Hallé Winter Season 2020/21 - Episode 2 programme

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WELCOME Welcome to the Hallé’s 2020-21 Winter Season. This is a particularly happy moment for me personally, having joined the wonderful Hallé family in September.

In spite of these extraordinary times, with concert halls currently closed and live audiences sadly excluded, we are thrilled, in association with our partners at The Bridgewater Hall and our own Hallé St Peter’s, to be able to bring you a Winter Season of nine unique concerts. These specially curated performances have been filmed and recorded to the very highest quality for you to watch at home at your leisure.

Although for me nothing beats the live experience, this exciting new filmed format enables us to adventure into new ways of presenting the orchestra and enhancing the music. The diverse array of repertoire on offer will be complimented by introductions, interviews and insights from our family of Hallé conductors and special guest artists.

The Hallé exists to play for you, our audiences, and the support of so many of you over the past months has been an inspiration and literally kept us going. We are deeply grateful. The orchestra is beyond thrilled to be performing together for you once again, and we hope that you enjoy this illuminating and life-enhancing series of events.

On behalf of us all here at the Hallé, thank you for your continued support and welcome to our season.

David Butcher Hallé Chief Executive

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EPISODE 2 RODERICK WILLIAMS SINGS BUTTERWORTH BROADCAST FROM HALLÉ ST PETER’S, MANCHESTER

BRITTEN Russian Funeral ARVO PÄRT Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten BUTTERWORTH Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad orch. RODERICK WILLIAMS world premiere R. STRAUSS Metamorphosen’ Sir Mark Elder conductor • Roderick Williams baritone SPONSORED BY

It is due to the generosity of our sponsors, patrons and every loyal supporter who has been so understanding over the past months, that we are able to perform this concerts. Arts Council England, the Greater Manchester Authorities 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 streamed concerts would not be possible.

A message from the sponsor

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.

As an organisation with a long history in Manchester, we are deeply committed to supporting our local community. Sharing similar values, we believe our partnership with the Hallé works in harmony with our Good4Business principles, helping to bring wonderful music to a wider audience and creating opportunities through supporting pioneering educational programmes.

Our community work spans worldwide geographies and people, and focuses on enhancing lives and securing futures for families. Here in the North West, through our partnership with the Hallé we have brought music and fragrance together through our fragrance house Seven, to create sensory learning experiences in a range of different ways, including for children attending the annual Hallé for Youth concert.

We also support Hallé musicians working with children and young adults who have complex and severe learning difficulties at the Seashell Trust through the Musician in Residence programme.

We have been proudly sponsoring the Hallé since 2010 and hope you enjoy this concert.

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A VERY WARM WELCOME FROM THE YANG SING! We are delighted to be part of the Hallé’s 2020–21 Winter Season and extremely proud to celebrate 25 years of partnership with the Orchestra.

We believe that our success over four decades, and the growth of Manchester, is linked to the achievements of organisations such as the Hallé, which make major contributions towards projecting positive and lasting impressions of our vibrant city and its cultural offering worldwide.

Our marriage of food and music has matured into a longstanding friendship and all the Yang Sing family are pleased to be able to play a part in the continuing success and development of the Hallé.

This year, we invite you to enjoy the beautiful, inspiring music of the Hallé with friends and family at home, and look forward to being with you again soon in the fabulous surroundings of The Bridgewater Hall.

Harry Yeung mbe Chairman – Yang Sing

Rediscover a Manchester icon A symphony of experiences awaits within the Grade II*-listed Free Trade Hall, with award-winning dining, a tranquil setting for afternoon tea and a state-of-the-art spa retreat hidden below the historic colonnade.

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On 30 June 1996 Manchester’s Free Trade Hall and the home of the Hallé for over 138 years, closed for the last time. Fittingly the final concert was performed by the Hallé with a packed audience made up of concert regulars, local civic dignitaries and members of the Royal family. The concert included works by Weber, Sibelius, Berlioz, Handel, Elgar, Beethoven, Shostakovich and Wagner and was conducted by the then Hallé Music Director, Kent Nagano.

The Free Trade Hall was more than a concert hall – in fact, it soon became relatively ineffectual as a concert hall – which was why Manchester demanded a world-class venue. The Bridgewater Hall was built just around the corner and it remains in the top 10 best concert halls in the world 24 years on.

The Free Trade Hall was built in 1856 on the site of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre as a symbol of the vital role Manchester played in the repeal of the corn laws. It remains an important and beautiful landmark and was lovingly and considerately restored

by Edwardian Hotels London in 2004. Many of the original features were retained including the wonderful Grecian mouldings and the local authority crests – proudly displayed in the hotel lobby.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the hotel Edwardian Hotels London commissioned a special video featuring the Hallé as you’ve never heard them before with a medley of songs from the Bee Gees to the Sex Pistols with a bit of Rachmaninov in between!

