Hallé Summer Season 2021 - The Best of the West End programme

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WELCOME The Hallé is back - live!

After 15 months of enforced silence, what a joy it is to welcome you back to hear and see this great orchestra live again in the glorious acoustics of The Bridgewater Hall. For me personally, having joined the wonderful Hallé family back in the dark days of September 2020, this is particularly poignant.

We’ve curated what we hope is a thrilling series of summer concerts which showcase a celebratory and exuberant range of music with a stellar cast of soloists and conductors, and of course, our inspirational Music Director Sir Mark Elder. A specially created stage extension has enabled us to offer large symphonic fayre, so a huge thank you to our partners at The Bridgewater Hall who have worked with such imagination and diligence to ensure that audiences are made to feel safe and welcome as we begin to emerge from government restrictions.

Alongside these live concerts, and following the success of our critically acclaimed Winter Digital Series, three of the performances in this Summer Series will also be filmed to the very highest standards for you and our audiences around the world to watch at home. Nothing for me beats the visceral experience of hearing live orchestral music, but we are delighted that we can continue to share our work with people who are unable to attend in person, and explore new ways of presenting the orchestra and illuminating the music.

We are so thankful to you, our audiences, for your unswerving and inspirational support throughout this pandemic. We are also grateful to our faithful sponsors, private trust and foundation supporters, Manchester City Council, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, the Arts Council and the government’s Cultural Recovery Fund which have enabled us to survive these unprecedented times.

On behalf of us all here at the Hallé we wish you a very enjoyable concert and look forward to sharing many more inspirational musical experiences as we forge ahead with renewed ambition, and drive our pioneering spirit forward into an ever-brightening future.

Thank you for joining us!

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SATURDAY 26 JUNE, 2.15PM AND 7PM AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER

THE BEST OF THE WEST END Stephen Bell conductor Scott Davies and Jacqui Scott vocalists

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It is due to the generosity of our sponsors, patrons and every loyal supporter who has been so understanding through the pandemic that we are able to perform these concerts. Arts Council England, the Greater Manchester Authority and the City of Manchester have all been steadfast in their support and have our sincerest thanks.

The Hallé is deeply grateful to our partners in The Bridgewater Hall, without whose collaboration these concerts, live and streamed, would not be possible.

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Cargill’s plant in Manchester is a production facility at the hub of the UK food and beverage industries. The plant and offices located in Manchester are part of Cargill’s starches and sweeteners business which produces sweeteners and wheat proteins for food customers. These include customers in the confectionery, brewing, beverage, dairy and bakery sectors.

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As a major employer in Manchester and the North West, Cargill contributes to the overall economic wellbeing of the region and this is complemented by the work we do and our commitment outside of the workplace, within the local community. For a number of years Cargill has funded and supported community-based projects that have made a difference in a real and tangible way. Our employees’ fundraising and ongoing work with local charities demonstrates this commitment.

Cargill is delighted to work in conjunction with the Hallé and help young children in the area gain access to such world-renowned experience and education through the Inspire programme.

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As the Hallé’s Major Sponsor, PZ Cussons are proud to support the full range of the Hallé’s work, from performances on stage to the broad ranging Education and Outreach work.

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THE BEST OF THE WEST END Think back, just for a moment, to how it used to be – or better still, think on to how it’s going to be again, hopefully very soon! Rushing past the posters on the Tube, pushing through the crowds in Leicester Square before taking your seat in a West End theatre. Picture it: the auditorium is packed, the lights dim and suddenly, with a blaze of sound, the band in the pit strikes up. Anything could happen in the next few hours, put one thing is certain: A clown with his pants falling down Or the dance that's a dream of romance Or the scene where the villain is mean.

That's Entertainment!

It’s a tune that must have been heard a million times on Broadway and in the West End since it first appeared in MGM’s The Band Wagon in 1953 – and there’s no better way to say that the Hallé is back and that the show must go on. It’s what it’s all about.

The world is a stage; the stage is a world of entertainment!

So let’s raise the curtain with the show that, perhaps more than any other, has come There’s no better way to define the spectacle, the splendour and to say that the Hallé the raw emotion of the West End. Back in 1985, many critics predicted a premature is back and that flop for the Frenchmen Alain Boublil and the show must go on.

Claude-Michel Schönberg when they had the nerve to premiere a musical based on Victor Hugo’s sprawling 19th century novel Les Misérables (1985): ‘The reduction of a literary mountain to a dramatic molehill’ declared one; ‘A witless and synthetic entertainment’ spluttered another. The music had other plans however as night after night, as the previews rolled on, the musicians in the orchestra pit were being moved to tears.

When it reopens (touch-wood) in September 2021, Les Mis will be the longestrunning musical in West End history. And having played over 40,000 performances worldwide to an estimated 60 million audience members, it’s probably safe to say that, on this occasion, the gentlemen of the press may have slipped up. With its 6 | ≥ SUMMER SEASON 2021

soaring emotion and epic set-pieces on the barricades of revolutionary France, Les Mis (known to performers as ‘The Glums’) is a grand spectacle. ‘With us’ says Boublil ‘you take home the whole show’. Les Misérables is a blend of personal tragedy (Empty Tables at Empty Chairs) and epic idealism (I Dreamed a Dream) that has captured three generations of theatregoers, in the West End and around the world.

If it seems surprising that London audiences should flock to a French classic, how about James Bond in the West End? OK, not quite the man himself, but think about it for a moment: improbable adventures, extraordinary gadgets, an exotically-named heroine, Teutonic villains and a flying supercar … remind you of anyone? Once you know that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was originally written by Ian Fleming, the creator of 007, everything starts to fall into place. It’s nothing less than a familyfriendly version of a Bond adventure and, like any great Bond film, it needs an unforgettable theme song. Richard and Robert Sherman (who also wrote the songs for Disney’s Mary Poppins) did the honours for the 1968 movie.

Across the pond, Broadway has always been a magnet for shysters, hoods and straightforward low-down no-goodniks. Frank Loesser made a whole show out of them: one scene in Guys and Dolls (1950) even takes place in a drain! Damon Runyon’s characters, the unlikely heroes of Loesser’s show, might be in the sewers but they’re In 2009, ‘9 to 5’ poured looking at the stars, each of them forever itself a cup of ambition just one crap-shoot away from glory. Though when Sky Masterson prays Luck be a Lady and moved on up to Tonight, the odds are a bit higher than Broadway – usual.

where it’s been doing The only certainty here is that none of these low-lifes will ever be working 9 to 5. quite a bit better than But if you think for one moment that Dolly barely gettin’ by.

Parton and her office-working sisters are ever going to buckle down and submit to their patronising (and worse) male boss, let that strutting, power-dressed theme song put you straight on a few things. With Parton in the cast, the classic 1980 movie was always going to make one heck of a musical: in 2009 it poured itself a cup of ambition and moved on up to Broadway – where it’s been doing quite a bit better than barely gettin’ by.

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provided the film’s spoonful of sugar, Dick van Dyke delivered the world’s all-time worst cockney accent and … well, you already know the tunes. Robert and Richard Sherman’s songs are truly scrumptious: the wistful Feed the Birds lingers in memory and, in an Edwardian London where magic really does happen, if you think you can sing along with Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious without tying your tongue in a knot, feel free to try. Spit-spot! With songs like these, the show practically sells itself.

