Metropolis: The Lost by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

METROPOLIS: THE LOST Thursday 21 April 2022 / 7.30pm St Paul’s Cathedral

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Artists Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Mary Finsterer composer and curator Benjamin Northey conductor Astrid Connelly soprano Christopher Moore viola Timo-Veikko Valve cello MSO Chorus Warren Trevelyan-Jones chorus director

Program MARY FINSTERER Transiens #1 Ambient music

HILDEGARD VON BINGEN (arr. Mary Finsterer) O Euchari In Leta Via FRANCESCA CACCINI Aure Volanti ARVO PÄRT Da Pacem Domine ARVO PÄRT Nunc Dimittus MARY FINSTERER When Soft Voices Die MARY FINSTERER Transiens #2 Ambient music

MARY FINSTERER Missed Tales III – The Lost

This concert may be recorded for future broadcast on MSO.LIVE. A musical Acknowledgement of Country, Long Time Living Here by Deborah Cheetham AO, will be performed before the start of this concert. Running time: Approximately 1 hour with no interval. Please note audience members are strongly recommended to wear face masks where 1.5m distancing is not possible, however wearing a mask is no longer a requirement for entry. In consideration of your fellow patrons, the MSO thanks you for silencing and dimming the light on your phone. Cover image © Dean Golja

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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 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. Australian National Commission for UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientiﬁc and Cultural Organization

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 AO

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is a leading cultural figure in the Australian arts landscape, bringing the best in orchestral music and passionate performance to a diverse audience across Victoria, the nation and around the world. Each year the MSO engages with more than 5 million people through live concerts, TV, radio and online broadcasts, international tours, recordings and education programs. The MSO is a vital presence, both onstage and in the community, in cultivating classical music in Australia. The nation’s first professional orchestra, the MSO has been the sound of the city of Melbourne since 1906. The MSO regularly attracts great artists from around the globe including AnneSophie Mutter, Lang Lang, Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson, while bringing Melbourne’s finest musicians to the world through tours to China, Europe and the United States. 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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Your MSO Jaime Martín

Chief Conductor Dr Marc Besen AC and the late Dr Eva Besen AO#

Xian Zhang

Principal Guest Conductor

Benjamin Northey Principal Conductor in Residence

Carlo Antonioli Cybec Assistant Conductor Fellow

SECOND VIOLINS

CELLOS

Matthew Tomkins

David Berlin

Robert Macindoe

Rachael Tobin

Monica Curro

Nicholas Bochner

Principal The Gross Foundation# Associate Principal Assistant Principal Danny Gorog and Lindy Susskind#

Dale Barltrop

Mary Allison Isin Cakmakcioglu Tiffany Cheng Freya Franzen Cong Gu Andrew Hall Isy Wasserman Philippa West

Sophie Rowell

Patrick Wong Roger Young

Sir Andrew Davis Conductor Laureate

Hiroyuki Iwaki †

Conductor Laureate (1974–2006)

FIRST VIOLINS Concertmaster David Li AM and Angela Li# Concertmaster The Ullmer Family Foundation#

Tair Khisambeev

Assistant Concertmaster Di Jameson#

Peter Edwards

Assistant Principal

Kirsty Bremner Sarah Curro Peter Fellin Deborah Goodall Lorraine Hook Anne-Marie Johnson Kirstin Kenny Eleanor Mancini Mark Mogilevski Michelle Ruffolo Kathryn Taylor

Andrew Dudgeon AM#

Shane Buggle#

VIOLAS Christopher Moore Principal Di Jameson#

Christopher Cartlidge Associate Principal

Lauren Brigden Katharine Brockman Anthony Chataway

Dr Elizabeth E Lewis AM#

Gabrielle Halloran Trevor Jones Anne Neil#

Fiona Sargeant Cindy Watkin

Principal Hyon Ju Newman# Associate Principal Assistant Principal

Miranda Brockman

Geelong Friends of the MSO#

Rohan de Korte

Andrew Dudgeon AM#

Sarah Morse Angela Sargeant Michelle Wood

Andrew and Judy Rogers#

DOUBLE BASSES Benjamin Hanlon

Frank Mercurio and Di Jameson#

Suzanne Lee Stephen Newton Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser#