As a long-term sponsor and supporter of the Hallé, The Edwardian Manchester is delighted to be part of the Orchestra’s Winter Season of virtual concerts. We look forward to welcoming you back to our award-winning contemporary Japanese and Mexican restaurant, Peter Street Kitchen, alongside our stunning afternoon tea experience in The Library curated by Assouline.

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BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913–1976)

RUSSIAN FUNERAL (1936)

BENJAMIN BRITTEN, 1965

by Szalay Zoltán, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Funeral marches tramp their way through the music of Britten’s twenties: they occur in, to name but three, the Epilogue of the orchestral song-cycle Our Hunting Fathers, the Lament (‘Barcelona, July 1936’) from the suite Mont Juic and Russian Funeral, the composer’s only work for brass ensemble and percussion. All reveal the powerful influence of Mahler whose music, at that time, was rarely played in the UK. Composed at breakneck speed between 24 February and 2 March 1936, Russian Funeral was first performed under the title Death and War at a concert given by the

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London Labour Choral Union, under the direction of the committed Marxist composer Alan Bush, that took place at the Westminster Theatre on 8 March. It prefaced the UK premiere of Das Maßnahme, an overt piece of left-wing propaganda written by the playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Hanns Eisler in 1930.

Described in the programme as ‘an impression for brass orchestra’, the late Donald Mitchell, close friend and authority on Britten, aptly described Russian Funeral as a ‘short symphonic poem’, such is its superbly judged pacing and emotional impact. The work reflects the left-wing leanings of composers like Britten, Bush and Tippett, as well as writers such as W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, and other artists of the 1930s. Many of them looked to the still comparatively new Soviet state as a utopian alternative to the seemingly failed double standards of Western capitalism during that decade.

Apart from Mahler, the other discernible influence on the work is Shostakovich, whose First Piano Concerto Britten was playing at that time. Cast in a tripartite form, the main melody of the outer ‘Death’ sections is a Russian proletariat song Vy zhertvoiu pali (‘You fell as victims’), which was sung to honour the dead massacred in the atrocity on 22 January 1905 when soldiers guarding the Tsar’s Winter Palace opened fire on demonstrators. Shostakovich was also to use the same song in the slow movement of his Eleventh Symphony, ‘The Year 1905’ composed in 1957.

In the faster central ‘War’ section, Britten creates a baleful battlefield turmoil of fanfare and bugle calls that anticipate his War Requiem and pacifist opera Owen Wingrave. For many years this middle part of the work was assumed to be wholly

by Britten but, in 1993, the Russian musicologist Ludmila Grigorievna Kovnatskaya drew attention to its similarity to the Komsomol Fleet March (Komsomol’skaya Krasnoflotskaya), a popular Russian patriotic/revolutionary song of the 1920s and 1930s, although she concluded that this was probably subconscious on Britten’s part.

The sombre ‘Death’ funeral threnody returns, but now intensified, more harrowing, as if charged with the experience of the battlefield and carnage. After its premiere Britten withdrew Russian Funeral. 44 years later, thanks to the enterprise of the distinguished trumpet player, Philip Jones, the work was revived and recorded with his brass ensemble.

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ARVO PÄRT (B. 1935)

CANTUS IN MEMORY OF BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1977) The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt became known in the 1960s for works such as Credo (1968) which involved collage and serial techniques, as well as showing the influence of J. S. Bach. With its avowed affirmation of Christianity, Credo caused a scandal in a country dominated, at that time, by communism. After Credo, Pärt reached an impasse in the development of his work, consequently immersing himself for several years himself in the study of early music and Gregorian Chant. The largest composition of this period was his Third Symphony (1971), its character reflecting these preoccupations.

By 1976 Pärt had evolved a technique which he describes as ‘tintinnabuli’ – from the Latin ‘tintinnabulum’ meaning ‘a bell’, it was a simple style related to the composer’s mystical experiences with chant music. This technique formed the basis of a series of compositions composed in 1977 that spoke directly to audiences and brought him international recognition: Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten, Fratres and Tabula rasa. In 1982 he completed the St John Passion, a work regarded as the epitome of the composer’s ‘tintinnabuli’ style. Much of his subsequent work has been for choral forces including Miserere (1989) and the Stabat Mater (2008). His Fourth Symphony ‘Los Angeles’ (2008) and Greater Antiphons (2015) were both commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; also belonging to the last decade is Adam’s Lament for mixed chorus and string orchestra (2010).

The increasingly religious basis of Pärt’s music brought him into conflict with the Soviet authorities, so much so that, in 1980, he emigrated, first to Vienna, then Berlin, where he lived for almost 30 years until his permanent return to his homeland in 2000. He and his wife, Nora, settled in Laulasmaa, Estonia, where, under their auspices, the Arvo Pärt Centre, housing his archive was opened in 2018.

Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten, scored for strings and a single tubular bell, is Pärt’s most popular work – there are 51 recordings currently available. Pärt had come to know Britten’s music comparatively late in life and instinctively felt him a kindred spirit. Pärt spoke of his reaction to hearing of Britten’s passing in 1976: ‘Why did the date of Benjamin Britten’s death ... touch such a chord in me? During this time I was obviously at the point where I could recognise the magnitude of such as loss.

Inexplicable feelings of guilt, more than that even, arose in me. I had just discovered

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ARVO PÄRT

by Woesinger, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Britten for myself. Just before his death I began to appreciate the unusual purity of his music ... for a long time I had wanted to meet Britten personally and now it would never come to that.’

The Cantus utilises a simple technique common to composers of the medieval and Renaissance periods, a canon where each musical line imitates exactly the other. Here, a slowly descending scale of A minor is imitated, but also overlapped and played at different speeds. The result is an elegiac mesmeric tangle of lines evoking a powerful expression of loss and melancholy. Also important is the silence, with which the piece begins and which is written into the score.

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GEORGE BUTTERWORTH (1885–1916) ORCHESTRATED BY RODERICK WILLIAMS (B. 1965)

SIX SONGS FROM ‘A SHROPSHIRE LAD’ (1909–11, ORCH. 2020) WORLD PREMIERE THIS HALLÉ COMMISSION WAS MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF PZ CUSSONS

Loveliest of trees • When I was one-and-twenty • Look not in my eyes Think no more, lad • The lads in their hundreds • Is my team ploughing?

George Butterworth is one of the tantalising ‘might have been’ figures of early 20thcentury British music. A casualty of World War One, his loss was grievous, since his legacy, albeit small, suggests a composer of major stature. Educated at Eton and Oxford, and briefly at the Royal College of Music, he became a major force in the English Folk Dance Society, notating songs and dances mainly in Oxfordshire. By all repute he was a fine folk dancer himself. A shared enthusiasm for traditional music kindled a close friendship between Butterworth and Vaughan Williams. After hearing the latter’s A Sea Symphony, Butterworth badgered him to write a purely orchestral symphony and the result, A London Symphony, was later dedicated to Butterworth’s memory. Sadly, Butterworth destroyed most of his early compositions before departing for the Western front: his reputation stands in particular for his songs setting the poetry of A. E. Housman, and the orchestral rhapsody A Shropshire Lad conceived as an epilogue to the songs.

Composed between 1909 and 1911, the Six Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’ were given their first performance on 20 June 1911, at the Aeolian Hall in London, by the baritone J. Campbell McInnes, accompanied at the piano by Hamilton Harty (later to become one of the Hallé’s illustrious chief conductors). This evening they are performed in a new orchestral version by tonight’s soloist, Roderick Williams, who writes: ‘It was a huge delight and thrill to be commissioned by the Hallé to orchestrate Butterworth’s iconic English songs. I have performed them many times with piano and the folk-like simplicity of the settings fits that instrument perfectly. But, just as Housman’s superficially simple poetry has much hidden depth and coded subtext, I found myself wondering what sort of deeper textures could be explored in an

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orchestral setting. I had already scored the piece once for string chamber orchestra and voice. But the range of colours and textures, using a full symphony orchestra, that Butterworth employed in his own Shropshire Lad rhapsody, inspired me to think a little bigger. However, I’m aware that these songs are extraordinary miniatures and I was guided by that evergreen principle – Less is More.’

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ENGLISH RHAPSODY ‘Orchestra the finest I ever heard, Elgar wrote in 1901.

You might well be inclined to agree, you feel the Orchestra blooming inside Elder’s grip.’

The Times

The folk song Brigg Fair was collected by Percy Grainger in Lincolnshire in 1905. In the following year, Frederick Delius heard Grainger’s choral setting of the tune and fell in love with the melody. He asked Grainger to allow him to use it for an orchestral rhapsody which was subsequently first performed in 1908, dedicated to Grainger. Both pieces, plus a recording of Jospeh Taylor singing the song in 1908, are included.

A Shropshire Lad is dark pastoral indeed, set in a semi-mythical country of ‘blue remembered hills’. This was Butterworth’s first mature work for orchestra, followed only by a couple more before the composer was killed on the Somme at the age of 31.

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THE MUSIC No other composer got under the skin of Housman’s bleak pessimism as well as Butterworth; equally, it was in these settings that English folk song was wholly absorbed into English art song, and no more so than in the perfection of the cycle’s first song, ‘Loveliest of trees’. Its opening is a tender descending phrase that encapsulates both the delicacy and transience of cherry blossom and, by extension, life itself.