Which was exactly the reason why, in 2002, Ben Elton and Brian May devised We Will Rock You. In a futuristic world without rock, rebel Bohemian Galileo and his girlfriend Scaramouche cross the Seven Seas of Rhye to fight the tyrannical Killer Queen and … anyway, you get the picture. It’s basically a gloriously over-the-top excuse to rock out to Queen’s greatest hits – as if we needed one. Freddie Mercury wrote Crazy Little Thing Called Love in a Munich hotel bathroom in 1979 … in ten minutes flat! Intended as his tribute to Elvis, he kept it deliberately simple because he composed it on the guitar – ‘which’, he ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ was confessed, ‘I can’t play for nuts’. It takes a hailed by ‘The Guardian’ kind of magic to make it sound that easy.

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But sometimes it takes a bit of luck too. deeply heart-rending' Evan Hansen is an ordinary 21st century teenager – anxious, awkward, painfully when it transferred to shy and making all sorts of mistakes in the West End in 2019. his desperation to be liked, or even just understood. A high school musical for the internet era, with a terrific score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, The Guardian hailed Dear Evan Hansen as ‘superb and often deeply heart-rending’ when it transferred to the West End in 2019 – in other words (though no-one knew it then) at just about the worst possible moment. It’s due back on stage in October, but for now, Evan’s Waving Through a Window offers a poignant, disarmingly honest self-portrait of a very relatable kind of hero.

It’s proof that, with a bit of imagination and a gift for melody, you can make anything into great musical theatre. A Cold War love-story set against the background of an international chess tournament? No problem when the writers are Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus – better known as the BB from ABBA. The poignant I Know Him So Well is a classic example of a song that’s stayed famous long after the final curtain has fallen. And there’s no denying the power of ballads like the stirring Anthem, sung by the young Soviet Grandmaster as he reaches hopefully for a way forward that’s neither black nor white.

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It’s certainly a billion miles from Beauty and the Beast. Disney’s 1991 animated feature took the classic fairy tale and added singing crockery, plus terrific songs by Alan Menken. He’d already written the music for Disney’s The Little Mermaid but Beauty and the Beast was something special. He says, ‘It was a huge Broadway show. It had that gigantic, over-the-top production number Be Our Guest, so it’s got that combination of romance and show business extravaganza’.

The story of musical theatre is studded with unexpected hits. Sometimes a single great song can be bigger than the show, but in La Cage Aux Folles (1983), the frocks are bigger than the songs. This frothy farce, set in a French Riviera drag revue, was another hit no-one saw coming – even though, as one critic remarked, the all-male stars actually had better legs than the average Broadway chorus. But Jerry Herman’s blazing torch-song I Am What I Am was always a showstopper in the making.

That’s the power of music, whatever ‘Magnificent’ exclaimed its subject. A rock opera inspired by an the ‘Sunday Times’ Argentinean dictator, complete with cameo role for Che Guevara? Believe it: this is when Evita opened Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita. As a baby, at the Prince Edward Lloyd Webber had been rocked to sleep to Theatre in June 1978. the rumbas of Edmundo Ros’s dance band, so the Latin passion he needed for songs The government of like Don’t Cry for Me Argentina just came Argentina promptly soaring through. (‘I decided that Don’t Cry for Me Argentina was going to be our banned it.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ commented Lloyd-Webber.) ‘Magnificent’ exclaimed the Sunday Times when Evita opened at the Prince Edward Theatre in June 1978. The government of Argentina promptly banned it.

Eva Péron could have learned a lesson or two from Annie Oakley, the sharp-shootin’ heroine of Irving Berlin’s 1946 Wild West spectacular Annie Get Your Gun. You don’t even need the words to enjoy the sassiness and sparkle of numbers like They Say It’s Wonderful, The Girl That I Marry and I’m An Indian Too, especially when they’ve been gussied up into this luxurious concert Overture. You know what they say: There’s No Business Like Show Business.

Meanwhile, having proved that he could make rock musicals out of the Bible, South American politics, T.S. Eliot and Thomas the Tank Engine, Andrew Lloyd Webber did the one thing no-one expected – a sweeping, gothic love-story, drenched in romantic melody. When The Phantom of the Opera opened in 1986, it rewrote the ≥ SUMMER SEASON 2021 | 9

rules for West End musicals. ‘I played the score to an old theatrical friend who said, “You’ve taken one big step backwards to the world of Rodgers and Hammerstein.”’ recalls Lloyd Webber. ‘I was delighted … I’d always wanted to write my own Some Enchanted Evening’. With soaring operatic love-duets like All I Ask of You, and above all, the ravishing nocturne Music of the Night, he finally got his wish.

But if there’s one thing better than a West End smash, it’s an epic flop – at least, according to the screwball logic of Mel Brooks’s The Producers (2001). Composer, writer and (yes) producer Brooks knew showbiz too well to be starry-eyed: this is

≥ SUMMER Keep watching at home.

Three astonishing Hallé summer concerts are available to watch at From Thursday 10 June

ELGAR’S ENIGMA VARIATIONS

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Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla Stravinsky Petrushka (1947) Elgar Enigma Variations Sir Mark Elder conductor

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a love-letter to Broadway in which the main characters are maniacs, cowards and crooks, flops pay better than hits and everything climaxes with the opening night of Springtime for Hitler, ‘a gay romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden’ featuring a deranged ex-Nazi writer, a cross-dressing Führer and a black-shirted, goose-stepping chorus-line. What could possibly go right? Opening in the West End in 2004 and running for four sold-out years, this unashamed hymn to failure was a hilarious, riproaring hit. Well, as the saying goes – That’s Entertainment!

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BEETHOVEN’S SEVENTH SYMPHONY

THE TSAR, THE ROCK & THE FIREBIRD

Wagner Siegfried Idyll Osvaldo Golijov Last Round Beethoven Symphony No.7

Rimsky-Korsakov The Tale of Tsar Saltan: Suite Rachmaninov The Rock Stravinsky The Firebird: Suite (1945)

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STEPHEN BELL CONDUCTOR

Described as ‘one of the most gifted younger British conductors’ (International Record Review), Stephen Bell is in demand with a wide variety of international orchestras.

His diverse repertoire, versatility and aptitude for communication with audiences of all genres and ages have led to exciting conducting projects with an eclectic range of artists.

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Past highlights have included conducting the Queen’s Jubilee Concert at Chatsworth House, a tribute concert for Stanley Black at the Royal Festival Hall, a gala event for Prince Charles at Windsor Castle, the memorial concert for Alistair Cooke at Westminster Abbey, the award-winning Pitch Perfect for BBC TV’s Children in Need at Wembley with the BBC Singers, the televised Music Nation concert from the Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow, and pop legends Texas with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at Barrowland, Glasgow.

Stephen’s discography includes critically acclaimed CDs on the ASV, Naxos and Dutton labels, including two with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, a disc devoted to the music of Gordon Jacob and three world premiere recordings with violist Roger Chase and the BBC Concert Orchestra. 2016 saw three new releases, including A Christmas Celebration with the Hallé on its own label and a collaboration with awardwinning vocalist Clare Teal on MUD Records. He frequently appears on Classic FM as well as on BBC radio and television.