FLUTES Prudence Davis Principal Anonymous#

Wendy Clarke

Associate Principal

Sarah Beggs PICCOLO Andrew Macleod Principal

OBOES Thomas Hutchinson Associate Principal

Ann Blackburn

The Rosemary Norman Foundation#

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Michael Pisani

Principal

TRUMPETS Owen Morris

Principal

CLARINETS

Shane Hooton

David Thomas

William Evans Rosie Turner

Principal

Philip Arkinstall

Associate Principal

John and Diana Frew#

Craig Hill

TROMBONES

BASS CLARINET

Richard Shirley Mike Szabo

Jon Craven Principal

Principal Bass Trombone

TUBA

Double Basses Emma Sullivan Hamish Gullick Flutes Kathryn Ramsay Oboes Rachel Curkpatrick Clarinets Oliver Crofts Bassoons Lyndon Watts

Jack Schiller

Timothy Buzbee

Horns Tim Allen-Ankins

Principal

Elise Millman

TIMPANI

Trumpets Joel Brennan

Natasha Thomas

PERCUSSION

BASSOONS Principal

Associate Principal Dr Martin Tymms and Patricia Nilsson#

CONTRABASSOON Brock Imison

Principal

HORNS Nicolas Fleury

Principal Margaret Jackson AC#

Saul Lewis

Principal Third The Hon Michael Watt QC and Cecilie Hall#

Abbey Edlin

Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM#

Trinette McClimont Rachel Shaw Gary McPherson#

John Arcaro

Anonymous#

Robert Cossom

Drs Rhyl Wade and Clem Gruen#

Trombones Chris Lee Timpani Scott Weatherson

Yinuo Mu

Percussion Greg Sully Rob Allan Yiang Shan Sng

GUEST MUSICIANS

Harp Melina van Leeuwen

HARP Principal

First Violins Matthew Rigby Ioana Tache Claire Weatherhead

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COR ANGLAIS

Keyboard Aidan Boase

Second Violins Madeleine Jevons Violas William Clark Ceridwen Davies Matthew Laing Cellos Elina Faskhitdinova Zoe Wallace # Position supported by

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Mary Finsterer composer and curator Mary Finsterer is recognised as one of Australia’s innovative composers. Having received international recognition for her music in Europe, Britain, USA and Canada, Mary has received many awards both nationally and abroad including representing Australia in five International Society for Contemporary Music Festivals, the prestigious Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize and numerous Australian Art Music Awards throughout her career. She was the featured composer in the ABC Classic FM Pedestal Programme 2015, ANAM Australian Voices at the Melbourne Recital Centre in 2016 and Canberra International Music Festival in 2018. Also composing for feature film, Mary worked with Marco Beltrami on the screen music for Hollywood blockbuster Die Hard 4. In 2011, her score for Shirley Barrett’s feature SOUTH SOLITARY was recognised in the Film Critics Circle Australia Awards and has since been released on ABC Classics|Universal. Mary’s first opera BIOGRAPHICA, was premiered by Sydney Chamber Opera and Ensemble Offspring at the Sydney Festival in 2017 with exceptional success. Having enjoyed a sold-out season, it was described by critics as ‘an outstanding new opera that deserves a permanent place in the repertory’. Mary holds several positions at the University of Tasmania including CALE Creative Fellow at the College of Arts, Law and Education, University Associate at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and is an Adjunct Professor at the Conservatorium of Music, Tasmanian College of the Arts. Image © Dean Golja 8

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Benjamin Northey

Astrid Connelly

Since returning to Australia from Europe, Benjamin Northey has rapidly emerged as one of the nation’s leading musical figures. He is currently the Principal Resident Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and was appointed Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra in 2015.

Soprano Astrid Connelly is a graduate of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and former choral scholar of the Trinity College Choir, Melbourne. Astrid is an active collaborator and performer in early music, new music, and interdisciplinary projects.

