Mozart Fellow and Musical Director of MOB Glover joins forces with Chicago-born solo clarinet and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and McGill’s first African-American principal player for Mozart’s magnificent Clarinet Concerto. Mozart’s haunting Symphony No. 40 in G minor and the Overture to “Lucio Silla”, written when Mozart was only 15 years old, complete the program. This concert is sponsored by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation.
Tickets: $ 25- $ 95. For tickets or more information, including COVID-19 protocol updates, visit baroque.org.
March 20-21
7:30 p.m. Sunday March 20, The North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie, Ill.
7:30 p.m. Monday March 21, The Harris Theater in Millennium Park, 205 E. Randolph Dr., Chicago
Coinciding with Women’s History Month, Kraemer returns for this phone number library fascinating program exploring the tension between the traditional roles of 18th century opera heroines as wives, girlfriends and lovers and the undeniable power of the female voice. . Baroque specialist Amanda Forsythe (soprano) sings Cleopatra’s aria “Da tempeste” from “Giulio Cesare” by Handel, “Scena di Berenice” by Haydn, Dido’s famous lament from “Dido and Aeneas” by Purcell, etc.
Tickets: $ 25- $ 95. For tickets or more information, including COVID-19 protocol updates, visit baroque.org.
April 10-11
“Easter Oratorio”, conducted by Dame Jane Glover
7:30 p.m., Sunday April 10, The North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie, Ill.
7:30 p.m., Monday April 11, The Harris Theater in Millennium Park, 205 E. Randolph Dr., Chicago
On Palm Sunday weekend, Glover conducts the music of the Baroque choir, orchestra and four world famous soloists – Yulia Van Doren (soprano), Elizabeth deshong (mezzo-soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor) and Michel Sumuel (baritone-bass) – in Bach’s imaginative Easter Oratorio, a journey from the darkness of a cave to the light of the sky. This concert is sponsored by the Negaunee Foundation.
“Classical Heroines”, conducted by Nicholas Kraemer
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