| 单词 | Handel |
| 例句 | Bach and Handel, the two musical giants of the eighteenth century, were born just eighty miles and four weeks apart and yet they never met. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “But you can’t help groaning, my dear Handel. What hurt have you got? Can you stand?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Handel’s adopted countrymen and women knew a compliment when they saw it and returned it handsomely. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “It’s for you, Handel,” said Herbert, going out and coming back with it, “and I hope there is nothing the matter.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Handel was the more adventurous pan-European traveller, learning his craft in Italy and then, in his twenties, settling for good in England, where he was to create the great body of his masterpieces. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “So I would, Handel, only they are staring me out of countenance.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “My poor dear Handel,” he replied, holding his head, “I am too stunned to think.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “What is the American dream?” said Karen Handel, chairwoman of the Fulton County Commission in Alpharetta. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The international prestige of Handel was unmatched among British composers until Lennon and McCartney in the 1960s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Handel,” said Herbert, stopping, “you feel convinced that you can take no further benefits from him; do you?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “My dear Handel,” Herbert would say to me, in all sincerity, “if you will believe me, those very words were on my lips, by a strange coincidence.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “How do I know it, Handel? Why, from you.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Though never accorded any official title, Handel contributed grand anthems and orchestral suites for the Hanover Georges, from the Water Music to the Music for the Royal Fireworks, for the rest of his life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “We shall lose a fine opportunity if I put off going to Cairo, and I am very much afraid I must go, Handel, when you most need me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z It would not exist as a work in the form that we know today were it not for the engagement and approval of a broader public in Handel’s lifetime. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “But yours cannot be dismissed; indeed, my dear dear Handel, it must not be dismissed. I wish you would enter on it now, as far as a few friendly words go, with me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “What do you suppose he wants now, Handel?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart made music in the moment, for the moment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The immigrant Handel, a naturalised British citizen from 1727, demonstrated more successfully than any other composer before the nineteenth century how music could become the collective voice of nationhood. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z At the opposite end of the building a five-thousand-voice choir sang Handel’s “Hallelujah” chorus to the accompaniment of five hundred musicians. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But large choruses, soloists and orchestra were bread and butter to Bach in his Passions, Handel in his oratorios, Mozart in his Requiem and Haydn in his grand choral works. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Charles had sublime feelings listening to Handels Messiah. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z This melodic symmetry had not been a noticeable feature of the more onward- flowing, unpredictable tunes of Bach and Handel, whose phrases were so often guided by the metre of the words they set. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z That a recently arrived talent like Handel should find himself plunged into composing for royal occasions of great pomp and prestige was impressive enough. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “To have Provis for an upper lodger is quite a godsend to Mrs. Whimple,” said Herbert, “for of course people in general won’t stand that noise. A curious place, Handel; isn’t it?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Thus Mozart, an Austrian writing largely Italian-flavoured music, thought of himself as a natural successor to Handel, a German trained in Italy who settled in Britain. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “In this branch house of ours, Handel, we must have a—” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, against the backdrop of scientific endeavour and machine-like precision there was a very human emotion that enriched every note of Handel’s solo arias in opera and oratorio: compassion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Luckily for his great contemporary George Frideric Handel, opera was his thing - to start with, at least. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “My dear Handel, I fear I shall soon have to leave you.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z After Esther Handel presented a further twenty-one oratorios in London. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Would you mind Handel for a familiar name? There’s a charming piece of music by Handel, called the Harmonious Blacksmith.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “They are mounting up, Handel,” Herbert would say; “upon my life, they are mounting up.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The other great composers of Western music lived during other periods: Bach and Handel were Baroque era composers, for example; Brahms and Wagner, Romantic53 ; and Ravel and Debussy, Impressionist. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z This contemporary lithograph lampoons the panicked gentry who fled the city - and thus turned Handel’s new oratorio, Theodora, into a box-office flop. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Handel’s first eighteen oratorios in London theatres were packed- house affairs. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “No; she was acquitted.