‘When I was one-and-twenty’ is the only instance where Butterworth used a traditional folk tune in his Housman songs. The young man’s bitter realisation of the folly of spurning the ‘wise’ man’s advice is brilliantly emphasised by a mere one-bar extension of the tune at the song’s conclusion.

In ‘Look not in my eyes’ Housman alludes to the myth of Narcissus. It is set to a flowing melody and has a fine moment of word-painting at the end of the first verse, where at the phrase ‘Gaze not in my eyes’ the music literally halts, encapsulating the long, deep, forbidden look.

By contrast there follows a devil-may-care rendering of ‘Think no more, lad’, a fine piece of musical irony with a superficially carefree manner that masks the poem’s darker undertones.

A characteristic of these songs is their economy of means, which is amply demonstrated in ‘The lads in their hundreds’, with its spare harmony, lilting melody and a refrain between verses derived from it.

Arguably Butterworth’s greatest Housman setting, ‘Is my team ploughing?’, is a conversation between the quick and the dead, with melody and harmony that are heart-rending in effect. Irony, once again, is at the heart of the poem, where the ghost poses questions to his living friend about his former life and lover. The poignant falling sequence of bare chords uncannily suggests the cold of the grave; by comparison, the chords underpinning the friend’s answers course with life. After the chilling last response, side-stepping the truth about the fate of the dead man’s girl, the chords of the ghost fade to end the song in utter bleakness.

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1 LOVELIEST OF TREES Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.

2 WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, ‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.’

But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, ‘The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; ’Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.’

And I am two-and-twenty, And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.

3 LOOK NOT IN MY EYES Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.

One the long nights through must lie Spent in star-defeated sighs, But why should you as well as I Perish? Gaze not in my eyes.

A Grecian lad, as I hear tell, One that many loved in vain, Looked into a forest well And never looked away again.

There, when the turf in springtime flowers, With downward eye and gazes sad, Stands amid the glancing showers A jonquil, not a Grecian lad.

4 THINK NO MORE, LAD Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly: Why should men make haste to die?

Empty heads and tongues a-talking Make the rough road easy walking, And the feather pate of folly Bears the falling sky.

Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.

If young hearts were not so clever, Oh, they would be young for ever: Think no more; ’tis only thinking Lays lads underground.

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5 THE LADS IN THEIR HUNDREDS The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair, There’s men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold, The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there, And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old.

There’s chaps from the town and the field and the till and the cart, And many to count are the stalwart, and many the brave, And many the handsome of face and the handsome of heart, And few that will carry their looks or their truth to the grave.

I wish one could know them, I wish there were tokens to tell The fortunate fellows that now you can never discern; And then one could talk with them friendly and wish them farewell And watch them depart on the way that they will not return.

But now you may stare as you like and there’s nothing to scan; And brushing your elbow unguessed-at and not to be told They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

6 IS MY TEAM PLOUGHING? ‘Is my team ploughing, That I was used to drive And hear the harness jingle When I was man alive?’

‘Is my girl happy, That I thought hard to leave, And has she tired of weeping As she lies down at eve?’

Ay, the horses trample, The harness jingles now; No change though you lie under The land you used to plough.

Ay, she lies down lightly, She lies not down to weep: Your girl is well contented.

Be still, my lad, and sleep.

‘Is football playing Along the river shore, With lads to chase the leather, Now I stand up no more?’

‘Is my friend hearty, Now I am thin and pine, And has he found to sleep in A better bed than mine?’

Ay, the ball is flying, The lads play heart and soul; The goal stands up, the keeper Stands up to keep the goal.

Yes, lad, I lie easy, I lie as lads would choose; I cheer a dead man’s sweetheart, Never ask me whose.

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RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)

METAMORPHOSEN, STUDY FOR 23 SOLO STRINGS IN C MINOR (1945) Metamorphosen [23 Strings] appears courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited

In August 1944 Strauss, depressed by the war, re-read Goethe and began a setting for male voices of one of his poems. Strauss clearly identified with the poems, the first of which begins: ‘No one can really know himself, detach himself from his inner being; yet he must daily put to the test … what he is and what he was, what he can and what he may. But what goes on in the world, no one really understands rightly.’ While contemplating this setting, he received a request from the Swiss musician Paul Sacher for a work for strings for Sacher’s Zürich Collegium Musicum. Strauss, it seems, converted the Goethe setting into this commission. By 30 September he could tell the conductor Karl Böhm that he had been working on ‘an Adagio for some 11 solo strings which will probably develop into an Allegro ...’ A few days later he seems to have

KEEP LISTENING .... ≥ SIR MARK ELDER ANNE SCHWANEWILMS STRAUSS TONE POEMS AND LIEDER ‘Schwanewilms is something out of the ordinary … the Hallé caught every one of her shades and nuances with a sensitivity that many conductors – let alone soloists – can only dream of.’