From 2005 to 2010, Stephen was invited to conduct the annual televised BBC Proms in the Park with the BBC Philharmonic, and since 2011, he has appeared every year on the live TV broadcasts of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s Last Night of the Proms celebrations. He made his Royal Albert Hall Proms debut with the hugely successful Doctor Who Prom in 2008, returning in 2012 for a Family Matinee Prom with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and again in 2014 for two televised CBeebies Proms with the BBC Philharmonic. The Folk Prom in the 2018 season marked his first Prom with the BBC Concert Orchestra, returning in the 2019 season.

In 2009, he was appointed Artistic Director of the City of Oxford Orchestra and, in 2013, he was delighted to take up the post of Associate Conductor of the Hallé Pops in 2013. He studied at the Royal College of Music under the renowned conductor, Norman Del Mar. In March 2020, the arts scene in the UK came to a screeching halt. Stephen’s final live concert before the world went mad was in Manchester with the Hallé. As the father of three primary school aged children, lockdown forced Stephen to become a reluctant school teacher, dealing with online learning platforms, ensuring the children stayed fit and healthy, with the help of PE with Joe, and cooking. It was a torrid year, with just one day of work between March and September. Stephen took a conscious decision not to learn any new music during the first period of lockdown, finding it hard to learn a piece without knowing when a return to performance would be possible.

Since September, Stephen has spent time working on the Halle’s wonderful Christmas concert and this fantastic Movie Classics programme. He was absolutely thrilled that is was possible to record these two concerts - a Herculean team effort.

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JACQUI SCOTT VOCALIST Jacqui Scott began her musical education at the age of six. When she was ten, she won a music scholarship to attend Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester where she completed her classical training in voice and piano. While still at school she entered the BBC’s first-ever talent show, Rising Stars, singing and playing one of her own compositions and became the youngest winner. This early success led to her own TV series for the BBC called Contrasts and she became a weekly guest artist on the BBC’s Showstoppers.

More recently, Jacqui has appeared in the West End playing a variety of different leading roles, including Eva Peron in Evita, Grizabella in Cats and Ellen in Miss Saigon.

She was a member of the original cast of Chess at the Prince Edward Theatre and, on the tenth anniversary of the show, she was invited back to take the leading role of Florence Vassy in the UK tour. She made her comedy acting debut in the awardwinning Broadway play Nunsense.

Jacqui enjoys maintaining a busy concert schedule around the UK and Europe and she has toured extensively in Australasia with the Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand Symphony orchestras. For Symphonic Arena Concerts, she has played the role of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar in Stockholm, Oslo, Reykjavík and Gran Canaria. Other concerts have included the music of Queen with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and a celebration of ABBA and the Best of James Bond with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.

Jacqui performs her highly-acclaimed one-woman show, combining music from theatre, light classical and modern, in many cabaret venues worldwide.

Since the start of the global pandemic last year, Jacqui’s day-to-day life changed overnight. For the first time in 31 years of married life, she had to learn to stay at home, cook and be a good wife … well, you might have to ask her husband about that!

During her time at home, she and her husband have hiked the whole of the Kennet and Avon Canal (Bath to Reading), started the Thames Path (Cotswolds to Kent) and many more hundreds of miles throughout Hampshire, Berkshire and Devon.

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SCOTT DAVIES VOCALIST Born and educated in Glasgow, Scott Davies trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Recent and future work for Scott includes playing the role of Adam Taylor in a new film, Beneath, later this year, and singing on the 2020 film, Artemis Fowl.

Scott’s latest role on stage was that of The Phantom in London’s ‘Original’ West End production of The Phantom of the Opera.

For English National Opera, his roles have included Spoletta in Tosca; Remondado in Carmen; The Painter in Lulu; Borsa in Rigoletto; Don Riccardo and, on occasions, the title role of Ernani.

His concert work has included performances with some of Europe’s leading orchestras including the Hallé, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Scottish National, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony, Swedish Chamber, BBC Concert, Royal Northern Sinfonia and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. He has performed with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as Benjamin Stone in an all- Scottish production of Sondheim’s Follies and has sung with Sarah Brightman on her world tour. Scott has also had the pleasure of singing for Her Majesty The Queen and for the Three Tenors.

Scott’s theatre work has included: the title role in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); The Father in Halisinia (National Theatre); Gus, Bustopher Jones and Growltiger in Cats (UK tour); Mr Snow in Carousel; and Kayama Yesaemon in Pacific Overtures (Leicester Haymarket); Chess (European tour); and Sandy in Brigadoon (Victoria Palace).

On television, Scott has appeared in Taggart, Take the High Road, The Laurence Olivier Awards, Unreported Incident, Call Me Mister, Crimewatch UK, Open House, Echo Island, The Kenny Live Show and Dustin.

When the global pandemic hit, Scott taught himself to learn to love gardening, given that he was spending so much time at home. He kept fit by taking up boxing and getting his running up to scratch, in preparation for the 2022 London Marathon. He was also challenged to teach online, something from which he had shied away for many a year. ≥ SUMMER SEASON 2021 | 15

THURSDAY 1 JULY, 2.15PM AND 7PM AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL

SCHUMANN’S SPRING SYMPHONY Farrenc Overture No.1 in E minor Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Schumann Symphony No.1, ‘Spring’ Tomáš Hanus conductor Chloë Hanslip violin The Hallé is grateful to Chloë Hanslip for replacing the previously advertised soloist, Eldbjørg Hemsing

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The Hallé’s FREE online concert for Primary Schools is available now on YouTube.

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≥ MUSIC DIRECTOR SIR MARK ELDER FIRST VIOLINS

VIOLAS

COR ANGLAIS

TENOR TROMBONES

Paul Barritt

Timothy Pooley †

Thomas Davey †

Katy Jones

PERMANENT GUEST LEADER

Sarah Ewins ASSOCIATE LEADER

Tiberiu Buta Peter Liang Steven Proctor Alison Hunt † Helen Bridges † Nicola Clark † John Gralak † Michelle Marsh Liz Rossi SECOND VIOLINS

Paulette Bayley Rosemary Attree Caroline Abbott † Grania Royce † Elizabeth Bosworth Eva Petrarca Diego Gabete Yu-Mien Sun Susan Voss Sarah Percy

SECTION LEADER

Piero Gasparini † Chris Emerson † Sue Baker Gemma Dunne Cameron Campbell Victoria Stephenson CELLOS

Nicholas Trygstad SECTION LEADER

Dale Culliford † David Petri † Jane Hallett Clare Rowe Gunda Baranauskaite Damion Browne DOUBLE BASSES

Daniel Storer Yi Xin Han † Beatrice Schirmer † Rachel Meerloo FLUTES

Sarah Bennett Jenny Dyson PICCOLO

SECTION LEADER CLARINETS

Sergio Castelló López SECTION LEADER

Rosa CamposFernandez

Rosalyn Davies † BASS TROMBONE

Kyle MacCorquodale TUBA

Ewan Easton mbe

BASS CLARINET

James Muirhead †

TIMPANI

John Abendstern

BASSOONS

Elena Comelli Simon Davies

PERCUSSION

David Hext † SECTION LEADER

HORNS

Laurence Rogers † SECTION LEADER

Matthew Head Julian Plummer † Richard Bourn † Andrew Maher

Riccardo Lorenzo Parmigiani † Erika Öhman Julian Woilstencroft HARP

Eira Lynn Jones

TRUMPETS

GUITAR

Gareth Small †

Alex Voysey

SECTION. LEADER

Kenneth Brown † Tom Osborne Dave Hooper

BASS

Geth Griffith KEYBOARD

Fiona Slominska

Paul Janes

OBOE

KIT

Stéphane Rancourt

Ben Gray

SECTION LEADER

Thomas Davey †

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The Hallé, numbered amongst the world’s top symphonic ensembles, continues to seek ways to enhance and refresh what it undertakes, with aspirations to provide leadership through performance standards, education, understanding and training.

