Traveler’s Prayer, written for the Colin Currie Group. Throughout October and November 2021 the group toured the premiere performances to the Royal Festival Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and the Philharmonie de Paris, with subsequent co-commissioned premieres to follow at Tokyo Opera City, Carnegie Hall and CAL Performances.

A dynamic and adventurous soloist, Currie’s commitment to commissioning and creating new music was recognised in 2015 by the Royal Philharmonic Society, who awarded him the Instrumentalist Award. He has premiered works by composers such as Steve Reich, Elliott Carter, Louis Andriessen, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Sir James MacMillan, Brett Dean, HK Gruber, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Andy Akiho, Rolf Wallin, Kurt Schwertsik, Andrew Norman, Julia Wolfe and Nico Muhly. In 2007 Currie gave the European premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s Percussion Concerto with the LPO and Marin Alsop at the Royal Festival Hall, which was later released on the LPO Label (LPO-0035). In 2009 Currie and the Orchestra gave the world premiere of Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Incantations, in 2012 the world premiere of Kalevi Aho’s percussion concerto Siedi, and in 2019 the world premiere of Helen Grime’s Percussion Concerto, all at the Royal Festival Hall.

Other highlights of Currie’s current season include the world premiere of Bruno Mantovani’s percussion concerto Allegro Barbaro with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and the world premiere of Nicole Lizée’s percussion concerto Blurr is the Colour of My True Love’s Eyes with the National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa. Following tonight’s world premiere of Danny Elfman’s Percussion Concerto, he will also give the work’s US premiere next month with the Pacific Symphony. Currie also performs widely in chamber performances across the season with the Colin Currie Quartet, Antoine Tamestit, Håkan Hardenberger and the musicians of Västerås Sinfonietta. He is Co-Artistic Curator of the Grafenegg Academy alongside Håkan Hardenberger, where he will give the Austrian premiere of Helen Grime’s Percussion Concerto as well as coaching, conducting and performing chamber music with Academy musicians.

Currie’s dynamic ensemble, the Colin Currie Group, was formed in 2006 to celebrate the music of Steve Reich, and made its five-star debut at the BBC Proms. Since then, with Reich’s personal endorsement, Currie and his

Currie is Artist in Association at the Southbank Centre, where he was the focus of a major percussion festival, ‘Metal Wood Skin’, in 2014, and continues to perform here every season.

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Grace Davidson soprano

Grace’s purity of tone has attracted many leading contemporary and film composers to write for her, most notably Max Richter, who chose her as the solo singer for his works including Woolfworks, Voices and Sleep. The latter piece – lasting all night – has now been performed all over the world, made into a film, premiered at the the Sundance Film Festival in 2020, and even has its own app. Grace is a featured voice on over 100 film soundtracks, and feels as at home in the studio as she does on the concert stage. She has performed Howard Shore’s The Lord of the Rings live to projection from Europe to Australia. Film soundtrack highlights featuring Grace’s voice include The Hobbit by Howard Shore, The Last Duel by Harry Gregson-Williams and Gunpowder Milkshake by Frank Ilfman.

British soprano Grace Davidson specialises first and foremost in the performance and recording of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music, but has always combined this with working alongside many contemporary composers.

This Easter brings a tour of Europe with Collegium Vocale conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, singing Bach’s St Matthew Passion arias. In August Grace will make her debut at the OVO Arena Wembley, performing the songs of Studio Ghibli with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joe Hisaishi.

Grace grew up in a house whose hallway was entirely filled by a grand piano which was being stored for a friend of the family – music was physically unavoidable. She learned the piano and the violin, but it was singing that she loved the most. Taken to Cats when she was three years old, she sang along throughout or, rather, whenever her mother’s hand wasn’t clamped over her mouth. And it was her singing that won her a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the Early Music prize. Since then, she has worked as a soloist with leading Baroque ensembles under the batons of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Paul McCreesh, Philippe Herreweghe and Harry Christophers. Grace’s discography includes a decade of recordings with The Sixteen, many of which feature her as soloist – Handel’s Jeptha (as Angel) and Dixit Dominus, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Pianto della Madonna and Acis and Galatea (as Galatea), and the Lutheran Masses of Bach. On BBC Radio 3’s ‘Building a Library’, her singing in Fauré’s Requiem (with the London Symphony Orchestra and Tenebrae, conducted by Nigel Short) was reviewed by Richard Morrison quite simply: ‘Grace Davidson’s Pie Jesu is matchless.’

