20 mins - Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra

Fri 19 Feb 2016 at 8.30 pm
Sat 20 Feb 2016 at 8.30 pm
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Arnie Roth, conductor
PROGRAMME
BARRY (arr. RAINE)
You Only Live Twice
MANCINIThe Pink Panther
MANCINIPeter Gunn
CLINTON / JONESThe Music of Austin Powers
HERRMANN (arr. MAUCERI)The Man Who Knew Too Much Overture
LEGRAND / MANCINI
Windmills of Your Mind from
The Thomas Crown Affair
GOLDSMITHThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
BARRY (arr. RAINE)
Diamonds Are Forever
Interval 20 mins
SCHIFRINMission Impossible
MANCINICharade
JARRE (arr. BATEMAN)Topaz March
SHOSTAKOVICH
Romance from The Gadfly Suite
POWELLThe Bourne Identity
BARRY (arr. TYZIK)The Best of Bond
James Bond Theme
Nobody Does It Better from The Spy Who Loved Me
Live and Let Die
For Your Eyes Only
The Look of Love from Casino Royale
007 Theme
Thunderball
BARRY (arr. RAINE) Goldfinger Theme
The concert will last approximately 90 minutes with an interval
BIOGRAPHY
A classically trained violinist, conductor, composer, producer and GRAMMY
Award-winning artist, Arnie Roth performs across a wide array of musical genres.
He has performed with a host of artists, including Il Divo, Diana Ross, Jewel,
The Three Tenors, The Irish Tenors, Charlotte Church, Josh Groban, Patrick
Stewart, Branford Marsalis, Peter Cetera, and Andrea Bocelli. He is also a longtime member of the GRAMMY award-winning group Mannheim Steamroller.
Orchestras that Roth has conducted include the London Symphony, Hollywood
Bowl Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Atlanta
Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Houston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic,
Nashville Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, BBC Symphony,
San Francisco Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Winnipeg
Symphony, Joffrey Ballet, Ravinia Festival, Tokyo Philharmonic, the Colorado
Symphony, the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, and the Sydney Symphony. Roth
brought critical acclaim to the Chicagoland Pops Orchestra as music director and
principal conductor showcasing artists including Michael Feinstein, Linda Eder,
Art Garfunkel, Linda Ronstadt, Wynonna Judd, Judy Collins, the Beach Boys and
Johnny Mathis. Under his direction the Chicagoland Pops Orchestra appeared in
a nationally broadcast PBS Special featuring The Irish Tenors.
Roth was the music director and conductor of the national concert tour “Dear
Friends: music from FINAL FANTASY.” In 2006, Roth conducted the new
“VOICES: music from FINAL FANTASY” concert in Tokyo with the Tokyo
Philharmonic. He then became the principal conductor and music director of
PLAY! A Video Game Symphony featuring music from blockbuster video games
such as FINAL FANTASY®, World of Warcraft®, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind™,
Halo and Battlefield 1942™. As both producer and music director, Roth premiered
“Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY” in December 2007 with the Royal
Stockholm Philharmonic in Sweden. The release of “Distant Worlds: music from
FINAL FANTASY” recorded by Roth and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
coincided with the start of the “Distant Worlds" 2008 world-tour. "Distant Worlds"
continues to thrill audiences around the world with upcoming performances in
North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, and has had additional successful
releases with “Distant Worlds II: more music from FINAL FANTASY” CD and the
live performance DVD “Distant Worlds; music from FINAL FANTASY – Returning
Home” and “Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY – The Celebration.”
"Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY" is now in its seventh year touring
the world, and continues to set box office records around the world. The 2014
performance at Royal Albert Hall (London) sold out in just 2 hours. Roth and AWR
Music Productions continue their highly successful relationship with SQUARE
ENIX CO., LTD.
BIOGRAPHY
As music director, conductor and arranger, Roth was involved in a number of PBS
specials including: Charlotte Church: Enchantment - From Cardiff, Wales for Sony,
The Irish Tenors: Heritage, the WTTW Soundstage shows featuring: Jewel, Peter
Cetera and Symphony, An Evening with Dennis DeYoung, Lyle Lovett, Randy Newman,
Michael McDonald and the Doobie Brothers, and WTTW’s Four Seasons in Chicago.
