HANS ZIMMER ART OF THE SCORE:
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Acknowledging Country In the first project of its kind in Australia, the MSO has developed a musical Acknowledgment of Country with music composed by Yorta Yorta composer Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, featuring Indigenous languages from across Victoria. Generously supported by Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and the Commonwealth Government through the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, the MSO is working in partnership with Short Black Opera and Indigenous language custodians who are generously sharing their cultural knowledge. The Acknowledgement of Country allows us to pay our respects to the traditional owners of the land on which we perform in the language of that country and in the orchestral language of music.
About Long Time Living Here In all the world, only Australia can lay claim to the longest continuing cultures and we celebrate this more today than in any other time since our shared history began. We live each day drawing energy from a land which has been nurtured by the traditional owners for more than 2000 generations. When we acknowledge country we pay respect to the land and to the people in equal measure. As a composer I have specialised in coupling the beauty and diversity of our Indigenous languages with the power and intensity of classical music. In order to compose the music for this Acknowledgement of Country Project I have had the great privilege of working with no fewer than eleven ancient languages from the state of Victoria, including the language of my late Grandmother, Yorta Yorta woman Frances McGee. I pay my deepest respects to the elders and ancestors who are represented in these songs of acknowledgement and to the language custodians who have shared their knowledge and expertise in providing each text. I am so proud of the MSO for initiating this landmark project and grateful that they afforded me the opportunity to make this contribution to the ongoing quest of understanding our belonging in this land. — Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO
PROGRAM ACT 1 Sherlock Holmes – Discombobulate ZIMMER Driving Miss Daisy - Theme ZIMMER Pirates of the Caribbean Suite ZIMMER/BADELT The Thin Red Line – Journey To The Line ZIMMER The Holiday – Maestro ZIMMER Inception Suite ZIMMER ACT 2 The Lion King Orchestra Suite ZIMMER Kung Fu Panda – Oogway Ascends ZIMMER/POWELL The Da Vinci Code – Chevaliers de Sangreal ZIMMER Batman – The Dark Knight Suite ZIMMER/HOWARD Interstellar Suite ZIMMER Gladiator Suite ZIMMER/GERRARD
ARTISTS MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA NICHOLAS BUC conductor ART OF THE SCORE ANDREW POGSON host DAN GOLDING host NICHOLAS BUC host ALI MCGREGOR soloist This concert is produced in association with Concert Lab
These concerts may be recorded for future broadcast on MSO.LIVE.
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Art of the Score: The Music of Hans Zimmer Today, when you go to the movies, you’ll hear Hans Zimmer. You might hear the composer himself, who is surely one of the most prolific creatives in any field working in Hollywood today. In 2021 alone, Zimmer released the soundtracks for six major films, including No Time to Die and Dune, while he worked on another two scores for the following year, as well as music for four television series. Today, especially when you’re seeing the biggest productions Hollywood has to offer, chances are they’ll be scored by Hans Zimmer, who along with John Williams is one of the few film composers to become a genuine household name. But even if you don’t hear Zimmer himself at your local multiplex, you’re still likely to hear his influence. Hollywood directors, videogame studios, and even reality television producers today all want that Zimmer sound. If you go to a movie like Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (2023) you’ll hear music by Lorne Balfe, a protégé of Zimmer’s and a long-term collaborator at Zimmer’s Remote Control studios. If you go and see Aquaman (2018) you’ll hear a soundtrack composed by Rupert Gregson-Williams, another Remote Control associate. Or, on the small screen, tune in for an episode of Game of Thrones, Westworld, or House of the Dragon and you’ll hear yet another Zimmer mentee, Ramin Djawadi. Each composer has their own ability, their own skill, and their own sound—but each also follows in the footsteps of Zimmer, as do many who have never officially collaborated with the man himself. Zimmer is everywhere.
