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A Cole Porter Celebration Concert RECAPTURE A LOST PERIOD OF DECADENCE AND OPULENCE WITH SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA CHOIRS & ORCHESTRA

SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA CHOIRS 2013 SEASON THUR 19 SEPTEMBER, 8PM SAT 21 SEPTEMBER, 2PM SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE CONCERT HALL

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A COLE PORTER CELEBRATION CONCERT DE-LOVELY! Music by Cole Porter, Lyrics by Cole Porter Orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett By arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical on behalf of R&H Theatricals

Conductor

Brett Weymark Soloists Julie Lea Goodwin soprano Kerrie Anne Greenland mezzo soprano Caleb Vines tenor Rob Mallett baritone Sydney Philharmonia Festival Chorus and Orchestra Approximate durations:  Act I 45 minutes  20-minute interval  Act II 45 minutes The concert will conclude at approximately 9:50pm on Thursday and 3:50pm on Saturday. 2 A COLE PORTER CELEBRATION CONCERT

PROGRAMME ACT I Overture I Get a Kick Out of You You’re the Top All Through the Night Blow, Gabriel, Blow

Anything Goes (1934)

Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall In Love

Paris (1928)

Well Did You Evah! Friendship

Dubarry Was A Lady (1939)

Can Can I Love Paris

Can Can (1953)

Hey, Babe, Hey

Born to Dance (1936)

All of You

Silk Stockings (1954)

Be A Clown

The Pirate (1947)

Begin the Beguine

Jubilee (1935)

INTERVAL

ACT II Entr’acte We Open In Venice Brush Up Your Shakespeare So In Love Were Thine That Special Face Wunderbar Where is the Life That Late I Led? Why Can’t You Behave? Too Darn Hot Another Openin’, Another Show

Kiss Me, Kate (1948)

Night and Day

Gay Divorce (1932) A COLE PORTER CELEBRATION CONCERT

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PROGRAMME NOTE football fight songs “Bulldog Bulldog” and “Bingo Eli Yale” (aka “Bingo, That’s The Lingo!”), many of which are played at Yale to this day. In 1915, his first song on Broadway, “Esmeralda”, appeared in the revue Hands Up. The quick success was immediately followed by failure; his first Broadway production, in 1916, See America First, was a flop, closing after two weeks. Hitchy-Koo of 1919 with star Raymond Hitchcock closed after 56 performances. Porter soon started to feel the crunch of rejection, as other revues for which he wrote were also flops. After the string of failures, Porter banished himself to Paris, selling songs and living off an allowance partly from his grandfather and partly from his mother.

Welcome to our very special tribute to the songs of Cole Porter whose works included the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate, Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like “Night and Day”, “I Get a Kick out of You” and “Well, Did You Evah!” He was noted for his sophisticated bawdy lyrics, clever rhymes, and complex forms. Cole Porter is one of the few Tin Pan Alley composers to have written both lyrics and music for his songs and we are proud to present his songs in the Sydney Opera House with a symphony orchestra, large choir and four wonderful young music theatre stars. Porter was born in Peru, Indiana, to a wealthy Baptist family. His mother started Porter in musical training at an early age; he learned the violin at age six, the piano at eight, and he wrote his first operetta at ten. Porter’s grandfather J.O. Cole wanted the boy to become a lawyer, and with that career in mind, sent him to Worcester Academy in 1905 and then Yale University beginning in 1909. Porter sang both in the Yale Glee Club, of which he was elected president in his senior year, and in the original line-up of the Whiffenpoofs. While at Yale, he wrote a number of student songs, including the 4 A COLE PORTER CELEBRATION CONCERT

Porter was working as a songwriter when the U.S. entered World War I in 1917. He traveled all over Europe socializing with some of the best-known intellectuals and artists in Europe, becoming a charter member of the Lost Generation. He enlisted in the French Foreign Legion after working for the Duryea Relief Fund for a short time serving in North Africa. He was transferred in 1917 to the French Officers School at Fontainebleau and was assigned to teach gunnery to American soldiers. He set up a luxury apartment in Paris and alternated between his officer duties and leading a playboy lifestyle. The French Foreign Legion still displays his portrait in its museum in Aubagne. In 1918, Porter met Linda Lee Thomas, a rich, Louisville, Kentucky-born divorcee eight years his senior, whom he married the following year despite being homosexual in orientation. Porter was often photographed in the arms of beautiful women and was married for 34 years to Thomas. Unlike contemporaries such as George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, Porter did not succeed on Broadway in his early years. Dismayed by his failures, he moved to Europe, living for some time in Paris and Venice on his family’s and his wife’s money. He was not idle, however, and continued to write. Many of the songs from this period would later be hits.

In the late 1920s Porter returned to Broadway and made up for lost time. Porter reintroduced himself to Broadway with the musical Paris, which featured one of his greatest “list” songs, “Let’s Do It”. Following this Gallic theme, his next show Fifty Million Frenchmen included several popular numbers including “You Do Something to Me” and “You’ve Got That Thing”, with Wake Up finishing out the decade. He started the 1930s with the revue The New Yorkers, which included a song about a streetwalker, “Love for Sale”. The lyric was considered too explicit for radio at the time, but has gone on to become a standard. Next came Fred Astaire’s last stage show, Gay Divorce, which featured a hit that would become perhaps Porter’s best-known song, “Night and Day”. In 1934, Porter wrote what is thought by most to be his greatest score of this period, Anything Goes with the songs “I Get a Kick out of You”, “All Through the Night”, perhaps his ultimate “list” song “You’re the Top”, and “Blow, Gabriel, Blow”, as well as the title number. Anything Goes was also the first Porter show featuring Ethel Merman, who would go on to star in five of his musicals. Porter was living the high life during this period, writing musicals and Hollywood scores including Born to Dance and Rosalie. Some more successful than others; songs like “Begin the Beguine” and “Just One of Those Things” have since become part of the Great American Songbook. Now at the height of his success Porter was relishing opening nights of his musicals and throwing lavish parties and hobnobbing with the likes of Elsa Maxwell, Monty Woolley, Beatrice Lillie, Igor Stravinsky and Fanny Brice. Then, in 1937, a riding accident at the Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, New York, crushed his legs and left him in chronic pain, largely crippled, with the prospect of having both legs amputated. Porter underwent more than 30 surgeries on his legs and was in constant pain for the rest of his life leaving him to severe depression. Despite his pain, Porter continued to write

successful shows. Leave It to Me!, DuBarry Was a Lady, Panama Hattie, Let’s Face It!, Something for the Boys, and Mexican Hayride were all hits. Nevertheless, Porter was turning out fewer hit songs and, to some critics, his music was less magical. After two flops, Seven Lively Arts and Around The World, many thought that his best period was over. In 1948, Porter made a great comeback, writing what was by far his biggest hit show, Kiss Me, Kate. The production won the Tony Award for Best Musical, and Porter won Best Composer and Lyricist. Can-Can and his last original Broadway production, Silk Stockings, were both successful hits. Porter was back on top. He continued to work in Hollywood, writing the scores for two Fred Astaire movies, Broadway Melody of 1940 and You’ll Never Get Rich, songs for the Gene Kelly and Judy Garland musical The Pirate and High Society, starring Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly, which had Porter’s last major hit, “True Love”. His final score, in 1958, was for a CBS color special, Aladdin; Columbia Records issued a stereophonic LP of songs from the program. Eventually, his injuries caught up with him. After a series of ulcers and 34 operations on his right leg, it had to be amputated and replaced with an artificial limb in 1958. The operation followed the death of his beloved mother in 1952 and his wife’s death from emphysema in 1954. The combined hardships Porter endured proved to be too much. He never wrote another song after 1958 and spent the remaining years of his life in relative seclusion. Cole Porter died of kidney failure on October 15, 1964, at the age of 73 in Santa Monica, California, and is interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in his native Peru, Indiana. Porter is buried between his wife and father. According to Charles Schwartz in Cole Porter, A Biography, this was ironic, since Porter was not close to his father. The book further states that there are erroneous reports that claim that Porter was buried between Linda and his mother, Kate. A COLE PORTER CELEBRATION CONCERT