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London Philharmonic Choir Patron HRH Princess Alexandra President Sir Mark Elder Artistic Director Neville Creed Chairman Tessa Bartley Choir Manager Bethea Hanson-Jones Accompanist Jonathan Beatty

Sopranos

Founded in 1947 as the chorus for the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Choir is widely regarded as one of Britain’s finest choirs. For the last seven decades the Choir has performed under leading conductors, consistently meeting with critical acclaim and recording regularly for television and radio.

Tessa Bartley Hilary Bates Sarah Bindon Vicki Brammall Amy Brewster Charlotte Cantrell Paula Chessell Jenni Cresswell Sarah Deane-Cutler Aimee Desmond Ella Frost Alison Gabriel Rachel Gibbon Rosie Grigalis Rebecca Harries Sally Harrison Charlotte Hetherington Sasha Holland Mai Kikkawa Joy Lee Ilona Lynch Janey Maxwell Amanda May Meg McClure Christina McNeill Mariana Nina Ellii Olivia Josselyn Ryder Holly Shannon Rebecca Sheppard Ronnie Spinks Rachel Topham Lorna Wills Sze Ying Chan

Enjoying a close relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Choir frequently joins it for concerts in the UK and abroad. Recent highlights have included Tippett’s A Midsummer Marriage under Edward Gardner in his inaugural concert as LPO Principal Conductor; Mozart’s Requiem under Ádám Fischer; the UK premiere of James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio with the Choir’s President, Sir Mark Elder; Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with Marin Alsop; Mahler’s Symphonies Nos. 2 & 8 and Tallis’s Spem in alium with Vladimir Jurowski; Verdi’s Requiem with Edward Gardner; Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Sir Mark Elder; and Haydn’s The Creation with Sir Roger Norrington. The Choir appears annually at the BBC Proms, and performances have included the UK premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s A Relic of Memory and Goldie’s Sine Tempore in the Evolution! Prom. In recent years the Choir has also given performances of works by Beethoven, Elgar, Howells, Liszt, Orff, Vaughan Williams, Verdi and Walton. A well-travelled choir, it has visited numerous European countries and performed in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Australia. The Choir has appeared twice at the Touquet International Music Masters Festival and was delighted to travel to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, in December 2017 to perform Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Altos

The Choir prides itself on achieving first-class performances from its members, who are volunteers from all walks of life.

Alison Biedron Jenny Burdett Andrei Caracoti Noel Chow Sarah Finkemeyer Pauline Finney Bethea Hanson-Jones Lexi Harvey

Supported by

Joanna James Judy Jones Rebecca Kintoff Ethel Livermore Laetitia Malan Anna Mulroney Rachel Murray Beth O’Brien Kathryn O’Leary Angela Schmitz Annette Strzedulla Erica Tomlinson

Tenors James Clarke Robert Geary Alan Glover Stephen Hodges Patrick Hughes Daisy Rushton Don Tallon Claudio Tonini Mikołaj Walczak Toby Wilson

Basses Marcus Daniels Dominic Foord Gary Freer Ian Frost Luke Hagerty Mark Hillier Stephen Hines David Hodgson Brian Hughes Borja Ibarz Gabardós Oliver Jackson Nicolai Leontiev Maurice MacSweeney John D Morris Johannes Pieters Gershon Silins Alex Thomas

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Programme notes Howard Shore born 1946

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, for Symphony Orchestra and Chorus 2001

