H+H News

Every year the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) and the Museum of African American History ring in the new year with the Emancipation Proclamation Concert, commemorating the proclamation during the Civil War that began the process of ending slavery. Read More

The Kravis Center’s Classical Concert Series launched its latest season with a performance that has set the standard so high that it will be difficult to surpass it. Featuring the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra and Chorus, the program’s sole work was the profoundly beautiful (and often butchered) George Frideric Handel’s Messiah.

Handel’s Messiah arrives at Christmas with the inevitability of television airings of It’s a Wonderful Life. But the performance Wednesday evening in West Palm Beach proved special.

This Thanksgiving break, the Handel and Haydn Society continued its annual tradition of performing Handel’s Messiah, arguably the composer’s most famous oratorio.

Thanksgiving weekend at Symphony Hall, Handel and Haydn Society will present Handel’s “Messiah” for the 172nd year in a row. Read the full article

If practice makes perfect, then the Handel and Haydn Society’s “Messiah” is beyond perfect. Read the full article