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Another musical year over!

NEWSBEAT! November

In This Issue

MBSO in 2015 Page 2 Who was Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka? Page 3

Newsletter Crossword Page 4 Musical Instruments Page 5

Friends of the Orchestra Page 5 Chamber Music Page 6

MBSO Sponsors Page 7 Crossword Solution Page 7

Become a Friend of the Orchestra Page 8

SHARING A LOVE OF MUSIC WITH THE MORETON BAY COMMUNITY UPCOMING CONCERTS AND EVENTS

MBSO’s third year is nearly over and what a year it has been!

The Wonderful World of Animation Concert

Thank you to all who came to our Animation concert! The range of music in movies and video games was not as easy to play as classical works and so the ensembles did a great job performing these difficult works! We hope that you enjoyed out guest performers St Paul’s Symphony, Julie McCoy and Emily Turner and Puawai Herewini from Queensland Musical Theatre. Thank you to all our supporters this year. MBSO is a not-for-profit organization and relies on support from the community to continue providing the wide range of ensembles available to our musicians.

Our 2015 Concert Series

Our 2015 Concert series is now finished! Take a look at page 2 to see what we have for you next year.

MBSO’s Website Upgrade Complete

Our website's update is now complete and you can now navigate through it and read about our ensembles and see the new images. Go there now: www.mbso.org.au Many thanks to Shingo Yasui (website designer), Greg Dries ([Moods] Photography), Eve Brown (MBSO President) and Alexander Rodrigues (MBSO Secretary) for their tireless work! This website upgrade including the photoshoot would not have been possible without financial assistance from the Moreton Bay Regional Arts Development Fund. The Regional Arts Development Fund is a Queensland Government and Moreton Bay Regional Council partnership to support local arts and culture.

MBSO’s Christmas Concert Celebrate Christmas with us as we take you through timeless classics as well as some contemporary ones – there is something for everyone in the family to enjoy! Featured guests include the JAFA Community Choir and vocalists Julie McCoy and Ros Booth. Time: 2:00pm Date: Saturday, December 6 Venue: Grace Lutheran College Chapel, Anzac Avenue, Rothwell.

Deagon Lights Concert

Time: 6:00 pm Date: Thursday, December 18 Venue: Sandgate Uniting Church, Board Street, Deagon.

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The Moreton Bay Symphony Orchestra has established a reputation for delivering quality music in the Moreton Bay region. Our standard of playing is enhanced by the inclusion of all members of the community and by collaboration with local professional musicians. MBSO has a hard-working and committed Management Committee which fundraises, organises concerts, tours and other events and also finds time to play in one or more of the ensembles that are offered by MBSO. We would like to sincerely thank the MBSO Management Committee for their dedication and vision to extend MBSO beyond being just another community orchestra.

MBSO is comprised of three main ensembles: MBSO, the MBSO Youth Symphony and the MBSO Junior Strings.

MBSO and the MBSO Youth Symphony combine to perform larger works and concertos with professional musicians. MBSO performs various musical genres including classical, opera, musical theatre, concert band, jazz and contemporary music.

A number of chamber ensembles – the MBSO Flute Choir, Jazz Band, Fiddle Group, Wind Quintet and Clarinet Choir

- are made up of members from the three main ensembles and rehearse for five - six weeks prior to a performance. Any members of MBSO are welcome to join these ensembles.

MBSO’s 2015 concerts are as follows:

The Birds and the Bees

2pm, Saturday March 28 Clontarf Beach State High School hall, Clontarf.

Can you hear the buzzing sound in the air? Can you hear the birds chirping outside your window? Experience pieces such as The Flight of the Bumble Bee, The Thieving Magpie, Vaughan Williams’ Overture to The Wasps along with many more bird-themed works.

MBSO’s Soirée

7pm, Saturday 23rd May Kokoda Room, Redcliffe RSL, Irene Street, Redcliffe.

MBSO’s annual Soirée will once again feature the MBSO Junior Strings ensemble along with the MBSO Jazz Band, Fiddle Group, Flute Choir, Clarinet Choir and many other chamber groups and soloists. The Soirée will showcase the wide range of musical talent encompassed in the various MBSO ensembles.

Nationalistic Composers

2pm, Saturday July 18 Clontarf Beach State High School hall, Clontarf.

So many composers throughout history have composed pieces specifically for their homelands. This concert will feature many of

these works - Sibelius’ Finlandia and many other works by composers such as Smetana, Debussy, Greig and Bartok.

Exotic Lands

2pm, Saturday October 17 Clontarf Beach State High School hall, Clontarf.