Howard Shore is one of today’s premier composers, whose music is performed in concert halls around the world by the most prestigious orchestras and heard in cinemas across the globe. His musical interpretation of J R R Tolkien’s imaginative world of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, as portrayed in the films directed by Peter Jackson, have enthralled people of all generations for years. This work stands as his most acclaimed composition to date, winning three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards and two Golden Globes, as well as numerous critics’ and festival awards. The relationship between Howard Shore and the London Philharmonic Orchestra extends back to 1986, when the LPO recorded Shore’s soundtrack to the classic David Cronenberg film The Fly. Over the next 15 years, Shore composed the music for a series of films, all performed by the Orchestra. Throughout this period of composing for and conducting the LPO, he developed the iconic techniques that he eventually used in the Lord of The Rings films. In 2001 the London Philharmonic Orchestra was chosen to record the original soundtrack to The Fellowship of the Ring, the first film in the trilogy. Conducted by Shore himself, their recording sessions took place over a month in September 2001 at Watford Colosseum, Air Studios in Hampstead and Abbey Road Studios. © Benjamin Ealovega

In 2003, Shore conducted the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in the world premiere of his newly-arranged Lord of the Rings Symphony in Wellington. Since then, the Symphony and The Lord of the Rings – Live to projection concerts have had over 500 performances by the world’s most prestigious orchestras.

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Programme notes Perhaps most notable from his early career, Shore was one of the original creators of Saturday Night Live and served as music director from 1975–80. At the same time, he began collaborating with David Cronenberg and has since scored 15 of the director’s films, including The Fly, Crash and Naked Lunch. He was awarded Canadian Screen Awards for Maps to the Stars for score, and Cosmopolis for both score and song. His original scores to A Dangerous Method, Eastern Promises and Dead Ringers were each honoured with a Genie Award. Shore continues to distinguish himself with a wide range of projects, from Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, The Departed, The Aviator (for which he won his third Golden Globe Award) and Gangs of New York to Ed Wood, Se7en, The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Mrs. Doubtfire and the score for Tom McCarthy’s Academy Award-winning film Spotlight. His score for François Girard’s film The Song of Names was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019 and won the Canadian Screen Awards for Best Score and Song. In 2020, his score for Michel Hazanavicius’s film Le Prince Oublié was premiered in France, Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman was premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, and he won the Canadian Screen Award for Original Score for Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy.

premiere performance of Shore’s Latin Mass for the Hof Church in Lucerne, Switzerland. The Forest, a guitar concerto composed for Miloš Karadaglić, was commissioned and conducted by Alexander Shelley and The National Arts Centre Orchestra. The concerto was premiered on 1 May 2019. Shore has been invited to speak at many prestigious institutions, including La Fémis in Paris with Michel Hazanavicius. Other notable talks have been at Oxford Union, Royal Conservatory, Yale, NYU, Julliard, UCLA, University of Toronto, Berklee School of Music, Berlinale, Cinémathèque in Paris, and at Trinity College Dublin, where he received the Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage.

‘The world that I write in is very 19th-century and very green. The connection to nature is very important to me, and I think that was also the connection to Tolkien’s work. I know how important that was to Tolkien and his writing: everything that was green and good.’

Shore’s opera The Fly (2008) was premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and at Los Angeles Opera, and completed a successful run in Germany at Theatre Trier. Other works include the piano concerto Ruin and Memory for Lang Lang (2010); the song-cycle A Palace Upon the Ruins, commissioned for mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano (2014); a cello concerto, Mythic Gardens, commissioned for Sophie Shao (2012); Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia (2008); Sea to Sea in celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary of confederation (2017), and the song-cycle L’Aube, commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and premiered in 2017 by Susan Platts. 2018 saw the

– Howard Shore

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Programme notes Danny Elfman born 1953

Percussion Concerto world premiere Colin Currie percussion 1 Triangle 2 D.S.C.H. 3 Down 4 Syncopate Milk (Oscar nominated), Good Will Hunting (Oscar nominated), Big Fish (Oscar nominated), Men in Black (Oscar nominated), Edward Scissorhands, Batman, To Die For, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Spiderman, A Simple Plan, Midnight Run, Sommersby, Dolores Claiborne, and the Errol Morris documentaries The Unknown Known and Standard Operating Procedure.