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His international appearances include concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, the Malaysian Philharmonic and the New Zealand Symphony and Auckland Philharmonia. He has conducted L’elisir d’amore, The Tales of Hoffmann and La sonnambula for SOSA and Turandot, Don Giovanni, Carmen and Cosi fan tutte for Opera Australia. Limelight Magazine named him Australian Artist of the Year in 2018. In 2021, he conducts the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Christchurch Symphony and all six Australian state symphony orchestras.

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Past work has included: Nervous, a collaborative visual art and music performance by artist Heather B. Swann at the National Gallery of Australia, with music by Thomas Green and ensembles PLEXUS and Continuum Sax; the Melbourne showcase of Mary Finsterer’s opera Biographica with the Flinders Quartet; Soprano Soloist for the Melbourne Opera Orchestra and Essendon Choral Society’s Messiah; The Lullaby Suite, an interdisciplinary visual art and music project with Heather B. Swann, Christina Leonard, Matt McMahon, and Joseph Nizeti, and a collaborative artist residency with the Phalène – Arts Pluriels, in Berry, France. Astrid recently performed with the MSO Chamber Ensemble, singing music by Hildegard von Bingen, in a concert entitled Above Knowing. She also performed a broadcast program with the Wattleseed Ensemble for the 3MBS Music She Wrote Festival.

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Christopher Moore

Timo-Veikko Valve

Principal Viola of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Moore spent nine years travelling the globe as Principal Viola of Australian Chamber Orchestra. As romantic as that sounds, he missed his old chums Mahler, Schoenberg and Adès, and so returned to these and other old friends at the MSO.

Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve grew up in Helsinki, surrounded by a family who were “musical, but not musicians”, and who wanted music lessons to be a part of their children’s lives. Tipi was encouraged to pick up the cello because one of the teachers at the local music school, upon seeing him as a toddler, declared that he “looks like a cellist.” Tipi is still not sure what this actually means.

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Not surprisingly, Christopher’s wife and two daughters are pleased that Papa has hung up his rock star garb and come home to roost like their pet chickens. If you’re lucky, he may hand you a bona fide free-range egg; if you’re unlucky, you’ll be stuck hearing about how much he loves brewing beer and riding his bike into town from the suburbs, in an attempt to prevent his waistline expanding to the size of his chickens’ coop. Christopher plays on a 1937 Arthur E. Smith viola affectionately known as ‘Martha’. Christopher Moore’s position as the MSO’s Principal Viola is supported by Di Jameson through the MSO’s Adopt a Musician program.

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Tipi has been the Principal Cello of the ACO for fourteen years. He currently plays a 1616 Brothers Amati cello which is lent to him exclusively from the ACO Instrument Fund. Valve contributed in finding the instrument for the fund and himself, which he says is important, because the relationship between a player and their instrument is like “a marriage of some sort.” Timo-Veikko Valvehas appeared as a soloist with all the major orchestras in Finland, and as a chamber musician throughout Europe, Asian, Australia and the US. He has commissioned and premiered a handful of cello concertos and works written specifically for him and is a founding member of Jousia Ensemble and Jousia Quartet. He plays exclusively Larsen Strings A/S.

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Warren Trevelyan-Jones chorus director

MSO Chorus Director Warren TrevelyanJones 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, The Kings Consort, Dunedin Consort, The Sixteen and the Tallis Scholars. 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. Warren is also a qualified music therapist.

MSO 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, with The Australian Ballet, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, at the AFL Grand Final and at the Anzac Day commemorative ceremonies. The MSO Chorus is always welcoming new members. If you would like to audition, please visit mso.com.au/chorus for more information.