In 2006, he was the music director and conductor for a ten part television series for
RTE featuring the Irish Tenors. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show many times,
conducting Il Divo, and appeared on the Tonight Show, Good Morning America, Oprah,
and many more international television and radio broadcasts.
Roth’s talents extend into the area of film production and composition as well.
He was commissioned by Gerald Arpino, founder and a choreographer of the Joffrey
Ballet, to write an original composition for a new Arpino ballet premiered in Chicago
that he conducted. He produced and conducted music for the Robert Altman film
The Company, and was the producer, composer, conductor and arranger for the CGI
animated films from Mattel Entertainment: Barbie™ in The Nutcracker, Barbie™ as
Rapunzel, Barbie™ of Swan Lake, Barbie™ in The Princess and the Pauper Movie,
Barbie™ in The Magic of Pegasus, Barbie™ Sings! Princess Movie Collection CD,
Barbie™ in the Twelve Dancing Princesses, Island Princess Barbie, Barbie™ and the
Diamond Castle, and Barbie™in A Christmas Carol. Roth won the Best Score Award at
the 2003 DVD Premier Awards for his score for the film Barbie™ as Rapunzel, and was
nominated for an Emmy in 2007 for his original song “Shine” from the movie Barbie™
in The Twelve Dancing Princesses. 2007 also marked the premiere of Roth's first live
concert creation with Mattel. Barbie™ at the Symphony is a special film with orchestra
presentation of the best-selling Barbie™ Princess movies. This was followed by a
second live concert production under license with Mattel, Barbie™ in the Nutcracker.
He has produced and conducted music for many films, and has produced dozens of
best-selling CDs, released on American Gramaphone, JVC, Mattel, Warner Bros., Sony,
Koch and Razor & Tie.
ARNIE ROTH
Conductor
PROGRAMME NOTES
PROGRAMME NOTES
In the world of celluloid espionage,
the secret agents dodge flying
bullets while trying to save the world
and still look dashing, while the
femme fatales’ jaw-dropping beauty
is equally matched by their deadly
set of skills.
The scores to these adventures, on
the other hand, take the audience
right into the heart of action. They
set the mood for the torrid affairs and
clandestine deals while pushing the
audience to the edge of their sets
during the films’ nail-biting action
sequences – executed stylishly with
amazingly posh cars, no less.
Originally released in 1963, The
Pink Panther is about a bumbling
Inspector Clouseau and his quest
to recover a stolen jewel dubbed
The Pink Panther. Set against the
backdrop of exotic locales, its pomp
and grandeur are equally matched by
the big laugh-out-loud sequences that
are performed to perfection by Peter
Sellers (Clouseau). The identifiable
theme song composed by Henry
Mancini, which begins with playful
notes from the tenor saxophone,
captures everything about the movie.
www.impawards.com
Agent 007 from British Secret Service MI6, the man known as James Bond, is
probably the most identifiable agent in the world of celluloid espionage.
The Best of Bond features some of the best scores and theme songs composed
by John Barry in the five-decade long film franchise, with James Bond Theme,
Nobody Does It Better (from The Spy Who Loved Me), Live and Let
Die, For Your Eyes Only, The Look of Love (from Casino
Royale), Thunderball and You Only Live Twice. The tunes
Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever, taken from
the 1964 and 1971 films of the same name, are both
performed for the film soundtracks by Shirley
Bassey, the only artiste with three
James Bond film theme songs
(Moonraker is the other one)
under her glittering belt.
The theme from Mission
Impossible was first composed
by Argentinian Lalo Schifrin
in 1966 for the popular TV
series of the same name and
was later remade by U2’s
Adam Clayton and Larry
Mullen Jr. for the 1996 movie
version starring Tom Cruise.
It tells about a team of secret
government agents from
Impossible Missions Force (IMF)
which members have valuable
skill sets.
Another popular TV show that has
recently received a stylish update
for the big screen is The Man from
U.N.C.L.E. Originally released in 1964 with
Jerry Goldsmith penning the jazzy theme
music, the show revolves around the exploits
of two secret agents Napoleon Solo and Illya
Kuryakin from two seemingly warring nations
(it is set during the Cold War) respectively, the
USA and Soviet Union.
www.007.comw
PROGRAMME NOTES
PROGRAMME NOTES
American private investigator Peter Gunn came on the small screen in 1958 and
became one of the celebrated heroes on TV at the time. Created by Blake Edwards,
who went on to direct the The Pink Panther movie five years later, its psychedelic fun
theme music by Henry Mancini earned an Emmy and two Grammys.