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come to an impasse, for he laid the work aside while he made a new arrangement of waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier and revised a waltz about his birthplace of Munich which he had written in 1939.

He returned to his Sacher sketches in late January 1945 and worked on them until the short score was completed on 8 March. The work was now called Metamorphosen, Goethe’s term to describe a work emerging to completion after a long gestation. It had grown to require 23 solo strings – ten violins, five violas, five cellos and three double basses – and was finished in full score on 12 April. (He also made a septet version which was not discovered until 1994.) He had begun work on the full score the day after the destruction by bombing of Vienna State Opera House. He had already been grieved by the destruction of opera houses in Munich, Berlin, Weimar and Dresden and Goethe’s house in Frankfurt (‘the most sacred place on earth’).

Metamorphosen therefore became a memorial to the aspects of German culture which Hitler and his ‘criminals’ (Strauss’s word) had caused to be destroyed. The canard, begun by a Dutch journalist in 1946, that the work was a disguised elegy for Hitler, has absolutely no documentary or any other substantiation and is propagated only by those who seize upon any stick with which to beat Strauss and have never investigated the true nature of his complex relationship with the Third Reich.

Metamorphosen is one of Strauss’s very greatest works and one of the most poignant expressions of grief ever composed. In it we hear the destruction of all his heroic artistic ideals. ‘The Hero’s Life’ in E flat is, quite simply, shattered in C minor.

Structurally, it is a long and complex adagio with a faster middle section. A great arch of melody, its themes are symphonically developed in a complex texture of rich intertwining polyphony. There seem to be allusions to Wagner, perhaps to Brahms, but no direct quotation. Yet the main theme seems very familiar. Only at the end do we realise what it is, when Strauss quotes the main theme of the ‘Marcia funebre’ of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony in the bass and writes ‘In memoriam’ beneath the notes. Or does he quote it? He claimed that its use was unconscious – ‘it escaped from my pen’. On the day the war ended, the Eroica was played on German radio. ‘And yet Beethoven was a German,’ Strauss remarked to his sister.

Late in 1945 Strauss went into exile in Switzerland taking several completed compositions with him, including Metamorphosen. He was in the audience in Zürich when Sacher conducted the first performance on 25 January 1946. Doubtful of how he would be received, he sat at the back of the hall. But a woman in the front row recognised him and led him forward to join her. At the dress rehearsal the previous evening, after Sacher had conducted the new work, Strauss asked if he might take the baton. Those who were present said that the transformation was astonishing.

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EPISODE 2 RODERICK WILLIAMS SINGS BUTTERWORTH RECORDED 26 NOVEMBER 2020 IN HALLÉ ST PETER’S, MANCHESTER

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CALLING ALL TEACHERS Goddess Gaia An exciting new resource for schools from the Hallé

for flute, harp, cello and narrator Words by Tony Mitton • Music by Steve Pickett Goddess Gaia, a brand new 20-minute animated cantata from the Hallé, explores the beauty and fragility of the natural world and takes us on a thought provoking journey around the globe, warning us about the danger of human greed on the environment A complete classroom resource for teachers, including three videos with opportunities for children to participate through singing and classroom percussion; audio files, creative music project, written teacher information and a comprehensive curriculum pack with suggestions and activities for a wide range of cross-curricular learning, including science, geography, art, citizenship, literacy, maths, DT and dance.

Aimed at KS2 but all resources can be adapted to suit the needs of individual classes.

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SIR MARK ELDER CONDUCTOR

Sir Mark Elder has been Music Director of the Hallé since September 2000. He was Music Director of English National Opera (1979–1993), Principal Guest Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1992–1995) and Music Director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in the USA (1989–1994). He has also held positions as Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Mozart Players.

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He has worked with many of the world’s leading symphony orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Budapest Festival Orchestra, London Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestras. He is a Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He has appeared annually at the BBC Proms for many years, including on the internationally televised Last Nights in 1987 and 2006, and with the Hallé every year since 2003.

He works regularly in the major international opera houses, including Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Glyndebourne. He was the first English conductor of a new production at Bayreuth and has also guestconducted in Amsterdam, Berlin, Bregenz, Geneva, Munich and Zürich.

His large discography ranges from Verdi, Strauss and Wagner to contemporary music.

Among his many acclaimed releases on the Hallé’s own CD label are Gramophone Award-winning recordings of The Dream of Gerontius, Götterdämmerung and Elgar’s Violin Concerto, while The Apostles was voted BBC Music Magazine’s Recording of the Year 2013; the recent release of Siegfried completed the Hallé’s Ring cycle on disc. As Artistic Director of Opera Rara (2012–2019), his recordings included a multiaward-winning release of Donizetti’s Les Martyrs and an International Opera Awardwinning set of Rossini’s Semiramide.