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MSO Chorus SOPRANO Eva Butcher Michele de Courcy Catherine Folley Camilla Gorman Juliana Hassett Penny Huggett Gina Humphries Gwen Kennelly Judy Longbottom Tiffany Pang Jodi Samartgis Julienne Seal Jemima Sim Elizabeth Tindall Christa Tom Katy Turbitt Fabienne Vandenburie

Image © Thomas Inman

ALTO Catherine Bickell Cecilia Björkegren Kate Bramley Jane Brodie Alexandra Chubaty Jill Giese Ros Harbison Jennifer Henry Kristine Hensel Helen Hill Helen MacLean Rosemary McKelvie Catriona NguyenRobertson Alison Ralph Kate Rice Helen Rommelaar Annie Runnalls Lisa Savige Libby Timcke

TENOR Steve Burnett Peter Campbell James Dipnall Simon Gaites Daniel Griffiths Lyndon Horsburgh Michael Mobach Colin Schultz BASS Kevin Barrell Alexandras Bartaska Richard Bolitho Roger Dargaville Ted Davies Peter Deane Andrew Ham John Hunt Jordan Janssen Douglas McQueenThomson Maciek Zielinski

Text provided by Mary Finsterer and the following artists from LCI, Melbourne: Thomas Inman, Geoffrey Russell, Felix Schofield and Sam Bryant.

A WORD FROM MARY FINSTERER: The curation and overarching themes of this programme are inspired by light and atmosphere. Like the spiritual invocations that emanate from candlelight in a church, I wanted to create an interrelated ethereal space in sound and music. The selected pieces reflect a variety of historical and contemporary interpretations of “sacred music” in voice, sparse instrumentals, and orchestra. Beginning with Hildegard Von Bingen whose work O Euchari In Leta Via emanates from visionary theology, to the narrative style of epic poetry in The Lost which signifies the lifeforce of an ancient Scottish ritual and the perpetual pursuit for spiritual connection.

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Program Notes

In the tradition of a Tenebrae (Latin for Darkness) this concert is designed as a search towards meaning and purpose, meant both as a metaphor for the appreciation of the metaphysical dimension and illumination into light.

HILDEGARD VON BINGEN

(1857–1934)

(arr. Mary Finsterer) (born 1962)

O Euchari In Leta Via “A flame slowly burns, as the light in the darkness of the night burns, on towards the dawn of the new day.” By Thomas Inman O Euchari in Leta Via is one of two sequences that Hildegard wrote to honour St. Eucharius, the first bishop of Trier in the second half of the 3 rd century, a former Roman colony situated approximately 100 kilometres southeast of Bingen in Germany. According to Medieval tradition, St. Eucharius was, in fact, one of the seventy-two disciples of Christ commissioned in Luke 10 to spread the Gospel, and that he was appointed by the Apostle Peter to evangelize Roman

Gaul. It was for this reason that, in the second verse of the sequence, that Hildegard refers to Eucharius having touched and seen the Lord in the flesh. It was also believed that Eucharius was present at both the Last Supper and at Pentecost. Eucharius is recognised to have founded the Church of St. John in the city, where he was first buried after his death. His relics were later transferred to the Abbey of St. Eucharius and St. Matthias, where they rest today. Through her poetic rendering Hildegard describes Eucharius’ intense and perfect love and devotion to the person of Christ ‘as one who frees him from the fearful limitations that his mortal human companions experience in trying to look upon the highest Good—reflective, perhaps, of the child-like joy and freedom from anxiety that Hildegard often reported feeling when bathed by the experience of the Living Light’. © Mary Finsterer 13

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FRANCESCA CACCINI

(1587–c. 1630) Aure Volanti

Francesca Caccini (18 September 1587 – after 1641) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. Aure Volanti originates from her opera, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina (The Liberation of Ruggiero from the island of Alcina), which was first performed in

1625 in Florence. It was considered to be the first Italian opera to be performed outside of Italy, having been presented in Poland to celebrate the visit of Prince Władysław during Carnival 1625. The title translates as “wandering breezes”, a short and warm gust of air from the heavens to create an atmosphere of lightness, perhaps alluding to life beyond form into the eternal. © Mary Finsterer

ARVO PÄRT

(BORN 1935)

Da Pacem Domine The reoccurring Latin text in this sublime restrained work is “Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris” (Give peace in our time, O Lord). Pärt began to set this ninth-century Gregorian antiphon two days after the Madrid bombings on 11 March 2004 as his personal tribute to the victims. This austere work is steeped in an atmosphere of mysticism, with the pure sound of the human voice emanating a profound and elemental force, suspending time. In the words of Arvo Pärt, ‘time has a deep meaning, but it is temporary, like our lives. Only eternity is timeless.’ © Geoffrey Russell Image © Geoffery Russell 14