If James Bond was the pride of British Intelligence, Jason Bourne is America’s grittier
version. Bourne, a former CIA assassin with memory loss, originally appeared in the
1988 TV movie The Bourne Identity (starring Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith)
before it was remade into a feature film in 2002 with an ominous-sounding theme by
John Powell. The film is the first of the Bourne series, which also comprises The Bourne
Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and The Bourne Legacy (2012).
In 1997, a spy action comedy film that spoofs elements from earlier James Bond
films was born. In the blockbuster Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (and
its two successful sequels) a 60s British secret agent wakes up in the present day
90s via cryopreservation technology and hunts down the villains from his time.
The Music of Austin Powers by renowned funk exponent George Clinton, with the
deliciously funky Soul Bossa Nova opening theme by Quincy Jones, is packed with
retro psychedelic goodness. To borrow an expression by our buck-toothed secret
agent, it’s “groovy, baby!”.
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1969 espionage thriller Topaz was met with mixed reviews upon
its release, with some critics citing the lack of Hollywood stars as one of the reasons
(the main actor Frederick Stafford went on to star in European films). The theme from
Topaz: March by renowned French film scorer Maurice Jarre reflects the Cold War
politics in the plot. On the other hand, Hitchcock’s earlier suspense thriller,
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955) starring five-time Academy Award nominee
James Stewart and Doris Day, was a commercial success. Hitchcock’s frequent
composer Bernard Herrmann contributed the film score and the haunting overture.
The 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair is about a debonair millionaire with
questionably unlawful pastimes Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) who crosses path
with an independent insurance investigator Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway). Things get
emotionally messy as a result, and Henry Mancini’s popular theme song The Windmills
of Your Mind (performed by Noel Harrison) captures the state of the tormented hearts.
The song, winner of Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1968, was later remade
by Sting for the film’s 1999 update, starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo.
The Gadfly Suite is a suite for orchestra written by Soviet-born composer
Dmitri Shostakovich for the 1955 Soviet drama film The Gadfly. It comprises 12
movements including the soothing tune Romance that was later featured as the
theme music for the 1983 BBC mini series Reilly, Ace of Spies (about a debonair
super spy Sidney Reilly played by Sam Neill).
www.subscene.com
In the spy thriller/romantic comedy Charade, Hollywood screen icon Audrey
Hepburn plays Reggie Lampert, who runs for her life when her husband is murdered
and three men suddenly are hot on her trail. The theme music follows in the tradition
of other Henry Mancini’s classic film tunes.
Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Nor Raina Yeong Abdullah
MALAYSIAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
PRINCIPAL
CONDUCTOR
vacant
RESIDENT
CONDUCTOR
Ciarán McAuley
first violin
Co-Concertmaster
Peter Daniš
Principal
Ming Goh
Co-Principal
Zhenzhen Liang
Sub-Principal
Vira Nyezhentseva
Runa Baagöe
Maho Daniš
Miroslav Daniš
Evgeny Kaplan
Martijn Noomen
Sherwin Thia
Marcel Andriesii
Tan Ka Ming
Robert Kopelman
