Verdi's Requiem | Concert Program

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Artists

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Jaime Martín conductor

Maija Kovalevska soprano

Catherine Carby mezzo-soprano

Kang Wang tenor

Jonathan Lemalu bass

MSO Chorus

Warren Trevelyan-Jones chorus director

Trinity College Choir

Christopher Watson music director of Trinity College Choir Program

VERDI Requiem

Running time: approximately 90 minutes with no interval.

Our musical Acknowledgment of Country, Long Time Living Here by Deborah Cheetham AO, will be performed at this concert.

Pre-concert events

Pre-concert talk: 27 October at 6:45pm in the Stalls Foyer, Level 2 at Hamer Hall. Pre-concert talk: 28 October at 6:45pm at at Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University.

Learn more about the performance at a pre-concert presentation with MSO Chorus Coordinator Callum Moncrieff.

These concerts may be recorded for future broadcast on MSO.LIVE

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.

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

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.

Verdi’s

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 Kirsty Bremner Sarah Curro Peter Fellin

Deborah Goodall Lorraine Hook

Anne-Marie Johnson Kirstin Kenny Eleanor Mancini Mark Mogilevski

Susannah Ng* 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

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#

Lauren Brigden

Katharine Brockman

Anthony Chataway Dr Elizabeth E Lewis AM# William Clark*

Ceridwen Davies*

Gabrielle Halloran Trevor Jones Anne Neil#

Jenny Khafagi*

Isabel Morse*

Fiona Sargeant

CELLOS

David Berlin Principal Rachael Tobin Associate Principal Nicholas Bochner Miranda Brockman Geelong Friends of the MSO# Jonathan Chim* Andy Leask*

Rohan de Korte

Andrew Dudgeon AM# Sarah Morse

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

DOUBLE BASSES

Luca Arcaro*

Caitlin Bass* Rohan Dasika Hamish Gullick* Benjamin Hanlon Frank Mercurio and Di Jameson#

Suzanne Lee Stephen Newton Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser# Nemanja Petkovic* Siyuan Vivian Qu*

FLUTES

Prudence Davis Principal Anonymous# Wendy Clarke Associate Principal Sarah Beggs

PICCOLO

Andrew Macleod

Principal

OBOES

Sarah Young*

Guest Principal

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 Sarah Henderson*^ Tim Keenihan*^

Tristan Rebien*^

Rosie Turner John and Diana Frew#

Joel Walmsley*^

TROMBONES

Mark Davidson* Acting Principal Trombone

Richard Shirley Mike Szabo Principal Bass Trombone

TUBA

Timothy Buzbee

Principal

TIMPANI Guy Du Blet*

Acting Principal Timpani PERCUSSION

John Arcaro Tim and Lyn Edward#

Robert Cossom Drs Rhyl Wade and Clem Gruen#

HARP

Yinuo Mu Principal

Denotes Guest Musician

Offstage

Position supported by

Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since 2022, Jaime Martín is also Chief Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland) and Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España (Spanish National Orchestra) for the 22/23 season and was Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Gävle Symphony Orchestra from 2013 to 2022.

Having spent many years as a highly regarded flautist, Jaime turned to conducting full-time in 2013, and has become very quickly sought after at the highest level. Recent and future engagements include appearances with the London Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Netherlands Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Antwerp Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica y Coro de RTVE (ORTVE) and Galicia Symphony orchestras, as well as a nine-city European tour with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Martín is the Artistic Advisor and previous Artistic Director of the Santander Festival. He was also a founding member of the Orquestra de Cadaqués, where he was Chief Conductor from 2012 to 2019.

The Chief Conductor is supported by Mr Marc Besen AC and the late Mrs Eva Besen AO.

Maija Kovalevska is a Latvian soprano opera singer. Born in Riga, she graduate of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music and since 2003 hones her skills in Italy under the tutelage of Mirella Freni.

In 2003, Kovalevska made her Latvian National Opera debut as Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, a year later her brilliant performance as Donna Elvira in International Sigulda Opera Music Festival brought her the state’s highest prize in music – the Grand Music Award. Also in 2004, she was the winner of the 10th Riccardo Zandonai International Opera competition in Italy and was second at the 3rd Jāzeps Vītols Vocal competition in Riga.