He has presented television films on the life and music of Verdi for the BBC and on Donizetti for German TV, co-presented BBC Four’s four-part series Symphony, fronted BBC Two’s Maestro at the Opera and, in 2015, presented BBC Four’s Sunday-evening series of symphony performances from the Proms.

In March 2020, life within the performing arts came to an extraordinarily abrupt halt. Sir Mark Elder returned from Pittsburgh to prepare the Hallé for Vaughan Williams’s Ninth Symphony, but the concerts were not able to take place. However lockdown gave Sir Mark the chance to spend time with his family – especially his new granddaughter – to study unfamiliar music, read voraciously and exercise in the glorious spring weather. As restrictions continue to change, a variety of different opportunities have begun to arise including live streamed digital performances and concerts welcoming smaller, socially distanced audiences. As well as his commitment to the Hallé, recent and future work includes the OAE at Glyndebourne, London Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony and Britten Sinfonia.

Sir Mark Elder was appointed a Companion of Honour in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours, knighted in 2008 and awarded the CBE in 1989. He won an Olivier Award in 1991 for his work at ENO and in 2006 was named Conductor of the Year by the Royal Philharmonic Society, of which he is now also an Honorary Member.

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RODERICK WILLIAMS obe BARITONE

Roderick Williams is one of the most sought after baritones of his generation, performing music from baroque to contemporary, in the opera house, on the concert platform and in demand as a recitalist worldwide.

He enjoys relationships with all the major UK opera houses and has sung opera world premieres by David Sawer, Sally Beamish, Michel van der Aa, Robert Saxton and Alexander Knaifel as well as roles including Papageno, Don Alfonso, Onegin and Billy

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Budd. He performs regularly with leading conductors and orchestras throughout the UK, Europe, North America and Australia, and his many festival appearances have included the BBC Proms (including the Last Night in 2014), Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Bath, Aldeburgh and Melbourne Festivals.

Roderick Williams has an extensive discography. As a composer, he has had works premiered at the Wigmore and Barbican Halls, the Purcell Room and live on national radio. In December 2016 he won the prize for best choral composition at the British Composer Awards. In 2015 he started a three-year odyssey of the Schubert song cycles culminating in performances at the Wigmore Hall in the 17/18 season, which led to them being recorded for Chandos.

Artistic Director of Leeds Lieder in April 2016, Roderick Williams is Artist in Residence for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra from 2020/21 for two seasons. In May 2016 he won the RPS Singer of the Year Award and, in both 2018 and 2019, he was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Opera at the Olivier Awards. He was awarded an OBE in June 2017.

March 2020 saw Roderick’s entire diary of work cleared overnight. He was forced to stop, re-charge and re-evaluate what is important to him, both personally and professionally. Taking life at a slower pace, he notched up a record number of consecutive nights in the same house, enjoyed the company of his family and the local countryside, either on foot or by bicycle, and had time to write and arrange music.

As musicians gradually began to come to terms with the technological possibilities forced upon them, Roderick responded with musical arrangements and video clips.

During the summer, live voice and piano recitals became possible but, as orchestral musicians and choral singers were still unable to work, Roderick’s diary remained emptier than usual. However, this allowed him to answer the call when ENO announced it would stage a live outdoor opera, within the restrictions, at Alexandra Palace. Other opportunities have begun to present themselves including live streamed concerts, performances to restricted audiences and radio voice-overs.

As the cultural world crumbled, Roderick became painfully aware of the daily struggle for those at the sharp end of the pandemic. As work begins to return, Roderick is particularly keen to continue supporting an initiative created by soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan entitled ‘Momentum’. This growing collective of leading solo artists shares returning performance opportunities with younger artists, ensuring it isn’t only established performers benefitting from a return to work. Having shared the stage on several occasions with younger colleagues, Roderick has found it to be an especially invigorating and rewarding experience.

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≥ MUSIC DIRECTOR SIR MARK ELDER FIRST VIOLINS

CELLOS

BASSOONS

TUBA

Paul Barritt

Nicholas Trygstad

Elena Comelli Simon Davies

Ewan Easton mbe

PERMANENT GUEST LEADER

Sarah Ewins ASSOCIATE LEADER

Tiberiu Buta Zoe Colman Peter Liang Steven Proctor Katie Jackson Michelle Marsh SECOND VIOLINS

Eva Thorarinsdottir Paulette Bayley Rosemary Attree Elizabeth Bosworth Yu-Mien Sun Diego Gabete Eva Petrarca VIOLAS

Timothy Pooley † SECTION LEADER

Julian Mottram † Martin Schäfer Piero Gasparini † Chris Emerson Victoria Stephenson