SECOND VIOLIN
Co-Principal
Timothy Peters
Assistant Principal
Luisa Hyams
Catalina Alvarez
Chia-Nan Hung
Anastasia Kiseleva
Stefan Kocsis
Ling Yunzhi
Ionut Mazareanu
Tan Poh Kim
Yanbo Zhao
Ai Jin
VIOLA
Co-Principal
Gábor Mokány
Assistant Principal
Ayako Oya
Fumiko Dobrinov
Ong Lin Kern
Carol Pendlebury
Sun Yuan
Thian Aiwen
Fan Ran
Eliza Fluder
Julia Park
Mahmoud Hussein
CELLO
Co-Principal
Csaba Kőrös
Assistant Principal
Steven Retallick
Sub-Principal
Attila Pasztor
Gerald Davis
Julie Dessureault
Laurentiu Gherman
Tan Poh Joo
Elizabeth Tan Suyin
Sejla Simon
Mátyás Major
DOUBLE BASS
Section Principal
Wolfgang Steike
Co-Principal
Joseph Pruessner
Raffael Bietenhader
Jun-Hee Chae
Naohisa Furusawa
John Kennedy
Foo Yin Hong
Andreas Dehner
FLUTE
Section Principal
Hristo Dobrinov
Co-Principal
Yukako Yamamoto
Sub-Principal
Rachel Jenkyns
PICCOLO
Principal
Sonia Croucher
OBOE
Section Principal
Simon Emes
Sub-Principal
Niels Dittmann
COR ANGLAIS
Principal
Denis Simonnet
CLARINET
Section Principal
Gonzalo Esteban
Sub-Principals
Matthew Larsen
*Ya-Ching Cheng
BASS CLARINET
Principal
Chris Bosco
BASSOON
Section Principal
Alexandar Lenkov
Sub-Principal
Orsolya Juhasz
CONTRABASSOON
Principal
Vladimir Stoyanov
HORN
Section Principal
Grzegorz Curyla
Co-Principal
James Schumacher
Sub-Principals
Laurence Davies
Todor Popstoyanov
Assistant Principal
Sim Chee Ghee
CEO’S OFFICE
Hanis Abdul Halim
business & marketing
management
Carl Selvarajah
TRUMPET
Section Principal
*Ryan Chapman
Co-Principal
William Theis
Sub-Principals
William Day
*Jeffrey Missal
Assistant Principal
John Bourque
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
At Ziafrizani Chek Pa
Fadzleen Fathy
Nurartikah Ilyas
Kartini Ratna Sari Ahmat Adam
Nik Sara Hanis Mohd Sani
MARKETING
Yazmin Lim Abdullah
Hisham Abdul Jalil
Munshi Ariff
Nurul Hidayah Abas
Farah Diyana Ismail
Natrah Omar
TROMBONE
Section Principal
*Dimo Pishtyalov
Co-Principal
*Allen Meek
Sub-Principal
Anthony Wise
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP
MANAGEMENT
Asmahan Abdullah
Faizol Ramli
Music TALENT DEVELOPMENT &
MANAGEMENT
Soraya Mansor
PLANNING, FINANCE & IT
Azwin Sofia Md. Yusup
Mohd Hakimi Mohd Rosli
Norhisham Abd Rahman
Siti Nur Illyani Ahmad Fadzillah
Bass Trombone
Principals
Zachary Bond
*Aldwyn Tan
TUBA
Section Principal
Brett Stemple
TIMPANI
Matthew Thomas
PERCUSSION
Section Principal
Matthew
Prendergast
Sub-Principals
Darryl Littman
Matthew Kantorski
*Chun-yu Tsai
*Matt Smallcomb
HARP
Principal
Tan Keng Hong
PIANO
*Akiko Daniš
PROCUREMENT & CONTRACT
Logiswary Raman
Norhaszilawati Zainudin
CORPORATE SUITE CLUB MEMBERS
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT &
ADMINISTRATION
Sharhida Saad
Muknoazlida Mukhadzim
Wan Intan Shahfinas Abas
Zatil Ismah Azmi
Nor Afidah Nordin
Nik Nurul Nadia Nik Abdullah
TECHNICAL OPERATIONS
Firoz Khan
Mohd Zamir Mohd Isa
Yasheera Ishak
Shahrul Rizal M Ali
Dayan Erwan Maharal
Zolkarnain Sarman
Malaysian Philharmonic
Orchestra
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Nor Raina Yeong Abdullah
general manager
Timothy Tsukamoto
general manager’S OFFICE
Ahmad Faris Ahmad Khairi
ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT
Shannon Ho
Amy Yu Mei Ling
Tham Ying Hui
ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION
Gan Hui Wan
GUITAR
*Az Samad
MUSIC LIBRARY
Khor Chin Yang
Sharon Francis Lihan
Ong Li-Huey
SAXOPHONE
*Patrick Terbrack
EDUCATION & OUTREACH
Shafrin Sabri
Shireen Jasin Mokhtar
Note: Sectional string players are listed alphabetically and rotate within their sections. *Extra musician.
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