In this Handel News article from 2017 Dr Wolff describes the experiences of the Goettingen Handel organisation in bringing the music of Handel to younger audiences. This ground breaking initiative points the way to providing sustainable audiences for the future.
Continue reading “Educational Handel: Inspiring Young Audiences To Engage With Baroque Music”A New Early Manuscript Source For Acis And Galatea
In this Handel News article from September 2017 Dr Shuker describes the events which led to the uncovering of an earlier score of Handel’s ever popular pastorale “Acis and Galatea”, than has been available before. It is postulated that this fair copy score was made by William Babell. The reasons of coming to this conclusion is based on characteristic individual stylistic mannerisms in the copy. It is thought that this score dates from 1718, the year in which the piece was first performed in Cannons.
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In this Handel News article from September 2017 Dr Graham Pont explores some interesting phenomena which he has come across in his researches. Readers are asked to draw their own conclusions about the value of pursuing this line of research.
Continue reading “Handel and Psychic Musicology”Zum Gelben Hirsch: Handel’s Father and Wine
In this Handel News article from May 2017 Mark Windisch talks about the vineyard that once belonged to Handel’s father and shows an empty bottle that contained modern wine make recently in the same place, using his name.
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In this Handel News article from May 2017 Dr Silas Wollston discusses the role and manner of reusing existing works in the compositions of Bach and Handel.
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In this Handel News article from May 2017 Dr Graham Pont discuses mispronunciations of the original English used by Handel.
Continue reading “Pronouncing Georgian English: A Problem of Handelian Performance Practice”Handel’s Contribution to Music for the Flute in 18th-Century London: A New Appraisal
In this Handel News article from May 2017 Dr Nancy Hadden examines how Handel’s music started to incorporate the “German flute” – the baroque transverse flute.
Continue reading “Handel’s Contribution to Music for the Flute in 18th-Century London: A New Appraisal”An Italian Harpsichord Website
In this Handel News article from May 2017 Marco De Gregorio describes the Italian website about harpsichords.
Continue reading “An Italian Harpsichord Website”The Greatest Dance Composer Of The Late Baroque
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.
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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.
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In this Handel News article from January 2017 Jennifer Peterson talks about her project to do all of Handel’s operas in New York.
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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.
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