2020 saw the Hallé embarking on its very first digital season, featuring nine critically acclaimed concerts that were shared with audiences around the world. During its 162-year history, the organisation has weathered many storms – from two world wars to financial crises, volcanic ash clouds and now a global pandemic – and not being allowed to work and make music with immediate effect in March 2020 was truly devastating for its passionate players and staff. To be able to return to the specially extended stage of The Bridgewater Hall to perform concerts to live socially distanced audiences feels like a true renaissance.

Founded by Sir Charles Hallé in Manchester, the Hallé gave its first concert in the city’s Free Trade Hall on 30 January 1858. Following the death of Sir Charles, the orchestra continued to develop under the guidance of such distinguished figures as Dr Hans Richter, Sir Hamilton Harty, Sir John Barbirolli and Sir Mark Elder.

The Hallé has received many awards, notably from the Royal Philharmonic Society and the South Bank Awards, for its work in the concert hall and celebrated collaborations with other orchestras and Manchester organisations. The Hallé has a distinguished history of acclaimed performances, in Manchester and around Britain, as well as televised concerts, frequent radio broadcasts and international tours. Since launching its own recording label in 2003, a number of the Hallé’s recordings have won prestigious awards including five Gramophone Awards, two Diapasons d’Or and a BBC Music Magazine Award.

Over a quarter of a million people heard the Hallé live in the year up to April 2020 and more than 65,000 of those were inspired by the Hallé’s pioneering education programme. Working across the whole community – from schools to universities, care homes to prisons – to bring music in its broadest terms to those who may not attend the concert hall, the programme releases creativity and raises aspirations through very accessible and practical projects. Winter 2020 saw the launch of Goddess Gaia, a digital resource for schools featuring a twenty-minute animation and soundtrack based on a story by Tony Mitton.

The Hallé is a Registered Charity No. 223882

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≥ CHAIR ENDOWMENTS The Chair Endowment programme is an opportunity for you to be associated with one of our players and link your name with a position in the Orchestra. Your gift will help us to ensure the Hallé continues to develop artistically, attracting and retaining musicians of the highest quality.

The key to a successful orchestra is the quality of the individual players. At the Hallé we are fortunate to have some of the country’s most gifted musicians whose talent and commitment help keep the Hallé among the finest orchestras in the world.

Find out more at www.halle.co.uk/chair-endowments

MUSIC DIRECTOR, SIR MARK ELDER CH CBE

FIRST VIOLINS SARAH EWINS

SECOND VIOLINS PRINCIPAL

Mr Martin McMillan OBE and Mrs Pat McMillan

Elaine and Neville Blond Charitable Trust

Patrick and Tricia McDermott

CHIEF EXECUTIVE, DAVID BUTCHER

TIBERIU BUTA

Karen Farquhar

Hamish and Sophie Forsyth LEADER

Penny Moore GUEST LEADER, PAUL BARRITT

in memory of Geoffrey Robinson ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR, DELYANA LAZAROVA

PZ Cussons, Sir Mark and Lady Elder, The Garrick Charitable Trust, Siemens Hallé International Conductors Competition CHORAL DIRECTOR, MATTHEW HAMILTON

Dr Anne R Fuller

PAULETTE BAYLEY ROSEMARY ATTREE

John Geddes

in memory of the late Marie and Jack Levy

PETER LIANG

CAROLINE ABBOTT

Jennifer MacPherson

Peter and Mary Jones

ALISON HUNT

JULIA HANSON

Mrs Vivienne Blackburn for Michael

Lou Page

HELEN BRIDGES

in loving memory of Michael Hall

ZOE COLMAN

Professor Chris Klingenberg POSITION VACANT

JOHN PURTON HANNAH SMITH

Patrick and Tricia McDermott

In loving memory of Kaye Tazaki, from his family and the Hallé

In memory of Alison WilkieDavies

Sincere thanks also to all those who have made general donations to the Chair Endowment programme during the recent months.

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VIOLAS TIMOTHY POOLEY

FLUTE AMY YULE

TRUMPETS GARETH SMALL

Dr Susan M Brown

Mr Peter Heath

Shared Trust

JULIAN MOTTRAM

In loving memory of John Pickstone MARTIN SCHÄFER

David and Beryl Emery PIERO GASPARINI

Mrs Jane Fairclough GEMMA DUNNE

KENNETH BROWN PICCOLO JOANNE BODDINGTON

in memory of Ronald Marlowe OBOE STÉPHANE RANCOURT

The Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund

In memory of Diz Shirley, and happy days at Chipping Campden

VIRGINIA SHAW

CHRIS EMERSON

COR ANGLAIS TOM DAVEY

Bolton Opus Group CELLOS NICHOLAS TRYGSTAD

Martin and Sandra Stone SIMON TURNER

In memory of Mrs G E Whitehead DAVID PETRI

K and S Coen

Alison Wilkinson

In loving memory of Douglas Crawford CLARINET SERGIO CASTELLÓ-LÓPEZ

The Hallé Choir

CLARE ROWE

Nina Harris JONATHAN PETHER

Charlotte Westwood POSITION VACANT

In loving memory of Dorothy Hall DOUBLE BASSES POSITION VACANT

Edmundson Electrical Ltd YI XIN HAN

Shared Trust BASSOONS POSITION VACANT

Penny Moore TROMBONE KATY JONES

Sylvia Kendal in memory of Ivor Rowe TIMPANI JOHN ABENDSTERN

In memory of Alan and Vivian Glass PERCUSSION DAVID HEXT

Rosemary Whitesman RICCARDO LORENZO PARMIGIANI ERIKA ÖHMAN

Mrs R Russell in loving memory of her husband, Jim Russell RBA; Michael Eagles

In memory of Miss Amy Alexandra Morris

HALLÉ YOUTH ORCHESTRA BASSOONS

ELENA COMELLI

PERCUSSION

Anonymous

I and E Brett Karen Brown

HORNS

in memory of Arthur Bevan and Enid Roper LAWRENCE ROGERS

in memory of C K Andrews

In memory of Stella and Harold Millington

RICHARD BOURN

BEATRICE SCHIRMER

ANDREW MAHER

Joyce Kennedy in loving memory of Michael

Mr CR and Mrs E Anslow MATTHEW HEAD

NATASHA ARMSTRONG

In loving memory of Nora Dawson

John and Pat Garside

TOM OSBORNE

Michael Eagles BASS CLARINET JAMES MUIRHEAD

JANE HALLETT

Professor Sir Netar Mallick

Shared Trust

Shared Trust

Mr C R and Mrs E Anslow

CELLOS

The Holland-Frickes Mr John Summers WIND AND STRINGS

The English-Speaking Union, Mid Cheshire Branch Anonymous HALLÉ YOUTH CHOIR SOPRANOS AND ALTOS

Mr and Mrs Smith HALLÉ CHOIR

Jane Hampson ALTOS

Chris Hughes

RACHEL MEERLOO

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Situated at the heart of the resurgent area of Ancoats, Hallé St Peter’s provides a home for the Hallé’s rehearsals and recordings, its choirs and Youth Orchestra, as well as a space for education workshops and small performances.

