Meow Meow's Pandemonium

S ’ W O E M MEOW PANDEMONIUM 21–22 MAY / 7.30pm

Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall

Performed by Meow Meow Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Northey conductor Mark Jones piano Daniel Witton double bass Alon Ilsar drums POSSIBLE GUEST APPEARANCE: Tomáš Kantor Christopher Burgess Tomas Parrish Noah Janssen Stephen McAllan

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Possible Program DEBORAH CHEETHAM LONG TIME LIVING HERE GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor (Excerpt) GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue (Excerpts) DUBIN and WARREN Boulevard of Broken Dreams PIAZZOLLA, FERRER and TARENZI Rinascerò MANN, WEIL, LEIBER AND STOLLER On Broadway BREL and MCKUEN Ne me quitte pas THOMAS M. LAUDERDALE and MEOW MEOW Hotel Amour SPOLIANSKY, SCHIFFER, KLEIN and HERCZEG Ich bin ein Vamp MEGAN WASHINGTON Skeleton Key WEILL, BRECHT and FEINGOLD Surabaya Johnny IAIN GRANDAGE and MEOW MEOW In This City CASAL, FERRER, VERLOR and ALMODÓVAR Un Año de Amor AMANDA PALMER Missed Me SPOLIANSKY, SCHIFFER and LAWRENCE Alles schwindel THOMAS M. LAUDERDALE and MEOW MEOW Mon homme marié WEILL and MAGRE Je ne t’aime pas RADIOHEAD Fake Plastic Trees VANCE, POCKRISS, MORISSE and SALVET Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini IAIN GRANDAGE and MEOW MEOW Tear Down the Stars WASHINGTON One For Sorrow EMER À quoi ça sert L’Amour?

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Meow Meow’s Pandemonium

Credits Original Songs Meow Meow and Iain Grandage, Meow Meow and Thomas M. Lauderdale.

Composers Meow Meow, Grandage, Lauderdale, Washington, Palmer, Grieg, Gershwin, Dubin/Warren, Piazzolla/Ferrer/Tarenzi, Mann/Weil/Leiber/Stoller, Brel/McKuen, Spoliansky/Schiffer/Klein/Herczeg/Lawrence, Spoliansky/Schiffer/Lawrence, Brecht/Weill/Feingold, Casal/Ferrer/Verlor/Almodovar, Vance/Pockriss/Morisse/ Salvet, Radiohead/Yorke, Emer, Griffin.

Arrangements Meow Meow, Grandage, Lauderdale, Taylor, Northey, Humphries, Nastos, Bischoff.

Lighting design Peter Rubie Cover image of Meow Meow Magnus Hastings Photography Star Cloth design Andrea Lauer MEOW MEOW REVOLUTION Australian representation Michael Topple, Creative Representation.

Special Thanks to Thomas M. Lauderdale and Pink Martini, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Magnus Hastings Photography, Arthur Pita, Rodney Fisher, Cameron Menzies, Matt Berman, Malthouse Theatre, Matt Hoy, Ben Northey, Mark Sutcliffe, Stephen McAllan, Gee Mishra, Luke Speedy-Hutton, Matilda Woodroofe, Clare Gray, Amanda Carr, Isaac Lummis, Michael Kantor, Sidney Myer Foundation, Australia Council.

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Acknowledging Country In the first project of its kind in Australia, the MSO has developed a musical Acknowledgment of Country with music composed by Yorta Yorta composer Deborah Cheetham AO, featuring Indigenous languages from across Victoria. Generously supported

by Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and the Commonwealth Government through the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, the MSO is working in partnership with Short Black Opera and Indigenous language custodians who are generously sharing their cultural knowledge.

The Acknowledgement of Country allows us to pay our respects to the traditional owners of the land on which we perform in the language of that country and in the orchestral language of music.

Australian National Commission for UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

About Long Time Living Here In all the world, only Australia can lay claim to the longest continuing cultures and we celebrate this more today than in any other time since our shared history began. We live each day drawing energy from a land which has been nurtured by the traditional owners for more than 2000 generations. When we acknowledge country we pay respect to the land and to the people in equal measure.

As a composer I have specialised in coupling the beauty and diversity of our Indigenous languages with the power and intensity of classical music.

In order to compose the music for this Acknowledgement of Country Project I have had the great privilege of working with no fewer than eleven ancient languages from the state of Victoria, including the language of my late Grandmother, Yorta Yorta woman Frances McGee. I pay my deepest respects to the elders and ancestors who are represented in these songs of acknowledgement and to the language custodians who have shared their knowledge and expertise in providing each text.

I am so proud of the MSO for initiating this landmark project and grateful that they afforded me the opportunity to make this contribution to the ongoing quest of understanding our belonging in this land.

— Deborah Cheetham AO

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Meow’s unique brand of subversive and sublime entertainment has hypnotized, inspired and seduced audiences worldwide from London’s West End to Lincoln Centre New York, to the Hollywood Bowl, to the Sydney Opera House. Her original music theatre works have played from Berlin to Berkeley, to Edinburgh to Shanghai and have been commissioned by David Bowie, Pina Bausch and Mikhail Baryshnikov amongst others.

With orchestras she specialises in Weimar and French chanson repertoire as well as jump-cut explorations of Schubert and Schumann and contemporary work.

The stage-diving tragi-comedienne has performed her “orchestrated chaos” with The London Philharmonic, Sydney, Seattle, Bergen Norway, Oregon, W.A and San Francisco Symphonies and she is a frequent guest with the orchestra “Pink Martini” including at the Berlin Philharmonic and with the LA Philharmonic at Disney Hall and at Hollywood Bowl.