Kovalevska rose to international prominence in 2006 after winning Operalia – Plácido Domingo world opera competition in Valencia.

Jaime Martín conductor

Maija Kovalevska soprano

Catherine Carby mezzo-soprano

Catherine Carby has performed with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Scottish Opera, English Touring Opera, Teatro São Carlos, Lisbon, National Opera Canberra, Opera Australia, Victoria State Opera, State Opera South Australia and Opera Queensland. As a board member of Swap’ra UK Catherine is committed to achieving gender and pay equality in the opera industry.

This season Catherine returns to Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Longborough Festival Opera, Buxton International Festival, Pinchgut Opera and the MSO.

Catherine has also appeared with the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic and Ulster Orchestras, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Gardner Chamber Orchestra Boston, and the Sydney and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras.

Her recordings include Cellier’s The Mountebanks, Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley, The Love for Three Oranges, Les contes d’Hoffmann and Der Rosenkavalier for Opera Australia, and The Royal Opera’s Die Walküre (Siegrune), 2021 BBC Music Magazine’s DVD of the Year.

Kang Wang tenor

Australian-Chinese tenor Kang Wang is one of the most sought-after young lyric tenors in the opera world. This season, he makes a house and role debut at Washington National Opera as Ferrando in Così fan tutte. He also makes his house debut at Seattle Opera as Rodlfo in La bohème, returns to Opera Australia in the same role, and returns to Opera Queensland as Alfredo in La traviata. In concert, he joins the Queensland Symphony Orchestra for a concert of arias.

In recent seasons, Mr. Wang made his house debut at Opera Australia as Alfredo, his house and role debut at Pittsburgh Opera as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and his role debut as the Duke in Rigoletto at Austin Lyric Opera. On the concert stage, he sang Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Eugene Symphony.

Originally from Harbin, China, Mr. Wang is the son of two renowned opera singers. He is a former member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program of the Metropolitan Opera and was a finalist in the 2017 Cardiff Singer of the World competition.

Jonathan Lemalu bass

Jonathan Lemalu is a New Zealand-born Samoan who graduated from London’s Royal College of Music where he has been named an honorary fellow. A joint winner of the 2002 Kathleen Ferrier award and the recipient of the 2002 Royal Philharmonic Society’s Award for Young Artist of the Year, he has been made an ONZM for his services to opera, as well as having been named an honorary fellow at the Royal College of Music.

Jonathan’s debut recital disc was awarded the Gramophone Magazine Debut Artist of the Year award. He subsequently released his first solo recording, with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, as well as a recital disc with Malcolm Martineau, also featuring the Belcea Quartet.

Highlights this season include Jonathan’s house debut as Sacristan/ Tosca at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Sarastro/Magic Flute for Welsh National Opera, Rocco/ Fidelio with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and Brander/La Damnation de Faust with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner. On the concert platform, recent and upcoming performances include The Seasons for the Academy of Ancient Music, and Verdi Requiem with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

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.

MSO Chorus

SOPRANO

Shirin Albert

Emma Anvari

Julie Arblaster

Sheila Baker Helena Balazs

Aviva Barazani

Tina Battaglia

Giselle Baulch

Eva Butcher Aliz Cole

Jillian Colrain

Kylie Constantine Veryan Croggon Ella Dann-Limon

Samantha Davies Michele de Courcy Isabelle Dennis Laura Fahey Rita Fitzgerald Susan Fone Carolyn Francis Camilla Gorman Aurora Harmathy Juliana Hassett Penny Huggett Gina Humphries Tania Jacobs

Gwen Kennelly Theresa Lam Natasha Lambie Judy Longbottom

Caitlin Noble Susie Novella Karin Otto

Jodie Paxton

Amanda Powell Tanja Redl Natalie Reid

Beth Richardson Danielle Rosenfeld-Lovell

Jodi Samartgis

Jillian Samuels

Julienne Seal

Jemima Sim Eleanor Smith

Fiona Steffensen

Rachel Sztanski

Fabienne Vandenburie

ALTO

Ruth Anderson

Tes Benton Catherine Bickell Cecilia Björkegren Kirsten Boerema Jane Brodie

Serena Carmel Jacqueline Cheng Alexandra Chubaty Juliarna Clark

Mari Eleanor-Rapp Nicola Eveleigh Lisa Faulks Claudia Funder Jill Giese

Jillian Graham Debbie Griffiths Ros Harbison

Jennifer Henry Kristine Hensel Helen Hill Charles Lines-Perrier* Julie Lotherington Helen MacLean Christina McCowan Rosemary McKelvie Stephanie Mitchell Phillipa McQuinn* Sandy Nagy Catriona NguyenRobertson

