From Bolivia to Ghana to India to the US, the perspective-changing experience of travel influenced many of your favorite composers.

The season is the first programmed by 2023-appointed general director Lawrence Edelson and the first following the departure of Lidiya Yankovskaya as music director.

Dame Jane Glover leads Music of the Baroque in the monumental work scored for double chorus, double orchestra, children’s choir and six soloists.

Highlights include rarely-heard gems, beloved holiday concerts, and the 80th birthday celebration of Nicholas Kraemer.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has announced its 2024–2025 season, a full year of concerts in its mainstage subscription series, as well as chamber, solo, family, and other programming.

Glover has led Music of the Baroque since 2002.

Wind and water are at the heart of Chicago’s identity; Dame Jane Glover leads a program inspired by our hometown.

Dame Jane Glover makes her CSO debut leading Haydn and Mozart.

“I’ve been with this group now for over 20 years. It is glorious.”

Dame Jane Glover leads the chorus and orchestra in Bach’s Magnificat and Mozart’s Requiem.

Music of the Baroque’s first performance in over three decades of Handel’s final oratorio.

Boasting banner works like the Mozart Requiem and Bach’s St. John Passion, the season will feature eight programs performed at venues in and around Chicago.

The English conductor returns to Chicago Opera Theater to lead Britten’s comic masterpiece later this month.

In this celebratory season, audiences will hear two twentieth-century operas and three world premieres across COT’s full slate of mainstage and special programming.

The lineup represents the “most ambitious season in recent history,” according to executive director Declan McGovern.

“It’s like Paganini and Bruce Lee in one dude,” marvels Bill Barclay, the writer and director of a new play about Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

Music director Riccardo Muti will conduct music by Beethoven, Price, Glass, and Montgomery while welcoming guest artists like Anne-Sophie Mutter, Leif Ove Andsnes, and Mitsuko Uchida.

Music of the Baroque today announced its plans for a 2021-22 season, the venerable Chicago area ensemble’s 51st.

All month long, you can enjoy WFMT’s special holiday broadcasts from all around the world.