Morning Symphony Series - West Australian Symphony Orchestra

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Morning
Symphony Series
Verbitsky Conducts
Tchaikovsky
23 June 2011 | 11am
Perth Concert Hall
GLINKA Valse Fantaisie (6 mins)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4
(44 mins)
Vladimir Verbitsky, conductor
Robert Gladstones, Principal 3rd Horn

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Concert Calendar
Chamber Music Series
String
Serenade
15 July | Friday 2pm
St Mary’s Cathedral
GRIEG Holberg Suite
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Fantasia on Greensleeves
CORELLI Christmas Concerto
RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and
Dances Suite No.3
Paul Wright violin/director
Water Corporation Family Series
Peter and
the Wolf
24 July | Sunday 1pm & 3pm
Perth Concert Hall
Prokofiev’s classic tale
comes to life on the
Perth Concert Hall stage.
Also featuring Julia’s
Instrumental Adventure, an
exciting tale introducing the
instruments of WASO, this
concert will be a musical
romp for the young at heart!
Suitable for 4 to 12 year olds.
Warwick Potter, conductor
Mark Mitchell, presenter
Ernst & Young Contempo Series
A Tribute to
Louis Armstrong
with
James Morrison
29 July | Friday 7.30pm
30 July | Saturday 7.30pm
Perth Concert Hall
Louis Armstrong defined
American jazz for more than
60 years with his trademark
humour, virtuosity and sheer
brilliance. Other jazz musicians
wanted to be him; audiences
idolised him. And now James
Morrison, our very own jazz
virtuoso par excellence, pays
tribute to this mightiest
of jazzmen with some of
Satchmo’s greatest hits.
Benjamin Northey, conductor
James Morrison, trumpet
Emma Pask, vocalist
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Vladimir Verbitsky
Conductor
Vladimir Verbitsky began his association
with the West Australian Symphony
Orchestra in 1987 as Guest Conductor after
touring Australia the year before with the
USSR State Symphony Orchestra – a tour
that also resulted in an invitation to become
Music Director of the State Orchestra of
Victoria. He was subsequently appointed
Principal Guest Conductor of WASO, and in
1997 he became Conductor Laureate.
In Russia Verbitsky continues to tour and
give concerts widely, regularly conducting
the major Moscow and St Petersburg
orchestras, as well as continuing his
long association with the Voronezh
Philharmonic, of which he has been Chief
Conductor and Music Director since 1972.
As a guest conductor Verbitsky has
appeared throughout Europe, Scandinavia,
the US, Canada, South America, South
Africa and Asia. He has also led numerous
festivals and competitions, and works
frequently with youth orchestras. He
continues to conduct the major orchestras
in Australia and New Zealand on a regular
basis.
Vladimir Verbitsky is a graduate of the
Leningrad Conservatoire, where he studied
piano and conducting. He studied with
Yevgeny Mravinsky, Chief Conductor of
the Leningrad Philharmonic, and made his
Moscow debut at the invitation of pianist
Emil Gilels, subsequently appearing with
him on many occasions. His repertoire
comprises over two thousand works and
he has recorded with many orchestras
including the USSR State and St Petersburg
Symphony Orchestras, Voronezh
Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic,
Saarbrücken Radio Symphony, Sydney
Symphony, and the Queensland, West
Australian, Melbourne and Tasmanian
Symphony Orchestras.
Vladimir Verbitsky holds the Decorated
Order Badge of Honour Moscow, Order
for Services to Fatherland, and was named
People’s Artist of the Russian Federation by
President Vladimir Putin.
On 6 June 2009 Senator Chris Evans,
Minister for Immigration and Citizenship,
publicly conferred Australian citizenship on
Vladimir Verbitsky at a special ceremony
after a WASO concert at Perth Concert Hall.
