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FEDERATION CONCERT HALL FRIDAY 26 FEBRUARY

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Calling all Gilbert & Sullivan fans. Your time has come!

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WITH HEROINES NAMED ELSIE, MABEL AND EDITH, HOW CAN YOU RESIST A GILBERT AND SULLIVAN SHOW? IT’S LIKE DOWNTON ABBEY WITH LAUGHS.

FRIDAY 26 FEBRUARY 7.30PMFEDERATION CONCERT HALL HOBART

Robert Greene conductor Lorina Gore soprano Jonathan Abernethy tenor Stuart Maunder baritone TSO Chorus

The Yeomen of the Guard, Overture“We sail the ocean blue”, from HMS Pinafore“When I was a lad”, from HMS Pinafore“Stop, ladies, pray”, from The Pirates of Penzance“Oh, is there not one maiden breast”, from The Pirates of Penzance“Poor wand’ring one”, from The Pirates of PenzanceIrish Symphony, 3rd movement“When anger spreads his wing”, from Princess Ida“Is life a boon?”, from The Yeomen of the Guard“In sailing o’er life’s ocean wide”, from RuddigoreIncantation and Finale, from The Sorcerer

INTERVAL

Pineapple Poll, Opening Dance“Here’s a man of jollity”, from The Yeomen of the Guard“I have a song to sing-O”, from The Yeomen of the Guard“All hail, great judge”, from Trial by Jury“When I, good friends, was called to the bar”, from Trial by JuryThe Grand Duke, Galop“The sun whose rays”, from The Mikado“Dance a cachuca”, from The Gondoliers“The battle’s roar is over”, from Ruddigore“Modern Major-General”, from The Pirates of Penzance“With cat-like tread”, from The Pirates of PenzanceAct II Finale, from The Mikado

Wordsmith W S Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan created 14 works for the stage, including such timeless classics as Trial by Jury, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. They popularised the phrase “Let the punishment fit the crime” and gave us The Mikado’s Pooh-Bah, the original “Grand Pooh-Bah”.

Masters of wit and satire, G&S set their sights on the absurdities, hypocrisies and downright barminess of Victorian England lampooning, among other things, strict moral codes, social climbers, the justice system and pompous power brokers.

Together with impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte, who had London’s Savoy Theatre built expressly as a G&S venue, they rolled out one hit after another including Ruddigore, The Yeomen of the Guard and The Gondoliers.

Hear excerpts from all of these works and more at the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra’s Gilbert and Sullivan Spectacular. Whether you’re an out and proud G&S tragic, a closeted devotee or just plain G&S curious, now is the time to stand up and be counted. You’ll even get to join in the fun by singing along (turn to pages 3, 4 and 5 for your singalong sheets).

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Robert Greene has conducted over 60 productions of operas, operettas and musicals for every state opera company and major musical organisation, as well as much of the symphonic and choral repertoire. Works that he has conducted for Opera Australia include Così fan tutte, Il barbiere di Siviglia, My Fair Lady, Trial by Jury, HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado and South Pacific, for which he won the 2014 Green Room Award for Best Musical Direction of a Musical. His performances of the Gilbert and Sullivan works have all been

recorded on DVD by ABC Classics and have sold many copies worldwide.

New Zealand tenor Jonathan Abernethy has established himself as a vibrant and upcoming international artist. In 2015 he was invited into the Aix-en-Provence Mozart Residency, the Solti Accademia in Tuscany and Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute in Chicago. During Opera Australia’s 2016 season Jonathan prepares the roles of Nadir (The Pearlfishers) and Ferrando in Sir David McVicar’s new production of Così fan tutte, to cover major international artists in two new productions. On the concert stage he joins Sydney Philharmonia Choirs at the

Sydney Opera House Concert Hall for Mozart’s Requiem. Jonathan continues to have mentoring and support from the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation.

