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Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society Announces 2025-26 Season
Highlights of third season under Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen include five soloist debuts, featured guests Raphaël Pichon and acclaimed soprano Carolyn Sampson, and the return of H+H CitySing, welcoming singers from throughout Greater Boston to perform with H+H. BOSTON | The Handel and Haydn Society is pleased to announce details of its 2025-26 Season, the …
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Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society Now Accepting Applications from String Instrumentalists for 2025-2027 Stone Fellowship
Prestigious two-year Fellowship designed to foster the development of early-career musicians with ethnicities historically underrepresented in the field of period performance. BOSTON | The Handel and Haydn Society is now receiving applications from string instrumentalists for the 2025-2027 cohort of the H+H Stone Fellowship, a prestigious two-year fellowship for emerging musicians pursuing careers in period …
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Herald Spring and Celebrate Pride at the Handel and Haydn Society’s ‘Haydn + Beethoven’ Concerts March 28 + 30 at Symphony Hall
H+H Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen conducts two grand choral works: “Spring” from Haydn’s The Seasons and Beethoven’s Mass in C Major. Pride celebrations at the concerts in partnership with the Massachusetts LGBT Chamber of Commerce include a collaborative art activation with Artists for Humanity and a community sing. BOSTON | As longer days and budding …
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The Handel and Haydn Society Announces Retirement of President & CEO David Snead
BOSTON | The Handel + Haydn Society today announced that President & CEO David Snead will retire after nearly a decade at the helm of the performing arts organization. Under his leadership, H+H has recently been praised as “not just the oldest, but the finest historically informed orchestra in the nation” by the Boston Music …
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A Brilliant Tapestry of Sound: H+H’s performance of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos
From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) presented a masterful performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete “Brandenburg Concertos” at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall.
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The Arts Fuse: Handel + Haydn Society Explores the Romantic Music of Young Handel
This H+H Society performance suggested Handel’s genius for generating joy.
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Boston Classical Review: Harvey, H+H, dazzle a delightful program of Handel rarities
One of Handel’s strengths lies in his rich experiences encompassing Europe, from his German heritage to his travels in Italy and eventual naturalization as a British citizen.
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer: Reaching the Distant Shore
A shocking discovery that its namesake composer Handel may have benefited from the slave trade led the Handel and Haydn Society to embark almost simultaneously on a research project and an act of musical restitution, “Crossing the Deep,” which is playing this weekend at Jordan Hall in two sold-out performances.
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WGBH: ‘Crossing The Deep’ connects Handel’s choral works with spirituals by enslaved Africans
When Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society found records detailing iconic composer George Frideric Handel’s ties to the slave trade, it responded in a way only the organization could: through music and performance.
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