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BRETT WEYMARK

ANTHONY PASQUILL

Music Director

Assistant Chorus Master

Brett Weymark studied singing at the University of Sydney and conducting at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Mats Nilsson, John Hopkins, Henryk Pisarek and Patrick Thomas. He continued his conducting studies in England, Europe and America in the late 1990s. During that period he also performed with Opera Australia, The Song Company and Musica Viva, amongst others, as well as lecturing in the Theatre Department of the University of Western Sydney. He was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001, for services to choral music.

Anthony commenced his musical training as a chorister in the choir of Lichfield Cathedral where he was head chorister under the guidance of Andrew Lumsden before being offered a music scholarship to Shrewsbury School. He gained his ABRSM Diploma in clarinet performance before obtaining a place at Leeds University and a year at the University of North Texas, studying composition and contemporary clarinet performance. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Leeds University and a Masters Degree of Music in orchestral conducting from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

In 2003, Brett Weymark was appointed Musical Director of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, for whom he has conducted in performances of Bach’s St Matthew and St John Passions and Christmas Oratorio, the Requiems of Mozart, Verdi, Duruflé and Fauré, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah and Jephthe, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, The Tempest, Funeral Music for Queen Mary and Ode to St Cecilia, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time and world première performances of works by composers such as Elena Kats-Chernin, Peter Sculthorpe Andrew Schultz, Lyle Chan and John Peterson. He has also prepared choruses for such noted international conductors as Sir Charles Mackerras, Zubin Mehta, Edo de Waart, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Charles Dutoit and Sir Simon Rattle. In 2010 Brett Weymark directed the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs in several world premieres to celebrate the choir’s 90th anniversary, toured with the choir to London to appear in the BBC Proms, conducted the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and the contemporary Indigenous ensemble Black Arm Band. Under his direction, the choir was awarded a 2010 Helpmann Award for its part in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex and Symphony of Psalms, directed by Peter Sellars and was nominated for a 2010 Limelight Award for its production of Purcell’s King Arthur. In 2011 he opened the Sydney Philharmonia season with Bach’s St John Passion and conducted the Sydney Symphony as part of the 2011 Sydney Festival in Midsummer Shakespeare with Australian actor John Bell, and conducted Die Fledermaus for WAAPA. In 2012 he conducted – in addition to various concerts with Sydney Philharmonia – Symphony in the Domain for the Sydney Festival, a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni for OzOpera and the Australian première of Goetz’s The Taming of the Shrew for the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. This year he has conducted the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ 2013 season, performed Handel’s Theodora in Canberra and returned to WAAPA to conduct a concert of works by French and English composers. 6 A COLE PORTER CELEBRATION CONCERT

Anthony is Musical Director of Sydney based chamber choir, Bel a cappella, and currently the Assistant Chorus master of the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, with whom he recently made his choral and orchestral conducting debuts at the Sydney Opera House, conducting works by Britten, Byrd and Wagner. He has prepared choirs for conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, David Zinman, David Robertson and Eric Whitacre, and has premiered music by composers including Einojuhani Rautavaara, Pteris Vasks, David Briggs, Arvo Pärt, Gabriel Jackson, Stephen Paulus and George Dyson. Recent engagements include preparing Rachmaninov’s Vespers, the Australian première of Rautavaara’s Missa, Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, Britten’s St Nicolas, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mozart’s Requiem, Poulenc’s Gloria, Verdi’s Messa di Requiem, Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer and both Handel’s Semele and works by Ligeti as part of the 2013 Sydney Festival, both to critical acclaim with the Sydney Philharmonia. With Bel a cappella he has performed Howells’ Requiem, Britten’s A Boy Was Born, Gabriel Jackson’s Edinburgh Mass, Frank Martin’s Mass, Bach’s Jesu Meine Freude, Mahler’s Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, Australian premieres of Dyson’s Hierusalem and Vasks’ Missa and, recently, a concert of both secular and sacred works by composers from Estonia, Latvia, Sweden and Finland.

