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A grand celebration of our 50th anniversary at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park! Music Director Dame Jane Glover leads the Music of the Baroque Chorus & Orchestra in a festive evening of music from the Baroque era and beyond, including Handel’s majestic Music for the Royal Fireworks, Vivaldi’s uplifting Gloria, and the Baroque-inspired Spectacle of Light by Chicago-based composer Stacy Garrop, specially commissioned for MOB’s 50th anniversary. Ifetayo Ali-Landing makes her Music of the Baroque debut with the final movement of Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major. Joining the Music of the Baroque Chorus & Orchestra is the Strong Voices Chorus, featuring singers from Music of the Baroque's arts education program in Chicago public high schools.

Music of the Baroque Chorus & Orchestra
Dame Jane Glover, conductor
Benjamin Rivera, guest chorus director

Salamone Rossi (1570-c.1630) Halleluyah haleli (Psalm 146)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind & He Shall Feed His Flock, from Messiah
Congregational service music and hymns
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) Jubilate Deo omnis terra
Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911) Ave verum corpus
Congregational service music and hymns
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) Short Service
Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521) Ave Maria … virgo serena

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Missa brevis in F, Hob. XXII: 1
Francisco Valls (c. 1665-1747) Hodie Maria Virgo à8
R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) Ave Maria (1930)
Mode V Salve Mater
Congregational service music and hymns
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Grant Park Chorus
Christopher Bell, conductor

Program
arr. Ēriks Ešenvalds: "O Danny Boy"
Charles Villiers Stanford: Three Motets
David Fennessy: chOirland
Sean Doherty: "I am the World"
Michael McGlynn: "Aisling"
arr. Mark Sirett: "Wild Rover"
arr. Leslie Hewlett: "Paddy McGinty’s Goat"
arr. Earlene Rentz: "To Work Upon the Railway"
arr. Joseph Martin: "The Last Rose of Summer"
arr. Teena Chinn: "Irish Eyes are Smiling"
arr. C. Courtney Lorenz: "Three Irish Folksongs"
arr. Desmond Earley: "The Parting Glass"
arr. Erik Jones: "I’ll Tell My Ma"

Orlande de Lassus (c. 1532-1594) Precatus est Moyses
Rosa Giacinta Badalla (c. 1660-c.1710) Pane angelico
Congregational service music and hymns
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) Confitemini Domino
César Franck (1822-1890) Panis angelicus
Congregational service music and hymns
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Christopher Bell, chorus director

Program
Lili Boulanger: Psalm 24
Jonathan Dove: The Passing of the Year
Anton Bruckner: Mass No. 2 in E minor

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901) Ave Maria, WoO 7, No. 1
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Tantum ergo, Op. 65, No. 2
Congregational service music and hymns
Chant Propers from The American Gradual

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Christopher Bell, chorus director
Katelyn Lee, soprano
Sarah Ponder, mezzo-soprano
Hoss Brock, tenor
Dan Richardson, bass-baritone
Wilbur Pauley, narrator

Program

Anna Clyne: Sound and Fury
Franz Joseph Haydn: Nicolai Mass
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

Pedro Aranaz y Vides (1740–1820) Ad te levavi animam meam
Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450-1517) Qui manducat
Congregational service music and hymns
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Christopher Bell, chorus director
Susan Nelson, soprano
Sarah Ponder, mezzo-soprano
Corinne Wallace-Crane, mezzo-soprano
Program

Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria
Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Christopher Bell, chorus director
Susan Nelson, soprano
Sarah Ponder, mezzo-soprano
Corinne Wallace-Crane, mezzo-soprano
Program

Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria
Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3

Charles Ives (1874-1954) In Christ there is no East or West (arr. David White)
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) Almighty Father from Mass (1971)
Congregational service music and hymns
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) Pseaume 47: Or sus, tous humains
Congregational service music and hymns
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum