Risingholme OrchestraRegistered Charity cc 24083

Sunday 18th June, 2.00 pmPhilip Carter Family Concert Hall

Conductor: Philip Normanwith Guest Conductor: Anthony Ferner

Claudio Monteverdi Toccata from OrfeoMax Bruch Kol Nidrei, Adagio for Violoncello Soloist: Rebecca BendreJohann Strauss II Tritsch Tratsch Polka Albert Ketèlbey In a Persian MarketJerome Kern (arr. Doug Kelly) All the Things You AreArtie Shaw Concerto for Clarinet Soloist: Mark Walton

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Antonio Vivaldi Concerto in A minor for Two Violins Soloists: Amandine Guerin and Milana KornienkoPhilip Norman Echoes of an Exhibition 1 Promenade of the Metro-gnomes 2 Galliard (At the Old Castle) 3 Catacombs (Dies Irae) 4 Two Polish Jews, One Rich, One Poor)Edward Elgar Enigma Variation IX - NimrodJ.S.Bach/C. Gounod Ave MariaRichard Wagner Prelude to Die Meistersinger

Conductor

PhilipNormanCNZM, is an award-winning composer and author who enjoys conducting. His compositions span the breadth of the performing arts, and his critical and historical writings have also focused on the arts. Earlier this month he was awarded by Creative New Zealand the prestigious Michael King Writer’s Fellowship to complete writing a book oncomposition in New Zealand. A PhD graduate of the University of Canterbury, Philip has had extensive experience in musical direction, arts administration and arts advocacy throughout his 40-year freelance career based in Christchurch.He was a founding trustee of The Piano: Centre for Music and the Arts , and is the current chairman of the Christchurch City Choir Board. He was invested as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2015 “for services to music and music theatre”.

GuestConductor

AnthonyFerner has 40 years of conducting experience alongside his professional orchestral and solo career. He is Principal Flute of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and Lecturer in Flute and Senior Fellow at the University of Canterbury. He is a graduate in music from the University of Canterbury and the 1972 winner of the New Zealand National Concerto Competition.He studied conducting in London, St Petersburg and Milan. He has frequently

Christchurch Symphony, as well as the L’Estro Armonico Strings. He will be touring New Zealand for Chamber Music New Zealand this year with Les Bons Vivants with Amandine Guerin and Helen Webby. He was conductor of the Risingholme Orchestra 2008-2015.

Welcome

Thank you for supporting the Risingholme Orchestra on this 25th anniversary of the Orchestra’s founding in 1992. Our musical director, Dr Philip Norman, has selected the Jubilee Concert programme to be representative of our concerts over the years. As well, the world premiere of a specially commissioned work by Philip, ‘Echoes of an Exhibition’, will continue the inspiration Mussorgsky felt when writing ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’.

We hope that as you listen today, you will share the sense of enjoyment and fun that links our orchestra together because we make music for pleasure.

Leane Gurney Pauline SewellChairperson Vice Chairperson

NextConcert

The next concert by the Risingholme Orchestra will be presented in the Avonhead School Hall, Avonhead Rd on Sunday 26 November at 2.00pm. This will feature music from Johann Strauss’s popular opera Die Fledermaus and include soloists Helen Charlton, and a reunion of singers from a 1981 Christchurch production - Jillian Bartram, Charles Levings, Peter Hewson and James Baines.

Amandine Guerin plays first violin with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. She studied music in France and graduated from the Conservatoire National de Region of Montpellier. Besides her teaching activities, she was concertmaster of the Ensemble Instrumental Contrepoint. From 1998 she lived in Tokyo where she was violin and young ensemble teacher at the International Music School Solfran as well as a freelance player in various orchestras and ensembles. Arriving in Dunedin in

Rebecca Bendre, cello soloist for Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei.Rebecca holds a Masters of Music from the University of Auckland in music pedagogy. She was a student of Edith Salzmann for six years. She currently teaches the cello in Christchurch.She was the principal cellist of the University Canterbury Christchurch Youth Orchestra and the Risingholme Orchestra and is now

MarkWalton OAM, soloist for Artie Shaw’s Clarinet Concerto.New Zealand born Mark Walton is a highly respected and popular figure in the Australian and New Zealand musical scene and widely acknowledged as a virtuoso clarinet and saxophone performer, inspiring teacher and appealing composer.For many years Mark held the positions of Chair of Woodwind and then Chair of

2004, she played as first violin and acting concertmaster in the Southern Sinfonia before moving to Christchurch. As an active chamber musician, she will be touring in trio Les Bons Vivants with Helen Webby and Anthony Ferner for Chamber Music New Zealand in August this year.

Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music but now shares his time between New Zealand and Australia. Mark has performed in many parts of the world, recorded numerous solo albums and composed a large number of works. Mark has written a number of books with the proceeds from these sales going to the earthquake-devastated Christchurch School of Music.Mark was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2005 for his contribution to Music Education in Australia.

Milana Kornienko began violin study at the Kiev Special Music School for Gifted Children. After graduating from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory with a Diploma as an orchestra, chamber music and quartet player and teacher, she joined the Kiev Opera House for Young People. Eight years later as a member of the National Symphony Orchestra of the Ukraine, she toured extensively in Europe, Asia and Australasia. While on tour in Australia, she was recruited

by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra to become Associate Principal 2nd violin. Milana arrived in New Zealand in 1996 and is now a member of L’Estro Armonico Chamber Orchestra and String Trio Allegro.

the principal cellist of the chamber orchestra Resonance.

ClaudioMonteverdi(1567–1643)Prelude to Orfeo

Orfeo was written in 1607 to be performed during the Carnival in Mantua. It is the earliest opera that is still being regularly performed.

It tells the story of Orpheus and his descent into Hades to try to save Eurydice. Orfeo marks the change from incidental music accompanying spoken dialogue to a form of complete musical drama.

MaxBruch(1838–1920)Kol Nidrei (Previously performed August 1993)Rebecca Bendre, Violoncello

Aramaic for All Vows, Kol Nidrei was inspired by two traditional Hebrew prayers. The cello imitates the rhapsodic voice of the cantor who leads the prayer, while the accompanying orchestra provides a depth and richness that adds to the enduring popularity of this piece.

JohannStraussII(1825-1899)Tritsch-Tratsch Polka (June 2004)

Johann II’s father, J Strauss, was determined that a young Johann become a banker and thus avoid the rather difficult life of a musician. However the boy persisted with music and became famous as the “Waltz King”. This polka is one of over 500 pieces of dance music written by J Strauss II.

AlbertKetèlbey(1875-1959)In a Persian Market (June 2010)

Ketèlbey wrote this exotic piece in 1920 as an “educational novelty”. It has been used as theatre music and in sketches for Morecombe and

Wise and the Two Ronnies. Listen as a caravan of camels approaches a bazaar where there are beggars, jugglers and snake charmers. A princess and Caliph come to the market and as evening comes they leave and the market falls silent.

JeromeKern(1885-1945) arr Doug KellyAll the Things You Are (November 2007)

This popular song was written for the musical Very Warm for May in 1939 and has been used a lot in TV and film. Doug Kelly arranged it for the Risingholme Orchestra. Doug started arranging during World War II when serving with the NZ Air Force Band.

ArtieShaw(1910–2004)Clarinet Concerto in Bb (December 2013)Mark Walton Clarinet

Big band swing music was at its height in the 1930s and ‘40s and in 1940 Shaw had formed a band with a full string section. He wrote this fun, fast-paced piece, employing a range of jazz techniques for the band and to showcase the versatility of the clarinet.

AntonioVivaldi(1678–1741)Concerto in A minor for two violins, Op 3 No 8Amandine Guerin and Milana Kornienko Violins

Vivaldi wrote his Op 3 L’Estro Armonica in 1711 when he was employed as a music teacher at the Ospedale della Pieta. In this orphanage the boys learned a trade and the girls learned music. The performance of the choir and orchestra were held in high regard by the Venetians. No 8 in A minor is in three movements Allegro, Larghetto, and Allegro.

PhilipNorman(1953-)Echoes of an Exhibition

This was commissioned to mark the Risingholme Orchestra’s 25th silver jubilee by our associate principal violist Tonya Sadler and her husband Simon Jones, assisted by Dorothy McLean, Elizabeth Winkworth, Barbara Peddie and Philippa Graham. Philip has drawn inspiration from a series of paintings by Christchurch artist Philip Trusttum based on Mussorgsky’s composition Pictures at an Exhibition (1874), which Mussorgsky based on an exhibition of paintings by a recently deceased friend, Victor Hartmann.

While Philip Norman hopes to expand it to a ten-movement suite, he has chosen four of Mussorgsky’s subjects for this first performance. ‘Promenade of the Metro-gnomes’ is based on Mussorgsky’s ‘Gnomus’, with reference to Mussorgsky’s original musical material. ‘Galliard’ (a renaissance dance) reinterprets ‘The Old Castle’ as viewed through the lens of Philip Trusttum’s ‘Troubadour’. ‘Catacombs’ features the traditional ‘Dies Irae’ chant and ‘Two Polish Jews, One Rich One Poor’ based on klezmer, a traditional Eastern European Jewish music, completes the work.