Originally opened by the Hallé’s Patron HRH The Countess of Wessex in 2013, the facility is concentrated around a restored, Grade II listed, former church. A threestorey extension, The Oglesby Centre, was opened in November 2019 and includes a number of new practice rooms and performance spaces.

The Hallé Kitchen space is now home to Café Cotton at Hallé St Peter’s. This independent café, restaurant and bar is open to the general public seven days a week offering great coffee, delicious homemade food and cakes. Follow Hallé St Peter’s (@ hallestpeters) for our latest opening times and information.

EVENTS AT HALLÉ ST PETER’S Hallé St Peter’s is a versatile venue suitable for a wide variety of events. The elegant interior provides a beautiful backdrop for weddings, parties, corporate events, meetings, conferences, receptions and more. Hallé at St Michael’s, our nearby sister venue, also provides stylish space for events.

Enquiries are welcome for weddings, conferences and events. E-mail venues@halle.co.uk.

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≥ PATRON PROGRAMME By joining the Hallé Patron programme you can become part of a family of supporters who are helping to shape the future of the Hallé.

Patrons have access to unique opportunities to experience many different facets of the Hallé alongside musicians, performers and fellow supporters in recognition of their regular support.

Find out more at www.halle.co.uk/become-a-patron

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE John and Margaret Allen Dr Anne R Fuller Pat Kendall-Taylor Professor Chris Klingenberg Patrick and Tricia McDermott David and Mary McKeith Dr and Mrs Ian McKinlay OBE Penny Moore, for Terry, who loved the Hallé Dr Sambrook Christine and David Walmsley In memory of Lynne In memory of Alfred and Brenda Burley

MAESTOSO Brian and Valerie Bailey Dr Susan M Brown Mr David A Budgett Mr and Mrs J. Davnall Valerie and Peter Dicken Mrs Juliet Gibbs Andrew Hay and Nicola Kitching Mark Kenrick Jennifer MacPherson John Nickson and Simon Rew Martin and Sandra Stone John and Pat Turner Judi Winterson and David Hoyle

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CRESCENDO Mr C. R. and Mrs E. Anslow Mr Jon and Dr Carol Ashley Mr Edward Astle Carole and David Baume Mr John Biggins Audrey and Richard Binch David and Maggie Blackburn Mrs Vivienne Blackburn Clair Boyes Dr Christopher Brookes J. R. Bushell (Bolton) Ltd Laura and Peter Carstensen Dr and Mrs Michael and Diana Cavanagh Lawrence David Cody and in memory of Mr and Mrs L. J. Cody Mr Julian Craddock Philip Crookall Mr A Fowell Mr and Mrs J. Fox Mr Richard Garnett Chris and Karen Halicki Miss Lynne Hamilton Dr Andrew Hardman David Haworth Mr John Hopwood and Dr Julia Morrison

Chris Hughes, to mark 42 years with the Hallé Choir Mr Kenneth Kay Mr Michael Leach Mr Colin Lomax David and Jane Murphy Sir Charles Nightingale Mrs Kathy Noble Mr John D Owens Mr D Pritchard Mr Martin Rayner AC and CJ Riddington T. G. Roberts Mrs Jackie Roberts Mr and Mrs R. J. W. Rogers Judith and Patrick Rutter Sheila Rydz and in memory of Simeon Rydz John and Susan Schultz Mr P D Senn Mr David Shipley Mrs Marian Smith and in memory of Colin Smith OBE Mrs E. G. Tonge Joy White Professor and Mrs Philip Wiles David and Veronica Yates In memory of Brenda Owens

INTERMEZZO

SCHERZO

Dr D Yvonne Aplin Joan Ball Tony Bates Professor Tony Berry Mr K A Bevan Mrs Margaret Bradshaw Mrs P Cate Monica and Mick Clark Pamela Craig Sarah Crouch Mr Anthony Doust Mr Micheal Dowling Chris Dumigan Dr George A Eccleston Rev’d and Mrs J F Ellis Mrs A Fitzpatrick Charlie Fleischmann Ann Flowerday Jeremy and Gillian French Mrs Ruth Gooddie Mr and Mrs R Green Mr John Hannah Mrs Bessie Harper Callum Harvey Mr and Mrs D Hawkes Peter and Audrey Hewer Mr Simon Hutchence Mrs Wendy Jeffs Professor Nicholas and Dr Mary Jones Mr J G Knox Mr and Mrs B H Lawrence Mr and Mrs R W Lee Mel Littler Mr Alan Lowe Mr T Marsden John and Mary McPeake Stephen and Jacqueline Miley Mrs Alison Milford Gordon and Jess Minton Miss Maire Morton Mr and Mrs J P Platt Malcolm and Morag Ranson Mr Michael Redhead Canon C Roberts Joan and Graham Rogers Dr T and P E Schur Phil Thornley Mr John Turner Mrs M Warrener Mr J C White Professor Richard Whitley Mr John Wildman Jack and Elizabeth Wimpenny Joan Wood In loving memory of Helen Brave In memory of Albert Mesriee

Gill and Barrie Adams Mr Peter Adamson Mr Timothy R Ades Dr Katherine M Adler Mr Roger Ainsworth Vin Allerton Dr P J Alvey Mr Barry J Ball Dr Peter Barberis Mr Michael Barley Mrs J E Baxendale Mr Paul K Berry Mr Steve Best Mr D J Bird Mr Stuart Bishop Dr Howard Booth Ms Annie Bracken Arnold and Brenda Bradshaw Philip Broughton Mr Dean Brown Karen Brown Miss S R Brown Peter Burgess Barbara and Anthony Butcher Miss Christine Bywater Miss Christine S Catherall Mrs B Y Chubb Mrs Kathleen Cleary Mrs Gina Collison Mr David Cooke Mr H C Cowen Mrs Frances Critchley Mr John Critchley TD Mrs J D Darwent Dr D Dawson Mr and Mrs B A DeSousa Mrs Joyce Dewhurst Mrs Marie Dixon Ann and Donald Docker Mr Paul Durham Mrs D Dyer Mr E Alan Eaves Miss E Evans David Farrow Dr Larissa Fast Miss Charlotte Fitzgerald Mr George Fletcher Mr Alan Freeman Dr Tim Gartside Mrs Elaine M Gavin Mr Adrian Gerrard Mrs J Gill Mrs Mary Glynn Mr Christopher Grafham Mr and Mrs S R Lancelyn Green Mrs Caroline Greenwood Mr John D Gregory

