September 26, 2021 – July 18, 2021
Sep 2021
Dame Jane Glover conducts Baroque in the Park - Guest Chorus Director
Music of the Baroque • Chicago
A grand celebration of our 50th anniversary at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park! Music Director Dame Jane Glover leads the Music of the Baroque Chorus & Orchestra in a festive evening of music from the Baroque era and beyond, including Handel’s majestic Music for the Royal Fireworks, Vivaldi’s uplifting Gloria, and the Baroque-inspired Spectacle of Light by Chicago-based composer Stacy Garrop, specially commissioned for MOB’s 50th anniversary. Ifetayo Ali-Landing makes her Music of the Baroque debut with the final movement of Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major. Joining the Music of the Baroque Chorus & Orchestra is the Strong Voices Chorus, featuring singers from Music of the Baroque's arts education program in Chicago public high schools.
Music of the Baroque Chorus & Orchestra
Dame Jane Glover, conductor
Benjamin Rivera, guest chorus director
Sep 2021
Solemn High Mass
Church of the Ascension • Chicago
Salamone Rossi (1570-c.1630) Halleluyah haleli (Psalm 146)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind & He Shall Feed His Flock, from Messiah
Congregational service music and hymns
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum
Aug 2021
Solemn High Mass for the Assumption of the BVM
Church of the Ascension • Chicago
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Missa brevis in F, Hob. XXII: 1
Francisco Valls (c. 1665-1747) Hodie Maria Virgo à8
R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) Ave Maria (1930)
Mode V Salve Mater
Congregational service music and hymns
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum
Aug 2021
From Ireland with Love - Chorister
Grant Park Music Festival • Chicago
Grant Park Chorus
Christopher Bell, conductor
Program
arr. Ēriks Ešenvalds: "O Danny Boy"
Charles Villiers Stanford: Three Motets
David Fennessy: chOirland
Sean Doherty: "I am the World"
Michael McGlynn: "Aisling"
arr. Mark Sirett: "Wild Rover"
arr. Leslie Hewlett: "Paddy McGinty’s Goat"
arr. Earlene Rentz: "To Work Upon the Railway"
arr. Joseph Martin: "The Last Rose of Summer"
arr. Teena Chinn: "Irish Eyes are Smiling"
arr. C. Courtney Lorenz: "Three Irish Folksongs"
arr. Desmond Earley: "The Parting Glass"
arr. Erik Jones: "I’ll Tell My Ma"