Mozart & Schubert
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Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 8 pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 3 pm
Dame Jane Glover, conductor Harrison Miller, bassoon
Dame Jane Glover
Laura Thiesbrummel
Wolfgang Amadeus Symphony No. 34 in C Major, K. 338
Mozart I. Allegro vivace II. Andante di molto III. Allegro vivace
Nino Rota
INTERMISSION
Bassoon Concerto I. Toccata: Allegro vivace II. Recitativo: Lento III. Andantino- Variations I – VI
Harrison Miller, bassoon
Wolfgang Amadeus Minuet in C Major, K. 409 [ 338f ] Mozart
Franz Schubert Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485 I. Allegro II. Andante con moto III. Menuetto: Allegro molto IV. Allegro vivace
This performance is approximately 1 hour, 35 minutes and includes a 20-minute intermission.
Principal Bassoon Harrison Miller is sponsored for the 2024 – 25 season by Paul and Donna Amico.
Dame Jane Glover
Acclaimed British conductor Jane Glover, named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year’ s Honours, is Music Director of Chicago’ s Music of the Baroque and was recently named Principal Guest Conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony. Past positions include Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Artistic Director of the London Mozart Players, and Director of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music.
Future and recent-past engagements include returns to the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Camerata Salzburg, and the symphonies of Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Oregon. Recent opera productions include Magic Flute at New York’ s Metropolitan Opera and the Houston Grand Opera, Xerxes with the Detroit Opera, Albert Herring at both the Minnesota Opera, as well as Chicago Opera Theater, Don Giovanni with the Houston Grand Opera, Aspen Music Festival, and Cincinnati Opera, and the North American premiere of Ferdinando Paër’ s Leonora with Chicago Opera Theater.
Jane Glover’ s discography includes a series of Mozart and Haydn symphonies with the London Mozart Players and recordings of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Britten, and Walton with the London Philharmonic, the Royal
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