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Her latest album Hotel Amour with Pink Martini’s Thomas Lauderdale was ranked in the Times UK top 100 albums of 2019. Her theatre credits include Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, a critically acclaimed Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls with the Royal Philharmonic at Royal Albert Hall, the Maitresse – a role created for her in Michel Legrand and Kneehigh’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg on the West End, Jenny in The Threepenny Opera with the London Philharmonic in London and Paris, and Anna in Die Sieben Todsünden at the Berlin Konzerthaus under Vladimir Jurowski, and at Hamer Hall with Orchestra Victoria and Victorian Opera. She has a longstanding creative relationship with Malthouse Theatre and the major Australian Arts Festivals. She has created numerous “fantastical history” song cycles for crumbling theatres in Australia and the UK, and bespoke civic events – most recently in Liverpool UK for the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album involving the city’s brass bands, a three day “riot” and a requiem in a graveyard.

She has toured the concert halls of Australia, the UK and the US with The Australian Chamber Orchestra and Barry Humphries’ acclaimed Weimar programme, including an extended return season at the Barbican in London. Her most recent music theatre work Apocalypse Meow was presented at Shakespeare’s Globe London, Malthouse Theatre Melbourne and at BAM’s Next Wave Festival in NYC. Photo credit: Gem Hall

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is a leading cultural figure in the Australian arts landscape, bringing the best in orchestral music and passionate performance to a diverse audience across Victoria, the nation and around the world.

Each year the MSO engages with more than 5 million people through live concerts, TV, radio and online broadcasts, international tours, recordings and education programs.

The MSO is a vital presence, both onstage and in the community, in cultivating classical music in Australia. The nation’s first professional orchestra, the MSO has been the sound of the city of Melbourne since 1906.

The MSO regularly attracts great artists from around the globe including AnneSophie Mutter, Lang Lang, Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson, while bringing Melbourne’s finest musicians to the world through tours to China, Europe and the United States.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we perform and would like to pay our respects to their Elders and Community both past and present.

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Benjamin Northey conductor Since returning to Australia from Europe, Benjamin Northey has rapidly emerged as one of the nation’s leading musical figures. He is currently the Principal Resident Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and was appointed Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra in 2015.

His international appearances include concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, the Malaysian Philharmonic and the New Zealand Symphony and Auckland Philharmonia.

He has conducted L’elisir d’amore, The Tales of Hoffmann and La sonnambula for SOSA and Turandot, Don Giovanni, Carmen and Cosi fan tutte for Opera Australia.

Limelight Magazine named him Australian Artist of the Year in 2018. In 2021, he conducts the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Christchurch Symphony and all six Australian state symphony orchestras.

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Lillian Tarry Tam Vu and Dr Cherilyn Tillman Mr and Mrs R P Trebilcock Michael Ullmer AO The Hon Rosemary Varty Marian Wills Cooke and Terry Wills Cooke OAM Mark Young Anonymous (29) The MSO gratefully acknowledges the support of the following Estates: Norma Ruth Atwell Angela Beagley Christine Mary Bridgart The Cuming Bequest Margaret Davies Neilma Gantner The Hon Dr Alan Goldberg AO QC Enid Florence Hookey Gwen Hunt Family and Friends of James Jacoby Audrey Jenkins Joan Jones Pauline Marie Johnston C P Kemp Peter Forbes MacLaren Joan Winsome Maslen Lorraine Maxine Meldrum Prof Andrew McCredie Jean Moore Miss Sheila Scotter AM MBE Marion A I H M Spence Molly Stephens Halinka Tarczynska-Fiddian Jennifer May Teague Albert Henry Ullin Jean Tweedie Herta and Fred B Vogel Dorothy Wood

MSO BOARD

Li Family Trust

Chairman David Li AM

Biostime Swisse Xiaojian Ren & Qian Li Wanghua Chu and Dr Shirley Chu LRR Family Trust David and Dominique Yu

HONORARY APPOINTMENTS Life Members Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO John Gandel AC and Pauline Gandel AC Sir Elton John CBE Harold Mitchell AC Lady Potter AC CMRI Jeanne Pratt AC Artistic Ambassadors Tan Dun

Deputy Co-Chair Di Jameson Helen Silver AO

Supporters

EAST MEETS WEST

Managing Director Sophie Galaise Board Directors Andrew Dudgeon AM Danny Gorog Lorraine Hook Margaret Jackson AC David Krasnostein AM Hyon-Ju Lee Glenn Sedgwick Company Secretary Oliver Carton

Lu Siqing MSO Ambassador Geoffrey Rush AC The MSO honours the memory of Life Members John Brockman OAM The Honourable Alan Goldberg AO QC Roger Riordan AM Ila Vanrenen

The MSO relies on your ongoing philanthropic support to sustain our artists, and support access, education, community engagement and more. We invite our supporters to get close to the MSO through a range of special events.

The MSO welcomes your support at any level. Donations of $2 and over are tax deductible, and supporters are recognised as follows: $500+ (Overture) $1,000+ (Player) $2,500+ (Associate) $5,000+ (Principal) $10,000+ (Maestro) $20,000+ (Impresario) $50,000+ (Virtuoso) $100,000+ (Platinum)

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Be Part of Our Story Across the decades, the MSO has been part of thousands of lifelong musical journeys.

After 10 months of cancelled performances, our return to the stage has imbued our 2021 Season with a heightened sense of emotion, excitement, and significance.

Thank you for sharing it with us tonight.

Your support today will ensure we can continue to perform musical magic for generations to come.

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