SECTION LEADER

Simon Turner Dale Culliford † Jane Hallett Jonathan Pether DOUBLE BASSES

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

Amy Yule SECTION LEADER

Joanne Boddington

TIMPANI HORNS

John Abendstern

Laurence Rogers † SECTION LEADER

Matthew Head Julian Plummer † Richard Bourn † Andrew Maher TRUMPETS

Gareth Small †

PERCUSSION

David Hext † SECTION LEADER

Riccardo Lorenzo Parmigiani HARP

Marie Leenhardt †

SECTION LEADER

Kenneth Brown † Tom Osborne TENOR TROMBONES

OBOES

Stéphane Rancourt SECTION LEADER

Thomas Davey

Katy Jones SECTION LEADER

Rosalyn Davies † BASS TROMBONE

CLARINETS

Sergio Castelló López

Kyle MacCorquodale

SECTION LEADER

James Muirhead †

† = 20 YEARS SERVICE

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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 sees the Hallé embarking on its very first digital season. 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 stages of The Bridgewater Hall and Hallé St Peter’s to once again make music for loyal and supportive audiences has the feeling of 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 sees 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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≥ ST PETER’S ANCOATS, MANCHESTER

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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.

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 three-storey 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 and an excellent selection of quality wines, beers and spirits. 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. Call us on 0161 806 0260.

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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 CHORAL DIRECTOR, MATTHEW HAMILTON

In memory of Alison WilkieDavies

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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 [VACANT]

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

JOHN PURTON HANNAH SMITH

Patrick and Tricia McDermott

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

KENNETH BROWN PICCOLO JOANNE BODDINGTON

in memory of Ronald Marlowe

PIERO GASPARINI

OBOE VIRGINIA SHAW

Mrs Jane Fairclough

Alison Wilkinson

CHRIS EMERSON

Bolton Opus Group CELLOS NICHOLAS TRYGSTAD

COR ANGLAIS TOM DAVEY

In loving memory of Douglas Crawford

Martin and Sandra Stone SIMON TURNER

In memory of Mrs G E Whitehead DAVID PETRI

K and S Coen JANE HALLETT

CLARINET SERGIO CASTELLÓ-LÓPEZ

The Hallé Choir BASS CLARINET JAMES MUIRHEAD

Shared Trust

Professor Sir Netar Mallick CLARE ROWE

Nina Harris

In memory of Miss Amy Alexandra Morris

Charlotte Westwood

ELENA COMELLI

POSITION VACANT

Anonymous HORNS

in memory of Arthur Bevan and Enid Roper LAWRENCE ROGERS

YI XIN HAN

in memory of C K Andrews

In memory of Stella and Harold Millington

RICHARD BOURN

BEATRICE SCHIRMER

Joyce Kennedy in loving memory of Michael NATASHA ARMSTRONG

John and Pat Garside RACHEL MEERLOO

In loving memory of Hilmary Quarmby, a lifelong lover of music and friend of the Hallé

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

Michael Eagles Mrs R Russell in loving memory of her husband, Jim Russell RBA; Michael Eagles HALLÉ YOUTH ORCHESTRA BASSOONS:

Mr C R and Mrs E Anslow

In loving memory of Dorothy Hall

Edmundson Electrical Ltd

TOM OSBORNE

ERIKA ÖHMAN BASSOONS [POSITION VACANT]

JONATHAN PETHER

DOUBLE BASSES POSITION VACANT

Shared Trust

Shared Trust ANDREW MAHER

Mr CR and Mrs E Anslow

PERCUSSION

I and E Brett Karen Brown CELLOS

The Holland-Frickes Mr John Summers WIND AND STRINGS

The English-Speaking Union, Mid Cheshire Branch Anonymous

MATTHEW HEAD

HALLÉ YOUTH CHOIR SOPRANOS AND ALTOS:

In loving memory of Nora Dawson

HALLÉ CHOIR

Mr and Mrs Smith Jane Hampson ALTOS:

Chris Hughes

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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 Christopher Brookes 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 Professor R. A. Burchell 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 Mrs C. A. Harmer 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 A. C. and C. J. Riddington Mrs Jackie Roberts T. G. 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 Mr Colin Smith OBE and Mrs Marian Smith Mrs E. G. Tonge Dr K. Whale Joy White Professor and Mrs Philip Wiles David and Veronica Yates In memory of Brenda Owens

INTERMEZZO

SCHERZO

Joan Ball Tony Bates Professor Tony Berry Mr K. A. Bevan Mrs Margaret Bradshaw Mrs P. Cate Monica and Mick Clark Mr J. Cooney Sarah Crouch Mr Antony Doust Mr Micheal Dowling Chris Dumigan Dr George A. Eccleston Revd and Mrs J. F Ellis Mrs Anne 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 Mr Nicholas and Dr Mary Jones Mr J. G. Knox Mr and Mrs B. H. Lawrence Mr and Mrs R. W. Lee Mel Littler Alan Lowe Mr T. Marsden Stephen and Jacqueline Miley Mrs Alison Milford Gordon and Jess Minton Philip and Margaret Morey 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 Mesrie