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Image © Felix Schofield

ARVO PÄRT

MARY FINSTERER

Nunc Dimittus

When Soft Voices Die

This powerful emotive composition has many layers of perceived meaning. Nunc Dimittus “Song of Simeon” is found in eastern Orthodox vespers as well as other denominations. It contains text borrowed from the New Testament (Luke II, 29–32). The Latin text describes a scene where Simeon is promised and gifted by the Holy Spirit, to see and hold the promised Saviour, in the temple of Jerusalem before he dies. The Prophet or Saviour (guiding Light), being a reflection of our innate true nature and connection to the Eternal; the timeless spiritual connection beyond the flesh and mortal realm.

Dedicated to the memory of Tamsin Cowling.

“In delicate emptiness golden flowers bloom, and for a time float in space.” By Felix Schofield This work began as one movement of a larger work – a Mass. My intention was to compose the first sung prayer in the Order, that being a Kyrie, but the sudden death of a dear friend, a young, single mother of two children, turned my attention to the fragility and transience of life. The passing of someone so vital in themselves and to the lives of others is one of those agonising tragedies that music and faith seem inadequate to console or honour. However, the magnitude of this situation called for a response.

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“When soft voices die” is an elegy that has its roots in music for a spiritual occasion. Having in recent years spent much time investigating early music, the language is reminiscent of Renaissance tonality. Without ornamentation, the style aims for restraint and reflection. The text has been adapted from three poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley – Music when Soft Voices Die, A Fragment: To Music and A Lament. © Mary Finsterer

MARY FINSTERER Missed Tales III – The Lost I. Awakening II. The Search III. Longing IV. Grace “A journey to somewhere ancient and primal, the flame of a candle leading into a misty, ever–ascending mountainous landscape.” By Sam Bryant The Lost sits as the third in a series of orchestral concertos entitled Missing Tales. The three works explore mysteries of nature and place within Northern European mythology. The Lost refers to an ancient Celtic ritual conducted by the Scots and Picts in the undulating Irish and Scottish landscapes. A bonfire would be lit on the highest hill. It would then be used by farmers to light torches that would act as diviners for mapping out territory. The torches would be placed in such a way as to enfold the most fertile land, which they called “The Lost”, a term that invokes the Celtic word for fire, Losaid.

The title sets up the expectation that something is missing. Yet in the context of the ancient Celtic ritual, The Lost infers the discovery of something that is precious, something connected to

a source of life itself. The dichotomy of these two meanings acts like a counterpoint or tension which gives rise to a metaphysical shift. Integral to the preparation of the musician has been to work closely with the soloists Christopher Moore and Timo-Veikko Valve, and with double bassist Jill Griffiths and engineer Alistair McLean in the creation of the electroacoustic soundscape. This work is dedicated to Kim Williams AM and his sister Candice and was commissioned by Kim Williams AM. © Mary Finsterer

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Image © Sam Bryant

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Text and Translation HILDEGARD VON BINGEN O Euchari In Leta Via

O St. Eucharius

O Euchari in leta via

O St. Eucharius

O Euchari,

you walked upon the blessed way

in leta via ambulasti

when with the Son of God you stayed—

ubi cum Filio Dei mansisti,

you touched the man

illum tangendo

and saw with your own eyes

et miracula eius que fecit videndo.

his miracles.

Tu eum perfecte amasti

You loved him perfectly

cum sodales tui exterriti erant,

while your companions trembled,

pro eo quod homines erant,

frightened by their mere humanity,

nec possibilitatem habebant

unable as they were to gaze

bona perfecte intueri.

entirely upon the good.

CACCINI Aure Volanti Aure volanti,

Flying breezes,

Augei canori,

singing birds,

Fonti stillanti,

trickling fountains,

Gratie ed Amori,

Graces and Loves

Quinci d’intorno,

from [all] around [this place]

Fate piú chiar’il Sol,

you make the sun brighter,

piú lieto il giorno.

the day happier.

