SEASON 2008
TEA & SYMPHONY
PRESENTED BY KAMBLY
TOP BRASS
Friday 13 June | 11am
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall
Sydney Symphony Brass Ensemble
Barry Tuckwell director
COPLAND (1900–1990)
Fanfare for the Common Man
SUSATO (16th century)
arr. John Iveson
Suite of Renaissance Dances
La Mourisque (Moorish Dance)
Bransle quatre bransles
Ronde
Basse danse. Bergeret
Ronde. Mon Amy
Pavane. Battaille
MESSIAEN (1908–1992)
Majesté du Christ demandant
sa gloire à son Père
(Majesty of Christ Asking Glory
from His Father)
from L’Ascension – quatre
méditations symphoniques
G GABRIELI (1554–1612)
arr. Eric Crees
Canzon in echo (C192) for
three antiphonal brass choirs
PROKOFIEV (1891–1953)
arr. Fisher Tull
March from The Love for
Three Oranges
RAUTAVAARA (born 1928)
A Requiem in Our Time
Hymnus
Credo et dubito
Dies iræ
Lacrymosa
DEBUSSY (1862–1918)
arr. Robert Hughes
La Sérénade interrompue
(Interrupted Serenade)
La fille aux cheveux de lin
(The Girl with the Flaxen Hair)
Minstrels
from the Préludes for piano
BERNSTEIN (1918–1990)
arr. Denis Wright
Selections from West Side
Story:
I Feel Pretty – Maria –
Something’s Coming –
Tonight – One Hand, One Heart –
America
PRESENTING PARTNER
Biscuits at Sydney Symphony Tea & Symphony concerts
kindly supplied by Kambly
This concert will be recorded for
broadcast across Australia on
ABC Classic FM 92.9.
The concert will conclude at
approximately 12pm.
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to this concert in the 2008
Tea & Symphony series.
The symphonic tradition is a long and impressive one stretching back to the
18th century. The earliest orchestras combined string bands and woodwind
instruments from court and theatre with the brass instruments that played
such an important role in music for the military and the church. Today the
brass section is what gives an orchestra’s sound much of its brilliance and
splendour. And in its own right, the brass ensemble has maintained its own
noble traditions, highlighted in this concert of music from the time of
Gabrieli family in the 16th century to the present day.
Kambly has epitomised the Swiss tradition of the finest biscuits for three
generations. Each masterpiece from the Emmental is a small thank you for
life; a declaration of love for the very best; the peak of fine, elegant taste.
Kambly is a way of life, dedicated to all those who appreciate the difference
between the best and the merely good. In this way it is fitting that we
partner with the internationally acclaimed Sydney Symphony, whose vision
is to ignite and deepen people’s love of live symphonic music.
We hope you enjoy this morning’s rich and inspiring program, and look
forward to welcoming you at the next concert in the Tea & Symphony
series.
Oscar A. Kambly
Chairman
Kambly of Switzerland
ABOUT THE MUSIC
Of all the sections in a symphony orchestra the brass section
can boast the oldest and noblest of traditions. Loud and
literally ‘brazen’, brass instruments have long been associated
with outdoor performance and especially the military. That
tradition is highlighted in today’s Renaissance suite: amongst
Tylman Susato’s folk melodies and other borrowings is a
pavane adapted from a madrigal that attempted to imitate
drums, cannons and roar of battle. But when, during World
War II, Eugene Goossens (then conductor of the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra) invited composers to write patriotic
fanfares for the war effort, Aaron Copland decided to celebrate
not soldiers and war but ‘the common man’. The result was the
simple, almost universal language of his much-loved Fanfare.
Brass instruments – especially the trombone (the ‘Doomsday
trumpet’) – had religious connections too. When Beethoven used
trombones in his Fifth Symphony it was their first appearance
in a symphony, but they had long been used in church music
(think of Mozart’s Requiem). Whenever the church wished to
display power and wealth – and in 16th-century Venice it had
plenty of both – the brass were the instruments of choice. For
Giovanni Gabrieli, the Venetian church offered something more
than sheer power, though. The awesome acoustic of the Basilica
di San Marco allowed for groups of instruments to work in
musical dialogue (antiphony) with each other, as in Gabrieli’s
‘echo’ canzona for 12 voices disposed in three separate choirs.
That spiritual power of the brass section retains its currency
in our own time, as heard in Olivier Messiaen’s ecstatic
meditation on the text from the gospel of John, ‘Father, the hour
is come; glorify your son, that your son may glorify you.’ L’Ascension
was his first major mature work, composed in 1934. Einojuhani
Rautavaara’s Requiem in Our Time was another work that made its
composer’s reputation. He wrote it in 1953, while still a student
at Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy, and it won him the Thor Johnson
Competition in Cincinnati. Coloured by the influences of
neoclassical Stravinsky, the Requiem’s four movements touch
on expressions of belief and doubt, terror and mourning.
Rautavaara’s music is heard in its original scoring: for 13 brass
instruments and percussion. But the program ends with music
borrowed and arranged from other musical worlds: Debussy
piano preludes, a march from a fairytale opera by Sergei
Prokofiev, and songs from Leonard Bernstein’s incomparable
West Side Story. The contemporary verve imbued in this
Broadway masterpiece is a reminder that, for all the ancient
and noble traditions, brass instruments belong firmly to the
living tradition of all music.
SYDNEY SYMPHONY ©2008
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Barry Tuckwell director
Barry Tuckwell’s career in music spans more than 60
years. During this time he has performed throughout
the world as soloist, chamber musician and conductor.
He joined the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the age
of 15, and a year later the Sydney Symphony Orchestra,
before leaving for England. After playing with the Hallé ,
Scottish National and Bournemouth Symphony orchestras,
he was appointed Principal Horn with the London
Symphony Orchestra. During his 13 years with the LSO –
a cooperative orchestra run by the players – he was elected
to the Board of Directors and was Chairman for six years.
He left in 1968 to pursue a career as soloist and conductor,
and in 1997 gave his farewell concerts as a horn soloist
with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Barry Tuckwell was Chief Conductor of the Tasmanian
Symphony Orchestra for four years, and the founding
Conductor and Music Director of the Maryland Symphony
Orchestra for 16 years. He continues to have an active
career throughout the world conducting and teaching as
well as broadcasting, giving lectures and master classes.
He is currently Professorial Fellow at the University of
Melbourne and Honorary Patron of the Melbourne
International Festival of Brass. While living in the
United States he was Distinguished Visiting Faculty at
the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, and
for six years served on the executive committee of the
Maryland Humanities Council.
His many awards and honours include the Companion
of the Order of Australia, Officer of the Order of the
British Empire, Honorary Doctor of Music from Sydney
University, Fellow of the Royal College of Music, Fellow
of the Royal Society of the Arts, the George Peabody Medal
for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America,
the Andrew White Medal from Loyola College, and the
Harriet Cohen International Music Awards Solo
Instruments Prize. He is also an honorary member of
both the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall
School of Music in London. He has made more than
50 recordings and received three Grammy nominations.
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by the Australian Government
through the Australia Council
and by the NSW Ministry for
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Sydney Symphony Brass Ensemble
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Formed in 1997, the Sydney Symphony Brass Ensemble
comprises many of Australia’s finest brass players, drawn
from the brass section of the Sydney Symphony. Varying
in size from a quintet to a full brass section of 16, the
ensemble has a repertoire that ranges from music of
the Renaissance to contemporary composers, including
specially commissioned works from Australian composers
such as Matthew Hindson, Nigel Westlake and Ross
Edwards. In addition to performances in Sydney, the
Brass Ensemble tours regularly throughout regional New
South Wales.
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