Ever wanted to travel somewhere exotic? Let MBSO take you to a range of exotic lands in this, the final subscription concert for 2015. Travel all the way from Turkey to Persia and to the fantasy worlds of Middle Earth and Game of Thrones. Join us as we embark on this epic adventure.

Christmas Concert

2pm, Saturday December 5 Grace Lutheran College Chapel, Rothwell.

Celebrate Christmas with us as we take you through timeless classics (as well as some contemporary ones) - something for everyone in the family to enjoy!

MBSO’s annual Christmas concert will also feature the MBSO Junior Strings, Flute Choir and Jazz band.

DID YOU KNOW?

In 1718 James Puckle patented a gun designed to shoot round

bullets at Christians and square bullets at Turks.

DID YOU KNOW A comet's tail measures 60,000 cubic miles and weighs as much as a breath of air.

MBSO in 2015

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Contact Us

WEBSITE: www.mbso.org.au

EMAIL: enquiries@mbso.org.au

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ENEWSLETTER SIGNUP: http://eepurl.com/kuohz

PRESIDENT: Eve Brown PHONE: 0409 569 348

VICE PRESIDENT: Robyn Holmes SECRETARY: Alexander Rodrigues TREASURER: Stacey Cooke LIBRARIAN: Helen Andrews PUBLICATIONS OFFICER: Alexander Rodrigues PUBLICITY OFFICER: Ruth Petrovic FUNDRAISING: Rachel Shakespeare PROPERTY MANAGER: Paul Peloe MBSO CONCERTMASTER: Katie Lawton MBSO YS CONCERTMASTER: Tameka Smith MBSO JS CONCERTMASTER: Nia Burton MBSO YS RPRESENTATIVE: Alicia Raven MBSO JS REPRESENTATIVE: Stacey Cooke MBSO CHAMBER REPS: Kerynne Birch, Matthew Hobbs MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Bronwyn Gibbs CONDUCTOR – JS: Katie Lawton FRIENDS’ CONVENER: Mary Cupitt

38 Dunbar Street, Margate, Qld 4019 Phone: 3283 5870

Orchestra Vacancies MBSO

Violin MBSO members are required to have an AMEB (or similar) standard of Grade 5 or above.

Viola Cello Double Bass Oboe French Horn Trumpet

Trombone Tuba Percussion

MBSO Youth Symphony Violin MBSO Youth Symphony

members are required to have an AMEB (or similar) standard of Grade 4 or above and be under the age

Viola Cello Double Bass Oboe

French Horn of 25. Trombone Tuba Percussion

MBSO Junior Strings Violin MBSO Junior Strings

members are required to have an AMEB (or similar) standard of Grade 2 or above and be under the age of 15.

Viola Cello Double Bass

Who was Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka?Born into a well to do family, Glinka had a good education, including violin and piano lessons and vocal training.

From 1824-1828 Glinka held a minor post in the Russian Government but gave it up to continue his musical and general education. He studied in Italy and then Berlin before feeling confident as a composer.

Returning to Russia, Glinka found that writers such as Pushkin and Gogol were promoting Russian history and decided to write ‘A life for the Tsar.’ This work tells of a hero who laid a false trail to protect the Tsar costing the hero his life. This was successful immediately in 1836. Russian and Polish folk tunes sat side by side with typical Italian operatic arias. Glinka anticipated Wagner's use

of the leitmotif throughout his opera. His colourful use of the orchestra was the beginning of a whole

new approach to orchestration, which reached its peak in the works of Stravinsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. The chorus features in these operas.

Glinka's second opera ‘Ruslan and Ludmilla’ was not immediately successful, but greatly influenced later Russian composers. For possibly the first time, the whole tone scale was used to portray the evil magician.

Glinka travelled extensively all through his life and used Spanish folk songs in ‘Jota Aragonesa’ and ‘Night in Madrid’. His songs, church and piano music is rarely heard now, but ‘Kamarinskaya’ is often heard on symphonic programmes.

DID YOU KNOW?

The maximum speed of air passing through the nostrils during normal

breathing is about Force Two on the Beaufort Scale - ten feet per

second, described as a light breeze.

Born: 1804 Died: 1857

The Father of Russian

Opera

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

Influnced:

• M.Balakirev

• C. Cui

• M. Mussorgsky

• N. Rimsky-Korsakov

• A. Borodin

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Across 2. ______ Jazz. 5. Curveded architectural feature. 7. Slow, solemn. 9. Negative. 10. Second part sung above melody. 11. Green vegetables in pods. 12. Slow. 14. Famous cough mixture. 16. Limitation of supply or effort. 17. ______ Jangles. 18. (Fr.) Left, awkward. 19. None.