Alison Ralph Kate Rice Helen Rommelaar Kerry Roulston

Anni Runnalls Lisa Savige Victoria Sdralis Helen Staindl Jenny Vallins

TENOR

James Allen Kent Borchard Steve Burnett Peter Campbell Ed Chan Allan Chiang Peter Clay Keaton Cloherty James Dipnall Simon Gaites

Daniel Griffiths Lyndon Horsburgh David Lee* Michael Mobach Colin Schultz Robert Simpson Ben Slavec* Brad Warburton Stephen Wood

BASS

Maurice Amor José Miguel Armijo Fidalgo Kevin Barrell David Bennett Richard Bolitho Roger Dargaville Ted Davies Peter Deane Ethan Flemming* Andrew Ham Andrew Hibbard John Hunt Jordan Janssen Gary Levy Tim March Douglas McQueenThomson Douglas Proctor Liam Straughan Benjamin Tao* Matthew Toulmin Caleb Triscari Michael von Guttner*

* Denotes member of Trinity College Choir, Christopher Watson – music director

Program Notes

GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813–1901)

Requiem Mass

The most significant Italian composer of the second half of the 19th century might have been expected to write at least one major religious work. But Verdi was generally regarded as an atheist –with an ‘obstinacy and a calm’ that made his wife, Giuseppina, want to thrash him for it – and at the time he wrote the requiem, he had composed nothing, basically, but operas. Out of this contradiction emerged a work which is suited entirely neither to the church nor the theatre, yet containing the finest features of both.

It has been pointed out that religion usually plays a negative role in Verdi’s operas. Il trovatore, Rigoletto, The Force of Destiny – all present a world in which individual choice is made in an uncaring universe and a hostile society. The only moral barometer is the integrity of that choice against forces beyond its control. When religion does feature (less than one would expect), it is often a political rather than spiritual element. None of this bodes well for the writing of a requiem. Verdi, however, found his own way to the genre.

Following Rossini’s death in 1868, Verdi suggested that six Italian composers write a requiem movement dedicated to him. Verdi composed the Libera Me, but his colleagues were not so forthcoming, and the project lapsed.

Verdi’s choice of movement is intriguing and revealing. The Libera Me is taken from the Absolution and is not a canonical part of the requiem mass. Most previous settings were for choir; but Verdi sets it for soprano voice at the dramatic lower end of her register. It sounds like a terrified plea rather

than an invocation in the confidence of faith. Hardly reassuring, it did, however, set the tone for the final version of the requiem.

When Rossini died, Verdi wrote to a friend that ‘A great name has gone from the world! … When the other one who is still alive is taken from us, what will remain!’ The ‘other one’ was the writer Alessandro Manzoni. Manzoni had devoted all his life to realising a single, unified Italian state true to the ideals which had made the Italian peninsula such a crucial part of European culture. His death in 1873 gave Verdi another reason to reflect upon a life he had admired. In Manzoni’s case, though, Verdi’s tribute was to be a solo effort.

Verdi’s requiem could have been written by nobody else – its drama and sensibility is uniquely his, despite the fact that he was setting a liturgical text, and not an opera libretto. Fortunately for Verdi, however, the requiem has a structural distinction in the Dies Irae sequence. This is the lynchpin of Verdi’s setting; to which he returns abruptly and out of ritual order at several points. It is in first person and therefore far more engaging to Verdi’s style than the more regular missal sections. Secondly, the Dies Irae presents a powerful image of the Last Judgement. Verdi was clearly inspired by this. Here his existentialist streak comes most to the fore. If Verdi’s operas are about the choices one makes, this Last Judgement concentrates upon the reckoning due for those choices.

Verdi’s requiem focuses on a hope of divine grace as the only thing between humanity and eternal damnation, the choir and soloists interceding on our behalf. But Verdi never doubts that on the far side of the music is the void and eternity; it is not possible to choose any more.

