Legacy: Lalah Hathaway Sings Donny Hathaway | Concert Program

Lalah Hathaway Sings Donny Hathaway with the MSO

Presented in partnership with the

A Message from MSO Managing Director, Sophie Galaise

Good evening, and welcome to Legacy: Lalah Hathaway sings Donny Hathaway. It is a pleasure to reunite with our friends at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival for this special event. Our MIJF concerts are always a hit, and tonight’s performance is set to be no exception.

Congratulations to Hadley and his team on the successful return of the Jazz Festival in 2022. It is one of the highlights of Melbourne’s music calendar, and it is fitting that so many people will come together inside Hamer Hall for tonight’s collaboration.

In addition to our wonderful musicians you will see on stage, as well as Lalah Hathaway and her band, I would also like to acknowledge the talented MSO and MIJF teams who have worked hard to present tonight’s performance.

I hope you enjoy sharing the music and the sense of occasion tonight. It is wonderful to have you with us.

Sophie Galaise, Managing Director Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 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 2022, the MSO’s new Chief Conductor, Jaime Martín has ushered in 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, Composer in Residence, Paul Grabowsky 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.

A Message from MIJF Artistic Director, Michael Tortoni

On behalf of MIJF, we are thrilled to welcome you to our special collaboration with Australia’s leading symphony orchestra. This is something we eagerly look forward to every year, and this is a proud central component of the Festival’s annual programming.

In one of the headlining performances of the 2022 Melbourne International Jazz Festival, and continuing the Festival’s rich history of extraordinary premieres, we are thrilled to welcome one of the globe’s finest vocalists, Lalah Hathaway. In another stunning annual collaboration with our cultural partners, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, we are so proud to bring this living legend of R&B, soul and jazz, and 5-time GRAMMY® Award winner to our shores for MIJF 2022.

Lalah Hathaway is one of the finest vocalists in the world who I have hoped to see at the festival for over a decade. Her vocal prowess is undeniable, and her soulful jazz expression and technical virtuosity unparalleled. This is a rare and exclusive opportunity to see a true modern master alongside Australia’s leading symphony orchestra.

This will be a performance we talk about for many years to come.

Michael Tortoni, Artistic Director Melbourne International Jazz Festival

Melbourne International Jazz Festival

The Melbourne International Jazz Festival (MIJF) is Australia’s leading platform for the presentation of jazz and improvised music. Now in its 25th year, MIJF is guided by its mission to lead an inclusive, progressive and world-renowned Australian jazz sector.

Over ten days in October, MIJF’s annual program features over 100 performances, showcasing 400+ artists and attracting over 50,000 attendees.

As Australia’s premiere jazz festival, MIJF connects Australian artists and audiences with the world’s leading exponents of jazz and improvised music; champions collaboration through cross-cultural exchange and the co-presentation of major public outcomes with leading cultural institutions; commissions new work and presents world premieres; champions sector development through a range of yearround artist development programs, initiatives and education partnerships; leads the national jazz programming agenda and brokers inbound and outbound artist tours; and promotes access and participation—presenting over a third of its program for free or at low cost across greater Melbourne.

The Melbourne International Jazz Festival respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which our festival takes place—the people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. We are honoured to contribute to the rich history of music making and storytelling that has taken place on these lands.

Artists

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Benjamin Northey conductor

Lalah Hathaway vocalist

Program*

MOSS / LOWE / HATHAWAY Flying Easy arr. Luca Mendoza

CHARLES I Believe to My Soul

SALTER / MACDONALD Where is the Love arr. Arif Mardin

MTUME / LUCAS The Closer I Get to You

PETERKIN You Were Meant For Me

LENNON Jealous Guy

INTERVAL

COOTS / LEWIS For All We Know arr. Arif Mardin

BAILEY / WILLIAMS Love Love Love

LEE EVANS / UPCHURCH / POWELL Voices Inside (Everything is Everything)

HATHAWAY Someday We’ll All Be Free

RUSSELL A Song For You arr. Arif Mardin

DEROUEN / HOWARD Little Ghetto Boy

HATHAWAY / MCKINNOR This Christmas arr. Scott Ninmer

OSTIGUY Be There arr. Damiano Pascarelli

All arranged by Vince Mendoza unless otherwise indicated *order subject to change

Running time: approximately 100 minutes including interval. Our musical Acknowledgment of Country, Long Time Living Here by Deborah Cheetham AO, will be performed at this concert.

Please note audience members are strongly recommended to wear face masks where 1.5m distancing is not possible. In consideration of your fellow patrons, the MSO thanks you for silencing and dimming the light on your phone.