Dr R Gregory Mr J B Haddow Dr I M Hall Paul and Amanda Hamblyn Mr C W Hampson Mrs Thora Harnden Brian and Bridget Harris Mr Simon Harrison Mrs J M Hartley Mrs Dorothy Heaton Mr Cliff Heckle Donald and Carolyn Henderson Mrs G Hewitt Miss Pauline Hickey Mr and Mrs J M Hill Peter and Charlotte Hill Mr J M Hindshaw Mrs Dorothy Holt Mrs Janet Holwill Dr W Hoyle Mr H Hughes and Mrs F Hughes David Humphries Mrs Glynys Hunter Dr Steven Hurst Joyce Hytner Mr Howard Johnson Mrs Jean Johnson Alma Jones, and in memory of Frank David and Fae Jones Christine and Michael Jones Mr Trefor Jones Miss Brunhilde Kay Mr and Mrs Rex Keen Lynne and Martin Kemp Ian Leonard Jennifer and Paul Lingwood Mr Harry Lipson Mrs Dorothea Livesey Virginia and Peter Lloyd Mr and Mrs M and A Losse Mr Kevin Lyons Mr F P S and Mrs D A B Marriott Dr and Mrs P J Marriott Mr P Marsh and Ms H M Bennett Mrs C Mason Dr Michael Mattison Mrs E McCrone Mrs Angela McMenemy Mrs Bernice Meagher Dr David Miers Mr David Milner Mr Jeff Milner Dr Brian Molyneaux Mr Peter Moorhouse Ms Kathleen Morris

Miss Jean Motler Mr P K Murphy Mr David Odling Professor Damian O’Doherty William and Janet Ollier Mr John Peaker Dr John Pearson Reverend David Peters David and Elizabeth Pioli Mr Victor Potapczuk Professor James Powell OBE Dr R E Price Mrs Jean Proud Mr D Radley Mr Peter Ramsden Mrs Beryl Ratcliffe Angus and Jenny Reynolds Mr Paul Reynolds David and Elly Roberts Mrs A Rose David and Maggie Rowlands Mrs Susan Rowlands Professor Michael G Rusbridge Mrs J Ryner Martin and Gail Sanderson Mr and Mrs John and Jackie Say Mrs Jan Schofield Mr James A Scott Mr Simon Shelbourn Mr C and Mrs T Shepherd Mr Michael Shiels Charles and Helen Smith Mr and Mrs C Smith Mr Roger Smith Mr Alan Spier Mr and Mrs R T Stafford Mr Frank Stoner and Mrs Margaret Dudley-Stoner Mrs Carla Suter Mrs Norma Swan Mrs M E Thompson Mr John Thomson Mrs Jean Tracy Mrs Jackie Tucker Tom Uprichard Mrs Barbara Upton Mr Peter and the late Mrs Diana van der Feltz Derek Vernon Jeffery and Judith Wainwright Mr Brian Walker Mr R B Walsh F T Walters Mrs Anne Ward Mr George Watson John and Christine Weller

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Mrs Lynn Wharton Mr Peter R White J Christopher Whitehead Mr A Whittaker Mr Thomas Williams Mr C F Winter Barry Wood Hilary and the late Noel Woodhead Mrs Ann Woolliscroft Dr J M Worth D and M Wright Dr David Yorke A music lover In memory of my parents In memory of Margaret Brailsford In memory of O Calvert In memory of Mr Tom Chadwick In memory of Liz Glynn In memory of D S Goodes In memory of Dr D B Jones In memory of Mrs M McDonald In memory of Patsy Pringle In memory of Dr Barbara Smith In memory of John Wallace Tonge

ALLEGRO Mr A C Abbas Mrs Brenda Ackroyd Mr Chris Adams and Professor Rosemary Lucas Mr Paul Adkins Mr Paul Ager Mr Richard Alliss Mohammed Amin Voxra Andersen Mr G Aspey Mrs Barbara Aspin Mrs Barbara Austin Ms Elaine Bagley Mrs P Barlow John Barnard Mr C Barton Dr A J Basey Mr and Mrs Melvyn Bathgate Mr and Mrs S Beckett John Begg Ms Rowena BeightonDykes Mrs Lois Beldon Mr P Beresford Mr I C Berridge Mr G N Berry Mr R Berryman Ms Rosemary Betterton

Mr David Bimson Mr A Birch Mrs A Birch Mrs Christine Bird Michael S Birkett Mr Robin Bissell Mrs Diane Blackburn Marilyn Booth Mrs Marjorie Boothby MBE Mr John M J Bowden Mr Alan Brant Mr Roger Brentnall John Bridgman Mrs Susan Briggs Mr David Britnor Mr and Mrs Andrew Brochwicz-Lewinski Ms Patricia Brock Mrs Gwyneth Brown Miss V Brown Mr Ian Brownlee Mr A Budworth Mrs Sarah Bunting Mr and Mrs P Burns Dr Kathy Burton Mrs Pauline Bushnell Peter Callon Mr Gerard Cambridge Ms Shirley Campbell Mr Geoffrey Carter Mrs Pamela Carter Mr J K Chadwick Mr William Chadwick Austin Chambers Mrs J Chambers Ms K Chapple Mrs Margaret L Chatfield Mr Eric Chilton VKF Ciaputa Mrs Betty Clee Mrs Anne Clegg Mrs C Connor Mr Michael Connor Mrs Olive Cook Mr D Cooper Mr Geoffrey D Copage James Coppock Mrs Joyce Cotgrave Mrs Barbara Cotterill Mr Richard and Mrs Karen Cowley Mr David Cresswell Mrs Margaret R Croker Mr and Mrs J B and Sylvia Crummett Dr C S Cundy Hilary and Adrian Curtis Mr Alan Dagger Mr Gerard Dale Jennifer Dale Mrs Jackie Dalingwater

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Ms Maria Davies Mr G J Davison Mr Alan Dean Anne and John Dempsey Mrs Wendy Dewey Mr and Mrs I Disley Professor Alexander Donnachie Mrs M Downing Helen Drew Miss Margaret Dunn Ms Louise Durose Dr S Dymock Mr Barry Eastwood Mrs Stella Eberlein R Ellershaw Mr M Ellis Mr and Mrs K Else Mr Peter English Mrs J M Evans Mrs Christine Everett Ms Julie M Fallon Ms N E Farrell Mr Steven Farrell Mrs Margaret Faulkner Mrs Cynthia Fenton Steven Fidler Mr Howard Fisher Mrs P Fitzgerald Raymond and Eileen Flint Mr R Foster Ms Wendy Foulger Mrs Augusta Fox Mr Charles R Fox Mr J W Fox Miriam and Michael Fox David and Sylvia Francis Mr R F Fry David and Joyce Fuller Miss A M Furphy Mrs E Galloway Peter Gannon John Gardner Eileen Goodwin in memory of Jack Mrs F B Grant Mr T Greene Andy Greenwell Ms Joy Greenwood Pamela Greenwood Mr Stephen Gregory Mr J C B Gregson Mr A L Griffith Mrs Audrey Griffiths John Groarke Mr J F Austin Hall James Hallows Mrs Eveline Hamilton Mrs Sheila Hardy Mrs Helen Harrington Dr W David Harrison Mrs Judith Harrop

