Music Director Jane Glover leads the Chicago-based Music of the Baroque orchestra and chorus. Photo by Mary Siegel.
In the March 1 Chicago Classical Review, Lawrence A. Johnson writes, “Music of the Baroque’s 56th season will open September 27-28 with an all-Mozart program. Conducted by Dame Jane Glover—now in her 24th season as music director—the program spotlights Symphonies Nos. 40 and 41 and the Piano Concerto No. 27 with … Imogen Cooper, in what is billed as the retiring pianist’s final U.S. appearance…. On November 22-23, Glover will lead Bach’s epic Mass in B minor. In the most diverting item next season, Glover conducts a reconstructed performance of Bach’s lost St. Mark Passion March 21-22 in a dramatized collaboration with Bill Barclay’s Concert Theatre Works. Glover’s contract has been renewed … through 2029…. Marc Minkowski returns to direct a program with Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Charpentier’s Te Deum, and Mozart’s Oboe Concerto with principal Anne Bach as soloist. British conductor David Bates will make his MOB debut in a suite-heavy program of English composers … Nicholas Kraemer leads a concertante program with MOB principals performing violin and flute concertos by Vivaldi and Telemann … Kraemer, MOB’s principal guest conductor, will also direct a choral program … Chorus director Andrew Megill will lead the Holiday Brass and Choral program.”
