In this Handel News article from May 2017 Dr Graham Pont relays and supports Dr Fiona Garlick’s view that the greatest dance musique composer of the baroque era was G. F. Handel.
Continue reading “The Greatest Dance Composer Of The Late Baroque”The Göttingen Handel Festival: Brief History and Centenary Plans
In this Handel News Article from January 2017 Tobias Wolff discusses the past and the future of the Göttingen Handel festival.
Continue reading “The Göttingen Handel Festival: Brief History and Centenary Plans”Which Is The Slower Tempo: Adagio Or Largo
In this Handel News article from January 2017 Dr Graham Pont relates the differences of opinion that have existed for several hundred years about the comparative speeds of musical movements.
Continue reading “Which Is The Slower Tempo: Adagio Or Largo”Creating Deborah
In this Handel News article from January 2017 Matthew Gardner examines how Handel created the oratorio Deborah.
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In this Handel News article from January 2017 David Hunter examines the claims that Handel was suffering from bi-polar disorder.
Continue reading “Was Handel Bi-polar?”Charles Jennens Returns To Foremarke
In this Handel News article from January 2017 Susan Bloor and Ruth Smith relate how Charles Jennens, Handel’s librettist, has a music centre named after him, with a copy of his portrait, in the school that occupies the property that was once his mother’s home.
Continue reading “Charles Jennens Returns To Foremarke”All Of Handel’s Operas, In New York
In this Handel News article from January 2017 Jennifer Peterson talks about her project to do all of Handel’s operas in New York.
Continue reading “All Of Handel’s Operas, In New York”Music In Halle Before Handel
In this Handel News article from January 2017 Mark Windisch examines the highs and lows of music in Handel’s hometown of Halle.
Continue reading “Music In Halle Before Handel”‘The Finest Composition Of Musick That Was Ever Heard’: Ireland’s Role In Securing Handel’s Messiah For Posterity
In this Handel News article from January 2017 Dr Jonathan Bardon analyses how Messiah was validated by Handel’s trip to Dublin in 1741 to conduct a benefit concert in the new music hall.
Continue reading “‘The Finest Composition Of Musick That Was Ever Heard’: Ireland’s Role In Securing Handel’s Messiah For Posterity”Early Handelians I: Charles Kensington Salaman (1814-1901)
In this Handel News article from October 2016 Dr Graham Pont introduces an early Handel supporter: The pianist and composer Charles Kensington Salaman.
Continue reading “Early Handelians I: Charles Kensington Salaman (1814-1901)”Handel Oratorios in the Bush Capital
In this Handel News article from October 2016 Paul Thom talks about Handel Oratorio performances in Camberra.
Continue reading “Handel Oratorios in the Bush Capital”Handel and Metastasio: the Bizarre Couple
In this Handel News article from October 2016 Flavio Ferri-Benedetti examines the relationship between Handel and Pietro Metastasio, the best-rated librettist of his time.
Continue reading “Handel and Metastasio: the Bizarre Couple”Handel Down Under III: the Last 35 Years
In this Handel News article from October 2016 Sandra Bowdler talks about Handel music performances in Autralia in the previous 35 years.
Continue reading “Handel Down Under III: the Last 35 Years”Handel Under Attack: Competition and Rivalry in the London Opera Seasons 1733-37
In this Handel News article from October 2016 Graham Cummings reports on a study about the rivalry and competition on the operatic scene in London between 1733 and 1737.
Continue reading “Handel Under Attack: Competition and Rivalry in the London Opera Seasons 1733-37”The Cambridge Handel Opera Group: Some Retrospective Reflexions
In this Handel News article from October 2016 Andrew Jones Reflects on some of his work as the Musical Director of the Cambridge Handel Opera Group.
Continue reading “The Cambridge Handel Opera Group: Some Retrospective Reflexions”Reviving CHOG as CHOC
In this Handel News article from October 2016 Julian Perkins, artistic director of the Cambridge Handel Opera Company, describes the change between the Cambridge Handel Opera Group and the Company.
Continue reading “Reviving CHOG as CHOC”A New Ode on the Death of Handel
In this Handel News article from May 2016 Christopher Roberts describes the Ode he wrote on a 1790 poem about the death of Handel.
Continue reading “A New Ode on the Death of Handel”Eleventh Stanley Sadie Lecture, by Berta Joncus
In this Handel News article from May 2016 Mark Windisch reports on the 11th Stanley Sadie lecture given by Dr Berta Joncus at Handel and Hendrix house on 7 March 2016.
Continue reading “Eleventh Stanley Sadie Lecture, by Berta Joncus”Returning the Compliment: How Often Did Telemann Borrow Musical Ideas from Handel?
In this Handel News article from May 2016 Dr Graham Pont examines examples of borrowings from Handel by Telemann.
Continue reading “Returning the Compliment: How Often Did Telemann Borrow Musical Ideas from Handel?”A musical Friendship
In this Handel News article from May 2016 Mark Windisch discuses the friendship between Handel and Telemann.
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