Hallelujah for Handels Messiah Nov 14, 2009
one of hundreds of such events across the country in which an unrehearsed audience performs as the chorus in George Frideric Handel s baroque masterpiece. This photo taken Oct. 20, 2009 shows Robert Arentz conducting The Boulder Messiah Chorale at First United Methodist Church in Boulder,Colorado. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Quadricentennial coming to a close Nov 9, 2009
The program will include period music during Cole s time by Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Michael William Balfe and George Frideric Handel. Featured musicians are: violinist Ann Marie Barker Schwarz, guitarist Stan Issacsen, flutist Norman Thibodeau and violoncellist Petia Kassarova. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
La Crosse Concert Band series begins June 10 May 31, 2009
Steve Bina will conduct the June 17 concert with music that has been heard in Bugs Bunny cartoons, from The Rabbit of Seville and George Frideric Handel s Water Music Suite to Richard Wagner s Ride of the Valkyries and Bugs greatest hits medley, What s Up at the Symphony. For the third straight summer, the La Crosse Concert Band will move indoors to Viterbo s Fine Arts Center Main Theatre for a concert on June 24. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Market player Apr 13, 2009
BBC Radio 3 asked me to take part in the extensive commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the death of the great Anglo-German composer, George Frideric Handel. They wanted to know about Handel's money and how he made it, ending up with a fortune (maybe 3m in today's money) in financial times no less tumultuous than our own day. (BBC News -- Europe)
Go&Do: Community Chorus concerts and jump roping! Apr 4, 2009
"When George Frideric Handel wrote his Messiah he was hoping for a hit. He was in poor financial and physical health and wanted to give the public something new and popular. But he probably did not anticipate that his oratorio would be an enduring masterwork playing to enthusiastic audiences around the world 250 years after his death in April 1759."To mark this anniversary, the Community Chorus at South Berwick will perform Messiah Parts II and III, which some call the 'Easter Messiah,' over... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Hard to Handel Mar 27, 2009
George Frideric Handel usually gets celebrated around Christmas because of his popular "Messiah," but this weekend, Handel gets some March love thanks to In Celebration of Handel, a show put on by the Musicians of the Old Post Road. The concerts include performances of a variety of Handel's works, as well as a talk by Boston College professor Stephanie Leone. (Boston Globe)
Music: Georgian splendour Mar 21, 2009
By 1727 Handel was so well entrenched in London that, as George Frideric Handel, he became a naturalised British citizen (which required an act of Parliament). The British public took him to its heart and he was well in with the court. (The Economist)
Going for Baroque: Symphonys fired-up season ender is April 3 Mar 19, 2009
George Frideric Handel s Water Music is not apt to douse the evening s flickering flames, but instead provide a musical hot beverage in the movements performed. Antonio Vivaldi s contribution to the evening s sizzling embers is the Spring component from his Four Seasons. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Raising voices and funds Feb 28, 2009
It's from Liebeslieder "Love Songs" Waltzes: "Oh women, oh women, how they do delight! I would have become a monk long ago were it not for women!" The music at "Bach, Beethoven and the Boys (Girls, Too)" includes work by Ruth Watson Henderson, George Frideric Handel, Eleanor Daly, Beethoven, Elizabeth Alexander, and Bela Bartok. The nine choirs of kids, ages 7-18, from more than 50 Boston and Boston-area communities, are raising their voices in support of their tuition fund. (Boston Globe)
The Actors Studio bids farewell Feb 19, 2009
The Malysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) will first perform Concerto Grosso in C Alexanders Feast, composed by George Frideric Handel. The Haydn extravaganza begins when the orchestra presents Sinfonia Concertante in B flat, a work which premiered in 1792. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
