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
Sheet music have been capable of producing music without the capacity themselves to read or write in musical notation, as long as an amanuensis of some sort is available to write down the melodies they think of. Examples include the blind 18th-century composer John Stanley and the 20th-century songwriters Lionel Bart, Irving Berlin and Paul McCartney. As well, in traditional music styles such as the blues and folk music, there are many prolific songwriters who could not read music, and instead played and sang music "by ear". The skill of sight reading is the ability of a musician to perform an unfamiliar