In Verdi’s day, composing for opera was one long process of compromise

(with performers, staging, censor, management...) In the Requiem, none of these limitations obtained. It was performed in the Church of San Marco, all costs covered by the city. Verdi conducted himself, with his own choice of soloists and a thoroughly well-drilled chorus; there were no tawdry sets, costumes or lighting to limit his vision.

Most importantly, the words and their meaning were known; the audience knew what would ‘happen next’. All Verdi’s efforts are therefore devoted to emotional impact in the moment. Development and suspense are almost entirely absent. The Requiem moves in blocks of timelessness, cataclysm and rapture.

Given the task of evoking the Last Judgement, Verdi’s aural painting is for once unrestricted by a concrete stage setting. And with no stage setting, words which, in an opera, would point to a concrete situation become applicable to humanity as a whole.

Perhaps no one since Beethoven was able to depict universal human experience so personally. Verdi makes each soloist and the choir not operatic characters, but representatives of humanity, drawing upon the profoundest and most unshakeable human emotions - awe, panic, adoration, despair, hope. It is all latent in the requiem text, but Verdi draws an audience into a coherent individual experience of the universal. He leads us to understand the human circumstance in the face of divine judgement.

Abridged from Antony Ernst © 2008

Text and Translation

No.1 Requiem [Introit and Kyrie]

Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis. Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion, et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem: exaudi orationem meam, ad te omnis caro veniet. Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison.

No.2 Dies irae [Sequence]

Dies irae, dies illa Solvet saeclum in favilla, Teste David cum Sibylla. Quantus tremor est futurus, Quando Judex est venturus, Cuncta stricte discussurus!

Tuba mirum spargens sonum Per sepulcra regionum, Coget omnes ante thronum.

Mors stupebit et natura Cum resurget creatura, Judicanti responsura.

Liber scriptus proferetur, In quo totum continetur, Unde mundus judicetur. (Dies irae.)

Judex ergo cum sedebit, Quidquid latet apparebit, Nil inultum remanebit.

Dies irae, dies illa…

Quid sum miser tunc dicturus, Quem patronum rogaturus, Cum vix justus sit securus?

Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and let everlasting light shine upon them. To thee, O God, praise is meet in Zion, and prayer shall go up to thee in Jerusalem. Give ear to my supplication, unto thee shall all flesh come. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us.

The day of wrath, that day shall dissolve the world in ashes, as witnesseth David and the Sibyl. What trembling shall there be when the Judge shall come who shall thresh out all thoroughly!

The trumpet, scattering a wondrous sound through the tombs of all lands, shall drive all unto the Throne.

Death and nature shall be astounded when creation shall rise again to answer the Judge.

A written book shall be brought forth in which shall be contained all for which the world shall be judged. (The day of wrath.)

And therefore when the Judge shall sit, whatsoever is hidden shall be manifest: and nothing shall remain unavenged. The day of wrath, that day…

What shall I say in my misery? Whom shall I ask to be my advocate, when scarcely the righteous may be without fear?

Rex tremendae majestatis, Qui salvandos salvas gratis, Salva me, fons pietatis.

Recordare, Jesu pie, Quod sum causa tuae viae Ne me perdas illa die.

Quaerens me, sedisti lassus, Redemisti crucem passus: Tantus labor non sit cassus. Juste Judex ultionis, Donum fac remissionis Ante diem rationis.

Ingemisco tamquam reus: Culpa rubet vultus meus: Supplicanti parce Deus.

Qui Mariam absolvisti, Et latronem exaudisti, Mihi quoque spem dedisti.

Preces meae non sunt dignae, Sed tu bonus fac benigne, Ne perenni cremer igne. Inter oves locum praesta Et ab haedis me sequestra, Statuens in parte dextra.

Confutatis maledictis, Flammis acribus addictis, Voca me cum benedictis.

Oro supplex et acclinis, Cor contritum quasi cinis, Gere curam mei finis. Dies irae, dies illa…

Lacrimosa dies illa, Qua resurget ex favilla, Judicandus homo reus.

Huic ergo parce Deus. Pie Jesu Domine, Dona eis requiem. Amen.

King of awful majesty, who freely saves the redeemed: save me, O Fount of Pity.

