THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS 8–10 MARCH 2018
CONCERT PROGRAM
MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Dream of Gerontius: A Journey into the Soul Elgar’s masterpiece The Dream of Gerontius is regarded as one of the most powerful religious choral works ever written. The BBC called it a ‘National Monument’, whilst ClassicFM labelled it ‘the most epic choral stupendousness’. But it was not all smooth sailing for Elgar. His choice of text, not from the Holy Scriptures, but instead by Cardinal John Henry Newman, initially antagonised many Anglicans, who rejected the Catholic doctrine they percieved to be embedded in the work. The poem, written after Newman's conversion to Catholicism, explores the final journey of an old man. He is nearing death, and reawakens as a soul, preparing for judgment, eventually being sent to purgatory.
most to the proper functioning of our soul – and yet which we are most inclined to forget, even though they are the basis for our capacity for contentment and virtue.’ Elgar’s sweeping, dramatic, and indeed sensuous score opens up space for genuine feeling and for contemplation on our own mortality. What a journey this piece is! And after that journey the Angel sings the most comforting words; ‘softly and gently, dearlyransomed soul. In my most loving arms I now enfold thee.’ The Dream of Gerontius is an epic journey into our soul and we are all the richer for it. Ronald Vermeulen Director of Artistic Planning
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ARTISTS
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis conductor Catherine Wyn-Rogers mezzo-soprano Stuart Skelton tenor Nathan Berg bass-baritone Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus Warren Trevelyan-Jones chorus master, MSO Chorus The Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne Christopher Watson director of music, Trinity College
Elgar The Dream of Gerontius
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The MSO acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we are performing. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, and the Elders from other communities who may be in attendance.
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MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
MEET THE CONDUCTOR
Established in 1906, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an arts leader and Australia’s longest-running professional orchestra. Engaging more than three million people each year, the MSO reaches a variety of audiences through live performances, recordings, TV and radio broadcasts and live streaming. As a truly global orchestra, the MSO collaborates with guest artists and arts organisations from across the world. Its international audiences include China, where MSO will tour in May 2018 and Europe, where the MSO toured in 2014. The MSO performs a variety of concerts ranging from core classical performances at its home, Hamer Hall at Arts Centre Melbourne, to its annual free concerts at Melbourne’s largest outdoor venue, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.
SIR ANDREW DAVIS
The MSO also works with Associate Conductor Benjamin Northey and Assistant Conductor Tianyi Lu, as well as with such eminent recent guest conductors as Tan Dun, John Adams, Jakub Hrůša, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Markus Stenz and Simone Young.
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Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis is also Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He is Conductor Laureate of both the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony, where he has also been named interim Artistic Director until 2020. In a career spanning more than 40 years he has conducted virtually all the world’s major orchestras and opera companies, and at the major festivals. Recent highlights have included in a new production at Chicago Lyric. Sir Andrew’s many CDs include a Messiah nominated for a 2018 Grammy, Bliss’s The Beatitudes, and recordings with the Bergen Philharmonic of Symphonies and orchestral works by Vaughan Williams nominated for a 2018 BBC Music Magazine Award. With the MSO he has just released a third recording in the ongoing Richard Strauss series, featuring the Alpine Symphony and Till Eulenspiegel.
MEET THE ARTISTS
CATHERINE WYN-ROGERS
STUART SKELTON
MEZZO – SOPRANO
TENOR
Catherine Wyn-Rogers has performed with conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Bernard Haitink, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Sir Charles Mackerras, Zubin Mehta, Sir Roger Norrington and Sir Andrew Davis, and appeared at festivals such as the BBC Proms, Aldeburgh, and the Three Choirs. Recent recordings include The Dream of Gerontius with Daniel Barenboim and Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil.
Winner of the 2014 International Opera Awards for Best Male Singer and two Helpmann Awards, Stuart Skelton appears on the leading concert and operatic stages of the world. His repertoire encompasses roles from Wagner’s Lohengrin, Parsifal, Rienzi, Janáček’s Laca, Saint-Saëns’ Samson, Beethoven’s Florestan and Britten’s Peter Grimes.
Catherine Wyn-Rogers began an ongoing relationship with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1989 as Schwertleite in Die Walküre. She has also been a regular guest at Bavarian State Opera and English National Opera and worked at La Scala and Paris Opéra, among others. She appeared with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra last year in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. Forthcoming performances include Handel’s Hercules with Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society.
Recent performances have included Tristan (Tristan und Isolde) for the Metropolitan Opera and English National Opera, Lohengrin for Opéra National de Paris, Laca (Jenůfa) for Bavarian State Opera, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Fidelio at the BBC Proms, Peter Grimes at Edinburgh Festival, and Siegmund (Die Walküre) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. His recordings include Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Sir Charles Mackerras and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and live recordings of Die Walküre with both the State Opera of South Australia and Seattle Opera, as well as a new recording under the baton of Jaap van Zweden.
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NATHAN BERG BASS – BARITONE Canadian bass-baritone Nathan Berg possesses a repertoire ranging from the baroque to contemporary opera. He appeared as the King of Scotland in Handel’s Ariodante in his Salzburg Festival debut and as First Scientist in Giorgio Battistelli’s CO2 for his 2015 debut at La Scala. He has established a reputation as a specialist in Wagner and from Melbourne travels to Germany to appear as Wotan in the Baden State Theatre production of Das Rheingold. Other forthcoming performances include Rachmaninov’s The Bells in St. Louis and Lutoslawski’s L’Espace du sommeil with the Tonhalle Orchestra at the Katowice Festival. Nathan Berg has appeared with the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic, among others. Recent recordings include Berg’s Wozzeck and Handel’s Tamerlano.
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MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS For more than 50 years the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus has been the unstinting voice of the Orchestra’s choral repertoire. The MSO Chorus sings with the finest conductors including Sir Andrew Davis, Edward Gardner, Mark Wigglesworth, Bernard Labadie, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Manfred Honeck, and is committed to developing and performing new Australian and international choral repertoire. Commissions include Brett Dean’s Katz und Spatz, Ross Edwards’ Mountain Chant, and Paul Stanhope’s Exile Lamentations. Recordings by the MSO Chorus have received critical acclaim. It has performed across Brazil and at the Cultura Inglese Festival in Sao Paolo, in Kuala Lumpur with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, with The Australian Ballet, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, at the AFL Grand Final and at Anzac Day commemorative ceremonies.
