Dame Jane Glover, with guest clarinetist Anthony McGill

[sharminsultana]

Music of the Baroque continues its 2021-2022 season with five glorious February-May 2022 concert programs:

February 18-20
“Le Chevalier”, written and directed by Bill Barclay with original music by Joseph Bologne and others; featuring baroque music conducted by Dame Jane Glover – Premiere in Chicago; presented in partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA), the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts and Concert Theater Works

“Le Chevalier” tells the story of the life and music of the eighteenth century black composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, master composer, virtuoso violinist, friend of Mozart, music teacher of Marie-Antoinette, the best fencer in Europe, general of the first black regiment in Europe and a crusader for the abolition of slavery. Taking a “concert job function email database theater” approach and featuring the interaction of four actors with orchestral and chamber music extracts, Barclay mixes the remarkable history of Bologna with his own compositions, ultimately confusing the French Revolution with the social and political unrest in today’s society. “The Knight” is sponsored by Wintrust.

Tickets: “The Chevalier” will be played at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 19 at the North Shore Center in Skokie, 9501 Skokie Blvd. and 8 p.m. Sunday, February 20 at the Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Individual concert tickets cost between $ 25 and $ 100 and are available now at the ticket offices of the Center des arts de la scene de la Rive-Nord (northshorecenter.org) and the Symphonic Center (cso.org). Discounts for groups, students and seniors are available. Information on the February 18 performance at the Kehrein Center for the Arts, 5628 W. Washington Blvd in Chicago will be announced at a later date at baroque.org. Visit the sites for COVID protocols.

February 27-28
“McGill Plays Mozart”, conducted by
7:30 p.m. Sunday February 27, The North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie, Ill.
7:30 p.m. Monday, February 28, The Harris Theater in Millennium Park, 205 E. Randolph Dr., Chicago.
No need to be a fan of The New Yorker to enjoy Wes Anderson’s hotly-discussed new film, The French dispatch, but it definitely helps.