ARVO PÄRT Da Pacem Domine

Da pacem Domine

Give peace, O Lord,

in diebus nostris

in our time

quia non est alius

because there is no one else

qui pugnet pro nobis

who will fight for us

nisi tu Deus noster.

if not You, our God.

Nunc Dimittus Luke 2, 29-32 Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine, secundum verbum tuum in pace,

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in

quia viderunt oculi mei salutare tuum,

peace, according to thy word:

quod parasti ante faciem omnium populorum,

For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,

lumen ad revelationem gentium et gloriam plebis tuae Israel.

before the face of all people;

Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto, sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Which thou hast prepared

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ARVO PÄRT

A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, Both now and always, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

MARY FINSTERER When Soft Voices Die When soft voices die, Memory living. Out of the day and night Joy has taken flight. Silver key, fountain of tears, softest grave, asleep in the flowers. Rose leaves when the rose is dead. Lyrics are inspired by the poem When Soft Voices Die by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Merv Keehn and Sue Harlow Susan and Gary Hearst John Jones The Ilma Kelson Music Foundation Graham and Jo Kraehe Ann Lahore Lesley McMullin Foundation Andrew Lockwood The Cuming Bequest Margaret and John Mason OAM H E McKenzie Dr Isabel McLean Douglas and Rosemary Meagher Wayne and Penny Morgan Marie Morton FRSA Patricia Nilsson Ken Ong OAM Alan and Dorothy Pattison Peter Priest Tom and Elizabeth Romanowski Lady Marigold Southey AC Steinicke Family Peter J Stirling Jenny Tatchell Clayton and Christina Thomas Jessica Thomson-Robbins Nic and Ann Willcock Lorraine Woolley Anonymous (4)

PLAYER PATRONS $1,000+

Ronald and Kate Burnstein Dr Lynda Campbell Dr Sang and Candace Chung Kaye Cleary Michael Craig Andrew Crockett AM and Pamela Crockett Panch Das and Laurel Young-Das Caroline Davies Natasha Davies for the Trikojus Education Fund Merrowyn Deacon Rick and Sue Deering John and Anne Duncan Elaine Walters OAM Grant Fisher and Helen Bird Alex Forrest Applebay Pty Ltd David H and Esther Frenkiel OAM Simon Gaites David Gibbs and Susie O’Neill Sonia Gilderdale Janette Gill Dr Marged Goode Catherine Gray Chris Grikscheit and Christine Mullen Margie and Marshall Grosby Jennifer Gross Dr Sandra Hacker AO and Mr Ian Kennedy AM Tilda and the late Brian Haughney David H Hennell

David and Cindy Abbey

Anthony and Karen Ho

Dr Sally Adams

Katherine Horwood

Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society

Penelope Hughes

Geoffrey and Vivienne Baker

Paul and Amy Jasper

Marlyn Bancroft and Peter Bancroft OAM

Basil and Rita Jenkins

Janet H Bell

John Kaufman

The Brett Young Family

Irene Kearsey & Michael Ridley

Patricia Brockman

Drs Bruce and Natalie Kellett

◊ Denotes Adopt a Musician supporter

Dr Peter Strickland

John Keys

Dr Joel Symons and Liora Symons

Professor David Knowles and Dr Anne McLachlan

Gavin Taylor

Janet and Ross Lapworth

Ann and Larry Turner

Bryan Lawrence Peter Lawrence Elizabeth H Loftus Chris and Anna Long Shane Mackinlay Wayne McDonald and Kay Schroer Margaret Mcgrath

Russell Taylor and Cara Obeyesekere The Hon Rosemary Varty Leon and Sandra Velik P J Warr in memory of Peter Gates The Reverend Noel Whale Edward and Paddy White Deborah Whithear

Nigel and Debbie McGuckian

Terry Wills Cooke OAM and the late Marian Wills Cooke

Shirley A McKenzie

Richard Withers

John and Rosemary McLeod

Anonymous (15)