Mr David Hartley Peter and Susan Haslehurst Tony Hayter Mrs Susan Heard Mr R Heaton Mrs P A Hemstock Dr Kenneth Henderson Mr John Herod Mr Thomas A Heyes Mr and Mrs G D Heyward Dr Pamela Hobson Mr Alex Hodgeon Mr Paul Holder Mr Derek Hollingsworth Dr Michael J Holloway Mr and Mrs M Holmes Mr R Holmes Miss Jeanne Holt Mr Brian Hooley Mrs Ann Hooper Mrs M Horan Mr John David Howard Mrs C M Hughes Mr J G B Hunter Mrs Jacqueline Hurdle John Hytner Miss Susan Ingham Mrs Helen Margaret Ireland Dr Melanie Isherwood Mr Paul Jabore Bridget Jackson Mrs J A Jackson Mrs I J Jackson Mr John Jackson Mr M D Jackson Mrs Pauline Jackson Mrs Emma Jacobs Miss Hilary Jarvis Dr K Jeffery Mrs Christine Jenkinson Mr Mark Johnson Mr R Johnson Mrs A Johnstone Mrs A Jones Mrs J M Jones Mr Fred Jones Shirley Jones Mr D J Kay Mrs Angela Kendrick Mr Andrew Kennaugh Jack Kirby Miss B Knight Dr W F Knox Mr Rainer Kolbeck Mrs Pat Kundi Dr Louis Kushnick Mr and Mrs Vivian Labaton Mrs Lillian Langshaw Dr Hugh Laverty Mrs Alison Lawrence

Mr and Mrs E Layland David and Pam Leaver Charles Ledigo Mr R Lee Mr Graham J Lees Mrs S Leete Mr Howard Leigh Mrs S Lewis Mrs Susan G Lewis Mrs A Leyland Mr John Liles Mrs Anne Livesey Pam and Gordon Lorimer Mrs Barbara Lowe Mr C A Lowe Dr Marion E Mackay Mr David MacKley Mrs Sarah C Maddock Mrs Barbara Maitra Mr D F Mardon Mrs B Marples Dr and Mrs Martin Mr Michael Martindale Mrs Dianne Massey Mr M D Masters Mrs Wendy Maunders Mrs Anne McCormack Mr J McCrory Mr J McGough Mrs T R McGough Mr Brian McGrath Mrs Sylvia McKellar Mrs Hinda Meggit Mr John Meriton Miss Audrey Messenger Dr John P Miller Mr Roger Miller Mr Robert Millington Mr Andrew C Mitchell Mr Tim Mitchell Miss G Mobb Anthony and Linda Mooney Mrs Gillian Moorhouse Mrs Jennifer Moorhouse Dr Richard Morgan Mr S J Morley Dr M G Mortimer Mr and Mrs Muir Mr A Murray Mr V Murray Dr Granville Neath Mr and Mrs A Newton Mr Peter Newton Mr Edward Nicholls Mr and Mrs Jonathan Noble Mr Thomas Nuhse Mrs L O’Connor Mr Stephen O’Hagan Mr Stephen Oliver-Watts Mr Martin Olley Mrs M Owen

Mr Michael Owen Mrs Christine Owens Graham and Dorothy Palmer Mr and Mrs K Parker Mr R K Parker Mrs Rosemary Parsons Mrs Ann Patterson Mrs M Pattinson Mr Alan Pearson Mrs Pauline Pedlar Mr J D Perry Mary Pexton R and E Philburn Dr Max Pilotti Mr John Piper Mr M Pittam Mr J Platt Mrs Lynne Powell Mr Lee Price Mrs Frances Prince Mrs Jean Pugh Mrs Jennifer Rae Mrs Sheila Ramsay Mr Stuart Ramsden Mr and Mrs Alan K Rawson Mr Paul Raynor Dr Redford Mrs M Redmond Miss Karen Redmore Mrs Susan Renshaw Mrs A Richardson Mrs S Rigby Mrs Christina Roberts Elizabeth and Hugh Roberts Mrs Winifred Robertson Mrs Doreen Robinson Mrs Kathleen Robson Mr Mark Robson Mr Colin Rogers Valerie and Howard Rogerson Mr Philip Roper Mrs J A Round Mr J Roundell Mr Raymond Rouse Miss P Rowland Mr C Rudd Miss S M Salmon Mr Peter Sampson Mr J B Sangster Mr Gerald Francis Schultz Mrs Margaret Scott Mr Robert Scott Mrs Carol Selby Alison Sellars Mr Andrew Senior Mr Maurice Setton Mr Christopher Sharp Mr David J Shearing

Mr S W Shone Mrs Eileen Short Mr P Sidwell Mr Chris Simon Mrs J K Slack Dr A J and Mrs J M Smith Mrs Anne Smith Mr Lionel Smith Dr J Spangler Mr M Spoors Mrs Joyce Stafford Mrs C M Stead Mrs P Steed Mrs Jane Stephens Mr Paddy Stephenson Mr J R Stuart Mrs Sally Sturt Mrs C Summerfield J B and J W Sutcliffe Miss Sykes-Howden Dr D P M Symmons Mr J P Syner Mr T Tarpey Mr J Taylor Mrs J Taylor Mrs Lesley Taylor Mr M Taylor Rosemary and Roger Taylor Mr D F Thickbroom Jim and Stella Thomas Michael Thomas Mrs S K Thomas Miss Marie Thompson Mr Philip Thompson Mr Terence P Thornton Mrs J Tims Mr D Allan Townsend Mr and Mrs P Trickett Mr and Mrs Brian Tuffery Mrs J Turner Mrs Barbara Twiney Mr W W Wagstaff Mr Angus Walker Mr P R Walker Mrs Sylvia Walker Mr W A Walker Mr John Ward Dr Stephen Ward Mrs and Mr Susan and Michael Warrington Mr and Mrs J M Watson Mr and Mrs Bill Webb Miss Judith Weller Mrs Pamela Wells Mr Robert Wensley Mr Werbel Mrs A G Whaley Mr P N Whitaker Mrs H Whitehead Eric Whittaker Mrs Petronella Whittle

Mrs L Wilkinson Professor Arthur Williams Mr and Mrs A J Williams Mrs Margaret Williams Mrs H J Williamson Mr A Willows Mrs Margaret Wilson Mr Stephen Wilson Mrs Kathleen Winterbottom Ms Janet Wolff Mr and Mrs Chris Wolstenholme Mrs Margot Wood Mr and Mrs S Wood Dr Zoe and Roderick Woodhead Mr Terry Woodhouse Mr T Woolfenden Miss A F W Woolley Mr Norton Wragg Dr M Wren Anna Wright Mrs Helen Wright Mr Keith Wright Mr Angus Yeaman A Music Lover In memory of Roger Bogg In memory of Margaret Cooke In memory of Mr and Mrs G W Dawson In memory of my gifted grandfather, Peter Hunt esq.