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West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Paul Daniel
Principal Conductor
Partnered by Wesfarmers Arts
Vladimir Verbitsky
Conductor Laureate
Marilyn Phillips
Chorus Director
Meet the Musician
Andrew Tait
Double Bass
What came first: performing music or
making instruments
Playing came first! I had the urge to create
that most beautiful sound, the fundamentally
deep, powerfully sonorous timbre which is
the underpinning of the orchestra. This urge
grew into every professional Bassists desire:
to own the most beautiful instrument one
can afford. As a student of John Gray’s at
the Sydney Conservatorium of Music I spent
my spare time making coffee and sweeping
up in The Bass Shop. And so my education
began with Alan Riley teaching me how
to set up and restore, and Harry Vatiliotis
giving me advice on making instruments.
Winning a Churchill Fellowship really
boosted my making career.
How do you balance your time between
both aspects of your career
A tricky question, especially as I have a young
family. Most musicians teach both to make
ends meet and to pass on their knowledge. I
gave up teaching to concentrate on making.
The positive side to having limited time is that
I have to be selective about which instruments
I work on. So I am a self confessed snob, only
working on fine instruments.
How do you like to spend your free time
I am a country boy at heart, having grown
up in the central west of NSW and love to
spend time with my family on my mother’s
farm near the Snowy Mountains.
What works in the orchestral repertoire
do you enjoy playing the most
I enjoy playing pieces that fully utilise the
resources of the modern symphony orchestra.
By this I do not necessarily mean the whole
orchestra in its mightiest incantation, but
rather, as in James Ledgers New Fanfare, a
re-orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Night On
A Bare Mountain – specifically his use of
brass and double bass! Having said that I also
enjoy early music as I play the Violone and
am learning to play and build the Viola Da
Gamba…..but that is another story.
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On Stage Today
Violin
Margaret Blades
Assoc Concertmaster
Semra Lee
Assistant Concertmaster
Graham Pyatt
A/Principal 1st Violin
John Ford
Principal 2nd Violin
Yacht Grot Chair of Principal 2nd
Violin
Zak Rowntree
Assoc Principal 2nd Violin
Kylie Liang
Assistant Principal 2nd Violin
Sarah Blackman
Hannah Brockway^
Fleur Challen
Anna Chomicka-Gorecka
Stephanie Dean
Dorothy Ford
Beth Hebert
Sara Herrimen^
Christina Katsimbardis^
Shaun Lee-Chen
Tara Murphy^
Kathleen O’Hagan^
Ken Peeler
Brendon Richards
Louise Sandercock
Jolanta Schenk
Ellie Shalley
Jacek Slawomirski
Bao Di Tang
Cerys Tooby
Rebecca White
Susannah Williams^
David Yeh
Viola
Giovanni Pasini
Berian Evans
Kierstan Arkleysmith
Nik Babic
Alex Brogan
Katherine Drake
Katherine Corecig^
Alison Hall
Rachael Kirk
Allan McLean
Aaron Wyatt^
Casual Player^
Cello
Rod McGrath
Nicholas Metcalfe
A/Assoc Principal
Shigeru Komatsu
Oliver McAslan
Louise McKay
Eve Silver
Fotis Skordas
Tim South
Jon Tooby^
Double Bass
Andrew Rootes
Joan Wright
Edmund Bastian^
Elizabeth Browning^
Christine Reitzenstein
Andrew Tait
Mark Tooby
Flute
Andrew Nicholson
Mary-Anne Blades
Michael Waye
Principal Piccolo
Oboe
Leanne Glover
A/Principal
Elizabeth Chee
A/Assoc Principal
Clarinet
Allan Meyer
Lorna Cook
Alexander Millier
Principal Bass Clarinet
Bassoon
Jane Kircher-Lindner
Linda Charteris^
Horn
David Evans
Malcolm Stewart
Robert Gladstones
Principal 3rd
Doree Dixen^
Rachel Silver
Trumpet
David Elton
Evan Cromie
Peter Miller
Trombone
Joshua Davis
Brett Favell
A/Assoc Principal
Colin Burrows^
Tuba
Cameron Brook
Timpani
Alex Timcke
Percussion
Tim White
Troy Greatz
Robyn Gray^
Harp
Sarah Bowman
Principal
Associate Principal
^ Guest Musician
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Mikhail Glinka
(1804-1857)
Valse fantaisie
Glinka wrote this Valse fantaisie in 1839 as
a piano piece for his lover Ekaterina Kern,
setting it for orchestra some years later.
