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You like the music better when you know something about it. For a more intimate understanding of the Kansas City Philharmonic Concerts we print excerpts from the actual program notes by Dr. Robert D. W. Adams of the University of Kansas City, and others. The concerts will be heard in the Music Hall of the Municipal Auditorium. For information regarding available recordings of any composition listed, address the Music Editor of "Swing".
SIXTH SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT, January 2-). Efrem Kurtz conducting Astisting Artist, JAN PEERCE
Symphony in G Minor, No. 40
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It is difficult, perhaps, for the modern listener accustomed to the more impassioned utterances of Nineteenth Century romantic composers to believe that during the composition of this symphony, in which serene thoughtfulness seems so perfectly tempered with delicate good humor, Mozart was on the verge of despair. The work is the second of three immortal symphonies, written under pressure of the most distracting sort, in the incredibly brief period between the middle of June and the tenth of August, 1788. Mozart was in desperate need of money; sickness and death in his family had drained his j resources, and during the toil of composing and producing the opera "Don Giovanni" the year before, he had lost most of the music pupils who were his chief income. He was heavily in debt, and creditors were "wearing out his door with their knuckles." Two thousand florins were needed to ease the pressure of debt:" he had been able to raise but two hundred. Such were the circumstances under which he wrote his last three great symphonies. Mozart achieved this monument of symphonic writing (the SYMPHONY IN G MINOR, NO. 40) with the modest means of the Eighteenth Century orchestra — the usual strings, two horns, a flute, two clarinets, two oboes, and two bassoons.
Where'er You Walk, from "Semele"
.» Handel
Deeper and Deeper Still from
"Jephtha" Handel
Waft Her, Angels from "Jephtha"
_ Handel
Jan Peerce Corral Nocturne and Hoe-Down.
from "Rodeo" Copland
First and Third Movement from
Symphony in G Minor
Wi\tor Labuns\i
This month Kansas City audiences will hear these movements for the first time. The composer, who is Director of the Kansas City Conservatory of Music, is Polish born and received most of his training in Russia. The composition is American born, dating from only a few winters ago, and created of the quality of American folk music. Parts of it have been played by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, with Dr. Labunski conducting, and the Slow Movement ("Americana") was performed here about three years ago. Dr. Labunski appears frequently in recitals here and has three times been presented as soloist with the Philharmonic. His professional debut in 1912 was made in St. Petersburg, with Beethoven's Emperor Concerto. After serving as lieutenant in the first World War, he returned to his music and in 1928 made his American debut at Carnegie Hall.
O Paradiso, from "Africana"
Meyerbeer
La Donna e Mobile, from "Rigo
letto" Verdi
Jan Peerce