WARREN TREVELYAN-JONES MSO CHORUS MASTER Warren Trevelyan-Jones is the Head of Music at St James’, King Street in Sydney and is regarded as one of the leading choral conductors and choir trainers in Australia. Warren has had an extensive singing career as a soloist and ensemble singer in Europe, including nine years in the Choir of Westminster Abbey, and regular work with the Gabrieli Consort, Collegium Vocale (Ghent), the Taverner Consort and The Kings Consort. Warren is also Director of the Parsons Affayre, Founder and Co-Director of The Consort of Melbourne and, in 2001 with Dr Michael Noone, founded the Gramophone award-winning group Ensemble Plus Ultra. Since 2015, he has been regular Guest Chorus Master with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Warren is also a qualified music therapist.
THE CHOIR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, MELBOURNE The Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne, is one of the finest liturgical choirs in the Southern Hemisphere. The Choir’s primary focus is the singing of services in the College Chapel but it also has an active concert and recording program. The Choir has released several CDs, many of them for the ABC, and their first recording under their current director, of Christmas Carols, is due out in 2018. Before moving to Australia, Christopher Watson Director of Music, Trinity College, spent 20 years as a singer and conductor, based in the UK. Christopher worked as soloist for Paul Hillier, Paul McCreesh, Philippe Herreweghe, and Trevor Pinnock, and made over 500 appearances with the Tallis Scholars. In 2007 he made his Carnegie Hall debut with Theatre of Voices, giving the world premiere of David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Little Match Girl Passion, their recording of which won a Grammy Award in 2009.
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PROGRAM NOTES EDWARD ELGAR
(1857-1934)
The Dream of Gerontius, Op.38 Catherine Wyn-Rogers mezzo-soprano (Angel) Stuart Skelton tenor (Gerontius) Nathan Berg bass (Priest, Angel of Agony) At the end of the manuscript of The Dream of Gerontius Elgar wrote (quoting Ruskin): ‘This is the best of me. For the rest, I ate, I drank, I slept, I loved, I hated as another … this is what I saw, and know. This, if anything of mine, is worth your memory.’ Elgar’s feelings about this work help explain why others react strongly to it: ‘I wrote it out of my insidest out.’ The composer’s musical personality and his spirituality are both fully revealed in his setting of John Henry Newman’s poem. Gerontius has become a standard part of the English choral repertoire, but it was not well received at its first performance on 3 October 1900. The circumstances were unfavourable. Insufficient rehearsal time was one problem, and the unfamiliar, and for those days ‘progressive’, musical idiom must have contributed to the difficulties of both choir and audience. Worse was that the chorusmaster, a nonconformist, was antagonistic to this Catholic work, and some members of the choir did not treat their task with due seriousness. The Dream of Gerontius is a Catholic work, and, as such, occupies an isolated place in the English oratorio tradition. Its acceptance into that tradition proves its broad appeal, yet it cannot be understood apart from its Catholic origins. 8
Elgar and his wife were Catholics, but in his home, as in that of his parents, the practices of his religion were not always observed. He neglected the services of the Catholic Church and probably occasionally questioned its doctrines. But he supported the church and remained a member all his life. Elgar was obviously deeply drawn to Cardinal Newman’s poem The Dream of Gerontius. He had known it for at least ten years. The poem had first appeared in a Jesuit publication in 1865. Interest in it was not confined to members of the Roman Catholic Church – even Newman’s old antagonist, the Reverend Charles Kingsley (their quarrel was the occasion for Newman’s Apologia pro Vita Sua) paid tribute to it: ‘I read the Dream with awe and admiration. However utterly I may differ from the entourage in which Newman’s present creed surrounds the central idea, I must feel that the central idea is as true as it is noble.’ Whatever one may feel about the quality of Newman’s prose-poetry in this work, and it is at best of uneven value (Elgar’s abridgement omitted some of the better passages), the poem’s central idea has the power to inspire and compel. For Gerontius is potentially every one of us. Elgar explained his conception of Gerontius in a letter to his friend Jaeger (‘Nimrod’ of the Enigma Variations): Look here: I imagined Gerontius to be man like us, not a priest or a saint, but a sinner, a repentant one of course, but still no end of a worldly man in his life and now brought to book. Therefore I’ve not filled his part with Church tunes and rubbish but a good healthy, full-blooded romantic, remembered worldliness, so to speak.
Elgar was the first English composer to exploit the full resources of the lateRomantic continental musical style. Gerontius was appreciated in Germany before its acceptance in England, causing Richard Strauss to hail the composer as ‘the first English progressivist musician, Meister Elgar’. Several contemporary critics were not afraid to compare Gerontius’ handling of a religious theme with Wagner’s Parsifal. To realise how radical this Oratorio was in the 1900 English choral scene we need to remember that this was dominated, apart from the obligatory Handel and Mendelssohn, by the academic modern works of the like of Parry and Stanford. The ‘modernism’ of The Dream of Gerontius is most prominent in the extreme chromaticism of the music and in the complex elaboration of the orchestral parts. Although many consider this choral work his greatest single composition, it is to instrumental music that Elgar was most naturally drawn, and many of his most telling effects in Gerontius are achieved in the orchestra. English oratorio composers had usually made the orchestra subordinate to the voices, but Elgar integrated orchestral and vocal textures (the semichorus is very tellingly used to provide contrasts of choral sonority). Another sign of the composer’s late-Romantic, postWagnerian musical language is his use of leitmotives to unify the work. Although there are a large number of these, they do not force themselves on the listener’s attention, but carry associations and evoke atmosphere. The composer warns against worrying too much with them: ‘… you may be inclined to lay too much stress on the leitmotive plan because I really do it without thought – intuitively, I mean.’
The prelude of The Dream of Gerontius presents a succession of themes from key places in the work, and sets the atmosphere – ‘The weary troubled sleep of a sick man’ – for Gerontius’ first utterances. The assistants steal in a capella with ‘Kyrie eleison’, pouring calm on the dying man’s fevered cries. These episodes strongly evoke the ritual of the Catholic Church. ‘Sanctus fortis’ is an exultant outburst of faith, which could sound vulgar out of context. Here the somewhat Italianate character of Elgar’s solo vocal writing is most obvious. Part One concludes with a march (the section beginning ‘Proficiscere…’) in which the Priest and the Chorus of Assistants send Gerontius’ soul onwards with affirmations of faith and praise. At the climax the chorus is in eight parts, with the semi-chorus added. The music proceeds into the far distance. A feeling of otherworldliness dominates the beginning of Part Two. Legato strings suggest the condition of a soul wandering in space. The long dialogue with the Angel which follows drew Jaeger’s thoughts to ‘some saintly picture by a pre-Raphaelite painter’. Here Elgar was inspired to some of his most original harmonic ideas. The demons’ chorus is not the high point of Newman’s verses, and although the orchestral devices Elgar uses are striking (among others, the bells, and the flute crescendo in the low register to suggest ‘the deep hideous purring’ of the demons), it is possible to feel that the choral devices have not worn so well. In the Angelicals’ hymn ‘Praise to the Holiest’ Elgar’s variety of time-signatures and cross-rhythms achieves lightness of movement.
