Stephen Goist Named Principal Viola and Katherine Spencer Named Principal Clarinet BOSTON | The Handel and Haydn Society and Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen are pleased to announce the appointments of Stephen Goist as principal viola and Katherine Spencer as principal clarinet beginning in the 2025-26 Season. The musicians were selected by Cohen and separate committees …
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League’s Flagship Professional Development Program Established 25 Years Ago [Boston, MA] – Chris Petre-Baumer, Director of Marketing and Creative of the Handel and Haydn Society, is among an international cohort of 35 orchestra and arts professionals selected to participate in Essentials of Orchestra Management, the League of American Orchestras’ premier leadership development program. The ten-day …
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By John Tamilio III, Ph.D. There is a moment during H+H’s performance of Handel’s Messiah when two trumpet players emerge from opposite wings of the Symphony Hall balcony and play a fanfare. It’s one of my favorite parts of this famous oratorio. My heart skips a beat at the sound of the majestic flourish, imagining that this is how …
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Selected vocalists to perform portions of Handel’s Saul with H+H at Symphony Hall on Oct 3 + 5. Application materials are due by Saturday, May 31. BOSTON | The Handel and Haydn Society and Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen are pleased to announce that applications are now open for the second annual H+H CitySing, welcoming 30 …
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H+H delivers beauty, mischief, and fun.
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The Handel and Haydn Society offered a stunning season closer Friday night at Symphony Hall that garnered not one but two standing ovations, the first occurring most unusually right before intermission.
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May 30th concert in Roxbury offers Baroque bops, new jams, and celebrates queerness in classical music All tickets are “pay what you wish” BOSTON | The iconoclastic Brooklyn collective ChamberQUEER (CQ) teams up with Grammy-winning Boston institution the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) for BaroQUEER: Historically Informed. Co-curated by H+H programming consultant and superstar countertenor …
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Sometimes it is hard to understand what was going on in the mind of an orchestral manager booking a concert. The last Handel + Haydn Society concert—despite its many musical merits—was an enigma, an afternoon full of conglomerate causes.
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H+H partners with the Massachusetts College of Art and Design to bring a juried exhibition of student artwork inspired by Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 to Symphony Hall, open during both concerts. BOSTON | Handel and Haydn Society Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen leads the H+H Orchestra in a showstopping season finale pairing works from the …
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