Gill and Barrie Adams Mr Peter Adamson Mr Timothy R. Ades Dr Katherine Adler Mrs J. Ainsworth Mr Roger Ainsworth Vin Allerton Dr P. J. Alvey Dr D. Yvonne Aplin Professor and Mrs R. D. Arnell Mr Barry J. Ball Dr Peter Barberis Mr Michael Barley Mrs J. E. Baxendale Andy Bent Mr Paul K. Berry 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 Mr B. Fitton 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 Christopher Grafham Mr and Mrs S. R. Lancelyn Green Mrs Caroline Greenwood 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 Caroline Henderson Mrs G. Hewitt Miss Pauline Hickey Mr and Mrs J. M. Hill Peter and Charlotte Hill Mrs J. M. Hindshaw Mrs Dorothy Holt Mrs Janet Holwill Dr W. Hoyle Mr H. Hughes and Mrs F. Hughes David Humphries Mrs Glynis Hunter Dr Steven Hurst Joyce Hytner Mrs Heather Jobling Mr Howard Johnson Mrs Jean Johnson Mr Alan Jones David and Fae Jones Christine and Michael Jones Alma Jones and in memory of Frank Jones Mr Trefor Jones Miss Brunhilde Kay Mr and Mrs Rex Keen 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 Mrs C. Mason Mr Michael Mattison Mrs E. McCrone Mrs Angela McMenemy John McPeake

Mary McPeake Mrs Bernice Meagher Mr 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 Revd David Peters David and Elizabeth Pioli Mr Victor Potapczuk Professor James Powell OBE Dr R. E. Price Mrs Jean Proud Mr D. Radley 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 Mrs Jan Schofield Mr James A. Scott Mr Simon Shelbourn Mr C. and Mrs T. Shepherd Mr Michael J. Shiels Mr and Mrs C. Smith Charles and Helen Smith Mr Roger Smith Mr Alan Spier Mr and Mrs R. T. and C. M. Stafford Mr Dennis Staunton 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

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Jeffery and Judith Wainwright Mr Brian Walker Mr R. B. Walsh F. T. Walters Mrs Anne Ward Mr George Watson John and Christine Weller 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 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 my parents 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 Miss D. M. Ashworth Mr G. Aspey Mrs Barbara Aspin Mrs Barbara Austin Ms Elaine Bagley Mrs P. Barlow 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 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 David Burtson 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 V. K. F. 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 Cowley Mr David Cresswell

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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 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 Gary East 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 Mrs Wendy Fermor 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 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 Mr John K. Lewis 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 Mr B. H. O’Neill Ms Angela Owen 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 Mr Kenneth Wigley 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 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

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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 The Victoria Wood Foundation The Wolfson Foundation The Zochonis Charitable Trust Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation The Ann Susman Charitable Trust The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust The Band Trust The Boltini Trust Boshier Hinton Foundation Church Burgesses Educational Foundation D’oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dunard Fund The Gladys Jones Charitable Trust The Grand Trust CIO The Harding Trust The Derek Hill Foundation John Horniman’s Children’s Trust The Irving Memorial Trust Land & Co. Foundation The Leche Trust Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust McLay Dementia Trust The N Smith Charitable Settlement Paul Hamlyn Foundation Peter Cunningham Memorial Fund Cecil Pilkington Charitable Trust The Pilkington General Charity PRS for Music Foundation The Radcliffe Trust The Rainbow Dickinson Trust The Rix_Thompson-Rothenberg Foundation RUSI (The Royal United Services Institute) Schroder Charity Trust The Sobell Trust Sir George Martin Trust Sale Mayoral Fund The 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

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

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≥ 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 FINANCE Ruth Harkin * Matthew Wyatt Lourdes Román 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 * † Lois Boa ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT Chris Lewis Jenny Espin LIBRARY Louise Brimicombe Alice McIlwraith STAGE MANAGEMENT Dan Gobey Lawrie Bebb

HALLÉ CONNECT EDUCATION Steve Pickett * Joanna Brockbank Hayley Parkes HALLÉ CONNECT ENSEMBLES Naomi Benn * Jo Pink Isabelle Orford Verity Riley CHORAL LEADERSHIP NETWORK Anna Stutfield SPONSORSHIP AND FUNDRAISING Kath Russell * Eleanor Roberts Susanna Caudwell Amy Adebola Charlie Widdicombe COMMUNICATIONS Andy Ryans * † Peter Naish Liz Barras Harriet Hall Anna Shinkfield DIGITAL Bill Lam Riley Bramley-Dymond ARCHIVE Eleanor Roberts Stuart Robinson † † 20 years service * HEAD OF DEPARTMENT

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

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