Remember, merciful Jesus, that I am the reason for thy journey, do not destroy me on that day. Seeking me didst thou sit weary, thou didst redeem me, suffering the Cross: let not such labour have been in vain. O just Judge of Vengeance, give the gift of redemption before the day of reckoning. I groan as one guilty; my face blushes at my sin. Spare the supplicant, O God.

Thou who didst absolve Mary and hear the prayer of the thief, hast given me hope too. My prayers are not worthy, but thou, who art good, show mercy, lest I burn in everlasting fire. Give me a place among the sheep, and separate me from the goats, setting me on the right hand.

When the damned are confounded and consigned to sharp flames, call me with the blessed.

I pray, kneeling in supplication, heart as contrite as ashes, take thou my ending into thy care. The day of wrath, that day…

That day is one of weeping on which shall rise again from the ashes the guilty man, to be judged. Therefore spare this one, O God. Merciful Lord Jesus: Grant them rest. Amen.

No.3 Offertory

Domine Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae, libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum de poenis inferni, et de profundo lacu: libera eas de ore Leonis, ne absorbeat eas Tartarus, ne cadant in obscurum: sed signifer sanctus Michael repraesentet eas in lucem sanctam. Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus. Hostias et preces tibi, Domine, laudis offerimus: tu suscipe pro animabus illis, quarum hodie memoriam facimus: fac eas, Domine, de morte transire ad vitam.

No.4 Sanctus

Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth! Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Hosanna in excelsis.

No.5 Agnus Dei Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem; Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem sempiternam.

O Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory, deliver the souls of all the departed faithful from the torments of Hell, and from the deep pit; deliver them from the mouth of the lion; that Hell may not swallow them up, and that they may not fall into darkness. But may the holy standard-bearer Michael bring them into the holy light; which thou didst promise of old to Abraham and his seed. We offer unto thee, O Lord, sacrifices and prayers of praise; do thou receive them on behalf of those souls whom we commemorate this day. Make them, O Lord, to cross over from death to life.

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts. Heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world: grant them rest.

Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world: grant them rest.

Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world: grant them eternal rest.

No.6 Lux aeterna

Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine, cum Sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis. Cum Sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es.

No.7 Libera me

Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna, in die illa tremenda: quando coeli movendi sunt et terra.

Dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem.

Tremens factus sum ego et timeo, dum discussio venerit atque ventura ira.

Quando coeli movendi sunt et terra.

Dies irae, dies illa, calamitatis et miseriae, dies magna et amara valde. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.

Let everlasting light shine on them, O Lord, with thy saints for ever: for thou art merciful.

Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and let everlasting light shine upon them with thy saints for ever; for thou art merciful.

Deliver me, O Lord, from eternal death in that awful day when heaven and earth shall be moved: when thou shalt come to judge the world by fire. I am seized with trembling and I fear the time when the trial shall approach, and the wrath to come; when heaven and earth shall be moved. A day of wrath, that day of calamity and woe, a great day and bitter indeed. Rest eternal grant them, O Lord, and may light perpetual shine upon them.

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

The Gross Foundation

Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio Harold Mitchell Foundation

Lady Potter AC CMRI

The Cybec Foundation The Pratt Foundation

The Ullmer Family Foundation

Anonymous

ARTIST CHAIR BENEFACTORS

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

PROGRAM BENEFACTORS

MSO Now & Forever Fund: International Engagement Gandel Foundation

Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers Program The Cybec Foundation

Digital Transformation The Ian Potter Foundation, The Margaret Lawrence Bequest – Managed by Perpetual, Perpetual Foundation – Alan (AGL) Shaw Endowment

First Nations Emerging Artist Program

The Ullmer Family Foundation

East meets West The Li Family Trust

MSO Live Online Crown Resorts Foundation, Packer Family Foundation MSO Education Anonymous

MSO Academy Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio

MSO For Schools Crown Resorts Foundation, Packer Family Foundation, The Department of Education and Training, Victoria, through the Strategic Partnerships Program and the Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series (VCES)

Melbourne Music Summit Erica Foundation Pty Ltd, The Department of Education and Training, Victoria, through the Strategic Partnerships Program

MSO Regional Touring Creative Victoria, Freemasons Foundation Victoria, John T Reid Charitable Trusts, Robert Salzer Foundation, The Sir Andrew & Lady Fairley Foundation