So how did Hans Zimmer become the man who changed the way we hear the movies? Born in Frankfurt in 1957 to a musician mother and an engineer father, Zimmer grew up with “one foot in the music camp and the other foot in the technology camp,” as he told an interviewer in 2013. It was to prove an auspicious beginning. Despite only sustaining interest enough for two weeks of piano lessons as a child, Zimmer quickly took to synthesisers in his twenties and meandered his way through several rock bands in 1970s London including The Buggles, and Zimmer can to this day be seen on keyboards at the back of their music video for “Video Killed the Radio Star”. Falling in with veteran film composer Stanley Myers (The Deer Hunter), Zimmer apprenticed in the UK film industry before breaking into Hollywood first with his music for Rain Man (1988) and then Driving Miss Daisy (1989). He was a man in-demand in the 1990s, with his mixture of slightly dorky early digital music-making and the familiar film orchestra giving the movies he wrote music for, like Thelma & Louise (1991), Crimson Tide (1995), and The Rock (1996) a burst of fresh energy (and, in the case of The Lion King, an Academy Award for Zimmer along the way). The new millennium, and a string of critical and financial successes in the form of The Thin Red Line (1998), Gladiator (2000, co-composed with Australian Lisa Gerrard), and then the Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) and Batman Begins (2005–2012) franchises cemented Hans Zimmer as Hollywood’s musical man of the moment. This Hans Zimmer was a long
Zimmer’s music has always been negotiated through technology. Not content with the usual electronic synthesisers used by composers in the 1980s, Zimmer quickly moved on to writing music for samplers and virtual instruments, where highly sophisticated digital technology is deployed to create an orchestral sound on a single computer. Gone overnight, it seemed, were the days where a director would hear their score for the first time with hundreds of musicians at the recording studio. For Gladiator, director Ridley Scott and editor Pietro Scalia moved into Zimmer’s music studio to cut the film while Zimmer composed next door, with ideas shared, tested, and debated in real time. Today, Zimmer writes at least partly as much for computer as for orchestra. “Hans is a minimalist composer with a sort of maximalist production sense,” says director Christopher Nolan, one of Zimmer’s most significant collaborators. From the mid-2000s the Zimmer sound became exactly this—simple musical ideas suffused into extremities. His Batman theme from The Dark Knight trilogy, for example, is just two notes, like a musical bat-signal illuminating the clouds above in its sign-like simplicity. Zimmer’s beloved ‘Time’ from Nolan’s Inception (2010) is also a case in point, with just four simple chords repeated in the same order over and over from the beginning of the piece to its conclusion. It’s Zimmer’s sense of epochal scale that makes the track: we begin ‘Time’
whisper-quiet on piano, and over the course of four-and-a-half minutes reach the full might of fortissimo symphony orchestra and Zimmer’s bag of digital production tricks. It is breathtaking. “They can just turn the music louder and louder and louder,” says Nolan, “because you realise the momentum of the film is entirely defined by the structure of the music.” Yet the moment you think that the rest of the film industry has cottoned on to Zimmer’s style, he moves on. “You have to learn how to deal with the technology so it doesn’t drive you,” says Zimmer in a lesson that some of his imitators have never learnt. Today, Zimmer’s career spans as wide a variety as the church organs of Interstellar (2014), the reverb-drenched synths of Blade Runner 2049 (2017), the rumble of Dune (2021), and the musical nostalgia of No Time to Die (2021). In all cases, what you remember is more than music. You remember the power of the soundtrack and the overwhelming emotion of Zimmer’s score. You remember music that is bigger than you are, that is bigger than the moment. You remember music that is bigger, even, than Hans Zimmer.
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way from the man who composed the very 1980s beat of Driving Miss Daisy. This Zimmer’s music was muscular and powerful, delving into a musical vocabulary informed by rock and pop, German art music of the likes of Wagner and Mahler, and the digital tools Zimmer used and developed along the way.
© Dan Golding 2023
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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Established in 1906, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is Australia’s pre-eminent orchestra and a cornerstone of Victoria’s rich, cultural heritage. Each year, the MSO engages with more than 5 million people, presenting in excess of 180 public events across live performances, TV, radio and online broadcasts, and via its online concert hall, MSO.LIVE, with audiences in 56 countries. With a reputation for excellence, versatility and innovation, the MSO works with culturally diverse and First Nations leaders to build community and deliver music to people across Melbourne, the state of Victoria and around the world. In 2023, the MSO’s Chief Conductor, Jaime Martín continues an exciting new phase in the Orchestra’s history. Maestro Martín joins an Artistic Family that includes Principal Guest Conductor Xian Zhang, Principal Conductor in Residence, Benjamin Northey, Conductor Laureate, Sir Andrew Davis CBE, Cybec Assistant Conductor Fellow, Carlo Antonioli, MSO Chorus Director, Warren Trevelyan-Jones, Soloist in Residence, Siobhan Stagg, Composer in Residence, Mary Finsterer, Ensemble in Residence, Gondwana Voices, Cybec Young Composer in Residence, Melissa Douglas and Young Artist in Association, Christian Li. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra respectfully acknowledges the people of the Eastern Kulin Nations, on whose un‑ceded lands we honour the continuation of the oldest music practice in the world.
