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Music for the Royal Fireworks with Music of the Baroque

September 12, 2022, 8:00 pm

Jane Glover conducts Music of the Baroque at Millennium Park, with audience in the background

Dame Jane Glover conducts ad Millennium Park (Photo: Elliot Mandel)

Dame Jane Glover, Music of the Baroque‘s music director, leads Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Haydn’s Fire Symphony, and Mozart’s Jeunehomme Piano Concerto in a performance featuring pianist Garrick Ohlsson.

Recorded September 3, 2022

Playlist

Haydn: Fire Symphony

Mozart: Jeunehomme Concerto

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks

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Kerry is a regular host of live concert broadcasts including Live from WFMT, concerts from the Ravinia Festival, and WFMT’s premiere visiting artist series, Impromptu. Kerry hosts many WFMT Radio Network broadcasts from such locations as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival. A native Chicagoan, Kerry grew up with WFMT. His love of music and radio played an important part in his life at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, where he eventually became program director of Wisconsin Public Radio. He’s always been a strong advocate of live music broadcasts, and cherishes having interviewed many of the performers he admires including Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, John Adams, Leif Ove Andsnes – even the award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.

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