Music of the Baroque, Chicago Music of the Baroque, Chicago Music of the Baroque is a professional chorus and orchestra based in Chicago and one of the few groups of its stature in the country devoted to the performance of eighteenth-century works. Under the direction of internationally acclaimed British conductor Jane Glover, Music of the Baroque is consistently positioned among Chicago’s leading classical music ensembles, drawing particular praise for its performances of the major choral works of J. S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Handel. "Opera News" calls Music of the Baroque “one of Chicago’s musical glories” and the "Chicago Sun-Times writes," “Lyric Opera of Chicago
Baroque music of the British Isles (1702–14), had a reputation for being uninterested in culture, but had a considerable musical education and some talent. As a princess she was a patron of Purcell, Turner and Blow and from the early years of her reign she sponsored compositions for Royal processions and occasions including her coronation and the Acts of Union in 1707, which created the Kingdom of Great Britain. Her successor George Elector of Hanover, king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1727 as George I, was perhaps the most musically minded monarch of the era, bringing German and Italian music and musicians with