Casey Philharmonic Stolen Works of Art

Sunday, 30th April – 2.30pm & 6.30pm

Bunjil Place, Narre Warren

About us!

Casey Philharmonic Orchestra is a young, innovative and vibrant amateur community orchestra based in the City of Casey. We held our first rehearsal in June 2017, and performed at the opening of Bunjil Place, Narre Warren – now our principal performance venue - in October the same year. Now in our sixth year CPO continues to provide extraordinary opportunities for amateur musicians in Melbourne’s outer south-east. We strongly value building collaborative relationships with other local arts organisations, and we pride ourselves on performing orchestral music of the highest calibre for the enjoyment of our audiences and musicians alike.

CPO is delighted to welcome you to the first concert of our 2023 Season, ‘Stolen Works of Art’. In this unique multimedia presentation, we will explore many of the world’s greatest pieces of classical music that have been stolen for use in advertising, TV and film over the years. We will also be testing the knowledge of our audience in a simple, interactive quiz – how quickly can you match the work with the visual content it featured in? Sit back and enjoy our festival of misappropriated music - episodes of nostalgia, trips down memory lane and ear worms are guaranteed!

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As a volunteer-run, not-for-profit organisation, we are reliant on the generous support of individuals, groups, councils, businesses and organisations. This support allows us to continue to enrich the arts community within the City of Casey and beyond. Here are a few ways that you can help Your CPO!

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FINALIST – 2023 CASEY COMMUNITY AWARDS

STOLEN WORKS F

ART

Excerpts from more than 20 classical music favourites used in film, TV and advertising!

Kent Ross conducting

As part of the performance today we will be running a Kahoot!, an on-line multiple-choice quiz. You’ll notice that five of the works listed in this programme (marked with a ) do not divulge the movie, TV show or ad they featured in –these are the pieces that will be part of our quiz. Think you know what they were stolen for? The first 100 audience members to click the link below and enter the Game PIN (when we release it to you) can join in the fun!

“In 2005, my face was analysed by emotion recognition software and found to be 9% disgusted, 2% angry, 6% fearful and only 83% happy…

…but you’ll be 100% happy if you win a prize in CPO’s Kahoot! Quiz!!!”

https://kahoot.it/

Richard Strauss

Also Sprach Zarathustra

Stolen for use in: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

Aram Khachaturian

Adagio from Spartacus

Stolen for use in: THE ONEDIN LINE

PHILIPS TVS $

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No.6, fifth movement

Stolen for use in: TWEED PERFUME $

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Finale from 1812 Overture

Stolen for use in: THE KING’S MAN

AUSTRALIAN ARMY RESERVE $

Johann Pachelbel

Canon in D

Stolen for use in: TOURISM TASMANIA $

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No.5, second movement

Stolen for use in: THE PAUL HOGAN SHOW

WINFIELD $

Edward Elgar

Pomp and Circumstance

March No.1 – Land of Hope and Glory

Stolen for use in: THE KING’S MAN

Gabriel Fauré

Pavane

Stolen for use in: DINE CAT FOOD $

Gustav Holst

Mars, the Bringer of War from The Planets

Stolen for use in: HOLDEN CALIBRA $

MAZDA 121 $

Camille Saint-Saëns

Symphony No.3, second movement

Stolen for use in: BABE

Gioachino Rossini

Galop from William Tell Overture

Stolen for use in: THE LONE RANGER

PIZZA HUT $

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George Frideric Handel

Music for the Royal Fireworks - La Réjouissance

Stolen for use in: MINCHINBURY SPARKLING WINE $

Pietro Mascagni

Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana

Johann Sebastian Bach

Air on the G String

Stolen for use in: TOP GEAR MAGAZINE $

Georges Bizet

Toreador Song from Carmen

Antonín Dvořák

Symphony No.9 ‘From the New World’, second movement

Stolen for use in: PAL DOG FOOD $

Richard Wagner

Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre

Jacques Offenbach

Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann

Stolen for use in: VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG $

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Eine kleine Nachtmusik, first movement

Stolen for use in: AUDI QUATTRO $

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Che farò senza Euridice from Orfeo ed Euridice

Stolen for use in: TRATTORIO PASTA $

Giuseppe Verdi

La Donne è Mobile from Rigoletto

Edvard Grieg

Morning Mood from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1

Edvard Grieg

In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1

Stolen for use in: JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN

Gioachino Rossini

Sinfonia (Overture) from The Barber of Seville

Stolen for use in: ADDAMS FAMILY

BUGS BUNNY EPISODE ‘THE RABBIT OF SEVILLE’

VITTORIA COFFEE $

The content of the segments referred to and displayed during the concert today are fully attributed to their creators without exception or condition. No financial benefit has been generated from their use.

Performance: Visual content created by Alex Dellaportas

Interval: Visual content created by D.C. Coleman. Vintage 35mm clips courtesy FT Depot YouTube channel –thanks to Brad Miller

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Here’s something new for our treasured friends and supporters, both young and young-at-heart… FREE mini collector pins! We currently have limited stock of your favourite concert and character mini buttons from our massive 2022 Season events, and we’ll issue a new pin for each show this year. We also have an exclusive design available only to ‘Friends of CPO’ members.

How many will you collect? Visit our merchandise stand and kick off your collection today with a button for ‘Stolen Works of Art’!

Individual limits may apply.

Xylophone, glockenspiel, marimba, vibraphone… what’s the difference?

All these instruments belong to the tuned percussion family and consist of a series of horizontally laid bars that are struck with mallets to generate sound. The lengths of the bars are varied to produce different pitches.

