Music of the Baroque

Mirth & Melancholy—Handel’s L’Allegro

Jane Glover, conductor

Sunday, March 25, 7:30 pm

First United Methodist Church, Evanston
Ticket Prices: $60, $45, $38

Monday, March 26, 7:30 pm

Harris Theater, Chicago

Ticket Prices: $75, $60, $45, $38, $30

Free pre-concert lectures by Peter Van De Graaff will take place before each concert. Lectures begin at 6:30 pm in the church, and at 6 pm in the Chicago Cultural Center’s Randolph Café before Harris Theater concerts.

 

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Program

HANDEL

L’Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato

Hear the Music

Handel

L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato, “Or let the merry bells ring round”

listen to a sample

L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato, “There let the pealing organ blow”

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• Music of the Baroque
  Chorus and Orchestra
• Jane Glover, conductor
• Lisa Saffer, soprano
• Elizabeth Futral, soprano
• Thomas Cooley, tenor
• Christòpheren Nomura, baritone

A perfect marriage of music and poetry, this is one of Handel’s most imaginative works for the stage. L’Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato sets John Milton’s immortal verse in a vivid musical dialogue between the contemplative man and the happy man. “Untwisting all the chains that tie the hidden soul of harmony,” Jane Glover conducts an evening of deeply moving, expressively beautiful, marvelously witty music.

Recommended Recordings

Handel, L’Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato

Robert King, The King’s Consort (Hyperion)