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January 14, 2026

The Handel and Haydn Society Youth Choruses Expands Programming to Support Choral Music Education in Public High Schools

Brockton, Framingham, and South Shore high schools to participate in inaugural HHYC Chorale Festival, including a performance with H+H at Symphony Hall BOSTON | The Handel and Haydn Society Youth Choruses (HHYC) will host its inaugural Chorale Festival in February, designed to enrich choral music education in Massachusetts public high schools. The HHYC Chorale Festival …

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January 13, 2026

The Boston Musical Intelligencer: Glistening High Notes and High-Stakes Haydn

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January 10, 2026

Boston Classical Review: Soprano Sampson shines in Telemann rarity with Handel and Haydn society

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December 31, 2025

The Boston Globe: First Night Boston puts diversity and culture at center stage

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December 30, 2025

Bay State Banner: Emancipation Proclamation Concert celebrates freedom, reflects on history

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

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December 16, 2025

The Handel and Haydn Society Welcomes English Soprano Carolyn Sampson for ‘Mozart + Haydn’ at NEC’s Jordan Hall, January 9 + 11

H+H Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen leads the period ensemble in a program of Baroque and Classical works to begin the new year BOSTON | Radiant “Alleluias” will fill the hall as renowned English soprano Carolyn Sampson joins the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra for ‘Mozart + Haydn’ at NEC’s Jordan Hall on Friday, January 9 …

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December 9, 2025

Palm Beach Arts Paper: Boston’s H+H Society brings standout ‘Messiah’ to Kravis

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.

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December 4, 2025

South Florida Classical Review: Handel and Haydn Society serves up a fiery, compelling “Messiah” at Kravis

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.

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December 4, 2025

MIT’s The Tech: The Handel and Haydn Society delivers a convincing version of Handel’s ‘Messiah’

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

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December 1, 2025

Sound the Trumpets! Annual H+H ‘Baroque Christmas’ Concerts Celebrate the Season with Festive Music

H+H Resident Conductor Scott Allen Jarrett leads the period instrument orchestra and chorus in this year’s holiday performances at NEC’s Jordan Hall, Dec 18 + 21 BOSTON | Make the season bright with the brilliance of Baroque music performed by the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra and Chorus in the beautiful and intimate setting of …

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