Don and Anne Meadows Dr Eric Meadows

OVERTURE PATRONS $500+*

Sylvia Miller

Margaret Abbey PSM

Dr Anthony and Anna Morton Timothy O’Connell Brendan O’Donnell Laurence O’Keefe and Christopher James Roger Parker Ian Penboss Adriana and Sienna Pesavento Alan Poynter in memory of Muriel Poynter Professor Charles Qin and Kate Ritchie Eli Raskin Dr Peter Rogers and Cathy Rogers OAM Dr Ronald and Elizabeth Rosanove Marie Rowland Dr Paul Schneider and Dr Margarita Silva-Schneider Elisabeth and Doug Scott Sparky Foundation Jeffrey Sher QC and Diana Sher OAM Martin and Susan Shirley P Shore Hon Jim Short and Jan Rothwell Short John E Smith Dr Norman and Dr Sue Sonenberg Barry Spanger Dr Vaughan Speck Stephen and Caroline Brain

Supporters

Dr Anne Kennedy

Jane Allan and Mark Redmond Mario M Anders Jenny Anderson Liz and Charles Baré Miriam Bass Heather and David Baxter Sascha O.Becker Peter Berry and Amanda Quirk Dr William Birch AM Allen and Kathryn Bloom Graham and Mary Ann Bone Stephen Braida Anita and Norman Bye Pamela M Carder Ian and Wilma Chapman Dr Catherine Cherry Charmaine Collins Geoffrey Constable Alex Coppe Marjorie Cornelius Dr Sheryl Coughlin and Paul Coughlin Gregory Crew Dr Daryl Daley and Nola Daley Michael Davies Nada Dickinson Bruce Dudon

Supporters

David and Dr Elizabeth Ebert

Dr Anne McDougall

Cynthia Edgell

Jennifer McKean

Melissa and Aran Fitzgerald

Dr Alan Meads and Sandra Boon

Brian Florence

Marie Misiurak

Anthony Garvey and Estelle O’Callaghan

Ann Moore

Sandra Gillett and Jeremy Wilkins

Kevin Morrish

David and Geraldine Glenny

Joan Mullumby

Hugo and Diane Goetze

Adrian and Louise Nelson

Pauline Goodison

Tania Nesbit

Louise Gourlay OAM

Michael Noble

Cindy Goy

Rosemary O’Collins

Christine Grenda

Conrad O’Donohue and Dr Rosemary Kiss

Jason Grollo

Phil Parker

Dawn Hales

Howard and Dorothy Parkinson

Cathy Henry

Sarah Patterson

Clive and Joyce Hollands

Pauline and David Lawton

Natasha Holmes

Wilma Plozza-Green

Roderick Home

Kerryn Pratchett

Geoff and Denise Illing

Akshay Rao

Rob Jackson

Professor John Rickard

Shyama Jayaswal

Liliane Rusek and Alexander Ushakoff

Sandy Jenkins

Viorica Samson

Sue Johnston

Carolyn Sanders

Huw Jones

Dr Nora Scheinkestel

Fiona Keenan

Dr Peter Seligman

Phillip Kidd

Suzette Sherazee

Belinda and Malcolm King

Dr Frank and Valerie Silberberg

Tim Knaggs

Matt Sinclair

David Kneipp

Olga Skibina

Jane Kunstler

Brian Snape AM and the late Diana Snape

Elizabeth-Anne Lane

Colin and Mary Squires

Paschalina Leach

Ruth Stringer

Jane Leitinger

Anthony Summers

Dr Jenny Lewis

Allan and Margaret Tempest

Dr Susan Linton

Reverend Angela Thomas

Janice Mayfield

Brett Thomas

Wayne McDonald and Kay Schroer

Amanda Watson

* The MSO has introduced a new tier to its annual Patron Program in recognition of the donors who supported the Orchestra during 2020, many for the first time. Moving forward, donors who make an annual gift of $500–$999 to the MSO will now be publicly recognised as an Overture Patron. For more information, please contact Donor Liaison, Keith Clancy on (03) 8646 1109 or clancyk@mso.com.au 26