Elfman’s other scores include the Warner Bros. blockbuster Justice League, Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot, The Grinch for Universal, Tim Burton’s live action remake of Disney’s Dumbo, and the soon to be released Marvel film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. A native of Los Angeles, Elfman grew up loving film music. He travelled the world as a young man, absorbing its musical diversity. He helped found the band Oingo Boingo, and came to the attention of a young Tim Burton, who asked him to write the score for Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. 34 years later, the two have forged one of the most fruitful composer-director collaborations in film history. In addition to his film work, Elfman wrote the iconic theme music for the television series The Simpsons and Desperate Housewives.

For over 30 years, four-time Oscar nominee Danny Elfman has established himself as one of the most versatile and accomplished film composers in the industry. He has collaborated with directors such as Tim Burton, Gus Van Sant, Sam Raimi, Peter Jackson, Ang Lee, Rob Minkoff, Guillermo del Toro, Brian De Palma, James Ponsoldt and David O’ Russell. Beginning with his first score on Tim Burton’s Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Elfman has scored over 100 films, including

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Programme notes In recent years Elfman has expanded his writing to composing orchestral concert works including Serenada Schizophrana, which was premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2005; Rabbit and Rogue, for the American Ballet Theater choreographed by Twyla Tharp, performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 2008; and Iris for Cirque du Soleil, directed by French choreographer Philippe Decouflé. In 2011 ‘Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton’ live orchestral concert premiered at Royal Albert Hall, and has since toured around the world and won two Emmys.

Danny Elfman on his new Percussion Concerto Percussion has always been an important part of my life. Beginning in my travels though West Africa when I was only 18 years old, when I began collecting and learning to play ‘balafons’ (kind of like the African version of a marimba), through my years of playing in metal-based Indonesian Gamalan ensembles in my twenties, as well as building my own strange metal and wood percussion ensembles in my early theatrical performance years, it has always been a lifelong obsession.

In 2017 Elfman’s concerto for violin and orchestra, Eleven Eleven, received its premiere in Prague with soloist Sandy Cameron and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. This month, as well as tonight’s world premiere of the Percussion Concerto, Elfman’s Cello Concerto will also receive its premiere, performed by Gautier Capuçon with the Vienna Symphony. Elfman’s first Piano Quartet, commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet, released along with Eleven Eleven, is available on SONY Classical.

Shortly after we premiered my first violin concerto, which I composed for violinist Sandy Cameron, I had a chance meeting with percussionist Colin Currie during a film scoring session in London. We decided it could be fun to create a piece together. I was excited to take another plunge into the challenge of another large symphonic composition and at the same time to really go back to my roots with wood and metal, mallets and sticks and hands, and to really let loose and have some fun with it. I also knew Colin was an extraordinary musician who would be great to collaborate with. Thankfully, SOKA University and the London Philharmonic Orchestra were eager to give us an opportunity to create this Concerto, and we’re grateful to everyone who made this possible.

‘My collaboration with Danny Elfman on this concerto has been immensely exciting and uplifting, with lengthy and lively transatlantic dialogue throughout. What is now in place is a concerto of many colours, vivacious variety and always with a brightlyshining inner soul at play. It is a work of strength and beauty, and will light audiences up with its spirited sense of adventure and charisma.’

Danny Elfman, January 2022

‘I need to push myself into new territory with fresh challenges as much as I can and whenever I can. My greatest pleasure is when I can surprise the audience with my music.’