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TEXT This long text is handled with remarkable economy. Priestly trombone chords accompany the Angel of the Agony as he leads the Soul to God for a short glimpse, where Elgar instructs every instrument for a moment to exert its fullest force. The work ends in serenity, though the final utterance of Gerontius’ soul is preceded by a restatement of the Judgement motive. The souls in Purgatory chant part of the Ninetieth Psalm, and the Angel’s farewell merges into an echo of the chorus of Angelicals. © David Garrett The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra first performed The Dream of Gerontius on 9 November 1940 under the direction of Bernard Heinze. The soloists were Dorothy Helmrich, Heddle Nash and Harold Williams. The Orchestra’s most recent performances, under Richard Hickox, took place on 19-21 April 2007 with Fiona Janes, Anthony Dean Griffey and Joshua Bloom.
ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius John Henry Cardinal Newman, published in The Oratory, January 1865. Orchestral Prelude
ASSISTANTS
Part I
Kyrie eleïson, Christe eleïson, Kyrie eleïson. Holy Mary, pray for him.
GERONTIUS Jesu, Maria—I am near to death, And Thou art calling me; I know it now. Not by the token of this faltering breath, This chill at heart, this dampness on my brow,— (Jesu, have mercy! Mary, pray for me!) ‘Tis this new feeling never felt before (Be with me, Lord, in my extremity) That I am going, that I am no more. 'Tis this strange innermost abandonment, (Lover of souls! great God! I look to Thee,) This emptying out of each constituent And natural force, by which I come to be. Pray for me, O my friends; a visitant Is knocking his dire summons at my door, The like of whom, to scare me and to daunt, Has never, never come to me before; .
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All holy Angels, pray for him. Choirs of the righteous, pray for him. .
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All Apostles, all Evangelists, pray for him. All holy Disciples of the Lord, pray for him. All holy Innocents, pray for him. All holy Martyrs, all holy Confessors, All holy Hermits, all holy Virgins, All ye Saints of God, pray for him. GERONTIUS Rouse thee, my fainting soul, and play the man; And through such waning span Of life and thought as still has to be trod, Prepare to meet thy God. And while the storm of that bewilderment Is for a season spent, And, ere afresh the ruin on me fall, Use well the interval.
So pray for me, my friends, who have not strength to pray.
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GERONTIUS
Be merciful, be gracious; spare him, Lord.
Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus, De profundis oro te,
Be merciful, be gracious; Lord, deliver him. From the sins that are past;
From Thy frown and Thine ire;
From the perils of dying; From any complying With sin, or denying His God, or relying On self, at the last;
From the nethermost fire;
From all that is evil; From power of the devil; Thy servant deliver, For once and for ever. By Thy Birth, and by Thy Cross, Rescue him from endless loss; By Thy death and burial, Save him from a final fall; By Thy rising from the tomb,
By Thy mounting up above,
By the Spirit’s gracious love,
Save him in the day of doom.
Miserere, Judex meus, Parce mihi, Domine.
And, crueller still, A fierce and restless fright begins to fill The mansion of my soul. And, worse and worse,
THE PRIEST Proficiscere, anima Christiana, de hoc mundo! Go forth upon thy journey, Christian soul!
Some bodily form of ill
Go from this world! Go, in the Name of God
Firmly I believe and truly God is Three, and God is One;
Floats on the wind, with many a loathsome curse
The Omnipotent Father, who created thee!
And I next acknowledge duly Manhood taken by the Son.
Tainting the hallow’d air, and laughs, and flaps
Son of the living God, who bled for thee!
And I trust and hope most fully In that Manhood crucified;
Its hideous wings, And makes me wild with horror and dismay.
And each thought and deed unruly Do to death, as He has died.
O Jesu, help! pray for me, Mary, pray! Some Angel, Jesu! Such as came to Thee
Go, in the name
Simply to His grace and wholly Light and life and strength belong,
In Thine own agony. . . .
Of Thrones and Dominations; in the name
Mary, pray for me. Joseph, pray for me. Mary, pray for me.
Of Princedoms and of Powers; and in the name
And I love, supremely, solely, Him the holy, Him the strong. Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus, De profundis oro te, Miserere, Judex meus, Parce mihi, Domine. And I hold in veneration, For the love of Him alone, Holy Church, as His creation, And her teachings, as His own. And I take with joy whatever Now besets me, pain or fear, And with a strong will I sever All the ties which bind me here. Adoration aye be given, With and through the angelic host, To the god of earth and heaven, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus, De profundis oro te,
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Go, in the Name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, Go, in the Name of the Holy Spirit, who Hath been pour'd out on thee! Of Angels and Archangels; in the name
Of Cherubim and Seraphim, go forth! Go, in the name of Patriarchs and Prophets;
Rescue him, O Lord, in this his evil hour, As of old so many by Thy gracious power:—
And of Apostles and Evangelists,
. . . . Noe from the waters in a saving home; (Amen)
Of holy Monks and Hermits; in the name
. . . . Job from all his multiform and fell distress; (Amen)
Of Martyrs and Confessors; in the name Of holy Virgins; and all Saints of God, Both men and women, go! Go on thy course;
. . . . Moses from the land of bondage and despair; (Amen)
And may thy place to-day be found in peace,
. . . . David from Goliath and the wrath of Saul; (Amen)
Of Sion:—through the [Same, through Christ] our Lord.
. . . . —so to show Thy power, Rescue this Thy servant in his evil hour.
And may thy dwelling be the Holy Mount
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GERONTIUS
Miserere, Judex meus, Mortis in discrimine.
Novissima hora est; and I fain would sleep.
I can no more; for now it comes again,
The pain has wearied me. . . .
That sense of ruin, which is worse than pain,
Into Thy hands,
That masterful negation and collapse
O Lord, into Thy hands . . .