In memory of Mr G E Huggins In memory of Bill and Florrie Mathews In Memory of Derek Michael Melluish OBE In memory of Dr Nathan and Mrs Shlosberg In memory of Ian Michael (Mick) Othick

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MANY THANKS TO ...

HOLDERS OF THE HALLE SILVER MEDAL FOR PHILANTHROPY Stewart Grimshaw Michael and Jean Oglesby Terry and Penny Moore Arthur Reynolds Jurgen Maier

2058 FOUNDATION PRINCIPAL BENEFACTORS Manchester Airport Mr Martin McMillan obe and Mrs Pat McMillan The Oglesby Charitable Trust Fred Nash and Carole Nash obe Tiger Developments CIM Investment Management Ltd DLA Piper LLP Rothschild MAJOR BENEFACTORS Peter Heath David and Mary McKeith Brother (UK) Ltd PZ Cussons plc Nigel Warr David Wertheim and Family Kirby Laing Foundation Kobler Trust Martin and Jacqueline West The 2058 Foundation is a restricted fund of the Hallé Concerts Society established in the Hallé’s 150th Anniversary year to support specific artistic and education projects.

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SUPPORTERS OF THE OGLESBY CENTRE AT HALLÉ ST PETER’S The Oglesby Charitable Trust The Monument Trust The Dunard Fund The Foyle Foundation Garfield Weston Foundation Granada Foundation The Kirby Laing Foundation Victoria Wood Foundation The Wolfson Foundation and all those who supported The Oglesby Challenge and those who wish to remain anonymous

AMERICAN PATRONS Carol E. Domina Caroline Firestone Rita Z. Mehos Christa Percopa Arthur Reynolds Annette Vass

LONDON PATRONS Joyce Hytner John Nickson and Simon Rew

THE HALLÉ WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING TRUSTS FOR THEIR ONGOING SUPPORT The Monument Trust The Oglesby Charitable Trust Esmée Fairbairn Foundation The Foyle Foundation Granada Foundation Garfield Weston Foundation The Kirby Laing Foundation The Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation Paul Hamlyn Foundation The Victoria Wood Foundation The Wolfson Foundation The Zochonis Charitable Trust Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust The Band Trust Boshier Hinton Foundation Church Burgesses Educational Foundation The Derek Hill Foundation D’oyly Carte Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable Trust The Gladys Jones Charitable Trust The Grand Trust Cio The Harding Trust John Horniman’s Children’s Trust The Irving Memorial Trust Land and Co Foundation The Leche Trust Mclay Dementia Trust Peter Cunningham Memorial Fund Cecil Pilkington Charitable Trust The Pilkington General Charity The Rix_Thompson-Rothenberg Foundation RUSI (The Royal United Services Institute) Sir George Martin Trust Sale Mayoral Fund The Sobell Foundation Thriplow Charitable Trust

HALLÉ FAMILY OF BENEFACTORS Mrs A. Alford Mr C. K. Andrews Mr and Mrs Black In Memory of Rabbi Felix Carlebach from his family, friends and supporters Pamela Cate Mr Peter Copping Miss Rebecca Louise Finch Mrs Vivian Glass Mr Harry Johnson Mr A. and the late Mrs A. Johnson Kenneth Kay Mr C. H. Pooley Brian and Glenna Robson Bernadette Rudman Mr and Mrs R. P. Shepherd JP DL Lynne and Bob Spencer Mr and Mrs Brian Tetlow

and others who wish to remain anonymous

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≥ SEASON SPONSORS Diamond Partner

Major Sponsor

Major Sponsors

With thanks to Manchester Airports Group for 30 years of support.

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NEW YORK

Many thanks to our family of Workplace Choirs

AJ Bell plc • BAE Systems • BASF plc • BDO llp Great Manchester Chamber of Commerce • Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust • The Oasis Centre • PwC llp RSM • Sellafield Ltd • Siemens plc • Veterinary Defence Society Ltd

HALLÉ BUSINESS CLUB PLATINUM

GOLD

Brother Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce PZ Cussons plc Rothschild & Co

CBRE Ltd./The Towers Business Park SILVER

Beaverbrooks Bruntwood Cazenove Capital

C&0 Wines Tony and Daniela Coxon Elcometer Ltd Esprit Group Ltd Gary Halman Mills and Reeve LLP Web Applications UK ≥ SUMMER SEASON 2021 | 31

≥ CONCERTS SOCIETY PATRON HRH The Countess of Wessex gcvo VICE PRESIDENTS A. Martin McMillan obe Edward Pysden BOARD ELECTED DIRECTORS David McKeith [CHAIRMAN] Sharon Amesu Alex Connock Darren Drabble Tim Edge Juergen Maier cbe Linda Merrick John Phillips cbe Merryl Webster Aileen Wiswell mbe NOMINATED DIRECTORS GREATER MANCHESTER COMBINED AUTHORITY

Eamonn Boylan Councillor Janet Emsley MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL

Councillor Azra Ali CHIEF EXECUTIVE David Butcher FINANCE DIRECTOR Ruth Harkin ORCHESTRAL NOMINEE Caroline Abbott MUSIC DIRECTOR Sir Mark Elder ch cbe PERMANENT GUEST LEADER Paul Barritt ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR, POPS Stephen Bell ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Delyana Lazarova

CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S OFFICE David Butcher * Alison Lever Isabelle Orford

HALLÉ CONNECT EDUCATION Steve Pickett * Joanna Brockbank

FINANCE Ruth Harkin * Matthew Wyatt Lourdes Román

HALLÉ CONNECT ENSEMBLES Naomi Benn * Jo Pink Isabelle Orford Verity Riley

VENUES Martin Glynn * Tyrone Holt Everett Parry † Edward Cittanova David Roberts ARTISTIC PLANNING Anna Hirst * Louise Hamilton Andrea Stafford Sue Voysey CONCERTS DEPARTMENT Stuart Kempster * † Hayley Parkes Lois Boa

CHORAL LEADERSHIP NETWORK Anna Stutfield SPONSORSHIP AND FUNDRAISING Kath Russell * Eleanor Roberts Susanna Caudwell Amy Adebola Charlie Widdicombe Lucy Miller

ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT Chris Lewis Jenny Espin

COMMUNICATIONS Andy Ryans * † Peter Naish † Liz Barras Harriet Hall Anna Shinkfield

LIBRARY Louise Brimicombe Alice McIlwraith

DIGITAL Bill Lam * Riley Bramley-Dymond

STAGE MANAGEMENT Dan Gobey Lawrie Bebb

ARCHIVE Eleanor Roberts Stuart Robinson † † 20 years service * HEAD OF DEPARTMENT

GENERAL ENQUIRIES info@halle.co.uk www.halle.co.uk

CHORAL DIRECTOR Matthew Hamilton YOUTH CHOIRS DIRECTOR Stuart Overington CHILDREN’S CHOIR DIRECTOR Shirley Court COMPOSER EMERITUS Colin Matthews ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Henning Kraggerud

The Hallé Concerts Society is a Registered Charity No.223882

Thank you for your support.

The Hallé, now more than ever, relies on the generosity of all our supporters.

To see how you can help, visit

www.halle.co.uk/support-us Thank you.

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