– Colin Currie

– Danny Elfman

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Programme notes Danny Elfman born 1953

Batman Suite 1989 Alice in Wonderland Suite 2010

Danny Elfman’s working relationship with Tim Burton is one of the longest and most successful filmmaker/ composer collaborations in the history of film – and one of the most unexpected. Elfman was drawn to the movies his entire life, but only came to music as a young adult and with no formal training. It was at 18, during a year of travelling in West Africa, when Elfman picked up his first musical instrument, a violin, and began to toy with the fantasy of a musical direction for his life.

writing his first compositions. After eight years with the troupe, Elfman started the idiosyncratic rock band known simply as Oingo Boingo. As their writer and singer he performed and recorded with them for almost two decades. But there was another side to Danny Elfman – the kid who religiously attended Saturday matinees, watching every type of horror and fantasy movie imaginable. The young Danny had no interest in music – he wanted to be a scientist, or a ‘radiation biologist’ as he once explained. When he did begin to notice music, it was movie music, and he found a particular delight in the filmmaker/composer relationship of stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen and Bernard Herrmann.

At 19 he teamed up with his brother Richard, who founded the avant-garde musical cabaret troupe ‘The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo’, and it was there Elfman taught himself to write music by doing transcriptions of early 1930s jazz bands. He also began

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Programme notes ‘If I saw the names Harryhausen and Herrmann in the same title sequence,’ he said, ‘I already knew the movie was going to be a huge favourite – something really special.’

the hyper-enthusiastic Pee-wee character like a glove. Elfman’s score to Pee-wee’s Big Adventure was a revelation, and an instantly indelible musical personality had invaded film. And Elfman was also now hooked on a new addiction: film scoring. He immediately began getting offers to score other films, but it was already clear he had a special working relationship with Burton. Their next collaboration was another comedy, but one out of left field—the ‘ghost exterminator’ story Beetlejuice, a movie that allowed Burton to express his own personality more than he had on Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Elfman’s frantic opening music demonstrated his love for the ‘danse macabre’ – the ability to have a fiendishly good time.

In high school Elfman began listening to the classical composers who would later become his inspiration. The Russian composers Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich particularly got under his skin. He also began to refine his interest in film, rediscovering Bernard Herrmann through the legendary composer’s other great collaborator, Alfred Hitchcock. Elfman was absorbing the language of movie music. His first taste in scoring would come from another collaboration with his brother, who directed the cult film Forbidden Zone in the late 1970s—but he wouldn’t truly become a film composer until 1985, when he got a strange call from an extraordinary young animator he had never heard of.

Batman Suite Elfman and Burton would both have to prove themselves on their next project: Batman, in 1989. Shot well before the current vogue of costumed superheroes, Burton’s take on the Caped Crusader created a shadowy world halfway between a film noir and an animated graphic novel. The film required a major symphonic score, which he knew would be an enormous challenge. Elfman’s score was a sensation – as quirky and unpredictable as his earlier comic works, yet so muscular and violently stark that it instantly helped define the comic book genre. Burton and Elfman revisited Batman with Batman Returns, expanding on the gothic landscape both men had initiated in their first effort, with Elfman providing distinctive approaches to Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman and Danny DeVito’s Penguin.

Tim Burton came out of the suburbs of Burbank and the California Institute for the Arts (CalArts), and, like Elfman, he had been mesmerised by Ray Harryhausen’s stopmotion fantasies as a child, as well as the vivid black-and-crimson iconographies of horror films. Burton had made an uncomfortable fit for the Walt Disney Company, toiling as a conceptual artist and animator on movies like The Fox And The Hound. But his short film Frankenweenie grabbed the attention of executives and filmmakers in Hollywood, including Paul Reubens, the performer who created and portrayed Pee-wee Herman. Reubens and Phil Hartman had written a movie for the character called Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, and after seeing Frankenweenie, Reubens quickly lobbied for Burton to direct it.

