New job for Jane Glover
OrchestrasThe unassuming and scholarly English conductor has been appointed principal guest at the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, where Robert Spano is music director.
Glover, 74, starts in August next year.
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Lucky them. She’s always been the classiest of class acts.
Brilliant appointment.
Good. She’s excellent.
fine musician and writer. Loved that JB docu where she said that Ray Leppard referred to her and her close friends Janet Baker and Imogen Cooper as ‘the coven’: camp old Ray as ever..
London Mozart Players parted ways with her.
Saw her last at Barbican
Orchestra ignored her
She was Bopping not conducting in my opinion
Wonderful woman who quietly and very capably made her own way on merit – not spin or gender fashions.
Fort Worth is so lucky. She’s one of those conductors you cancel all plans to go and hear. Love JG’s work, recordings and writing!
It’s very sad that someone who is so talented cannot be in charge of a British orchestra again. As a Londoner I remember local performances in the past. Fort Worth is lucky and we are unfortunate again.
Her books are also SUPERB
I’ve been wondering for a while if Glover was trying to establish a more notable presence in America, or contemplating an outright relocation there.
Her website currently lists her performance dates for the first half of 2024, and ALL of them are in the United States. She had a lot of U.S. engagements in 2023 as well.
https://www.jane-glover.com/schedule
Great lady,fabulous musician!!!
Congratulations Jane. Happy memories of working with you with LMP.
Congratulations to the wonderful Jane Glover!
October 2022, Ms. Glover conducted the Houston Symphony in an all-Mozart program. Billed as a “Mozart specialist,” her scholastic credentials disappointed. The Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola is one of Mozart’s greatest concertos and one of the best by any composer. Mozart played both the violin and the viola, and he gave equal importance to both instruments in this piece. Reflecting this, the string sections have first and second violins and first and second violas, a fact that was overlooked balance-wise in this performance. On stage were nine first violins, eight second violins, and only six violas. All four sections should have been equal, or at least 5-5-4-4, along with three cellos and two basses. (There were five and three.) This caused balance issues, particularly with the solo viola. I hope Ms. Glover will consider this in any future performances of this great work.