JULIE LEA GOODWIN

CALEB VINES

Soprano

Tenor

Julie Lea Goodwin is one of Australia’s leading stars of the music theatre stage. As a concert artist and theatrical performer, Julie sings music across a number of genres including musical theatre, opera, operetta and classical cross-over. At just 19 years, after graduating from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2006, Julie was plucked from obscurity to perform the role of Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera, starring alongside Anthony Warlow. This began the journey for her to portray Maria in West Side Story, in the 2010 Australian national tour, going on to perform Grace in the national tour of Annie the following year, where she shared the stage with theatrical greats Nancy Hayes, Anthony Warlow and Todd McKenney. Julie also performed the title role in Janácˇek’s The Cunning Little Vixen for Sydney Chamber Opera and released her debut classical album, Love Went a-Riding, for Skylark Classics, featuring English Art Song with Sharolyn Kimmorley on piano.

Caleb graduated with a Bachelor of Music Theatre from WAAPA in 2012. While attending WAAPA, Caleb played the lead role of J Pierrepont Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, as well as featuring in Into The Woods (Cinderella’s Father), Xanadu, Violet, The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (Billy), Grimm’s Tales, Crazy For You (Junior) and Ragtime. Prior to WAAPA, Caleb starred as Tony in Footlight Productions’ West Side Story directed by Martin Croft. Caleb is very excited to be performing in A Celebration Of Cole Porter with the Sydney Philharmonia Choir at the Sydney Opera House. Caleb can next be seen in the Sydney production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He wishes to thank his family, friends, teachers and Ian White Management for their support. Caleb is a proud member of Actors Equity

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Performance highlights include the opening ceremony of the Australian Youth Olympics Festival, the Australia Day Spectacular Darling Harbour, The Men of League Gala Dinner and Opera in the Market with trumpet extraordinaire James Morrison, and her performances in the spectacular Carols by Candlelight at the Melbourne Myer Music Bowl.

KERRIE ANNE GREENLAND

ROB MALLETT

Mezzo Soprano

Baritone

Kerrie Anne Greenland graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2012 with a BA in Music Theatre. Immediately after, she jumped into work, singing the national anthem at the opening of the International Cricket Test 2012 in Hobart, and performing as a finalist in the 2012 Cabaret Showcase with her self-devised piece, an exploration of the lives of famous women including Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf. Whilst studying at WAAPA she performed the roles of The Witch in Into the Woods, Smitty in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Calliope in Xanadu, the Gospel Singer in the Australasian premiere of Violet, and The Witch/Mother in Grimms Tales. Other productions include Crazy For You, Ragtime and New Musicals Australia’s 2011 workshop of The Good Fight, as well as being directed by Tanya Mitford in Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, playing Little Voice.

Rob is a 2012 graduate from West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and a true ‘triple threat’ with a long history of performing, starring at age six as an Irish dancer. Whilst at WAAPA, Rob played major roles in a number of their productions including Violet’s Father in Violet, Danny in Xanadu, Mr Biggley in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Rapunzel’s Prince in Into the Woods. He was also chosen to play the role of Ray in Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. Rob was also involved with several film and TV projects during his final year at WAAPA including a docu-drama for the BBC, Desert Rats, and a tele-movie for the ABC, The Accidental Soldier. In 2013 Rob appeared in a guest role on Channel 9’s House Husbands before touring nationally as Buck in Hot Shoe Shuffle. A COLE PORTER CELEBRATION CONCERT