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Part II
ANGEL
ANGEL
SOUL
SOUL OF GERONTIUS
My work is done,
My child and brother, hail! what wouldest thou?
I went to sleep; and now I am refresh'd, A strange refreshment: for I feel in me An inexpressive lightness, and a sense Of freedom, as I were at length myself, And ne'er had been before. How still it is!
My task is o'er,
And so I come,
Taking it home,
For the crown is won, Alleluia,
I hear no more the busy beat of time,
For evermore.
No, nor my fluttering breath, nor struggling pulse;
My Father gave
Nor does one moment differ from the next.
This child of earth
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This silence pours a solitariness
In charge to me
To serve and save,
All hail, my child!
Dear Angel, say,
Why have I now no fear at meeting Him? Along my earthly life, the thought of death And judgment was to me most terrible.
SOUL I would have nothing but to speak with thee For speaking’s sake. I wish to hold with thee Conscious communion; though I fain would know A maze of things, were it but meet to ask, And not a curiousness.
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ANGEL It is because Then thou didst fear, that now thou dost not fear, Thou hast forestall’d the agony, and so For thee the bitterness of death is passed. Also, because already in thy soul
Into the very essence of my soul;
Alleluia,
And the deep rest, so soothing and so sweet,
This child of clay
You cannot now
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Hath something too of sternness and of pain.
To rear and train
Cherish a wish which ought not to be wish’d.
A presage falls upon thee, as a ray
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By sorrow and pain
SOUL
That calm and joy uprising in thy soul
Then I will speak. I ever had believed
Is first-fruit to thee of thy recompense,
That on the moment when the struggling soul
And heaven begun.
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And saved is he. To me was given,
Another marvel: some one has me fast
In the narrow way,
Within his ample palm;
Alleluia,
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From earth to heaven.
A uniform
Quitted its mortal case, forthwith it fell
And gentle pressure tells me I am not
SOUL
Self-moving, but borne forward on my way.
It is a member of that family
And hark! I hear a singing; yet in sooth
Of wondrous beings, who, ere the worlds were made,
I cannot of that music rightly say Whether I hear, or touch, or taste the tones. Oh, what a heart-subduing melody!
Millions of ages back, have stood around The throne of God. .
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The judgment is begun.
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I will address him. Mighty one, my Lord, My Guardian Spirit, all hail!
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Straight from the Judge, expressive of thy lot.
SOUL
Under the awful Presence of its God,
[Now that the hour is come, my fear is fled;
There to be judged and sent to its own place.
And at this balance of my destiny,
What lets me now from going to my Lord?
Thou art not let; but with extremest speed Art hurrying to the Just and Holy Judge. .
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With serenest joy.]
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Now close upon me, I can forward look
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But hark! upon my sense
Comes a fierce hubbub, which would make me fear Could I be frighted.
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ANGEL
Their hosts, gave,
Triumphant still,
Dread of hell-fire,
There was a mortal, who is now above
Close on the judgment-court; that sullen howl
And still unjust,
Of the venomous flame,
In the mid glory: he when near to die,
Each forfeit crown
A coward’s plea.
Is from the demons who assemble there.
To psalm-droners,
A coward's plea
Was given communion with the Crucified,—
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And canting groaners,
Give him his price,
Hungry and wild, to claim their property,
And gather souls for hell. Hist to their cry.
And pious cheat,
Saint though he be,
And crawling knave,
Ha! ha!
SOUL
Who lick’d the dust
From shrewd good sense
How sour and how uncouth a dissonance!
Under his feet.
We are now arrived
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To every slave,
Ha! ha!
Saint though he be
He’ll slave for hire;
Ha! ha!
Such, that the Master's very wounds were stamp'd Upon his flesh; and, from the agony Which thrill’d through body and soul in that embrace, Learn that the flame of the Everlasting Love Doth burn ere it transform. . . .
DEMONS
ANGEL
Low-born clods
It is the restless panting of their being;
To the heaven above
Like beasts of prey, who, caged within their bars,
With sordid aim,
They come of tender beings angelical,
Least and most childlike of the sons of God.
Of brute earth,
They aspire
To become gods,
In a deep hideous purring have their life,
By a new birth,
And an incessant pacing to and fro.
And an extra grace, And a score of merits,
As if aught
Could stand in place
Of the high thought,
And the glance of fire
Of the great spirits, The powers blest, The lords by right,
The primal owners,
Of the proud dwelling
And realm of light,— Dispossess’d,
And does but aspire
And not from love.
CHOIR OF ANGELICALS
SOUL I see not those false spirits; shall I see
Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise:
And independent,
My dearest Master, when I reach His throne?
In all His words most wonderful; Most sure in all His ways!
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To us His elder race He gave To battle and to win,
DEMONS The mind bold The purpose free,
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So we are told,
Must not think
ANGEL
To have the ascendant.
What’s a saint?
Yes,—for one moment thou shalt see thy Lord.
One whose breath
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Doth the air taint
One moment; but thou knowest not, my child,
Before his death; A bundle of bones,
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What thou dost ask: that sight of the Most Fair
Which fools adore,
Chucked down Chuck'd down
Ha! ha! When life is o’er.
By the sheer might
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Virtue and vice,
Thou speakest darkly, Angel; and an awe
A knave’s pretence,
Falls on me, and a fear lest I be rash.
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Ha! ha!
Aside thrust,
Of a despot’s will, Of a tyrant’s frown Of a tyrant's frown,
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‘Tis all the same;
Will gladden thee, but it will pierce thee too. SOUL
Without the chastisement of pain, Without the soil of sin. The younger son He will’d to be A marvel in his birth: Spirit and flesh His parents were; His home was heaven and earth. The Eternal bless’d His child, and arm'd, And sent him hence afar, To serve as champion in the field Of elemental war. To be His Viceroy in the world Of matter, and of sense; Upon the frontier, towards the foe, A resolute defence.
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ANGEL
ANGEL
ANGEL
SOUL
We now have pass'd the gate, and are within
And now the threshold, as we traverse it,
Thy judgment now is near, for we are come
I go before my Judge . . .
Utters aloud its glad responsive chant.
Into the veilèd presence of our God.
Voices of Assistants on Earth
CHOIR OF ANGELICALS
SOUL
Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise:
I hear the voices that I left on earth.
In all His words most wonderful; Most sure in all His ways!
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It is the voice of friends around thy bed,
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The House of Judgment. .
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SOUL The sound is like the rushing of the wind— The summer wind—among the lofty pines. .