Benjamin Northey conductor

Benjamin Northey is currently the Principal Resident Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

Internationally, he has conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Hong Kong Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia and the Southbank Sinfonia of London.

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 2022, he conducts the Christchurch and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras and all six Australian state symphony orchestras.

© Patrick Togher Artists’ Management 2022

Legacy: Lalah Hathaway Sings Donny Hathaway

Lalah Hathway vocals

Lalah Hathaway is a 5 x GRAMMY® award-winning singer/songwriter and producer and 10-time nominee. Undeniable music royalty and a 30-year music industry veteran, Lalah’s music transcends genre – from R&B ballads to pop standards and soulful jazz – she has collaborated with today’s top hitmakers, including Pharrell Williams, Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Anderson. Paak and Snoop Dogg. Lalah has also shared the stage with music legends, from Prince to Stevie Wonder to Anita Baker.

Film and television credits include appearing as herself in the 2017 hit film Girls Trip, as the wedding singer in the series finale of BET’s Being Mary Jane, a cameo in Yvette Nicole Brown’s film Always A Bridesmaid, and features as a special guest on the latest season of Family Reunion on Netflix.

Lalah headlined the Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors summer concert series in 2019 with sold-out show Legacy: Lalah Hathaway Sings Donny Hathaway. Lalah also served as a featured artist on the lost album of the legendary Miles Davis appearing on single So Emotional. This year, Lalah’s song Show Me Your Soul, from the hit documentary Mr. Soul!, was featured on the Oscars 2021 shortlist for Best Original Song.

Legacy: Lalah Hathaway Sings

Donny Hathaway with

MSO

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.

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

PRODUCTION CREDITS

MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Managing Director Sophie Galaise

Associate Producer/Artist Liaison

Stephen McAllan

Head of Operations James Foster Orchestra Manager Simonette Turner

Assistant Orchestra Manager Nina Dubecki

Production Lead Geetanjali Mishra

Production Coordinator Rory Wilson

Operating Officer Chief Guy Ross

Director of Programming John Nolan

Head of Artistic Planning

Katharine Bartholomeusz-Plows

Artistic Administrator Andrew Groch

Director of Marketing and Sales

Dylan Stewart

Senior Manager, Marketing and Communications Clare Douglas

Digital Marketing Manager Sally Hern

Digital Projects Manager Phil Paschke

Graphic Designer Katya Dibb

Marketing Coordinator Emily Plater

Marketing Assistant Stephanie Sheridan

Publicist Prue Bassett

Head of Media Steele Foster

Digital Content Producer Samantha Meuleman

Digital Content Coordinator Laura Pemberton

Digital Content Administrator Kezia Yap

Senior Manager, Sales & Customer

Experience Shannon Toyne

Box Office Manager Sarah Camm

Orchestra Library Manager

Luke Speedy-Hutton

Orchestra Library Coordinator

Veronika Reeves Orchestra Library Assistant Jennifer Powell

Lighting Designer Jake Kirby

Lighting Services Arts Centre Melbourne Audio Engineer Lachlan Carrick

Audio Services Arts Centre Melbourne Stage Manager Isobel Ilijoski

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL

Artistic Director Michael Tortoni

CEO & Program Director Hadley Agrez

Deputy CEO & Development Director Alexandra Murphy

Senior Producer Tom Browne

Associate Producer Claire Cross Festival Administrator Merinda Dias-Jayasinha

Volunteers Manager Indigo King Production Manager Fiona Murray

MSO

Jaime Martín

Chief Conductor

Mr Marc Besen AC and the late Mrs Eva Besen AO#

Xian Zhang

Principal Guest Conductor Benjamin Northey Principal Conductor in Residence

Carlo Antonioli

Cybec Assistant Conductor Fellow

Sir Andrew Davis Conductor Laureate

Hiroyuki Iwaki †

Conductor Laureate (1974–2006)

FIRST VIOLINS

Dale Barltrop Concertmaster

David Li AM and Angela Li# Sophie Rowell Concertmaster

Tair Khisambeev Assistant Concertmaster Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio# Peter Edwards Assistant Principal Zoe Black* Kirsty Bremner Sarah Curro

Peter Fellin Deborah Goodall Karla Hanna*

Lorraine Hook

Anne-Marie Johnson Kirstin Kenny

Miranda Matheson*

Eleanor Mancini Mark Mogilevski

Susannah Ng* Lynette Rayner*

Michelle Ruffolo

Kathryn Taylor

SECOND VIOLINS

Matthew Tomkins

Principal

The Gross Foundation#

Robert Macindoe Associate Principal Monica Curro Assistant Principal Danny Gorog and Lindy Susskind#