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Musicians Performing in this Concert FIRST VIOLINS
Dale Barltrop
Concertmaster
VIOLAS
Christopher Moore
Sarah Curro
Principal Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio#
Peter Fellin
Katharine Brockman
Dr Harry Imber#
Lorraine Hook
Jenny Khafagi
Eleanor Mancini
Fiona Sargeant
Anne Neil#
Molly Collier-O’Boyle*
Michelle Ruffolo
Karen Columbine*
Zoe Black*
Ceridwen Davies*
Jacqueline Edwards*
Trevor Jones*
Lynda Latu* Natalie Mavridis* Susannah Ng* Jaso Sasaki*
SECOND VIOLINS
Monica Curro
Assistant Principal Dr Mary-Jane Gething AO#
Emily Beauchamp^ Andrew Hall Isy Wasserman Roger Young
Shane Buggle and Rosie Callanan#
Juliette Boirayon* Cameron Jamieson*
CELLOS
David Berlin Principal
Rachael Tobin
Associate Principal Anonymous#
Rohan de Korte
Andrew Dudgeon AM#
Rebecca Proietto Michelle Wood
Andrew and Judy Rogers#
Jonathan Chim* Isaac Davis* Kalina Krusteva* Erna Lai* Anna Pokorny*
Jos Jonker* Andrea Keeble* Oksana Thompson* Donica Tran*
DOUBLE BASSES
Jonathan Coco Principal
Rohan Dasika Caitlin Bass* Emma Sullivan* Luca Arcaro* Adrian Whitehall*
FLUTES
Prudence Davis Principal Anonymous#
Sarah Beggs
PICCOLO
Andrew Macleod Principal
OBOES
Emmanuel Cassimatis* Guest Principal
Ann Blackburn
The Rosemary Norman Foundation#
COR ANGLAIS
Rachel Curkpatrick* Acting Principal
CLARINETS
David Thomas Principal
Craig Hill
Rosemary and the late Douglas Meagher#
BASS CLARINET
Oliver Crofts^
Guest Principal
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Correct as of 30 November 2023 Learn more about our musicians on the MSO website.
TROMBONES
Mark Davidson
Christopher Haycroft*
Richard Shirley
CONTRABASSOON
TROMBONES
Acting Principal
Principal
Chris Martin*
James Littlewood*
HORNS
Kiran Samuel*
Principal Margaret Jackson AC #
Timothy Buzbee
Guest Principal
Guest Principal
Nicolas Fleury
Josiah Kop
Louisa Breen*
ELECTRIC GUITAR
Doug de Vries*
BASS GUITAR
Jeremy Alsop*
TUBA
Principal
TIMPANI
Rachel Shaw
Gary McPherson
SYNTHESIZERS
Aidan Boase*
SUPPORTERS
BASSOONS
Brock Imison
Matthew Brennan*
#
Rebecca Luton*
PERCUSSION
Mel Simpson*
Shaun Trubiano
TRUMPETS
Principal
John Arcaro
Shane Hooton
Tim and Lyn Edward#
Associate Principal Glenn Sedgwick and Dr Anita Willaton#
Robert Cossom
Drs Rhyl Wade and Clem Gruen#
William Evans
Robert Allan*
Rosie Turner
John and Diana Frew
#
Lara Wilson*
HARP
Megan Reeve*
* Denotes Guest Musician ^ MSO Academy Member 2023 # Position supported by
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ART OF THE SCORE Art of the Score is a Melbourne-based podcast that explores, demystifies and celebrates some of the greatest soundtracks of all time from the world of film, TV and video games. In each episode hosts Andrew Pogson, Dan Golding and Nicholas Buc check out a soundtrack they love, break down its main themes, explore what makes the score tick and hopefully impart their love of the world of soundtracks. Art of the Score has enjoyed time in the iTunes Top 10, What’s Hot and New & Noteworthy lists and is listened to by soundtrack geeks all around the world. Head on over to artofthescore.com.au for more nerdery and tomfoolery.
NICHOLAS BUC conductor
Nicholas Buc is an Award-winning composer, conductor and arranger. As the recipient of the prestigious Brian May Scholarship, he completed a Master’s degree in Scoring for Film and Multimedia at New York University, receiving the Elmer Bernstein Award for Film Scoring. He recently completed work on the new Australian feature film Slant, starring Sigrid Thornton and Pia Miranda, which won Best Australian Feature at Monster Fest 2022. He also scored the Ukrainian documentary Slava, which won Best Short Film at Byron All Shorts Flickerfest 2023. He has worked with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Chris Botti, Amanda Palmer, Ben Folds and Australian pop sensation Tina Arena. He has written arrangements for Birds of Tokyo, Missy Higgins and Vera Blue as well as working on Junior MasterChef, The Voice Australia and the 2021 AFL Grand Final. Nicholas is highly sought after as a conductor for live film concerts, having conducted the world premieres of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Lion King (2019), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Shrek 2 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. 12
He is also the only person in the world to have conducted all three original Star Wars films in concert...in one day!