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CHOIR OF ANGELICALS Glory to Him; who evermore By truth and justice reigns; Who tears the soul from out its case, And burns away its stains! ANGEL They sing of thy approaching agony, Which thou so eagerly didst question of. .
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My soul is in my hand: I have no fear,— .
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But hark! a grand, mysterious harmony: It floods me like the deep and solemn sound
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Consumed, yet quicken'd, by the glance of God.
The same who strengthen'd Him, what time He knelt
[Alleluia! Praise to His Name!]
O wisest love! that flesh and blood Which did in Adam fail,
Hither the echoes come; before the Throne
Should strive afresh against their foe, Should strive and should prevail;
Lone in that garden shade, bedew'd with blood.
And that a higher gift than grace Should flesh and blood refine,
That Angel best can plead with Him for all Tormented souls, the dying and the dead.
God's Presence and His very Self, And Essence all-divine.
Angel of the Agony
O generous love! that He who smote In man for man the foe, The double agony in man For man should undergo;
Should teach His brethren and inspire To suffer and to die. [Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise:
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Stands the great Angel of the Agony,
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A second Adam to the fight And to the rescue came.
Of many waters. .
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Who say the "Subvenite" with the priest.
In all His words most wonderful; Most sure in all His ways!
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Be merciful, be gracious; Lord, deliver him.]
O loving wisdom of our God! When all was sin and shame,
And in the garden secretly, And on the cross on high,
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[Be merciful, be gracious; spare him, Lord.
Jesu! by that shuddering dread which fell on Thee; Jesu! by that cold dismay which sicken'd Thee; Jesu! by that pang of heart which thrill'd in Thee; Jesu! by that mount of sins which crippled Thee; Jesu! by that sense of guilt which stifled Thee; Jesu! by that innocence which girdled Thee;
O happy, suffering soul! for it is safe,
SOUL Take me away, and in the lowest deep There let me be, And there in hope the lone night-watches keep, Told out for me. There, motionless and happy in my pain, Lone, not forlorn,— There will I sing my sad perpetual strain, Until the morn. There will I sing, and soothe my stricken breast, Which ne'er can cease To throb, and pine, and languish, till possest Of its Sole Peace. There will I sing my absent Lord and Love:—
Jesu! by that sanctity which reign'd in Thee;
Take me away,
Jesu! by that Godhead which was one with Thee;
That sooner I may rise, and go above, And see Him in the truth of everlasting day.
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SOULS IN PURGATORY
CHOIR OF ANGELICALS
Lord, Thou hast been our refuge; in every generation;
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To us His elder race He gave To battle and to win, Without the chastisement of pain, Without the soil of sin.]
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[Amen.] ANGEL Softly and gently, dearly-ransom'd soul, In my most loving arms I now enfold thee, And o'er the penal waters, as they roll, I poise thee, and I lower thee, and hold thee. And carefully I dip thee in the lake, And thou, without a sob or a resistance, Dost through the flood thy rapid passage take, Sinking deep, deeper, into the dim distance. Angels, to whom the willing task is given, Shall tend, and nurse, and lull thee, as thou liest;
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MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Sir Andrew Davis Chief Conductor
Benjamin Northey Associate Conductor
Tianyi Lu
Assistant Conductor
Hiroyuki Iwaki
Conductor Laureate (1974-2006) FIRST VIOLINS
Dale Barltrop Concertmaster
Sophie Rowell
Concertmaster The Ullmer Family Foundation#
Zoe Black*
Guest Associate Concertmaster
Peter Edwards
Assistant Principal
Kirsty Bremner Sarah Curro
Michael Aquilina#
Peter Fellin Deborah Goodall Lorraine Hook Anne-Marie Johnson Kirstin Kenny Ji Won Kim Eleanor Mancini Mark Mogilevski Michelle Ruffolo Kathryn Taylor Michael Aquilina#
Aaron Barnden* Oksana Thompson*
SECOND VIOLINS
CELLOS
OBOES
HORNS
TIMPANI
Matthew Tomkins
David Berlin
Jeffrey Crellin
Xiaoming Han*
Adam Jeffrey
Robert Macindoe
Rachael Tobin
Associate Principal
Associate Principal
Monica Curro
Nicholas Bochner
Principal
Guest Principal
Thomas Hutchinson
Saul Lewis
Principal Third
PERCUSSION
Ann Blackburn
Abbey Edlin
Robert Clarke
Associate Principal
The Rosemary Norman Foundation#
Assistant Principal Danny Gorog and Lindy Susskind #
Assistant Principal
Geelong Friends of the MSO#
COR ANGLAIS
Mary Allison Isin Cakmakcioglu Tiffany Cheng Freya Franzen
Rohan de Korte
Michael Pisani
Miranda Brockman
Andrew Dudgeon#
Keith Johnson Sarah Morse Angela Sargeant Michelle Wood
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Anonymous
Cong Gu Andrew Hall
Andrew and Theresa Dyer# #
Andrew and Judy Rogers
Isy Wasserman Philippa West Patrick Wong Roger Young Michael Loftus-Hills* Lynette Rayner* VIOLAS
Christopher Moore Principal Di Jameson#
Fiona Sargeant
Associate Principal
DOUBLE BASSES
Steve Reeves Principal
Andrew Moon
Associate Principal
Sylvia Hosking
Assistant Principal
Damien Eckersley Benjamin Hanlon Suzanne Lee Stephen Newton Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser #
Esther Toh*
Lauren Brigden
Mr Tam Vu and Dr Cherilyn Tillman
FLUTES
Katharine Brockman Christopher Cartlidge
Principal Anonymous#
Michael Aquilina#
Anthony Chataway Gabrielle Halloran Trevor Jones Cindy Watkin Elizabeth Woolnough Caleb Wright Isabel Morse*
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Principal MS Newman Family#
Principal The Gross Foundation#
Prudence Davis
Principal
CLARINETS
David Thomas Principal
Philip Arkinstall
Associate Principal
Craig Hill BASS CLARINET
Jon Craven Principal
BASSOONS
Jack Schiller Principal
Elise Millman
Associate Principal
Natasha Thomas Lyndon Watts*
Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM#
Trinette McClimont Rebecca Luton* Alexander Morton*
Lady Potter AC CMRI#
Principal
John Arcaro
Tim and Lyn Edward#
Robert Cossom Timothy Hook*
TRUMPETS
HARP
Geoffrey Payne*
Yinuo Mu
Guest Principal
Shane Hooton
Associate Principal
William Evans Rosie Turner
Principal
Melina van Leeuwen* ORGAN
Calvin Bowman*
TROMBONES
Brett Kelly
MSO BOARD
Richard Shirley Mike Szabo
Chairman
Principal
Principal Bass Trombone TUBA
Timothy Buzbee Principal
Scott Watson* †
CONTRABASSOON
Brock Imison Principal
Wendy Clarke
Associate Principal
Michael Ullmer Managing Director
Sophie Galaise Board Members
Andrew Dyer Danny Gorog David Krasnostein David Li Hyon-Ju Newman Helen Silver AO Margaret Jackson AC Company Secretary
Sarah Beggs
Oliver Carton
PICCOLO
Andrew Macleod Principal
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Position supported by Guest Musician Courtesy of University of Kansas
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THE CHOIR OF TRINITY COLLEGE
Elizabeth Tindall
Tony Barnett
Fabienne Vandenburie
Steve Burnett Peter Campbell
SOPRANO
Tara Zamin
John Cleghorn
Phoebe Edwards
Keaton Cloherty
Beatrice Hart
Daniel Comarmond
Kate Kirby
James Dipnall
Grace Neville
David Floyd
Ruby Smith
Simon Gaites
Phoebe Thomson
David Henley
Alexandra Toussaint-Jackson
Aviva Barazani
ALTO
Eva Butcher
Satu Aho
Veryan Croggon
Ruth Anderson
Catherine Folley
Carolyn Baker
Susan Fone
Catherine Bickell
Carolyn Francis
Cecilia Björkegren
Camilla Gorman
Kate Bramley
Jillian Graham
Jane Brodie
Jessop Maticevski Shumack
Emma Hamley
Elize Brozgul
Michael Mobach
ALTO
Juliana Hassett
Serena Carmel
Jean-Francois Ravat
Clara Daley
Penny Huggett
Alexandra Chubaty
Asher Reichman
Hannah Johns
Naomi Hyndman
Katharine Daley
Tania Jacobs
Nicola Eveleigh
BASS
Gwen Kennelly
Jill Giese
Maurice Amor
Stephanie Macindoe
Clancye Milne
Debbie Griffiths
Catriona NguyenRobertson
Ros Harbison
Alexandras Bartaska
Emma Warburton
Caitlin Noble
Jennifer Henry
Karin Otto Tiffany Pang
Sue Hawley Kristine Hensel
Tanja Redl
Sara KoganLazarus
Natalie Reid
Joy Lukman
Mhairi Riddet
Helen MacLean
Jo Robin
Christina McCowan
Elizabeth Rusli
Rosemary McKelvie
Natalia Salazar
Alison Ralph
Jillian Samuels
Mair Roberts
Jemima Sim Shu Xian
Kerry Roulston
Freja Soininen Chiara Stebbing Emily Swanson
Annie Runnalls Lisa Savige Libby Timcke
Lyndon Horsburgh
Richard Bolitho
Marion Wilson
Eliza Kelly
Phillipa McQuin
Daniel Brinsmead
TENOR
David Brown
William Carr
Paul Alexander Chantler
Jonathan Glenning
Roger Dargaville
George McPharlin
Ted Davies Phil Elphinstone Andrew Ham Andrew Hibbard
Oliver Hendriks Daniel Riley Christopher Roache
Joseph Hie
BASS
Jordan Janssen
Sean Cutter
Gary Levy
Joshua Erdelyi-Götz
Vern O'Hara Alexander Owens
Jenny Vallins
Stephen Pyk
TENOR
Matthew Toulmin
Alexandra Amerides
Maurice Wan
Liam Straughan
Zac HamiltonRussell Paul McDonald
Simon Wright Ned Wright-Smith Maciek Zielinski
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SUPPORTERS MSO PATRON The Honourable Linda Dessau AC, Governor of Victoria
PLATINUM PATRONS $100,000+ Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO John Gandel AC and Pauline Gandel The Gross Foundation David and Angela Li MS Newman Family Foundation Anthony Pratt The Pratt Foundation Joy Selby Smith Ullmer Family Foundation Anonymous (1)
VIRTUOSO PATRONS $50,000+ Di Jameson David Krasnostein and Pat Stragalinos Harold Mitchell AC Kim Williams AM
IMPRESARIO PATRONS $20,000+ Michael Aquilina The John and Jennifer Brukner Foundation Mary and Frederick Davidson AM Rachel and the late Hon. Alan Goldberg AO QC Margaret Jackson AC Andrew Johnston Mimie MacLaren John and Lois McKay
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MAESTRO PATRONS $10,000+ Kaye and David Birks Mitchell Chipman Sir Andrew and Lady Davis Danny Gorog and Lindy Susskind Robert & Jan Green Hilary Hall, in memory of Wilma Collie Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM Suzanne Kirkham The Cuming Bequest Ian and Jeannie Paterson Lady Potter AC CMRI Elizabeth Proust AO Xijian Ren and Qian Li Glenn Sedgwick Helen Silver AO and Harrison Young Maria Solà Profs. G & G Stephenson, in honour of the great Romanian musicians George Enescu and Dinu Lipatti Gai and David Taylor Juliet Tootell Alice Vaughan Harry and Michelle Wong Jason Yeap OAM Anonymous (1)
PRINCIPAL PATRONS $5,000+ Christine and Mark Armour John and Mary Barlow Barbara Bell, in memory of Elsa Bell Stephen and Caroline Brain Prof Ian Brighthope David and Emma Capponi May and James Chen Wendy Dimmick Andrew Dudgeon AM
Andrew and Theresa Dyer Tim and Lyn Edward Mr Bill Fleming John and Diana Frew Susan Fry and Don Fry AO Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser Geelong Friends of the MSO Jennifer Gorog HMA Foundation Louis Hamon OAM Hans and Petra Henkell Hartmut and Ruth Hofmann Jack Hogan Doug Hooley Jenny and Peter Hordern Dr Alastair Jackson Dr Elizabeth A Lewis AM Norman Lewis in memory of Dr Phyllis Lewis Peter Lovell Lesley McMullin Foundation Mr Douglas and Mrs Rosemary Meagher David and Helen Moses Dr Paul Nisselle AM The Rosemary Norman Foundation Ken Ong, in memory of Lin Ong Bruce Parncutt AO Jim and Fran Pfeiffer Pzena Investment Charitable Fund Andrew and Judy Rogers Rae Rothfield Max and Jill Schultz Mr Tam Vu and Dr Cherilyn Tillman The Hon. Michael Watt QC and Cecilie Hall Lyn Williams AM Anonymous (2)