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UPCOMING EVENTS WITH SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA, OCTOBER - DECEMBER

ODE TO JOY 4 hands, 100 voices An evening of amazing salon versions of popular choral works and irresistable choral arrangements of beautiful orchestral and chamber works. The Chamber Singers present an intimate program of some of the greatest orchestral works arranged for the voice, including Beethoven’s Ode to Joy from his 9th Symphony arranged by Liszt, Mendelssohn’s incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, plus other favourites including Samuel Barber’s Adagio and songs from the Swingle Singers. Featuring Penelope Mills, Emily Edmonds, Pascal Herington and Alexander Knight Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Brett Weymark conductor

FRI 25 OCTOBER 8PM Verbrugghen Hall Sydney Conservatorium of Music

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Post-performance Q&A with conductor and Music Director, Brett Weymark with a complimentary glass of wine from Dindima Wines

MESSIAH The premiere of Handel’s Messiah, in Dublin, was given in aid of several charities, including the Mercer’s Hospital and the Charitable Infirmary on the Inns Quay. Back in Handel’s adopted city, performances benefiting London’s Foundling Hospital for children became an annual institution. In 2013 we are reviving this great oratorio’s 18th-century association with charitable support. We’re delighted that our performances will be presented in association with The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. In a return to tradition proceeds from the concerts will be shared with the hospital, and volunteers will be at all performances to collect donations. If you’re new to Messiah, come and experience it in the spirit of its first performances. If you know it well, come hear our line-up of great soloists! Featuring Miriam Allan, Sally-Anne Russell, Andrew Goodwin and Peter Coleman-Wright Sydney Philharmonia Symphony Chorus, Messiah Choir and Orchestra Brett Weymark conductor

THUR 12 DECEMBER 7PM SAT 14 DECEMBER 1PM SUN 15 DECEMBER 5PM SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE Photo: Lisa Tomasetti

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SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA CHOIRS MUSIC DIRECTOR Brett Weymark MUSIC DIRECTOR, VOX Elizabeth Scott ASSISTANT CHORUS MASTERS Anthony Pasquill, David Taylor REHEARSAL PIANISTS Josephine Allan, Christopher Cartner, Sally Whitwell

SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA FESTIVAL CHORUS SOPRANO Oon Ja Bae Martha Ban Christine Barnes Marie-Lorraine Beasley Jan Begg Claire Bennett Anne Birt Christine Bishop Judith Blayden Lea Bouganim Sue Bowring Patricia Bradley Lindy Chapman Sally Charkos Annette Clark Heather Clemens Louise Coster Patricia Cotter Nathalie Crane Shirley Crawford Michelle Crook Helen Dalton Mirijana De Vries Robbe Nathalie Deeson Rebecca Diamant Elizabeth Elenius Soline Epain-Marzac Sally Evans Grace Famularo Sonya Fernandes Nancy Flitcroft Susan Freeman Susan Gandy Ballina Gee Kathy Gollan Lyudmyla Goncharova Dawn Grayce

Dallas Griffin Sheila Hayward Emesini Hazelden Berit Hurst Prue Kennard Valerie Kingsley-Strack Shinta Kirpalani Adelaide Koo Margaret Lackenby Susan Landreth Stephanie Lang Hannah Leach Bettina Leate Avril Llewellyn Julianne Madden Fonnie Mak Jennifer Manning Helen Maxwell Norma McDonald Maureen McFadyen Jocelyn McFarlane Angela Melick Georgina Melick Jane Mezzina Elizabeth Millar Maggie Miller Elizabeth Moore Suzi Morgan Mary Mortimer Gillian Moynihan Margaret Murphy Helen Murray Mary O’Byrne Elizabeth O’Connor Robyn O’Keefe Lynne Parrott Pauline Paul Linda Peach

