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.

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.