Join us in Boston for an enriching experience at the American Handel Society's biennial conference! The event promises stimulating papers and discussions, engaging performances, and a wonderful opportunity to connect with Handelians from around the world.
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| Thursday, February 6College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 6:00pm | Opening Reception |
| Thursday, February 6College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 6:45pm | Welcome—Graydon Beeks, President, American Handel Society |
| Thursday, February 6College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 6:50pm | Howard Serwer Memorial LectureAyana Smith (Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music)"Deathly Images: Discourses of Sight and Sound in Handel's London Operas." |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 7:50am | Bus 1 leaves The Colonnade for MIT |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 8:15am | Bus 2 leaves The Colonnade for MIT |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 8:30am | Breakfast |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 9:00am | Welcome — Ellen T. Harris, Chair, Local Arrangements |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | Paper Session 1Bells and Whistles: Handel's Sounds of Love and Madness (Chair, TBA) |
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| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 9:10am | Minji Kim (American Handel Society), "'Make poor Saul stark mad': Sonic Effect of Bells in Handel's Saul" |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 9:50am | Blake Johnson (Campbellsville University), "'Where Love or Honour Calls': The Role of the Oboe in Handel's Early Operas, 1705–15" |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 10:20am | Coffee break |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | Paper Session 2Handelian Encounters (Chair, TBA) |
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| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 10:40am | Ruth Eldredge Thomas (Durham University), "Bach, Handel, and Religion in the English Nineteenth Century" |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 11:20am | Kenneth Nott (The Hartt School), "Lou Harrison and 'The Divine Mr. Handel'" |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 12:15pm | Paul Traver Memorial ConcertSingers of MIT Chamber Chorus and soloists from Emmanuel Music, conducted by Ryan Turner, will perform Handel's first setting of "As pants the hart" and other works by Victoria and Palestrina.Free admission. Thomas Tull Concert Hall, Linde Music Building, MIT |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 1:00pm | Lunch |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | Paper Session 3Handel in America (Chair, TBA) |
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| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 2:30pm | Joe Lockwood (Newcastle University), "Zadok the Priest, the “Hallelujah!” Chorus, and the Imperial Soundscape in Boston on the Brink of Revolution" |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 3:10pm | Berta Joncus (Guildhall School of Music & Drama), "Handel Melodies and Anti-Slavery Activism: Music for the Common Good" |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 3:50pm | Coffee break |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 4:10pm | Stephen Nissenbaum (Underhill, VT), "From Göttingen to Northampton: Handel Operas Arrive in America, 1927–1931" |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 5:00pm | Bus 1 leaves MIT for The Colonnade |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 5:30pm | Bus 2 leaves MIT for The Colonnade |
| Friday, February 7Erdely Music & Culture Space, Linde Music Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (201 Amherst Street, Cambridge) | 7:30pm | ConcertJoélle Harvey (soprano) and the Handel + Haydn Society, conducted by Jonathan Cohen. Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory (30 Gainsborough Street) |
| Saturday, February 8College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 8:30am | Breakfast |
| Saturday, February 8College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | Paper Session 4Reconstructions (Chair, TBA) |
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| Saturday, February 8College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 9:15am | Graydon Beeks (Pomona College) "Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 4th Bart. (1749–1789) as a Collector of Handel's Music" |
| Saturday, February 8College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 9:55am | Alexander McCargar (University of Vienna), "Johann Oswald Harms and Handel's 'Lost' Nero" |
| Saturday, February 8College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 10:35am | Coffee break |
| Saturday, February 8College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 10:55am | Ruth Smith (The Handel Institute), "Handel's Solomon and Solomon's Temple" |
| Saturday, February 8College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 12:00pm | Lunch / AHS Board Meeting (College Club) |
| Saturday, February 8College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | Paper Session 5Oratorios: From Composer to Editor (Chair, TBA) |
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| Saturday, February 8College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 2:00pm | Fred Fehleisen (The Juilliard School), "Handel's First Day on the Job: 22 August 1741" |
| Saturday, February 8College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 2:40pm | Mark Risinger (New York, NY), "On the Rhetorical Structure and Function of Handel's Oratorio Choruses" |
| Saturday, February 8College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 3:20pm | Coffee break |
| Saturday, February 8College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 3:40pm | Annette Landgraf (Hallische Händel-Ausgabe), "The Different Historical Editions of Judas Maccabaeus and Challenges for a Modern Edition" |
| Saturday, February 8College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 4:20pm | Donald Burrows (Open University), "'In the manner of an oratorio': Interpreting the Bottom Stave in Handel's Score of Messiah" |
| Saturday, February 8College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 8:00pm | ConcertFrancesco Corti, harpsichord and organ, joins the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble and director Robert Mealy. First Lutheran Church, Boston (299 Berkeley Street) |
| Sunday, February 9College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 8:30am | Breakfast |
| Sunday, February 9College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 9:00am | Open Business Meeting |
| Sunday, February 9College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | Paper Session 6Competition, Prime donne, and Theatricality (Chair, TBA) |
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| Sunday, February 9College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 9:30am | Francesca Greppi (University of Bologna), "Soprano Pairing at the Teatro Grimani di San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice: Bordoni and Cuzzoni's Early Collaborations in Italy" |
| Sunday, February 9College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 10:10am | David Vickers (Royal Northern College of Music), "Giulia Frasi and Italian Music in London" |
| Sunday, February 9College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 10:50am | Coffee break |
| Sunday, February 9College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 11:10am | Yseult Martinez (Sorbonne University), "Female Cross-Dressing and Men's Redemption on the London Opera Stage: Handel and Transvestite Heroines during the 1730s" |
| Sunday, February 9College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 11:50pm | Matthew Gardner (University of Tübingen), "Handel's Theatre Singers 1737–1741" |
| Sunday, February 9College Club of Boston (44 Commonwealth Avenue) | 12:30pm | Closing Remarks – Graydon Beeks |
Tickets must be purchased separately through the respective websites. Use code sent to attendees upon registration.
Love, Handel with Joélle Harvey (soprano) and the Handel + Haydn Society Orchestra, conducted by Jonathan Cohen, performing Handel’s Cantatas, Il delirio amoroso and Tra le fiamme, and Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, no. 1.
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory (30 Gainsborough Street)
Francesco Corti, harpsichord and organ, performing a solo work for harpsichord, and joining the BEMF Chamber Ensemble and director Robert Mealy to present two Organ Concertos by Handel, Op. 4, nos. 1 and 4.
First Lutheran Church, Boston (299 Berkeley Street)
The Colonnade Boston
120 Huntington Avenue
+1 617-424-7000
Special Group Rate: $189/night for a single or a double (available until January 15, 2025)
Booking: Block code will be sent upon registration.