GLOVER CONDUCTS MOZART–THE LAST THREE SYMPHONIES
Jane Glover, conductor
Sunday, May 22, 7:30 PM
First United Methodist Church, Evanston
Ticket Prices: $60, $45, $38
Monday, May 23, 7:30 PM
Harris Theater, Chicago
(Millennium Park)
Ticket Prices: $75, $60, $45, $38, $30
Free pre-concert lectures by Carl Grapentine will take place before each concert. Lectures begin at 6:30 PM in the church, and at 6 PM in the Chicago Cultural Center's Randolph Café before Harris Theater concerts.
PROGRAM
W. A. MOZART
Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 (Jupiter)
HEAR THE MUSIC
Mozart
“Symphony #39 In E Flat, mvt 3, Menuetto”
“Symphony #39 In E Flat, mvt 4, Finale - Allegro”
“Symphony #40 In G Minor, mvt 3, Menuetto”
“Symphony #40 In G Minor, mvt 4, Finale - Allegro assai”
“Symphony #41 In C, mvt 1, Allegro vivace”
“Symphony #41 In C, mvt 4, Molto allegro”
Music of the Baroque Orchestra
This concert is expected to last less than two hours, including intermission.
Written in just six weeks during the summer of 1788 in one of the greatest creative outbursts of all time, Mozart’s final symphonies bring Music of the Baroque’s 40th concert season to a triumphant close.
PROGRAM NOTES
While Mozart’s final days have been immortalized in fictionalized accounts like Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus, the facts alone tell a story that needs no added drama…Read more (pdf) »
RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS
Mozart, Symphonies No. 40 and 41
Jane Glover and the Royal Philharmonic (Royal Phil Masterwk)
Mozart, Symphony No. 39 (also includes 40 and 41)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Marriner
