An Afternoon with Jane Glover
Jane Glover is the world’s most accomplished conductor of Mozart and has done everything, everywhere. Spending an afternoon with her and 12 students at the Manhattan School of Music is just another of those things people seem to expect in New York. She was very funny, telling the brilliant Shaina Martinez that relearning her breathing would “take three weeks - or eighteen years, one or the other,” warning Christian Thurston to lose his New Zealand accent if he was going to sing Mozart correctly, pointing out to Hayan Kim that her inability to pronounce “crudele” made it “your personal C word,” and transforming the finale trio of Le Nozze di Figaro after convincing each singer, one by one, that it was all about domestic violence. After four hours, Jane Glover went off to rehearse the MSM Chamber Sinfonia and I went to Vine Sushi [alas, since closed] across the street and had the red curry.
Jane Glover talks about conducting Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro:
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