The Pizzicato Effect Supported by Hume City Council’s Community Grants program, The Marian and E.H. Flack Trust, Scobie and Claire Mackinnon Trust, Australian Decorative And Fine Arts Society, Anonymous

Sidney Myer Free Concerts Supported by the Sidney Myer MSO Trust Fund and the University of Melbourne

PLATINUM PATRONS $100,000+

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

The Gross Foundation◊ Di Jameson and Frank Mercurio◊

David Li AM and Angela Li◊ The Ullmer Family Foundation Anonymous (1)◊

VIRTUOSO PATRONS $50,000+

Margaret Jackson AC◊

Lady Primrose Potter AC CMRI Anonymous (1)

IMPRESARIO PATRONS $20,000+

Harold Bentley

The Hogan Family Foundation

David Krasnostein and Pat Stragalinos

Opalgate Foundation

Elizabeth Proust AO and Brian Lawrence

Sara Weis Will Trust

Lady Marigold Southey AC

Kim Williams AM Anonymous (2)

MAESTRO PATRONS $10,000+

Christine and Mark Armour

Margaret Billson and the late Ted Billson Shane Buggle and Rosie Callanan◊

Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM Andrew Dudgeon AM◊

The Hon Colin Golvan AM KC and Dr Deborah Golvan Danny Gorog and Lindy Susskind◊

Robert and Jan Green

Doug Hooley

Rosemary Jacoby in memory of James Jacoby

Peter Lovell

Ian and Jeannie Paterson Glenn Sedgwick◊

The Sun Foundation

Gai and David Taylor

Athalie Williams and Tim Danielson

Jason Yeap OAM – Mering Management Corporation

Anonymous (1)

PRINCIPAL PATRONS $5,000+

Mary Armour

Barbara Bell in memory of Elsa Bell

Bodhi Education Fund (East meets West)

John Coppock OAM and Lyn Coppock Ann Darby in memory of Leslie J. Darby Mary Davidson and the late Frederick Davidson AM

The Dimmick Charitable Trust Tim and Lyn Edward◊ Jaan Enden

Bill Fleming

Susan Fry and Don Fry AO Sophie Galaise and Clarence Fraser Geelong Friends of the MSO ◊ Jennifer Gorog Dr Clem Gruen and Dr Rhyl Wade◊ Cecilie Hall and the late Hon Michael Watt KC◊ Hilary Hall, in memory of Wilma Collie Louis J Hamon OAM Dr Alastair Jackson AM Dr John and Diana Frew◊ Suzanne Kirkham Dr Jerry Koliha and Marlene Krelle Dr Elizabeth A Lewis AM◊

Sherry Li Dr Caroline Liow Gary McPherson◊ Douglas and Rosemary Meagher Nereda Hanlon and Michael Hanlon AM◊ Marie Morton FRSA Anne Neil◊ Hyon-Ju Newman Newton Family in memory of Rae Rothfield Ken Ong OAM Bruce Parncutt AO

Dr Rosemary Ayton and Dr Sam Ricketson Andrew and Judy Rogers◊ The Rosemary Norman Foundation◊

The Kate and Stephen Shelmerdine Family Foundation Helen Silver AO and Harrison Young Anita Simon

Dr Michael Soon Anonymous (2)

ASSOCIATE PATRONS $2,500+

Carolyn Baker

Marlyn Bancroft and Peter Bancroft OAM Sue and Barry Peake Sascha O. Becker

Janet H Bell

Julia and Jim Breen Alan and Dr Jennifer Breschkin

Patricia Brockman

Drs John D L Brookes and Lucy V Hanlon Stuart Brown

Lynne Burgess Oliver Carton Janet Chauvel and the late Dr Richard Chauvel

Breen Creighton and Elsbeth Hadenfeldt Leo de Lange

Elaine Walters OAM Barry Fradkin OAM and Dr Pam Fradkin

Carrillo Gantner AC and Ziyin Gantner Kim and Robert Gearon Steinicke Family Janette Gill

R Goldberg and Family Goldschlager Family Charitable Foundation

Catherine Gray

Merv Keehn and Sue Harlow Susan and Gary Hearst Hartmut and Ruth Hofmann

John Jones Graham and Jo Kraehe The Cuming Bequest Margaret and John Mason OAM H E McKenzie Dr Isabel McLean