For the last thirty years Stuart Maunder has been directing musical theatre and opera in Australia. His productions for Opera Australia include The Tales of Hoffmann, The Gypsy Princess and Don Pasquale. His music theatre productions include My Fair Lady and A Little Night Music for Opera Australia; Dusty, Shout!, Little Women, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods and Sweeney Todd for Victorian Opera. A self-confessed Gilbert and Sullivan “tragic”, he has directed G&S productions in Australia, the UK and USA. His OA productions of

Trial by Jury, HMS Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance have been televised nationally on ABC TV.

Lorina Gore is a regular performer with Opera Australia where her roles include Yum-Yum (The Mikado), Despina (Così fan tutte) and Musetta (La bohème). International performances have included engagements with Garsington Opera, English Touring Opera and New Zealand Opera. She studied at the Australian National University and at the National Opera Studio in London, and has been the recipient of numerous prestigious opera awards. ABC Classics recordings include highlights from Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier with Yvonne Kenny, selections

from Handel’s Rodelinda with Richard Bonynge, and Bliss with Opera Australia. Her engagements in 2016 include La bohème and Der Ring des Nibelungen for Opera Australia.

The TSO Chorus is an auditioned group of approximately 80 voices. June Tyzack has been Chorusmaster since 2001 and is supported by Assistant Chorusmaster Andrew Bainbridge. Founded in 1992 to present concert performances of opera, the TSO Chorus has since broadened its repertoire to include the requiems of Mozart, Verdi and Sculthorpe; masses by Haydn, Schubert and Puccini; and symphonies by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Mahler. The TSO Chorus has performed at the Sydney Opera House, Adelaide

Festival and Perth Concert Hall. Concerts in 2016 include the Gilbert and Sullivan Spectacular, Haydn’s Creation and, as part of the Festival of Voices, JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion.

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When I was a lad I served a term as office boy to an attorney’s firm,

I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, and I polished up the handle of the big front door

He polished up the handle of the big front door

I polished that handle so carefullee, That now I am the ruler of the Queen’s Navee

He polish’d up that handle so carefullee that now he is the ruler of the Queen’s Navee!

As office boy I made such a mark that they gave me the post of a junior clerk.

I served the writs with a smile so bland, and I copied all the letters in a big round hand

He copied all the letters in a big round hand.

I copied all the letters in a hand so free, that now I am the ruler of the Queen’s Navee!

He copied all the letters in a hand so free, that now he is the ruler of the Queen’s Navee!

In serving writs I made such a name that an articled clerk I soon became;

I wore clean collars and a bran’ new suit for the pass examination at the Institute.

For the pass examination at the Institute.

That pass examination did so well for me that now I am the ruler of the Queen’s Navee.

That pass examination did so well for he that now he is the ruler of the Queen’s Navee!

Of legal knowledge I acquired such a grip that they took me in to the partnership,

And that junior partnership I ween was the only ship that I ever had seen

Was the only ship he ever had seen.

But that kind of ship so suited me that now I am the ruler of the Queen’s Navee.

But that kind of ship so suited he that now he is the ruler of the Queen’s Navee.

I grew so rich that I was sent by a pocket borough into parliament.

I always voted at my party’s call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

He never thought of thinking for himself at all.

I thought so little, they rewarded me, by making me the ruler of the Queen’s Navee

He thought so little, they rewarded he, by making him the ruler of the Queen’s Navee.

Now landsmen all, whoever you may be, if you want to rise to the top of the tree,

If your soul isn’t fettered to an office stool, be careful to be guided by this golden rule

Be careful to be guided by this golden rule

Stick close to your desks and never go to sea, and you all may be rulers of the Queen’s Navee.

Stick close to your desks and never go to sea, and you all may be rulers of the Queens Navee.

Singalong Song No. 1 HMS PINAFORE “WHEN I WAS A LAD”

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All hail great Judge! – To your bright rays, We never grudge – ecstatic praise. All hail! All hail! All hail! All Hail! All Hail! May each decree as statute rank, and never be reversed in Banc. All hail! All hail! All hail! All Hail! All Hail!