A/PROF. DAN GOLDING host
Associate Professor Dan Golding is Deputy Chair of Media and Communication at Swinburne University, the host of Screen Sounds on ABC Classic, and an award-winning composer and writer. Dan is the author of Star Wars After Lucas (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), and the co-author of Game Changers (Affirm Press, 2016). He also created the soundtrack for the BAFTA, DICE, and GDCA winning Untitled Goose Game (2019), which became the first game soundtrack to be nominated for an ARIA award in history. Other composing includes the soundtracks for Push Me Pull You (2016) and the Frog Detective series, for which his score for The Haunted Island (2018) won the APRA-AMCOS Australian Game Developer award for Best Music. Dan recently composed the theme for the ABC’s flagship podcast, ABC News Daily. Find him on Twitter @dangolding, or online at dangolding.com.
ANDREW POGSON host
Andrew Pogson is a producer, director and jazz musician who has worked in the music industry for over 20 years. He is the founder and Creative Director of Concert Lab, a concert producing and production company, and was previously the Head of Presentations at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with artists such as Sting, Randy Newman, Tim Minchin, Ben Folds, Joe Hisaishi and Studio Ghibli, Kate Miller-Heidke and Flight Facilities, along with creating and producing world premieres with the MSO such as The Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular, Video Games Unplugged, Babe in Concert, Symphonica featuring Armand Van Helden, The Film Music of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and This Gaming Life with music comedy trio Tripod (where he also hosts their podcast Perfectly Good Podcast). Find him on Twitter @JazzNerd.
L - R: Dan Golding, Andrew Pogson and Nicholas Buc. Photo credit: Melanie Hiluta
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ALI MCGREGOR soloist
After completing her studies as a Peter Moores Scholar at the Royal Northern College of Music in the UK, Ali began her career as one of Simone Young’s Young Artists at Opera Australia before continuing as a principal soprano with the company performing over 26 roles, including Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Papagena (The Magic Flute), Ninette (Love of Three Oranges), Marcellina (Fidelio) , Yum Yum (The Mikado) & Adele (Die Fledermaus) and a Green Room award-winning Clorinda in Cenerentola. She performed Zerlina in Don Giovanni for NZ Opera, the title role of The Merry Widow for Melbourne Opera, and most recently, Desirée in A Little Night Music & The Fly in Happy End, both for Victorian Opera. As an award-winning cabaret performer, she has performed everywhere from Glastonbury to Carnegie Hall and was Artistic Director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2016–2018 (she also returns later this year alongside all previous artistic directors). She was nominated for an ARIA award in 2014 for her children’s album Jazzamatazz! and, in 2015, was awarded a Green Room Award for her contribution to cabaret. After successful seasons at Adelaide Cabaret Festival and the Sydney Opera House, Ali won a Helpmann Award for her cabaret show Yma Sumac – The Peruvian Songbird. Ali has recently been at the forefront of a wave of new Australian opera, concept creating and starring in Lorelei for Victorian Opera and, after forming FLUXUS, coproducing and starring in The Call for Opera Queensland & Brisbane Festival in 2022.
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Ali is the recipient of the Australia Council Fellowship for 2023/24, which will see her creating the FLUXUS Opera Lab, a framework for creating more contemporary Australian work for the operatic stage.
