December 3 – 5, 2021 Press performance is Friday, December 3 at 7:30 PM Email for high-resolution images, interviews, press tickets, and more information [Boston – November 5, 2021] The Handel and Haydn Society celebrates the majesty of the holiday season with Bach Christmas, December 3rd, 4th, and 5th. Raphaël Pichon, acclaimed director of the …
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Louise Farrenc By Benjamin Pesetsky With thanks to Teresa Neff Louise Farrenc’s Symphony No. 3 premiered on a program alongside Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony at the Société des concerts du Conservatoire de Paris. It was 1849, and she was a piano professor in her mid-40s at the Paris Conservatoire. Her symphony’s premiere was notable not only …
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Concert Marks Harry Christophers’ Return to Symphony Hall for his Final Season as Artistic Director November 26-28, 2021 Press performance is Friday, November 26 at 7:30 PM Email for high-resolution images, interviews, press tickets, and more information [Boston – October 19, 2021] A holiday tradition returns to Boston as the Handel and Haydn Society performs …
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Brooklyn-based composer and bass-baritone Jonathan Woody recently composed his Suite for Orchestra after the works of Charles Ignatius Sancho, an H+H commissioned work based on music in the compositions of Charles Ignatius Sancho (1729 – 1780), the first person of African descent to publish classical music. In this blog post, Woody discusses more about the …
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Friday, November 5 and Sunday, November 7 at Symphony Hall Press performance is Friday, November 5 at 7:30 PM Email for high-resolution images, interviews, press tickets, and more information [Boston September 24, 2021] The Handel and Haydn Society will blend the softer side of Beethoven with the groundbreaking brilliance of Farrenc Friday, November 5 and …
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Charles Ignatius Sancho By Benjamin Pesetsky Sancho’s Early Life Charles Ignatius Sancho (1729–1780) is remembered by the British Library as a “writer, composer, shopkeeper, and abolitionist.” We know a great deal about his life from his letters, with further details provided by a 1782 biography. According to this account, Sancho was born on a slave …
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