ASSOCIATE PATRONS $2,500+ Dandolo Partners Will and Dorothy Bailey Bequest Anne Bowden Bill Bowness Lynne Burgess Oliver Carton John and Lyn Coppock Miss Ann Darby, in memory of Leslie J. Darby Natasha Davies, for the Trikojus Education Fund Merrowyn Deacon Sandra Dent Peter and Leila Doyle Lisa Dwyer and Dr Ian Dickson Jane Edmanson OAM Dr Helen M Ferguson Mr Peter Gallagher and Dr Karen Morley Dina and Ron Goldschlager Louise Gourlay OAM Peter and Lyndsey Hawkins Susan and Gary Hearst Colin Heggen, in memory of Marjorie Drysdale Heggen Rosemary and James Jacoby Jenkins Family Foundation C W Johnston Family John Jones George and Grace Kass Irene Kearsey and M J Ridley The Ilma Kelson Music Foundation Kloeden Foundation Bryan Lawrence Ann and George Littlewood John and Margaret Mason H E McKenzie
Allan and Evelyn McLaren Don and Anne Meadows Marie Morton FRSA Annabel and Rupert Myer AO Sue and Barry Peake Mrs W Peart Graham and Christine Peirson Ruth and Ralph Renard S M Richards AM and M R Richards Tom and Elizabeth Romanowski Jeffrey Sher QC and Diana Sher OAM Diana and Brian Snape AM Dr Norman and Dr Sue Sonenberg Geoff and Judy Steinicke Elisabeth Wagner Brian and Helena Worsfold Peter and Susan Yates Anonymous (8)
PLAYER PATRONS $1,000+ David and Cindy Abbey Christa Abdallah Dr Sally Adams Mary Armour Arnold Bloch Leibler Philip Bacon AM Marlyn and Peter Bancroft OAM Adrienne Basser Prof Weston Bate and Janice Bate Janet Bell David Blackwell OAM Michael F Boyt Patricia Brockman Dr John Brookes Suzie Brown OAM and Harvey Brown Roger and Col Buckle Jill and Christopher Buckley
Bill and Sandra Burdett Peter Caldwell Joe Cordone Andrew and Pamela Crockett Beryl Dean Dominic and Natalie Dirupo Marie Dowling John and Anne Duncan Kay Ehrenberg Jaan Enden Valerie Falconer and the Rayner Family in memory of Keith Falconer Amy & Simon Feiglin Grant Fisher and Helen Bird Barry Fradkin OAM and Dr Pam Fradkin Applebay Pty Ltd David Frenkiel and Esther Frenkiel OAM David Gibbs and Susie O'Neill Merwyn and Greta Goldblatt Colin Golvan QC and Dr Deborah Golvan George Golvan QC and Naomi Golvan Dr Marged Goode Prof Denise Grocke AO Max Gulbin Dr Sandra Hacker AO and Mr Ian Kennedy AM Jean Hadges Michael and Susie Hamson Paula Hansky OAM Merv Keehn and Sue Harlow Tilda and Brian Haughney Anna and John Holdsworth Penelope Hughes Basil and Rita Jenkins Stuart Jennings Dorothy Karpin Brett Kelly and Cindy Watkin
Dr Anne Kennedy Julie and Simon Kessel Kerry Landman William and Magdalena Leadston Andrew Lee Dr Anne Lierse Gaelle Lindrea Andrew Lockwood Violet and Jeff Loewenstein Elizabeth H Loftus Chris and Anna Long The Hon Ian Macphee AO and Mrs Julie Macphee Eleanor and Phillip Mancini Dr Julianne Bayliss In memory of Leigh Masel Ruth Maxwell Jenny McGregor AM and Peter Allen Glenda McNaught Ian Morrey and Geoffrey Minter Patricia Nilsson Laurence O'Keefe and Christopher James Alan and Dorothy Pattison Margaret Plant Kerryn Pratchett Peter Priest Treena Quarin Eli Raskin Raspin Family Trust Bobbie Renard Peter and Carolyn Rendit Dr Rosemary Ayton and Dr Sam Ricketson Joan P Robinson Cathy and Peter Rogers Doug and Elisabeth Scott Martin and Susan Shirley Penny Shore Dr Sam Smorgon AO and Mrs Minnie Smorgon
John So Dr Michael Soon Lady Southey AC Jennifer Steinicke Dr Peter Strickland Pamela Swansson Jenny Tatchell Frank Tisher OAM and Dr Miriam Tisher The Hon. Rosemary Varty Leon and Sandra Velik Sue Walker AM Elaine Walters OAM and Gregory Walters Edward and Paddy White Nic and Ann Willcock Marian and Terry Wills Cooke Lorraine Woolley Richard Ye Panch Das and Laurel Young-Das Anonymous (20)
TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS Collier Charitable Fund Crown Resorts Foundation and the Packer Family Foundation The Cybec Foundation The Marian and E.H. Flack Trust Freemasons Foundation Victoria Gandel Philanthropy The Scobie and Claire Mackinnon Trust The Harold Mitchell Foundation The Pratt Foundation The Robert Salzer Foundation Sidney Myer MSO Trust Fund Telematics Trust International Music and Art Foundation
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BENEFACTORS ARTIST CHAIR BENEFACTORS
ADOPT A MUSICIAN CHAIRS
Associate Conductor Chair Benjamin Northey Anthony Pratt
Principal Second Violin Chair Matthew Tomkins The Gross Foundation
Orchestral Leadership Chair Joy Selby Smith
Principal Viola Chair Chris Moore Di Jameson
Cybec Assistant Conductor Chair Tianyi Lu The Cybec Foundation
Principal Cello Chair David Berlin MS Newman Family Foundation
Associate Concertmaster Chair Sophie Rowell The Ullmer Family Foundation
Principal Flute Chair Prudence Davis Anonymous
2018 Soloist in Residence Chair Anne-Sophie Mutter Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO Cybec Young Composer in Residence Ade Vincent The Cybec Foundation
CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO The Gross Foundation Harold Mitchell Foundation David and Angela Li Harold Mitchell AC MS Newman Family Foundation Lady Potter AC CMRI Joy Selby Smith The Cybec Foundation The Pratt Foundation The Ullmer Family Foundation Anonymous (1)
