“Jane Glover will continue to lead Music of the Baroque through the ensemble’s 50th anniversary season and three years beyond,” writes Lawrence A. Johnson in Friday’s (8/9) Chicago Classical Review. “MOB announced Friday that it has extended Glover’s contract as music director through the 2022-23 season. That will make the 70-year-old British conductor, who took the MOB reins in 2002, the longest tenured current leader of a Chicago classical organization…. ‘Our audience increased by 11% last season, largely because of Jane’s superb programming and the insight and excitement she brings to each season,’ said executive director Declan McGovern in a released statement. He added, ‘Jane Glover has raised the artistic quality and programming to new levels, taken the orchestra on tour to California, and premiered works new to MOB like Handel’s Alexander’s Feast and Judas Maccabaeus and Haydn’s Theresa Mass and The Seasons…. Her two decades [at MOB] … put her close to Georg Solti’s 22 years (1969-91) as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra…. Frederick Stock’s 37-year reign at the CSO (1905-42) remains unbeaten for local longevity. Music of the Baroque’s 49th season opens [in September] with Jane Glover conducting Bach’s Mass in B minor.”
Posted August 12, 2019