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Terry Wills Cooke OAM and the late Marian Wills Cooke Mark Young Anonymous (20) The MSO gratefully acknowledges the support of the following Estates: Norma Ruth Atwell Angela Beagley Christine Mary Bridgart The Cuming Bequest Margaret Davies Neilma Gantner The Hon Dr Alan Goldberg AO QC Enid Florence Hookey Gwen Hunt Family and Friends of James Jacoby Audrey Jenkins Joan Jones Pauline Marie Johnston C P Kemp Peter Forbes MacLaren Joan Winsome Maslen Lorraine Maxine Meldrum Prof Andrew McCredie Jean Moore Joan P Robinson Maxwell and Jill Schultz Miss Sheila Scotter AM MBE Marion A I H M Spence Molly Stephens Gwennyth St John Halinka Tarczynska-Fiddian Jennifer May Teague Albert Henry Ullin Jean Tweedie Herta and Fred B Vogel Dorothy Wood
Jennifer Shepherd Suzette Sherazee Dr Gabriela and Dr George Stephenson Pamela Swansson Lillian Tarry
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SUPPORTERS
COMMISSIONING CIRCLE
Cecilie Hall and the Late Hon Michael Watt KC Tim and Lyn Edward Weis Family
The late Dr Elizabeth A Lewis AM Anthony Chataway
FIRST NATIONS CIRCLE
David Li AM and Angela Li Dale Barltrop
Colin Golvan AM KC and Dr Deborah Golvan
Rosemary and the late Douglas Meagher Craig Hill
John and Lorraine Bates
Sascha O. Becker Maestro Jaime Martín Elizabeth Proust AO and Brian Lawrence Guy Ross Sage Foundation The Kate and Stephen Shelmerdine Family Foundation Michael Ullmer AO and Jenny Ullmer Jason Yeap OAM – Mering Management Corporation
ADOPT A MUSICIAN
Shane Buggle and Rosie Callanan Roger Young Andrew Dudgeon AM Rohan de Korte, Philippa West Tim and Lyn Edward John Arcaro Dr John and Diana Frew Rosie Turner Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser Stephen Newton Dr Mary-Jane Gething AO Monica Curro
Gary McPherson Rachel Shaw Anne Neil Eleanor Mancini Newton Family in memory of Rae Rothfield Cong Gu The Rosemary Norman Foundation Ann Blackburn Andrew and Judy Rogers Michelle Wood Glenn Sedgwick Tiffany Cheng, Shane Hooton Dr Martin Tymms and Patricia Nilsson Natasha Thomas Anonymous Prudence Davis
HONORARY APPOINTMENTS
Life Members
Mr Marc Besen AC John Gandel AC and Pauline Gandel AC Sir Elton John CBE
The Gross Foundation Matthew Tomkins
Harold Mitchell AC
Dr Clem Gruen and Dr Rhyl Wade Robert Cossom
Jeanne Pratt AC
Cecilie Hall and the late Hon Michael Watt KC Saul Lewis Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM Abbey Edlin David Horowicz Anne-Marie Johnson Dr Harry Imber Sarah Curro, Jack Schiller
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Di Jameson OAM and Frank Mercurio Elina Fashki, Benjamin Hanlon, Tair Khisambeev, Christopher Moore
Margaret Jackson AC Nicolas Fleury
Lady Potter AC CMRI Michael Ullmer AO and Jenny Ullmer Anonymous MSO Ambassador Geoffrey Rush AC The MSO honours the memory of Life Members Mrs Eva Besen AO John Brockman OAM The Honourable Alan Goldberg AO QC Roger Riordan AM Ila Vanrenen
MSO BOARD
Chairman
Xian Zhang Principal Guest Conductor
Co-Deputy Chairs
David Li AM Di Jameson OAM
Benjamin Northey Principal Conductor in Residence
SUPPORTERS
MSO ARTISTIC FAMILY
Jaime Martín Chief Conductor
Helen Silver AO Managing Director
Carlo Antonioli Cybec Assistant Conductor
Sophie Galaise Board Directors
Sir Andrew Davis CBE Conductor Laureate
Shane Buggle Andrew Dudgeon AM
Hiroyuki Iwaki † Conductor Laureate (1974–2006)
Martin Foley
Warren Trevelyan-Jones MSO Chorus Director
Lorraine Hook
Siobhan Stagg Soloist in Residence
Gary McPherson
Gondwana Voices Ensemble in Residence
Edgar Myer
Margaret Jackson AC Farrel Meltzer Glenn Sedgwick
Christian Li Young Artist in Association
Mary Waldron Company Secretary
Mary Finsterer Composer in Residence
Oliver Carton
Melissa Douglas Cybec Young Composer in Residence Christopher Moore Creative Producer, MSO Chamber Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO MSO First Nations Creative Chair Dr Anita Collins Creative Chair for Learning and Engagement Artistic Ambassadors Tan Dun Lu Siqing
The MSO relies on your ongoing philanthropic support to sustain our artists, and support access, education, community engagement and more. We invite our supporters 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: $500+ (Overture)
$5,000+ (Principal)
$50,000+ (Virtuoso)
$1,000+ (Player)
$10,000+ (Maestro)
$100,000+ (Platinum)
$2,500+ (Associate)
$20,000+ (Impresario)
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TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS
Freemasons Foundation Victoria
The Sir Andrew and Lady Fairley Foundation, The Angior Family Foundation, The William and Lindsay Brodie Foundation, Flora & Frank Leith Trust, The Gwen and Edna Jones Foundation, The Ray and Joyce Uebergang Foundation, Perpetual Foundation – Alan (AGL) Shaw Endowment, Sidney Myer MSO Trust Fund