Janice Peak Fiona Peare Robyn Phillips Therese Pinson Robin Pollock Marisa Pongan Tina Renshaw Laurel Reynolds Evawaty Riley Jeanne Robertson Sylvia Romanik Coralee Rose Patricia Row Monique Rueger Rayner Soothill Wendy Speight Rosalie Stacey Vivienne Strong Lesley Suggett Margaret Symes Maralyn Tannous Susan Thomas Margaret Titterton Lynn Turnbull-Rose Tanya Walker Rosalyn Whiley Susie Woodhouse Angeline Zaghloul Lisa Zang

ALTO Louise Bain Sally-Ann Barbera Susan Barrett Gillian Behrens Diane Bertelsmeier Jackie Blackledge Robyn Blainey Liz Blyth Pam Bray Jane Brodribb Michelle Burke Diana Burrell Jacqueline Buswell Sophie Caldwell Anna Cartwright Averill Chase Tina Claridge Ruth Cleary Jennifer Cook Kate Crook Fran Cunneen Patricia Curotta Virginia Davies Helen Dignan Elizabeth Donati Catherine Dunn Gail Edinborough Marianna Elliott Katelyn Ewart Sue-Ellen Fairall Margaret Fisher Patricia Foertsch Angela Foster Jeanette Freeman Eleonore Fuchter Marie Gilbert Robyn Gilbert A COLE PORTER CELEBRATION CONCERT

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Susan Gordon Diana Gray Sonja Grgurevic Andrea Haas Lesley Halamek Cynthia Haskell Patricia Haynes Anne Heritage Margaret Hills Katie Hislop Marijke Hol Adele Hudson Louise Imray Elaine Jackson Diana Jefferies Joan Jones Fiona Joneshart Beverley Jordan Julie Kalitis Sally Kennedy Tamsin Khan Saya Koike Isabella Laing Veronica Lambert Gillian Lamberti Peita Laufer Kate Lawson Penny Le Couteur Penelope Lee Heather Lees-Smith Edda Lewis Sara Lewis Carmel Losew Doreen Macfarlane Madi Maclean Rosemary Madden Judith Marquardt Valerie Marteau Susan McCarthy Gwenneth McLaughlin Geanne Merrick Gabriele Munro Frances Neilson Anne Nguyen

Louise Nicholas Kathleen Oakley Catherine O’Grady Tiffany O’Neill Fiona Ormsby Roisin Pengelly Joanne Perry Dianne Peters Susan Ping Kee Marilyn Ramage Penelope Rodger Felicity Saunders Marlyn Sciberras Sandra Scott Sandra Simpson Daphne Sivasubramaniam Deborah Smith Megan Solomon Ruth Still Lindy Stuart Carmel Summers Susan Tooker Stephanie Trimas Robyn Tupman Sheila van Holst Kay Vernon Kylie Watt Jeanette Webb Barbara Weissflog Anne Wilcox Christina Wilcox Alyson Wills Susan Wittenoom Louisa Wright Susan Wright Roswitha Wulff Chari Xuereb Anna Young

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TENOR

BASS

Mark Ashdown Andrew Birt James Blomfield Nicholas Brown Stephen Burke Daniel Comarmond Damian Cox Michael Darmody Jenny Edwards Kate Foot Cecil Grivas Bronwyn Harvey Alistair Johnston Ayse Kiran Andra Krumins John O’Brien Tim O’Reilly Christinne Patton Ken Ryan Barbara Sinclair Clive Sinclair-Smith Rhonda Stapleton Margaretha Wienekamp

Eli Bailey John Baird Ronald Brown Stuart Burrell Myron Byrne Eric Chai Philip Chambers Stefan Couani Donald Denoon Leo Dent Gregory Don Bill Dowsley Warren Gough Paul Goyen John Hardy David Hazelden Stuart Hearne Ian Jurd Graham Lee Denis Moore Robert Osmond Alister Robinson Andrew Rodger David Ross Russell Stapleton Warren Stoyles Justin Thomson Michael Walpole

SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA CONCERTMASTER Fiona Ziegler VIOLIN 1

CELLO

HORN

Fiona Ziegler* Heather Burnley Caron Chan Myee Clohessy Dominique Gallery Belinda Jezek Maria Lindsay Heloise Pyne Joanne Waples Léone Ziegler

Jo Costantino* Christopher Lockhart-Smith Oliver Miller Daniel Morris Rachel Whealy Bronwen Whyatt

Michael Dixon* Julia Zeltzer Philip Wilson Principal Third Horn Alison Egan

VIOLIN 2 Michele O’Young* Dave Curro Dominique Guerbois Jonathan Hendl Martyn Hentschel Narine Melconian Dan Russell Esmeralda Tintner

TRUMPET DOUBLE BASS Brett Berthold* Mardi Chillingworth David Cooper Helen Cosgrove

Brian Evans* Rainer Saville Melanie McLoughlin

TROMBONE

James Fortune* Sarah Broughton

Nigel Crocker* Roslyn Jorgensen Brett Page Principal Bass Trombone

OBOE

TUBA

David Papp* Angus Lindsay

Matthew Walmsley*

FLUTE

PERCUSSION VIOLA

CLARINET

Anne-Louise Comerford* Valmai Coggins Jacqui Cronin Tara Hashambhoy Georgina Price Rachel Thompson

Ian Sykes* John Lewis Andrew Doyle Principal Bass Clarinet

Kerryn Joyce* Joshua Hill Chiron Meller

HARP Azumi Lehmann*

BASSOON Tony Grimm* Gillian Smith

PIANO Sally Whitwell* * Principal

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SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA CHOIRS – WHO WE ARE Music Director Brett Weymark Music Director: VOX Elizabeth Scott Assistant Chorus Master Anthony Pasquill Operations Manager Jenna Mathie Choirs Manager Mark Robinson Development Manager Lisa Parragi Administration Assistant Thomas Chiu Accounts Darela Kurtovic Artistic Operations Intern Andrew Griscti

PATRONS & BOARD VICE-REGAL PATRON Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO Governor of NSW VICE PATRONS Lauris Elms AM OBE Hon D. Mus (Syd) Sir David Willcocks CBE MC BOARD Sara Watts (Chairman) Jacqui Wilkins (President) | Vesna Hatezic (Vice-President) Andrea Hoole (Treasurer) Simon Boileau, Ruth Edenborough, Laura Keller, Hannah Mason, Shane Perdue, Ruth Wetmore

SUPPORTED BY Sydney Philharmonia Choirs gratefully acknowledges financial assistance and support from:

The Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

The NSW Government throungh the Department of Trade & Investment Arts NSW

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs also thanks the following for their generous co-operation and assistance:

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SUPPORT SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA CHOIRS KEEP US SINGING! Sydney Philharmonia Choirs has championed the exhilarating power of the human voice in Australia for almost 100 years. This makes us Australia’s oldest performing arts organisation and one of the oldest community participation groups. Over that time, we have impacted on and empowered tens of thousands of Australians through the communal activity of singing together and have kept a strong choral tradition alive for new generations. We are looking towards our 100th anniversary in 2020, and need your support to enable us to really celebrate our centenary through an expanded range of activities, commissions, and performances which are beyond our usual scale and scope. To realise this vision, and to ensure that our traditions exist for the next hundred years, we need your help in assisting young people to be the singers, composers, conductors and audiences of tomorrow. Don’t hesitate to contact us directly for further information or to discuss your interest in supporting the work that we do now or in the future. Your donation to Sydney Philharmonia Choirs will help guarantee that great choral music remains at the heart of cultural life in Sydney and Australia. Contact Lisa Parragi Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Pier 4 Hickson Road MILLERS POINT NSW 2000 Phone: 02 9251 2024 Email: [email protected] www.sydneyphilharmonia.com.au A COLE PORTER CELEBRATION CONCERT

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