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
Mikhail Sokolovsky (composer) revived. Sokolovsky's contemporary, composer Yevstigney Fomin later revised the music of the opera adding an overture to it. Under the reign of autocratic Czar Nicholas I of Russia, verses of Sokolovsky that were critical of Nicholas's predecessors were often sung at anti-Nicholas rallies. Mikhail Sokolovsky (composer) Mikhail Matveyevich Sokolovsky ( (1756—after 1795) was a late 18th-century Russian opera composer, conductor and violinist. Sokolovsky played the violin in the orchestra of the Maddox Theatre in Moscow. It is known that he also taught singing at the university. The music of the renowned-in-its-day opera "The miller who was a wizard, a cheat