It is a very simple piece – a series of
self-contained sections, with structural
coherence achieved by occasional sectional
repeats. Subtle interest is provided by
the variety of the phrase structure, most
obviously the tripping 8-bar secondary
melody which refuses to be divided exactly
into 4-bar halves, and sustained inner
melodies (given to the trombone in one
notable instance). The orchestration is
what we have come to think of as typically
Russian – clear contrasting colours (the
wind, string, and brass colours kept
separate), instruments pitched in their most
comfortable registers; an overall effect of
engaging freshness. ‘The importance of
such music for Tchaikovsky, the composer
of ballets, can hardly be overestimated,’ says
biographer, David Brown.
Tchaikovsky believed that the whole
Russian symphonic school emanated from
Glinka’s music, and Stravinsky dedicated
his 1921 opera Mavra to him. To them,
Glinka was the father of Russian music.
Nevertheless, though Glinka did not regard
it among his greatest works, he thought well
enough of it to include it in his 1845 Paris
concert, a concert which needed to make a
big impression with the French. And Berlioz
surely got it right when, in reviewing the
work in the Journal des debats, he wrote
that it was ‘full of spirit and of exceedingly
piquant rhythmic coquetteries which are
really new and superbly developed’.
Gordon Williams
Symphony Australia © 1998
WASO last performed this work on 13 & 14 November 1998,
conducted by Vladimir Verbitsky.
If you like this work you may also enjoy…
CELLO FANTASY
2 & 3 September | 7.30pm
FRANCK Symphony in D minor
PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
21 & 22 October | 7.30pm
MUSSORGSKY arr. RAVEL Pictures at
an Exhibition
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(1840-1893)
Symphony No.4 in F minor, Op.36
Andante sostenuto – Moderato con anima – Moderato assai, quasi Andante –
Allegro vivo
Andantino in modo di canzona
Scherzo (Pizzicato ostinato*) – Allegro
Finale (Allegro con fuoco)
You know the old story. In 1877, Tchaikovsky
received a declaration of love from
Antonina Milyukova, who threatened
suicide if Tchaikovsky refused to marry her.
The composer, hoping to save Antonina
and cure his homosexuality, accepted the
proposal, but within minutes of being
married realised that he had made a
terrible mistake. Within two months he had
attempted suicide himself before fleeing
Moscow; Antonina quickly descended
into madness and Tchaikovsky poured his
anguish into his Fourth Symphony and the
opera Eugene Onegin.
Thanks to musicologist Alexander
Poznansky, we can now see this well-known
scenario for the load of rubbish that it is.
The composer seems at no time to have
been anguished by his sexuality and his
decision to marry Antonina stemmed from
other causes, not least of which that she
was shortly to inherit a respectable sum
of money. Later, Tchaikovsky admitted
that his treatment of Antonina had been
inexcusable, and supported her financially;
she scrupulously avoided making any
public criticism of him, even after his death.
Tchaikovsky’s correspondence makes clear
that their incompatibility was the result
of ‘cultural differences’ rather than sexual
horror.
None of which is to say that the Fourth
Symphony is not ‘about’ serious emotional
and psychological states, nor that the
experience of a disastrous marriage didn’t
affect Tchaikovsky’s emotional equilibrium.
Nadezhda von Meck, his patron, wrote
to him of the work’s ‘profound, terrifying
despair’. The composer insisted in his
correspondence with Meck that ‘where
words finish, music begins’ and that a
program explaining the meaning of the
music would necessarily be imprecise.