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Principal Timpani Chair Lady Potter AC CMRI Associate Principal Second Violin Monica Curro Danny Gorog and Lindy Susskind First Violin Sarah Curro Michael Aquilina First Violin Kathryn Taylor Michael Aquilina Second Violin Freya Franzen Anonymous Second Violin Andrew Hall Andrew and Judy Rogers Viola Lauren Brigden Mr Tam Vu and Dr Cherilyn Tillman Viola Chris Cartlidge Michael Aquilina Cello Miranda Brockman Geelong Friends of the MSO
Cello Rohan de Korte Andrew Dudgeon AM Cello Michelle Wood Andrew and Theresa Dyer Double Bass Stephen Newton Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser Oboe Ann Blackburn The Rosemary Norman Foundation French Horn Abbey Edlin Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM Percussion John Arcaro Tim and Lyn Edward
PROGRAM BENEFACTORS Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers Program The Cybec Foundation East Meets West Supported by the Li Family Trust Meet The Orchestra Made possible by The Ullmer Family Foundation MSO Audience Access Crown Resorts Foundation Packer Family Foundation MSO Building Capacity Gandel Philanthropy (Director of Philanthropy) MSO Education Supported by Mrs Margaret Ross AM and Dr Ian Ross
MSO International Touring Harold Mitchell AC MSO Regional Touring Creative Victoria Freemasons Foundation Victoria The Robert Salzer Foundation The Pizzicato Effect Anonymous Collier Charitable Fund The Marian and E.H. Flack Trust Schapper Family Foundation Scobie and Claire Mackinnon Trust Supported by the Hume City Council’s Community Grants Program Sidney Myer Free Concerts Supported by the late Sidney Myer and the University of Melbourne
THE MAHLER SYNDICATE David and Kaye Birks Mary and Frederick Davidson AM Tim and Lyn Edward John and Diana Frew Francis and Robyn Hofmann The Hon Dr Barry Jones AC Dr Paul Nisselle AM Maria Solà The Hon Michael Watt QC and Cecilie Hall
CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Current Conductor’s Circle Members Jenny Anderson David Angelovich G C Bawden and L de Kievit Lesley Bawden Joyce Bown Mrs Jenny Brukner and the late Mr John Brukner Ken Bullen Peter A Caldwell Luci and Ron Chambers Beryl Dean Sandra Dent Lyn Edward Alan Egan JP Gunta Eglite Mr Derek Grantham Marguerite GarnonWilliams Drs L C Gruen & R W Wade Louis Hamon OAM Carol Hay Tony Howe Laurence O'Keefe and Christopher James Audrey M Jenkins John Jones George and Grace Kass Mrs Sylvia Lavelle Pauline and David Lawton Cameron Mowat Rosia Pasteur Elizabeth Proust AO Penny Rawlins Joan P Robinson Neil Roussac Anne Roussac-Hoyne Suzette Sherazee Michael Ryan and Wendy Mead Anne Kieni-Serpell and Andrew Serpell Jennifer Shepherd
Profs. Gabriela and George Stephenson Pamela Swansson Lillian Tarry Dr Cherilyn Tillman Mr and Mrs R P Trebilcock Michael Ullmer Ila Vanrenen The Hon. Rosemary Varty Mr Tam Vu Marian and Terry Wills Cooke Mark Young Anonymous (24) The MSO gratefully acknowledges the support of the following Estates: Angela Beagley Neilma Gantner Gwen Hunt Audrey Jenkins Joan Jones Pauline Marie Johnston Joan Jones C P Kemp Peter Forbes MacLaren Joan Winsome Maslen Lorraine Maxine Meldrum Prof Andrew McCredie Miss Sheila Scotter AM MBE Marion A I H M Spence Molly Stephens Jennifer May Teague Jean Tweedie Herta and Fred B Vogel Dorothy Wood ◊
The MSO relies on your ongoing philanthropic support to sustain our artists, and support access, education, community engagement and more. We invite our suporters to get close to the MSO through a range of special events. The MSO welcomes your support at any level. Donations of $2 and over are tax deductible, and supporters are recognised as follows: $1,000+ (Player) $2,500+ (Associate) $5,000+ (Principal) $10,000+ (Maestro) $20,000+ (Impresario) $50,000+ (Virtuoso) $100,000+ (Platinum) The MSO Conductor’s Circle is our bequest program for members who have notified of a planned gift in their Will. Enquiries P (03) 8646 1551 E philanthropy@mso.com.au
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HONORARY APPOINTMENTS
WITH WELCOME TO LADY POTTER AC CMRI
SUPPORTERS SUPPORTERS SUPPORTERS PARTNERPARTNER PRINCIPALPRINCIPAL PARTNER PRINCIPAL
John Brockman OAM* Life Member The Honourable Alan Goldberg AO QC* Life Member Sir Elton John CBE Life Member
GOVERNMENT PARTNERS GOVERNMENT PARTNERS GOVERNMENT PARTNERS
Lady Potter AC CMRI Life Member Ila Vanrenen* Life Member Geoffrey Rush AC Ambassador
Lady Potter has been a subscriber, Patron, and staunch ally of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra both personally and as a Life Governor of The Ian Potter Foundation. She has been a keen supporter of our education programs, instrument appeals, and through The Ian Potter Foundation, the 2014 European tour, which acted as a catalyst to successfully raise further funds for the tour.
PREMIER PREMIER PARTNERS PREMIER PARTNERS PARTNERS
MAJOR PARTNERS MAJOR PARTNERS MAJOR PARTNERS
EDUCATION PARTNERS EDUCATION PARTNERS EDUCATION PARTNERS
SUPPORTING PARTNERS SUPPORTING PARTNERS SUPPORTING PARTNERS
Today, she sponsors the Timpani Chair, for which two promising young musicians have recently auditioned. Thank you, Lady Potter, for your unstinting support of the MSO. We are proud to welcome you as a worthy recipient of this honorary appointment.
VENUE PARTNER VENUE PARTNER VENUE PARTNER
Quest Southbank Quest Southbank Quest Southbank
Ernst & Young Bows for Strings Ernst & Young Bows for Strings Ernst & Young Bows for Strings
TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS
and Claireand Mackinnon Trust, Sidney Myer MSO Trust Fund e Scobie e andScobie Claire e Mackinnon Trust, Sidney Myer MSO Trust Fund Scobie Claire Mackinnon Trust, Sidney Myer MSO Trust Fund
MEDIA AND BROADCAST PARTNERS MEDIA AND BROADCAST PARTNERS MEDIA AND BROADCAST PARTNERS
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