EdwardElgar(1857–1934)Enigma Variations – IX: Nimrod (December 2005)

In the Old Testament, Nimrod is described as “a mighty hunter for the Lord”. As jager is the German word for hunter, Elgar used Nimrod as the title for the variation dedicated to his friend A. J. Jaegar. Rather than depicting Jaegar himself, this variation reflects on the valuable friendship that supported Elgar through difficult times. This variation is always played at the cenotaph in Whitehall on Remembrance Sunday.

Bach–GounodAve MariaNatalia Chernousova flute, Sasha Henderson Harp

Gounod improvised this melody to J.S. Bach’s Prelude No 1 in C Major and his future fathr-in-law transcribed it. An arrangement for violin or cello with piano or harmonium appeared in 1853. Since then it has been performed as a solo by every instrument (except some of the percussion) and many singers. Today the arrangement is for flute and orchestra.

RichardWagner(1813–1883)Prelude to Die Meistersinger (May 2006}

This, the only Wagner opera that is based on real people and events, tells of a 16th Century singing contest held by the Guild of Mastersingers in the town of Nuremburg. It is an illustration of the struggle between old and new - the musical conservatism and musical change that Wagner himself faced. The two main themes can be heard weaving throughout the piece before coming together in a rousing finale.

1stViolinAmandine Guerin1Orchestra Leader

Hazel MartinKate McSweeney Leane GurneyJohn CaughleyAlison TaylorJean RoweKath HillOlivia Murray

2ndViolinPauline Sewell1Lindsay FenwickBeth GarveyAnn JenningsRon NewtonElizabeth WinkworthBarbara Litchwark

ViolaSheila Vance1,3Tonya SadlerMary LovellNeroli BoschettiAya Kumada

CelloRosemary Knowles1Catherine FieldenSylvia MaggioneRebecca BendreDiederic Ruarus 3Rebecca Bendre2Tony Francis

BassDelwyn McKenzie2Philippa Graham

HarpSasha Henderson2

FluteNatalia Chernousova1Hilary DaglishFelicity BoydGretchen KaneLinda Sorensen

OboeIan Thorpe 2Anne Godfrey1,3

ClarinetBarbara Peddie1Alison BeggJill Halliburton

SaxophoneJo WaltonJill HalliburtonIrene Frost

BassoonRoss Gurney1Allen CooksonJane VinnellSelena Orwin 2

FrenchHornThomas Steele2Elizabeth ChristensenSally BoturPhilippa Foulds

TrumpetVic Bartley1Jim ParsonsDoug Kelly4Mel Smith

TromboneJill Fenton1Stan StottTerry Williams

PercussionReuben Painter1Nicky Fryer2

RisingholmeOrchestraPlayers

1Section leader 2 Guest player 3Foundation member 4Life member

Acknowledgements• Our conductor Philip Norman – who patiently encourages us to

achieve more each week;

• Tutors for sectional rehearsals: Amandine Guerin, Tony Ferner, Selena Orwin, Karl Margevka, Rebecca Bendre;

• Guest players: Delwyn McKenzie, Ian Thorpe, Jo Walton, Irene Frost, Selena Orwin, Nicky Fryer;

• Principal sponsors of the commissioned work Echoes of an Exhibition: The Sadler Jones Family Trust;

• Other donors to the commissioned work: Dorothy Mclean, Elizabeth Winkworth, Barbara Peddie, Philippa Graham;

• Extra funding support from: The Rata Foundation of Christchurch, Creative New Zealand, along with members’ assistance for the venue and music hire;

• Jubilee committee: Pauline Sewell, Philippa Graham, Gretchen Kane (publicist), Kate Sweeney, John Caughley, Tony Francis, Barbara Peddie;

• Programme: John Caughley, Ross Gurney, Philippa Graham, Felicity Boyd and Vic Bartley;

• Front of House team: The Graham Family, Henry Bluck;

• Baxter’s Aromaunga Florists for the floral tributes.

NewMembers

The Risingholme Orchestra welcomes inquiries from prospective new members. Rehearsals are held weekly in term time on Thursday mornings 9.45am – 12 noon at The Woolston Club, 43 Hargood St Woolston. Two public concerts are held each year as several community and school concerts.Interested players should contact Leane Gurney, ph 348 2845