For these kind words accept my thanks, I pray, A breach of promise we’ve to try today. But firstly, if the time you’ll not begrudge, I’ll tell you how I came to be a judge

He’ll tell us how he came to be a Judge, I’ll tell you how He’ll tell us how, I’ll tell you how He’ll tell us how he came to be a Judge! Let me speak Let him speak Let me speak Let him speak Let me speak Yes, let him speak. Hush! Hush! He speaks, Hush! Hush! He speaks! Hush! Hush! He’ll tell us how, he came to be a Judge!

When I, good friends, was call’d to the bar I’d an appetite fresh and hearty But I was, as many young barristers are An impecunious party I’d a swallow-tail coat of a beautiful blue And a brief which I bought of a booby A couple of shirts, and a collar or two And a ring that looked like a ruby

He’d a couple of shirts, and a collar or two And a ring that look’d like a ruby

In Westminister Hall I danced a dance Like a semi-despondent fury; For I thought I never should hit on a chance Of addressing a British jury But I soon got tired of third-class journeys And dinners of bread and water So I fell in love with a rich attorney’s Elderly, ugly daughter

So he fell in love with a rich attorney’s Elderly, ugly daughter

The rich attorney, he jumped with joy And replied to my fond professions

“You shall reap the reward of your pluck, my boy At the Bailey and Middlesex Sessions You’ll soon get used to her looks,” said he “And a very nice girl you will find her! She may very well pass for forty-three In the dusk, with the light behind her”

She may very well pass for forty three In the dusk, with the light behind her

The rich attorney was good as his word The briefs came trooping gaily, And every day my voice was heard At the Sessions or Ancient Bailey. All thieves, who could my fees afford Relied on my orations, And many a burglar I’ve restored To his friends and his relations

And many a burglar he’s restored To his friends and his relations

At length I became as rich as the Gurneys An incubus then I thought her So I threw over that rich attorney’s Elderly, ugly daughter The rich attorney my character high Tried vainly to disparage And now, if you please, I’m ready to try This breach of promise of marriage

And now, if you please, he’s ready to try This breach of promise of marriage

For now I’m a judge And a good judge, too Yes, now I’m a judge And a good judge, too Though all my law be fudge Yet I’ll never, never budge And I’ll live and die a judge And a good Judge too

It was managed by a job And a good job, too It was managed by a job And a good job, too It is patent to the mob That my being made a nob

Was effected by a job And a good Job too

Singalong Song No. 3 TRIAL BY JURY “ALL HAIL GREAT JUDGE! & THE JUDGE’S SONG”

I am the very model of a modern Major General; I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral;

I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, from Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;

I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,

About binomial Theorem I’m teeming with a lot of news, with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse, With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse, With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypoten-potenuse.

I’m very good at integral and differential calculus; I know the scientific names of beings animalculous,

In short, in matters vegetable, animal , and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major Gineral.

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, He is the very model of a modern Major Gineral!

I know our mythic history, King Arthur’s, and Sir Caradoc’s, I answer hard acrostics, I’ve a pretty taste for paradox,

I quote, in elegiacs, all the crimes of Heliogabalus! In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolus.

I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies. I know the croaking chorus from the “Frogs” of Aristophanes!

Then I can hum a fugue of which I’ve heard the music’s din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense, Pinafore!

And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense, Pinafore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense, Pinafore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense, Pin-a-pin-a-fore.

Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform, and tell you ev’ry detail of Caractacus’s uniform. In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major Gineral.

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, He is the very model of a modern Major Gineral!

In fact, when I know what is meant by “mamelon” and “ravelin”; When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin; When such affairs as sorties and surprises I’m more wary at, And I know precisely what is meant by commissariat; When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery; When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery; In short, when I’ve a smattering of elemental strategy

You’ll say a better Major General has never sat a gee

You’ll say a better Major General has never sat a gee, You’ll say a better Major General has never sat a gee, You’ll say a better Major General has never sat a, sat a gee.

For my military knowledge, tho’ I’m plucky and adventury, Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century, But still in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major General.

But still in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major General.

Singalong Song No. 2 PIRATES OF PENZANCE “MODERN MAJOR GENERAL”