Chicago Classical Music

As Mel Brooks once put it, “it’s good to be the king.”  If you were a British royal in the 18th century, it meant having the cosmopolitan and talented George Frederic Handel at your disposal, conjuring regal music to celebrate all the important milestones in your life.  Hand-picked from over 40 years that Handel spent in London, Jane Glover’s Music of the Baroque performed three of his pieces at the Harris Theater that collectively traced the arc of a royal life, from divinely-inspired birth through marriage and death.