NIGHT MUSIC
Friday, October 17, 7:30 PM
Harris Theater, Chicago
(Millennium Park)
Ticket Prices: $75, $60, $45, $38, $30
Sunday, October 19, 7:30 PM
First United Methodist Church, Evanston
Ticket Prices: $60, $45, $38
A free pre-concert lecture presented by Jim Kendros begins at 6:30 PM in the church chapel.
This concert will be broadcast on WFMT 98.7 FM at 8 PM on Friday, January 9, 2009.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 8 in G Major (Le soir)
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Fourth movement—La Tempesta: Presto |
Benjamin Britten
Nocturne, Op. 60
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"Encintured with a twine of leaves" |
"Total eclipse" from Samson, Act I
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"Total eclipse" |
Night sequence from The Fairy Queen, Act II
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Entrance of Mystery: "I am come to look all fast" |
Felix Mendelssohn
Nocturne from A Midsummer
Night's Dream
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Nocturne |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
(A Little Night Music)
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Fourth movement—Rondo: Allegro |
Music of the Baroque
Chorus and Orchestra
Alyssa Bennett, Night
From Samson’s eternal darkness to the breathtaking calm of the Nocturne from
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, composers paint the night in vivid musical colors. Acclaimed tenor John McVeigh is featured in a richly varied program that also includes Mozart’s beloved Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
PROGRAM NOTES
In 1761, shortly after he entered the patronage of the Esterházy court,
Franz Joseph Haydn composed a symphonic trilogy ...
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RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS
Haydn, Symphony No. 8, Le soir
Nicholas Ward, Northern Chamber Orchestra
Handel, Samson
Harnoncourt and Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Harry Christophers and The Sixteen (available for MP3 download too)
Purcell, The Fairy Queen
John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists
Andre Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra (CD and MP3)
Andrew Manze, English Concert (also has A Musical Joke)
Neville Marriner and Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (also includes A Musical Joke)