Mary Allison

Isin Cakmakcioglu

Tiffany Cheng Glenn Sedgwick#

Jacqueline Edwards* Freya Franzen

Cong Gu Newton Family in memory of Rae Rothfield#

Andrew Hall

Madeline Jevons*

Isy Wasserman Philippa West Andrew Dudgeon AM#

Patrick Wong Hyon Ju Newman# Roger Young Shane Buggle and Rosie Callanan#

VIOLAS

Christopher Moore

Principal Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio#

Merewyn Bramble*

Lauren Brigden

Katharine Brockman

Anthony Chataway Dr Elizabeth E Lewis AM#

Ceridwen Davies*

Gabrielle Halloran

Trevor Jones Anne Neil#

Jenny Khafagi* Fiona Sargeant

CELLOS

David Berlin Principal

Rachael Tobin Associate Principal Nicholas Bochner Miranda Brockman

Geelong Friends of the MSO#

Rohan de Korte Andrew Dudgeon AM# Kalina Krusteva*

Sarah Morse

Alexandra Partridge* Angela Sargeant Michelle Wood Andrew and Judy Rogers#

DOUBLE BASSES

Benjamin Hanlon Frank Mercurio and Di Jameson#

Rohan Dasika Suzanne Lee Stephen Newton Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser# Vivian Qu Siyuan*

FLUTES

Prudence Davis Principal Anonymous#

Wendy Clarke

Associate Principal Sarah Beggs Taryn Clarke*

PICCOLO

Andrew Macleod

Principal

OBOES

Ann Blackburn

The Rosemary Norman Foundation#

COR ANGLAIS

Michael Pisani

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 Dr Martin Tymms and Patricia Nilsson#

CONTRABASSOON

Brock Imison

Principal

HORNS

Nicolas Fleury Principal Margaret Jackson AC#

Saul Lewis

Principal Third

The late Hon Michael Watt KC and Cecilie Hall#

Abbey Edlin

Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM#

Trinette McClimont

Rachel Shaw Gary McPherson#

TRUMPETS

Owen Morris Principal Shane Hooton Associate Principal Glenn Sedgwick#

William Evans

Mat Jodrell*

Patrick McMullin* Rosie Turner

John and Diana Frew#

TROMBONES

Ian Bell*

Kieran Conrau* Nick Mulder* Richard Shirley Mike Szabo

Principal Bass Trombone

TUBA

Timothy Buzbee Principal

TIMPANI

Scott Weatherson*

PERCUSSION

John Arcaro Tim and Lyn Edward# Robert Cossom

Drs Rhyl Wade and Clem Gruen#

HARP

Yinuo Mu Principal

KEYBOARD

Joe Chindamo

EXTRA PLAYERS

1ST ALTO SAXOPHONE Tim Wilson*

2ND ALTO SAXOPHONE/ FLUTE Tony Hicks*

1st TENOR SAXOPHONE/ CLARINET Carlo Barbaro*

2ND TENOR SAXOPHONE Robert Simone*

BARITONE SAXOPHONE/ BASS CLARINET / BASS FLUTE Stuart Byrne*

GUITAR Doug de Vries*

ELECTRIC BASS Ben Robertson*

DRUMKIT

David Beck*

Denotes Guest Musician

Position supported by

Supporters

MSO PATRON

The Honourable Linda Dessau AC, Governor of Victoria CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE

Mr Marc Besen AC and the late Mrs Eva Besen AO Gandel Foundation

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The Ullmer Family Foundation

Anonymous

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Chief Conductor Jaime Martín Mr Marc Besen AC and the late Mrs Eva Besen AO

Cybec Assistant Conductor Chair Carlo Antonioli The Cybec Foundation Concertmaster Chair Dale Barltrop David Li AM and Angela Li Assistant Concertmaster

Tair Khisambeev Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio

Young Composer in Residence

Alex Turley The Cybec Foundation 2023 Composer in Residence Mary Finsterer Kim Williams AM

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Anonymous (1)

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The MSO gratefully acknowledges the support of the following Estates:

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Mary Armour

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FIRST NATIONS CIRCLE

John and Lorraine Bates

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The MSO honours the memory of Life Members

Mrs Eva Besen AO

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Ila Vanrenen

MSO BOARD

Chairman

David Li AM Co-Deputy Chairs Di Jameson

Helen Silver AO

Managing Director

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Board Directors

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Hyon-Ju Newman

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