Ian Merrylees

Patricia Nilsson◊ Alan and Dorothy Pattison Ruth and Ralph Renard Tom and Elizabeth Romanowski

Liliane Rusek and Alexander Ushakoff Jeffrey Sher QC and Diana Sher OAM

Barry Spanger

Peter J Stirling Jenny Tatchell

Dr Clayton and Christina Thomas Janet Whiting AM Nic and Ann Willcock Anonymous (5)◊

PLAYER PATRONS $1,000+

Dr Sally Adams

Anita and Graham Anderson Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society (ADFAS)

Geoffrey and Vivienne Baker Joyce Bown Nigel Broughton and Sheena Broughton Elizabeth Brown

Suzie Brown OAM and the late Harvey Brown Ronald and Kate Burnstein Dr Lynda Campbell Kaye Cleary John and Mandy Collins

Andrew Crockett AM and Pamela Crockett Panch Das and Laurel Young-Das Natasha Davies, for the Trikojus Education Fund Rick and Sue Deering John and Anne Duncan Jane Edmanson OAM

Diane Fisher

Grant Fisher and Helen Bird Applebay Pty Ltd David and Esther Frenkiel OAM

Anthony Garvey and Estelle O’Callaghan David I Gibbs AM and Susie O’Neill Sonia Gilderdale

Dr Marged Goode Chris Grikscheit and Christine Mullen Margie and Marshall Grosby Dr Sandra Hacker AO and Mr Ian Kennedy AM Dawn Hales

David Hardy

Tilda and the late Brian Haughney Cathy Henry

Dr Keith Higgins

Anthony and Karen Ho

Jenny and Peter Hordern Katherine Horwood Penelope Hughes

Paul and Amy Jasper Shyama Jayaswal

Basil and Rita Jenkins

Sandy Jenkins

Sue Johnston

John Kaufman

Angela Kayser

Irene Kearsey & Michael Ridley

Drs Bruce and Natalie Kellett

Dr Anne Kennedy

Tim Knaggs

Jane Kunstler

Ann Lahore

Kerry Landman

Janet and Ross Lapworth

Diana Lay Phil Lewis

Andrew Lockwood Elizabeth H Loftus

Chris and Anna Long Gabe Lopata

Eleanor & Phillip Mancini

Aaron McConnell

Wayne McDonald and Kay Schroer

Margaret Mcgrath

Shirley A McKenzie

John and Rosemary McLeod

Don and Anne Meadows

Dr Eric Meadows

Sylvia Miller

Ian Morrey and Geoffrey Minter

Dr Anthony and Dr Anna Morton

Laurence O’Keefe and Christopher James Roger Parker

Ian Penboss

Eli Raskin

Jan and Keith Richards

James Ring

Dr Peter Rogers and Cathy Rogers OAM

Dr Ronald and Elizabeth Rosanove Marie Rowland

Elisabeth and Doug Scott Martin and Susan Shirley P Shore

John E Smith Barry Spanger Dr Joel Symons and Liora Symons Russell Taylor and Tara Obeyesekere Geoffrey Thomlinson Frank Tisher OAM and Dr Miriam Tisher Andrew and Penny Torok Christina Turner Ann and Larry Turner

The Hon Rosemary Varty Leon and Sandra Velik

The Reverend Noel Whale Edward and Paddy White Terry Wills Cooke OAM and the late Marian Wills Cooke Robert and Diana Wilson Richard Withers Shirley and Jeffrey Zajac Anonymous (11)

OVERTURE PATRONS $500+*

Margaret Abbey PSM

Jane Allan and Mark Redmond Mario M Anders Jenny Anderson

Benevity

Mr Peter Batterham Heather and David Baxter

Peter Berry and Amanda Quirk

Dr William Birch AM Allen and Kathryn Bloom Graham and Mary Ann Bone Stephen Braida Linda Brennan Dr Robert Brook Roger and Coll Buckle

Ian and Wilma Chapman

Cititec Systems Pty Ltd

Charmaine Collins

Dr Sheryl Coughlin and Paul Coughlin Gregory Crew Michael Davies Nada Dickinson Bruce Dudon Cynthia Edgell Melissa and Aran Fitzgerald Brian Florence Elizabeth Foster Mary Gaidzkar Simon Gaites Mary-Jane Gething

