Call for Papers: American Handel Society Conference 2023
The biennial conference of the American Handel Society will be held in Bloomington, Indiana, hosted by the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington, on February 23–26, 2023. Commencing on Handel's 338th birthday, the conference will include academic panels, the Howard Serwer Memorial Lecture, and performances by IU's Historical Performance Institute.
The Society invites submission of abstracts for papers on any topic connected with Handel's life, his music, his close contemporaries, or the contexts in which his music was composed and/or performed. Given the setting, the Program Committee would especially appreciate topics on issues of performance and performance practice.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words may be sent by October 3, 2022 to the program chair, Roger Freitas, at rfreitas@esm.rochester.edu.
| Year | Speaker | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Berta Joncus | Posterity vs Celebrity: Handel Studies and the 21st Century | Virtual Conference – Hosted by Indiana University |
| 2019 | Ellen Rosand | Handel's 'Music' | Bloomington, IN – Indiana University |
| 2017 | John Butt | Handel and Messiah: Harmonizing the Bible for a Modern World? | Princeton, NJ – Princeton University |
| 2015 | Nicholas McGegan | Handel in My Lifetime | Iowa City, IA – University of Iowa |
| 2013 | Reinhard Strohm | Handel: Opera and Ritual | Princeton, NJ – Princeton University |
| 2011 | David Hurley | Once More with Feeling: Da Capo Patterns in Handel's Oratorios | Seattle, WA |
| 2009 | Robert Ketterer | London as Athens: Teseo and Arianna in Creta | Danville, KY - Centre College |
| 2007 | Andrew Porter | How Handel's Operas Entered the Modern Repertory | Princeton, NJ – Princeton University |
| 2005 | Graydon Beeks | Private Patronage of Church Music in the Reign of George I | Santa Fe, NM |
| 2003 | Terence Best | Handel Editions | Iowa City, IA – University of Iowa |
| 2001 | Nicholas Temperley | 'In Virtue's Cause': How Handel's Music was Sanctified | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 2000 | Ruth Smith | Fifteen Ways to Skin an Oratorio, of Understanding Theodora | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 1998 | Anthony Hicks | Handel's Jephtha: A Sacridice to Theology? | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 1996 | Donald Burrows | M. Handel's Friends: Contemporary Accounts of the Composer from the papers of James T. | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 1994 | Winton Dean | Handel's Operas in the Theatre | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 1992 | John Roberts | The Song for St Cecilia's Day and Handel's 'Borrowing' from other Composers | College Park, MD - University of Maryland |
| 1991 | Paul Brainard | Bach and Handel: Another Look | Washington, D.C. – George Washington University |
| 1990 | Don E. Saliers | Words and The Word: Sounding the Text of Handel's Messiah | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 1989 | Bernd Baselt | The War of Spanish Succession, Italy, and Handel | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 1988 | Ellen T. Harris | Integrity and Improvisation in the Music of Handel | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
| 1987 | Jens Peter Larsen | The Turning Point in Handel's Oratorio Tradition | College Park, MD – University of Maryland |
Karlsruhe Handel Festival
February 18–March 2, 2022
Encounters with Eighteenth-Century Music: A Virtual Forum
Online series of talks, interviews, and other events sponsored by five eighteenth-century-music societies: American Bach Society, American Handel Society, Haydn Society of North America, Mozart Society of America, and Society for Eighteenth-Century Music. Free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.
February 11, 2022, 2:00–3:30 pm EST
“Performing the Baroque for Modern Audiences”—Nicholas McGegan and Ellen Harris
March 7, 2022, 3:00–4:30 pm EST
“Mozart and Childhood in the 1700s”—Adeline Miller and Alyson MacLamore
April 29, 2022, 2:00–3:30 pm EST
“Keyboards and Composers: Thoughts on Historical Instruments, Composition and Performance”—Tom Beghin
Göttingen Handel Competition
May 16–17, 2022 (application deadline: January 31, 2022)