Penny Rawlins

Angela Westacott

Joan P Robinson

Barry and Julie Wilkins

Anne Roussac-Hoyne and Neil Roussac

Robert and Diana Wilson

Michael Ryan and Wendy Mead

Fiona Woodard

Andrew Serpell

Dr Kelly Wright and Dr Heathcote Wright

Jennifer Shepherd

Dr Susan Yell

Suzette Sherazee

Daniel Yosua

Dr Gabriela and Dr George Stephenson

Anonymous (36)

Pamela Swansson

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Jenny Anderson David Angelovich G C Bawden and L de Kievit Lesley Bawden Joyce Bown Mrs Jenny Bruckner and the late Mr John Bruckner Ken Bullen Peter A Caldwell Luci and Ron Chambers Beryl Dean Sandra Dent Alan Egan JP Gunta Eglite Marguerite Garnon-Williams Drs L C Gruen and R W Wade Louis J Hamon AOM Carol Hay Graham Hogarth Rod Home Tony Howe Lindsay and Michael Jacombs Laurence O’Keefe and Christopher James John Jones Grace Kass and the late George Kass Sylvia Lavelle Pauline and David Lawton Cameron Mowat Ruth Muir David Orr Matthew O’Sullivan Rosia Pasteur

Supporters

Michael Webber and Ruth Fincher

Lillian Tarry Tam Vu and Dr Cherilyn Tillman Mr and Mrs R P Trebilcock Peter and Elisabeth Turner Michael Ulmer AO The Hon. Rosemary Varty Terry Wills Cooke OAM and the late Marian Wills Cooke Mark Young Anonymous (19) 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 Maxwell Schultz Miss Sheila Scotter AM MBE Marion A I H M Spence Molly Stephens

Supporters

Halinka Tarczynska-Fiddian Jennifer May Teague Albert Henry Ullin Jean Tweedie Herta and Fred B Vogel Dorothy Wood

MSO BOARD Chairman David Li AM Co-Deputy Chairs Di Jameson Helen Silver AO

COMMISSIONING CIRCLE

Managing Director

Mary Armour

Board Directors

The Hon Michael Watt QC and Cecilie Hall Tim and Lyn Edward

Sophie Galaise Shane Buggle Andrew Dudgeon AM Danny Gorog

FIRST NATIONS CIRCLE

Lorraine Hook

Colin Golvan AM QC and Dr Deborah Golvan

David Krasnostein AM

Elizabeth Proust AO and Brian Lawrence Michael Ullmer AO and Jenny Ullmer

HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

Margaret Jackson AC Gary McPherson Hyon-Ju Newman Glenn Sedgwick Company Secretary Oliver Carton

Life Members Dr Marc Besen AC John Gandel AC and Pauline Gandel AC Sir Elton John CBE Harold Mitchell AC Lady Potter AC CMRI Jeanne Pratt AC Artistic Ambassadors Tan Dun Lu Siqing MSO Ambassador Geoffrey Rush AC The MSO honours the memory of Life Members Dr Eva Besen AO John Brockman OAM The Honourable Alan Goldberg AO QC Roger Riordan AM Ila Vanrenen

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) $1,000+ (Player) $2,500+ (Associate) $5,000+ (Principal) $10,000+ (Maestro) $20,000+ (Impresario) $50,000+ (Virtuoso) $100,000+ (Platinum)

FRIENDS of the MSO

Memberships available now

Benefits include:

Priority ticket access • Event invitations • Free drinks at Hamer Hall • Ticket offers • MSO.LIVE membership …and more! •

mso.com.au/friends

Thank you to our Partners Principal Partner

Premier Partners

Education Partner

Venue Partner

Major Partners

Government Partners

Supporting Partners

Quest Southbank Ernst & Young Bows for Strings

Media and Broadcast Partners

Trusts and Foundations

The Sir Andrew and Lady Fairley Foundation, John T Reid Charitable Trusts, Scobie & Claire Mackinnon Trust, Sidney Myer MSO Trust Fund, The Ullmer Family Foundation

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