Sandra Gillett and Jeremy Wilkins David and Geraldine Glenny Hugo and Diane Goetze Louise Gourlay OAM Robert and Jan Green Geoff Hayes Jim Hickey William Holder Clive and Joyce Hollands

R A Hook Gillian Horwood Peter Huntsman Geoff and Denise Illing Rob Jackson Wendy Johnson Fiona Keenan John Keys Belinda and Malcolm King

Conrad O’Donohue and Rosemary Kiss

Professor David Knowles and Dr Anne McLachlan

Paschalina Leach

Dr Jenny Lewis

Dr Susan Linton

The Podcast Reader

Joy Manners

Janice Mayfield

Dr Alan Meads and Sandra Boon Marie Misiurak

Joan Mullumby Adrian and Louise Nelson

Dr Judith S Nimmo Rosemary O’Collins David Oppenheim Howard and Dorothy Parkinson Sarah Patterson Pauline and David Lawton Adriana and Sienna Pesavento Kerryn Pratchett

Professor Charles Qin OAM and Kate Ritchie

Alfonso Reina and Marjanne Rook

Professor John Rickard Viorica Samson Carolyn Sanders Julia Schlapp Dr Frank and Valerie Silberberg Brian Snape AM and the late Diana Snape Colin and Mary Squires Allan and Margaret Tempest Reverend Angela Thomas Max Walters

Rosemary Warnock Amanda Watson Deborah Whithear and Dr Kevin Whithear OAM

Fiona Woodard Dr Kelly and Dr Heathcote Wright Dr Susan Yell Daniel Yosua Anonymous (18)

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

Jennifer Henry 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

Penny Rawlins

Joan P Robinson

Anne Roussac-Hoyne and Neil Roussac Michael Ryan and Wendy Mead Andrew Serpell Jennifer Shepherd Suzette Sherazee

Dr Gabriela and Dr George Stephenson

Pamela Swansson

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

COMMISSIONING CIRCLE

Mary Armour

The late Hon Michael Watt KC and Cecilie Hall

Tim and Lyn Edward Kim Williams AM Weis Family

FIRST NATIONS CIRCLE

John and Lorraine Bates

Colin Golvan AM KC and Dr Deborah Golvan Sascha O. Becker

Elizabeth Proust AO and Brian Lawrence

The Kate and Stephen Shelmerdine Family Foundation

Michael Ullmer AO and Jenny Ullmer

Jason Yeap OAM – Mering Management Corporation

HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

Life Members

Mr Marc Besen AC

John Gandel AC and Pauline Gandel AC Sir Elton John CBE Harold Mitchell AC

Lady Potter AC CMRI Jeanne Pratt AC

Michael Ullmer AO and Jenny Ullmer Anonymous

Artistic Ambassadors

Tan Dun Lu Siqing

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

David Li AM Co-Deputy Chairs

Di Jameson

Helen Silver AO

Managing Director

Sophie Galaise

Board Directors

Shane Buggle

Andrew Dudgeon AM Danny Gorog

Lorraine Hook

Margaret Jackson AC

David Krasnostein AM Gary McPherson

Hyon-Ju Newman

Glenn Sedgwick

Company Secretary Oliver Carton

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)

Only 1 hour from Melbourne, TarraWarra Estate offers the perfect escape from the city. All our wines are grown and made on our picturesque 400 hectare property, with meticulous care and attention to detail producing exceptional wines. Our hatted restaurant and underground cellar door combine magnificent food, wine and architecture set amidst the rolling hills of the Yarra Valley. Friendly and professional locals complete the experience.

Restaurant Open Wednesday – Sunday Cellar Door Open Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 5pm

Principal

Partner

Thank you to our Partners

Partners

Major Partners

Government

and

Partners

Orchestral Training Partner

Trusts and Foundations

Erica Foundation Pty Ltd, The Sir Andrew and Lady Fairley Foundation, John T Reid Charitable Trusts, Scobie & Claire Mackinnon Trust, Perpetual Foundation – Alan (AGL) Shaw Endowment, Sidney Myer MSO Trust Fund, The Ullmer Family Foundation

East meets West

Program Supporters

Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Melbourne

Ministry of Culture and Tourism China

Supporting PartnersPrestigious Partner

Consortium Partners

Concert Partners

Supporters

Ken Ong OAM