The xylophone (‘xylo’ from the Ancient Greek for wood) uses wooden bars, whereas a glockenspiel uses metal ones. Marimbas (wooden bars) and vibraphones (metal bars) have added resonator tubes suspended perpendicularly below each bar which amplify certain aspects of the sound, producing fuller and richer tones. Spinning disks in the tubes of vibraphones create a vibrating, tremolo effect. It also has a sustain pedal similar to a piano, allowing notes to be muted or ring on. Click the YouTube links below to see and hear these instruments being played!

Xylophone Glockenspiel Marimba Vibraphone

CPO Musical Quiz No. 2

1. How many strings does a cello have?

2. In which city would you find the Royal Albert Hall?

3. The name of CPO’s last concert in 2022 was ‘Sorcerer’s…’?

4. True or false – a full-size viola is smaller than full-size violin.

5. Which family of instruments does the oboe belong to?

6. How many complete symphonies did Beethoven compose?

7. Who conducted CPO’s ‘Star Wars Extravaganza’ last year?

8. Which evocative piece by Samuel Barber featured heavily in the 1986 movie ‘Platoon’?

9. During which part of Handel’s ‘Messiah’ does the audience traditionally stand up?

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Get to know Your CPO!

Damien began playing cello in high school, but it wasn’t until he arrived at RMIT that his musical adventures really began, joining RMIT Music in 2008 and playing double bass and viola in the RMIT String Ensemble followed by bassoon with RMIT Concert Band in 2015. Damien is an integral longserving part of the student music scene at RMIT. As a prominent figure at RMIT Music serving as its President from 2015 to 2019, Damien has developed and grown the RMIT Chamber Orchestra to prominence, becoming its Music Director and Conductor.

Beyond RMIT, Damien currently plays viola for the Casey Philharmonic Orchestra, oboe/English horn

or bassoon with the Engineering Music Society at Melbourne University and with the Cardinia Civic Concert Band on bassoon and is Conductor of their Intermediate Band. A highlight in Damien’s music experience was touring eastern Germany in 2019 with the Cardinia Civic Concert Band.

Damien has a deep passion for early music. Recorder has become one of Damien’s favourite instruments to play. His favourite pieces are baroque/classical concertos featuring multiple instruments as the intertwining of different instrument textures draw mixed emotions. Damien has always tried to ensure that he continues playing as much music as possible even while working in the Aerospace Engineering sector.

Damien Melis VIOLA

Pair of 310ml tumblers

Pair of 250ml wine glasses

Kent Ross ~ Resident Conductor

Kent is a composer, conductor, musical theatre director, arranger and music educator from Melbourne. He has a Masters of Music from Box Hill College of Music where he specialised in conducting. He also holds a Bachelor of Music (ACU) in classical piano and choral conducting as well as a Bachelor of Music in Composition (Box Hill).

Kent has musically directed and conducted over thirty musical theatre productions including Les Misérables, Titanic, Catch Me If You Can, Suessical, The Addams Family, The Boy From Oz and Legally Blonde.

Kent has been nominated multiple times for ‘Best Musical Director’ by the Lyrebirds and the Music Theatre Guild of Victoria, and has had a number of piano compositions in the ANZCA syllabus He also has written rock, jazz, gothic rock and heavy metal music, and was the keyboardist for Melbourne-based metal band Catwitch. Kent has been with Casey Philharmonic Orchestra since 2017 – he is currently the orchestra’s Vice President and was appointed CPO’s Resident Conductor in 2019. He is also the Music Director of youth dance company Spark Productions, and the Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Mandolin Orchestra.

Julia Chen ~ Concertmaster

Julia started learning the violin at the age of five. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in China, Master of Music degree from ANU under the guidance of Tor Fromyhr, and Doctorate Musical Arts degree in the US. As a student, Julia won several competitions/scholarships including the National Orchestra Scholarship from ANU and graduate concerto competition during her doctoral study. She has performed with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Lincoln Symphony Orchestra (USA), and Chongqing Youth Symphony Orchestra (China), and played as concertmaster at Carnegie Hall and the National Centre of Performing Arts in China. Julia currently lives and works in Berwick.

Resident Conductor – Kent Ross

Violin 1

Julia Chen (concertmaster)

Andrei Bacu

Beth Melton

Nandhinee Pragash

Viva Nguyen

Amaris Lee-David

Violin 2

Johnny Chen

Gerard Tan

Moya Cummings

Ana Monsanto

Katelyn Cai (Xiao)

Emily King

Viola

Damien Melis

Bill Wang

Rebecca Cottman

Leah O’Sullivan

Cello

Ben Nicholson

Michael Bonsall

Janek Kondzior

Cate-Linne Fraser

Sally Duff

Double Bass

Philip McCahy

Declan Coleman

Perren Bonsall

Mae Ovenden-Lloyd

Luke Holland

Flute/Piccolo

David Jones

Kristy Matheos

Judith Carpenter

Oboe/Cor Anglais

John Blyth

Samantha Jones Clough

Clarinet/Bass Clarinet

Belinda Bolger

Claire Rainey

Rosemary Smith

Bassoon

Hannah Hunt

Hannah Hine

Trumpet

Paul Berger

Brad Inman

Alex de Lacy

French Horn

Vicki-Ann Ware

James Coomans

Callum O'Connor

Sienna Machin

Trombone/Bass

Trombone

Quinn Kellock

Anthony Ware

Michael Couche

Tuba

Colin Harrison

Keyboard

Kristy Matheos

‘Cannon’

Pete Matheos

Timpani

Ethan Gallagher

Percussion

Perren Bonsall

Ethan Gallagher

Taysha Rankin

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Casey Philharmonic Orchestra acknowledges the Boonwurrung Traditional Owners of the land on which we rehearse and perform, and we pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.