Alice in Wonderland Suite

Both Burton and Reubens were familiar with Danny Elfman through Oingo Boingo and Forbidden Zone, and when editor Billy Webber tracked a scene from the movie with music from Bernard Herrmann’s score to the Harryhausen movie The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Burton loved the effect. When Elfman came in to interview for the job, he happened to mention that very same score as one of his life-long favourites. Burton was sold, and Elfman, after some hesitation, decided to jump into a completely new world, figuring he’d either learn to swim or drown in the attempt. He was certain of one thing: the score would not be a rock score. He would explore an insane mashup of Bernard Herrmann and Nino Rota (who did Federico Fellini’s scores) and in the process created an alternately joyous and manic sound that fit

Burton’s 2010 adaptation of Alice In Wonderland became one of the biggest money-makers in movie history, a hugely challenging technical exercise for the director, who shot the majority of the film on greenscreen sets so most of his cast could be transformed into computer-generated versions of Lewis Carroll’s classic characters. Elfman responded to the controlled chaos by writing one of his grandest scores, driven by his stirring ‘Alice’s Theme.’ © Jeff Bond: author of Danse Macabre: 25 Years of Danny Elfman and Tim Burton.

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Sound Futures donors We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to our Sound Futures campaign. Thanks to their support, we successfully raised £1 million by 30 April 2015 which has now been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant. This has enabled us to create a £2 million endowment fund supporting special artistic projects, creative programming and education work with key venue partners including our Southbank Centre home. Supporters listed below donated £500 or over. For a full list of those who have given to this campaign please visit lpo.org.uk/soundfutures.

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Thank you We are extremely grateful to all donors who have given generously to the LPO over the past year. Your generosity helps maintain the breadth and depth of the LPO’s activities, as well as supporting the Orchestra both on and off the concert platform.

Artistic Director’s Circle

Anonymous donors Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet Mrs Christina Lang Assael In memory of Mrs Rita Reay Sir Simon & Lady Robey OBE

Orchestra Circle

The Candide Trust William & Alex de Winton Aud Jebsen Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Neil Westreich The American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Principal Associates An anonymous donor Richard Buxton Gill & Garf Collins In memory of Brenda Lyndoe Casbon In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins Hamish & Sophie Forsyth The Tsukanov Family

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Board of the American Friends of the LPO We are grateful to the Board of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, who assist with fundraising for our activities in the United States of America:

Simon Freakley Chairman Jay Goffman Alexandra Jupin William A. Kerr Kristina McPhee Natalie Pray Damien Vanderwilt Elizabeth Winter Victoria Robey OBE Hon. Director Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP

LPO International Board of Governors Natasha Tsukanova Co-Chair Martin Höhmann Co-Chair Mrs Irina Andreeva (Russia) Steven M. Berzin (USA) Veronika Borovik-Khilchevskaya (Cyprus) Marie-Laure Favre Gilly de Varennes de Bueil (France) Aline Foriel-Destezet (France) Irina Gofman (Russia) Countess Dominique Loredan (Italy) Olivia Ma (Greater China Area) Olga Makharinsky (Russia) George Ramishvili (Georgia) Victoria Robey OBE (USA) Jay Stein (USA)

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London Philharmonic Orchestra Administration Board of Directors Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Martin Höhmann* President Dr Catherine C. Høgel Vice-Chairman Mark Vines* Vice-President Kate Birchall* David Buckley David Burke Bruno De Kegel Deborah Dolce Elena Dubinets Tanya Joseph Hugh Kluger* Al MacCuish Tania Mazzetti* Stewart McIlwham* Jamie Njoku-Goodwin Andrew Tusa Neil Westreich Simon Freakley (Ex officio – Chairman of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra) *Player-Director

Advisory Council Martin Höhmann Chairman Christopher Aldren Dr Manon Antoniazzi Roger Barron Richard Brass Helen Brocklebank YolanDa Brown Simon Callow CBE Desmond Cecil CMG Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Guillaume Descottes Cameron Doley Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Marianna Hay MBE Amanda Hill Rehmet Kassim-Lakha Jamie Korner Geoff Mann Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Andrew Neill Nadya Powell Sir Bernard Rix Victoria Robey OBE Baroness Shackleton Thomas Sharpe QC Julian Simmonds

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