Nonetheless he did offer a kind of map
of the work’s emotional journey (never
dreaming that it would be published),
saying:
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the main idea...is expressive of the idea of
fate, that ominous power which prevents the
success of our search for happiness. This
power hangs constantly over our heads, like
Damocles’ sword. There is no alternative but
to submit to fate.
The theme of ‘fate’ is the powerful brass
fanfare which opens the first movement,
and which returns at climactic moments
in this and the last movement. Contrasting
with this is a conventional pair of ‘subjects’
or thematic groupings. The first, marked
moderato, is characterised by a waltz
tempo kept on its toes by cross-rhythm*;
the second, according to Tchaikovsky,
represents the world of dreams into which
we are tempted to escape. Scholar Leon
Botstein has argued that Tchaikovsky’s use
of repetition in the course of this movement
is emblematic of the obsessive state of
mind that the music depicts. But fate keeps
obtruding (undermining the principles of
sonata design) and eventually disperses the
imagery of dreams.
In the second movement, Tchaikovsky
again uses seemingly literal repetition of
the thematic material, but as Botstein notes
‘despite repetition, the background and
foreground changes’ as different dialogues
between theme and countermelody are
explored.
The Scherzo has been interpreted as the
reassertion of reality. Its celebrated pizzicatodominated
string writing has an implacable
character, but it also serves to provide a
bridge between the introspection of the
second movement and the extrovert nature
of the Finale. The composer’s explanation
for the Finale’s festive nature was: ‘If you
find no cause for joy within yourself, look
for it in others. Look, they know how to
enjoy themselves, giving themselves up to
undivided feelings of pleasure.’
This has obscured an important aspect of the
Finale – Tchaikovsky’s quote of an actual folktune,
‘In the field a little birch tree stood’. As
Roland John Wiley notes in the New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians:
both words and setting are significant.
The birch tree is solitary, and it is the image
of a woman…The crowd that gathers is of
unmarried women who perform a round
dance and then throw their wreaths into the
stream. Those whose wreaths float on the
surface of the water will marry; those whose
wreaths sink will not.
Tchaikovsky’s view of Antonina was clearly
not unsympathetic, despite the baleful
intrusion of the Fate music. Interpretation
of this symphony has inevitably been
compromised by the fatuous rehashing of
‘biographical’ details, making it a document
of hysteria. However, we should remember
that the ‘profound, terrifying despair’ of this
work is created by an artist in full control of
his technical resources.
Abridged from a note by Gordon Kerry © 2002
WASO last performed this work on 29 October 2007,
conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy
*For an explanation of these words please turn to page 18.
If you like this work you may also enjoy…
CELLO FANTASY
2 & 3 September | 7.30pm
FRANCK Symphony in D minor
PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
21 & 22 October | 7.30pm
MUSSORGSKY arr. RAVEL Pictures at
an Exhibition
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Keynote Partners
Allion Legal, Aquinas College, CITIC Pacific Mining, Davis Langdon, Grace Removals, Leighton Contractors, Penrhos College, Perron
Group, Placer Management Group, Shell Development (Australia), The Perth Mint
Symphony Supporters
Computershare, L7 Solutions, M2 Technology, Mercedes-Benz Diesel Motors Southpoint Star and Westpoint Star, Perth Concert Hall,
Pianohaass, RICOH, Skywest Airlines, Vivid Group
Margaret River Wine Partners
Cape Mentelle Vineyards, Clairault Wines, Cullen Wines, Fraser Gallop Estate, Hamelin Bay Wines, Happs Wines, Howard Park Wines,
Hutton Wines, Juniper Estate, Leeuwin Estate, Moss Wood, Pierro Margaret River Vineyards, Stella Bella, UMAMU Estate, Vasse Felix,
Voyager Estate, Wise Wine, Woodside Valley Estate
Media Partners
Funding Partners
For more information on WASO Corporate Partnerships please contact Melanie Roosendaal, Executive Manager,
Corporate Development. Tel: (08) 9326 0088 Email: roosendaalm@waso.com.au