Onstage E-News Edition 1 - February 2015 Saturday 28 th February | 7.30pm Experience a magical night of classical music with an ensemble of 42 musicians from our acclaimed Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. “Lucky Adelaide! A city the size of Adelaide is so lucky to have an orchestra such as the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. They are world class. Their repertoire is so varied, appeal to a wide audience and attract some wonderful guests from around the world. Their concerts are always such an enjoyable experience.” BAROSSA ARTS & CONVENTION CENTRE - OFFICIAL Magnolia Road, Tanunda SA 5352 Phone: 8561 4299 PROGRAM Wagner - Siegfried Idyll [original version with single strings] Saint-Saens - Cello Concerto no 1 INTERVAL Mozart - Symphony no 41 ‘Jupiter’ Simon Cobcroft, cello Nathan Aspinall, conductor Adult: $45 Concession: $35 Welcome to our Friends We are excited to welcome 79 friends to the Barossa Arts & Convention Centre Friends Group. Support Adelaide Symphony Orchestra visiting our area Sign up and receive 20% off Friend Events on selected events on our website and in our 2015 Season Program Join our Friends Friend events are marked with
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Onstage E-NewsEdition 1 - February 2015
Saturday28th February | 7.30pm
Experience a magical night of classical music with an ensemble of 42 musicians from our acclaimed Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.“Lucky Adelaide! A city the size of Adelaide is so lucky to have an orchestra such as the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. They are world class. Their repertoire is so varied, appeal to a wide audience and attract some wonderful guests from around the world. Their concerts are always such an enjoyable experience.”
BAROSSA ARTS & CONVENTION CENTRE - OFFICIAL
Magnolia Road, Tanunda SA 5352 Phone: 8561 4299
PROGRAMWagner - Siegfried Idyll [original version with single strings] Saint-Saens - Cello Concerto no 1INTERVALMozart - Symphony no 41 ‘Jupiter’ Simon Cobcroft, cello Nathan Aspinall, conductorAdult: $45 Concession: $35
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More about the music
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ne of the most exciting things about classical music is how ‘three-dimensional’ it is. It’s rarely just chords and
melody; there are layers of sound, and often layers of meaning too.
Cosima Wagner awoke on Christmas morning in 1870 to the sound of music – her husband had assembled some musicians on the stairs outside her bedroom to play an ‘Idyll’ he had composed. Was it the string quartet he had promised to write, with the peaceful theme he had sketched when they first fell in love? It was more than that – to Cosima’s wonder, other instruments joined in, and the music continued to grow… there was the lullaby, written when she’d first joined Richard in this house in Switzerland… and there was the theme he’d written after the birth of their son, Siegfried, that morning with the orange sunrise and the bird outside the window… and there was bird, singing over the top of the horn call from Siegfried, the opera Richard had been working on! So much beautiful music, layered together – and to cap it all, Siegfried’s trumpet call, played by a family friend who had learned the instrument especially for the occasion!
The powerful climax of Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll occurs at its core, and the music wrapped around on either side grows ever thinner towards the edges, like a musical pastry. Camille Saint-Saëns’ First Cello Concerto, written in France just a couple of years later, is more like a chocolate truffle – thick and hard on the outside (where the music is fast and loud), but with a deliciously tender centre. It begins and ends with crunching orchestral chords and a thrilling solo cello melody, racing up
and down in wild excitement. The outer stages of the music are full of passion and contrast, aggressive one moment, lyrical the next. No instrument does emotional extremes as well as the cello! But in the middle: a tiptoed minuet, charming in its simplicity and suffused with a hint of French melancholy. A half-remembered dream of a lost age…
Rather than a vehicle for personal expression, music used to be an objective craft, the search for a beauty above and beyond the chaotic circumstances of life. Mozart wrote his final three symphonies in the summer of 1788, while moving house with a young family, struggling to pay his debts, and suffering the death of his baby daughter. We don’t know if he ever got to hear them. The final one, now known as the ‘Jupiter’ Symphony, is one of the brightest, most joyful pieces ever written. Its first movement is like an incredibly witty introductory speech, somehow fashioned from seemingly trivial ideas – a throat-clearing motif and a couple of melodic clichés. The solemn, palatial second movement is textured like a block of marble, veins of its gorgeous melody running throughout the orchestra, its different colours separating, then melding. The third movement is a minuet, but nothing like Saint-Saëns’ – the flirty curve of its sensuous melody is more fit for a waltz! Then the finale: a succession of irrepressibly joyful themes, chasing each other, overtaking each other, and finally criss-crossing everywhere in one of music’s most miraculous and delicious layered desserts!
TRUMPETS Martin Phillipson** (Acting Principal)Robin Finlay
TIMPANI Robert Hutcheson*
** Section Leader~ Associate Principal* Principal Player
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