20. Two notes alternated and repeated quickly. 21. 1873-1916 German teacher and composer. 23. To ___ or not to be. 25. Musical instrument with keys. 28. Dried pulse, legume. 29. _______ Lombardo. Dance Band Leader. 30. Or else; alternate.

Down 1. Long, long ________. 2. Time, speed. 3. At a moderate pace.

4. Female deer (pl.). 5. Stress sign over note 6. In a singing manner. 8. So may it be. 13. Sir Edward ______, composer. 15. To lie about in a relaxed way. 16. Raises a note one semitone. 19. Ink needs a pen and _______. 20. South American dance rhythm. 22. Nelson _____, singer. 24. ______ time band. 26. ______ Gershwin. 27. (Abb.) Viola.

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Most people like music but not everyone plays or sings. Nowadays music can be heard on CDs, iPods, MP3s and various other devices, but before recordings people used mechanical instruments to provide them with music

BARREL ORGANS

At the heart of the barrel organ is a set of pins fixed around a barrel. Each pin represents a note in the music. The barrel revolves, and the pins strike a set of levers. These move up and down, operating a mechanism that opens organ pipes so that air blows into the pipes and makes them sound.

The earliest known barrel organ was made by Arabs in the ninth century. It had only one pipe with a set of holes like a recorder. Flaps driven by a rotating pin barrel opened and closed the holes to produce the music. A water wheel turned the barrel, and cisterns filled with water to produce a supply of air to sound the pipe.

Later barrel organs had sets of pipes or reeds and bellows to blow the air. This enabled them to produce a wide and powerful range of sounds. Huge ones were built in the 19th century that sounded like military bands and orchestras. They were driven by clockwork, weights, steam or even electricity. In the early 19th century, barrel attachments were made for ordinary church organs, with a different barrel for each hymn tune. Street musicians wandered through cities entertaining people with barrel organs that they wound by hand.

AIR DRIVEN INSTRUMENTS

Barrel organs and music boxes could play pieces lasting only a few minutes and gave no expression to the music. These were replaced by new types of organ which were pneumatic (air -driven) and could play nonstop for hours if necessary. People could control them to produce their own interpretation of the music.

The notes for the music for these instruments are cut as holes or slots in a long paper roll or a folded length of cardboard. As the roll or card moves through the instrument, it passes over a plate with openings in it. The openings are connected to an air supply so that, as a hole or slot passes over one, air is puffed out or sucked in. This air movement causes an organ pipe to sound. These organs can still be heard at fairgrounds or rallies for old fairground machinery.

Musical Instruments

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Chamber music is written to be performed in a private house or in a small hall. It has been written for voices alone, instruments alone, or a combination of voices and instruments.

In chamber music each performer has a part of their own; they do not play or sing the same part as the other performers, as they would in a chorus or as a part of the string section of an orchestra. A

chamber work may be for one person, as in a piano sonata, or for as many as twenty, as is a work for chamber orchestra or wind ensemble. Chamber operas, such as Richard Strauss' ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’, are operas written for just a few singers and a small orchestra.

The earliest chamber music was written to be sung. In 16th century Italy and England, small groups would get together to sing madrigals. These singers

sang for their own entertainment, although there

might be a few people who sat and listened.

Other groups of music lovers would get together after dinner to play on the soft-voiced viols.

Noblemen of means liked to have music at dinner. Such table music was usually written for strings. In the 17th century, composers began to write chamber music for two or more instruments, calling these works sonatas. The most common of these early forms is the trio

sonata, performed on two soprano instruments, a bass and a keyboard instrument. The keyboard filled in the accompaniment while the three others played the important melody line. After 1750 when the keyboard was replaced by the viola, a string quartet became the favourite form of chamber music for both composers and listeners. This popularity was due to Haydn's eighty-two masterly string quartets. Since the time of Haydn, almost every composer has written at least one string quartet.

Chamber music has been written for an almost unlimited number of vocal and instrumental combinations. Trios and quartets of the same kind of instrument are common, and yet Villa Lobos scored two of his ‘Bachianas Brasileiras’ for eight cellos and a soprano. Jazz musicians join together in small chamber-music groups called combos. A small combo may consist of piano, guitar, and string bass; or flugelhorn, vibraphone and drums.

DID YOU KNOW

A dollar invested at four per cent compound interest by the Three Wise Men upon their arrival in Bethlehem would now be worth 100,000 solid gold globes, each the size of the earth.

DID YOU KNOW?

In 1972 Brazil imported 20,000 sacks of coffee from El Salvador.

Chamber Music

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Crossword Solution

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