Václav Luks Leads the Handel and Haydn Orchestra as He Continues His Exploration of Beethoven’s Symphonies
October 27 + 29, 2023 at Symphony Hall Press performance is Friday, October 27 at 7:30 PM Email for high-resolution images, interviews, press tickets, and more information (Boston) Esteemed Czech conductor Václav Luks returns to Boston to lead the H+H Orchestra in a rousing Beethoven symphony. Luks Leads Beethoven features a pair of works from …
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Jonathan Cohen Begins Role As Artistic Director of the Handel and Haydn Society with Israel in Egypt
October 6 + 8, 2023 at Symphony Hall Press performance is Friday, October 6 at 7:30 PM Email for high-resolution images, interviews, press tickets, and more information (Boston) Jonathan Cohen will take the helm of one of America’s finest performing arts organizations when he leads the Handel and Haydn Society in Handel’s epic tale of …
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Handel and Haydn Society Names Violinists Carmen Lavada Johnson-Pájaro and Amelia Sie Inaugural Stone Fellows
(Boston – July 12, 2023) The Handel and Haydn Society has named violinists Carmen Lavada Johnson-Pájaro and Amelia Sie the first ever Stone Fellows. A first of its kind among period-instrument orchestras, the Fellowship will foster the development of early-career musicians whose socio-cultural identities have been historically underrepresented in the field. Johnson-Pájaro and Sie will …
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Feeling HIP? A Guide to Baroque String Instruments
By John Tamilio III, Ph.D. The Handel and Haydn Society has been a leading player in the Boston music scene for over 200 years, but for the past four decades—since the arrival of former Artistic Director Christopher Hogwood in 1986—it has been in the vanguard of ensuring the early music capital of North America has …
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Q+A with Dr. Ellen Harris: Revisiting Handel as Orpheus
Dr. Ellen Harris didn’t plan on writing a book about homosexual subtext in George Frideric Handel’s chamber cantatas. But as one of the foremost Handel scholars in the world—Dr. Harris is the Class of 1949 Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the current President of the Handel House Foundation of America—she had …
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