—My poor Handel, I hurt you!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z In his maturity, Handel converted this artistic response into action, becoming one of the founding sponsors, alongside artists Hogarth, Reynolds and Gainsborough, of Thomas Coram’s Foundling Hospital in London. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Bach’s and Handel’s rich palette of chords was stripped back to just a handful. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Their baby voices shrilled out in Handel’s “Largo” and they knew it merely by the title of “Hymn.” little boys whistled part of Dvorak’s New World Symphony as they played marbles. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In Handel’s London, the vogue for adult soloist castrati was short-lived, and Italian-style opera itself soon came up against stiff competition in the shape of what we would today call jukebox musicals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Handel, though, not only represented a musical amalgam of European styles during his lifetime; he also bequeathed to the next generation of composers a non-parochial, universal idiom that was venerated and built upon. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Beethoven, inspired by study of and admiration for Handel and Bach, merely had the idea of appending to a symphony something you might expect in an oratorio. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Posterity eventually rewards those, like Bach and Handel, who can absorb and repackage the currents and fashions of their times, giving the resulting collage a distinctive voice of their own along the way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Nothing could be further from the omnipotent, benevolent creative force of Handel’s oratorios or Bach’s cantatas and Passions - yet Handel was still alive, just, and Bach had only died five years earlier. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Finally, with the sun beginning to decline behind the Olympic flame, a choir of thousands dressed in white rose en masse and began to sing the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Patience, my dear Handel: time enough, time enough. But you have something more to say?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Handel's significance in music history is that he was the first composer we can call truly international. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z To this day, Handel’s music is cherished with unqualified, familial warmth by all Western musicians, belonging not to one nation’s musical history but to all. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “My dear Handel,” he returned, “I shall esteem and respect your confidence.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The great change in attitude of which Voltaire was a supreme philosophical weathervane coincided with a rapid reshaping of music after the deaths of Bach and Handel. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Concerto Köln, a formidable German period-instrument group founded in Cologne 30 years ago, played a curious program of lesser-known concertos by a range of composers — Telemann, Corelli and Francesco Durante, along with Vivaldi and Handel. Early music is still being reinvented 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Escape the Handel that surrounds us every holiday season with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s annual holiday presentations of that other Baroque great, Bach. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z From both Handel and Bach, Tippett adopted a template of narrative recitative, contemplative arias, descriptive choruses and — specific to Bach’s Passions — familiar chorales. Into The Music: Michael Tippett?s ?Child of Our Time? Fits With Winter 2012-01-29T04:39:18Z Huge if true, as they say: The new production of Handel’s “Rodelinda” that opened on Friday at Hudson Hall is just the first in a series of annual Handel stagings there to come. Review: A ‘Rodelinda’ Brings Promise of Handel on the Hudson 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Handel’s “Messiah” has become such a staple of the Christmas season that New Yorkers can choose from dozens of performances offered in concert halls and churches throughout the city. A Diva, Two Pianists and a Pair of ‘Messiahs’: Classical Music This Week 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z And, as on the album, while Mr. Costanzo’s Glass often has lunar purity, his Handel, if effusive, sounded sharp-edged and parched. A Hotbed of Operatic Innovation Wins With Tradition 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z And the rhythmic and harmonic quirkiness of the two Contredanses made the sprightliest movements in the Bach, Handel and Muffat works sound staid. Music Review: Juilliard415 at Peter Jay Sharp Theater - Review 2011-10-17T22:12:13Z For listeners who prefer the historical approach to Baroque style, the annual performances of Handel’s “Messiah” at St. Thomas Church set a standard that is hard to surpass. Music Review: John Scott Leads ?Messiah? at St. Thomas Church - Review 2011-12-07T22:50:23Z Hallelujahs Everywhere A sampling of performances of Handel’s “Messiah” and other oratorios in New York. Hallelujahs Everywhere 2010-12-10T05:30:00Z By the late 50s and early 60s Baker was a leading figure in the baroque revival, singing Handel, Purcell and Monteverdi. Janet Baker: A life in music 2012-07-13T21:54:02Z Laszczkowski said he could not explain why Steffani, widely acclaimed in his day and admired by the likes of Handel, had been overlooked for so long. Male soprano stars in "forgotten" Italian opera 2010-09-24T13:07:00Z The festivities conclude on March 27, when Town Hall will be the setting for the Seattle Baroque Orchestra's performances of some of Handel's tuneful and varied "Grand Concertos," under the direction of Ingrid Matthews. Handel in Seattle: Major festival shows there's much more to the man than 'Messiah' 2011-03-05T00:39:01Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton When a staging of a Handel opera fails, however comprehensively, the music wins out. Julius Caesar; Siegfried – review 2012-10-06T23:08:03Z Two years junior to Bach and Handel, Pisendel wrote in a lighter style, longer on charm than on musical complexity. At Seattle Baroque Orchestra, virtuosity of a collegial kind 2014-01-19T18:23:06Z The Oratorio Society of New York, under the baton of Kent Tritle, leads this performance of Handel through the eyes of Mozart. Whole Lot of Handel 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z All those years Ms. Goerke spent singing vocal embellishments in Mozart and Handel came in handy here. Christine Goerke as Brünnhilde in Wagner’s ‘Die Walküre’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Still Handel is amply represented in his résumé and discography. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Handel?s ?Messiah? 2011-12-14T22:23:21Z Handel’s instrumental and large-scale choral works were well known to Mozart and Beethoven, who admired Handel tremendously. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z How do you distinguish among the host of performances of Handel’s “Messiah” that crowd New York’s musical calendar each December? Finding ‘Hallelujah’: How to Navigate the ‘Messiah’ Landscape 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Nimble, with a repertory that includes Handel alongside Kurt Weill’s “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,” he is bound for a rich future at the house if it will have him. Review: A Tenor Claims His Place Among the Met Opera’s Stars 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z After sets of Handel arias and Schumann songs, Ms. Billinghurst, 71, left early, walking the half-block to the Met’s stage door. Sarah Billinghurst on Her Tenure at the Met 2014-05-09T21:50:45Z Sometimes Mozart goes for a big effect, as in the bass aria “Why do the nations so furiously rage together,” in which Handel’s agitated orchestra is fortified with military trumpets. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York?s ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-20T21:59:08Z His rebellious move in 1962, more contrarian than calculated, was to make a dance to the not-modern, easy-on-the-ear music of Handel, a dance so light and lyrical it was almost a ballet. Review: Watching Paul Taylor’s Road Not Taken (and Lessons Learned) 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Its current season includes only one war horse, Puccini’s “Tosca,” and a few less-traveled works, like Handel’s “Agrippina” and Britten’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” that have significant constituencies. Music Review: Oppressor?s Tale, Written in Oppression 2011-02-02T23:08:54Z The English Concert’s annual performances of Handel oratorios and operas at Carnegie, under Harry Bicket, have been surefire hits for the past several years. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Some may even pipe Handel's Water Music through loudspeakers. Why Glastonbury 2012 is going down the pan 2010-10-18T19:00:00Z Hendrix and Handel but Mostly Hendrix died 40 years ago on Sept. Antiques: Jimi Hendrix?s Death Is Recalled at Museums 2010-08-19T21:44:00Z Handel stretches and fleshes out these anecdotes into a calmly gleaming edifice of ocean-liner size and stability. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Most of what Handel wrote fits comfortably within that questionable category, "serious music." Review: One-act 'The Man in the Mirror' has fun with Handel 2011-03-17T16:37:03Z The American Handel Festival, set to bring Seattleites a generous sampling of the master's music over the next two weeks, got off to an auspicious start on Friday evening. Review: Seattle Symphony and guest soprano set Handel fest beautifully in motion 2011-03-12T20:29:27Z On the evidence of his annual “Messiah,” Julian Wachner is a vital, urgent conductor of Handel, so Trinity’s new Handel Project is to be welcomed. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z He said that on the occasional past openings of Hendrix's apartment, the guitarist's fans have sometimes stayed to listen and learn about Handel. Jimi Hendrix, George Handel: On the street where they lived (in London) 2010-08-25T23:00:00Z Sir Adrian Boult's only known joke was made when he was recording Handel: "Mad scenes from the Messiah," he commented. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z At Buckingham Palace in 1948, its players banged out versions of Handel and Beethoven to Queen Victoria. Evelyn Glennie's stone xylophone 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z But those listeners, critics included, may be hard pressed to name another Handel oratorio written for the Easter season. Music Review: A Generous Opening to the Lucerne Easter Festival 2011-04-11T17:51:16Z Still," says Etchingham, "at least we've got the plaque, the Handel House Museum, and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in September. The London years 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z But where modern audiences might expect a treatment that is angry and hurtling, Handel is slow-moving and deals in subtle gradations of mood, emotion and tension. Susanna – review 2013-06-13T16:52:40Z The great Beethoven was not much given to gushing about his fellow composers, but George Frideric Handel, he said, "is the master of us all: the greatest effects with the simplest means." Handel in Seattle: Major festival shows there's much more to the man than 'Messiah' 2011-03-05T00:39:01Z As if to entertain us when Handel's music, with all its subtle variations, was managing quite well already, these dancers spun and wove, upstaging the singers at every turn. Julius Caesar; Siegfried – review 2012-10-06T23:08:03Z From previous collections, there will be work set to Webern, Handel and Liszt — all played live. Dance Listings for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z And he made the music of Handel and Rameau seem new again through acclaimed collaborations with the Mark Morris Dance Group. Maestro of the Influential Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra to Step Down 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Handel puts a chorus through its paces in dazzling numbers like “For unto us a child is born,” full of fleet runs. A Critic Gives Prizes for 5 ‘Messiah’ Concerts in New York 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z A recent performance of “Solomon” at Carnegie Hall was a reminder of the sumptuous power of Handel’s English oratorios, his genre of concert-format, loosely plotted, often biblically inspired works that made choruses the stars. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Handel’s operatic genius comes through most powerfully in his arias for lower voices. A Critic Gives Prizes for 5 ‘Messiah’ Concerts in New York 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Over the weekend, Trinity Wall Street’s annual presentation of Handel’s “Messiah” posed similar provocations, as soprano soloists exchanged roles with tenors, altos with basses. Review: A Singer Scales Back Her Grand-Opera Voice 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z “It’s really much more like playing Handel and Purcell, music that was written with no dynamics, in which you need to use your own taste and judgment,” Rundell said in an interview. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The program ends with Brahms’s exhilarating Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. Opera & Classical Music Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:52:26Z Her “Hidden Handel” collection of previously unrecorded arias, with Mr. Curtis, particularly glows with her infectious enthusiasm. Is This the Best Opera Singer You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z “First I was asked to conduct Handel all the time,” Stutzmann recalled, “and I said, ‘I’m sorry, I love Handel, but I’m not a Baroque conductor.’ Nathalie Stutzmann Ushers In a New Era at the Atlanta Symphony 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Even as a host on "Access Hollywood," Bush should have known better, said Jonathan Handel, an entertainment industry lawyer and teacher at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law. Billy Bush under fire along with Trump for lewd comments 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z "You've got everything in here," Eriksen says, "Lutheran hymns, Scots jigs, Irish reels, field hollers, a smattering of Handel and Haydn: it all went into the meat grinder." Shape, rattle and roll: The amazing survival of shape-note singing 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z The Handel works seemed to emerge in a sort of narrative fashion, not always rich in color, warmth or imagination. Gerald Robbins Plays Bargemusic’s Masterworks Series 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Christmas With Bach, Times Two Handel’s “Messiah,” it appears, will reign forever and ever over the Christmas season, no matter that it was written for Easter. Music Review: Canticum Novum and Collegium Vocale Gent Sing Bach Oratorio 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z His contribution to the effort is offering a bit of Bach, Handel and even a little Rodgers & Hammerstein to the public as they shuffle through the nave to get their shots. Organists offer soundtrack to jabs at medieval UK cathedral 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z George Frideric Handel wrote “Messiah” in 24 days. Review | A fleet and fleeting ‘Messiah’ showcases fine chorus 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z And on Dec. 19, the Oratorio Society of New York, continuing one of the Hall’s longest performance streaks, will perform Handel’s “Messiah,” as it has almost every year since 1891. A Guide to NYC Holiday Events: Live Music, Theater, Lights and More 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Opera was another thing the pope banned, and Handel made no attempt to dramatize the Resurrection. Bach Collegium San Diego gives Handel's 'La Resurrezione' life 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Goerke, 45, who emerged in the late 1990s as an outstanding singer of Mozart, Handel and Gluck, went through a vocal crisis about a dozen years ago. Christine Goerke as Brünnhilde in Wagner’s ‘Die Walküre’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z And Mr. Davies, the countertenor, questioned the idea that Handel works demand a special kind of intimacy. In the Met Opera’s ‘Agrippina,’ the Roman Empire Never Ended 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z It speaks to Handel’s genius that such accounts lose none of the work’s intended impact. Music Review: ‘Messiah,’ by Distinguished Concerts International New York 2012-11-26T22:07:22Z Operamission, a young company with varied activities but something of a specialty in Handel, brings it to the library of the Fabbri Mansion on the Upper East Side. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:31:11Z This was a point of emotional contact between Handel and me. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z That an artist could achieve renown in this specialized repertoire was unimaginable a century ago, when even Handel’s stage works remained unperformed. Is This the Best Opera Singer You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The latest release is a historic account of Handel’s “Julius Caesar,” starring Janet Baker; the next, due in September, will be Richard Strauss’s “Ariadne on Naxos,” with Christine Brewer in the title role. Peter Moores and His Campaign for Opera in English 2010-08-22T01:53:00Z "Hidden Handel" is the Master Chorale's salvaging operation of five, each to be semi-staged, and the first took place with performances of "Alexander's Feast" on Saturday and Sunday at Walt Disney Concert Hall. L.A. Master Chorale's 'Alexander's Feast' is a treat for the ears and eyes 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z This is where Handel composed “Zadok the Priest,” the British coronation anthem, which was recently performed for King Charles III. Here, too, Handel wrote “Messiah,” which took him about three weeks to compose. London Tours Explore the Worlds of Opera and Classical Music 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Over the course of the evening, though, Suzuki’s tempos lagged, and the players seemed to meander through the music unless it had theatrical flair — common in Handel’s operas, but rare here. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Benjamin Britten was similarly smitten when he heard Ferrier sing Handel’s “Messiah” at Westminster Abbey in 1943, one of her first London engagements. Kathleen Ferrier and Her Centennial CD 2012-07-08T02:54:24Z But while audiences at the time rejected the more introverted and subtle “Theodora,” it was Handel’s favorite. Music Review: ‘Theodora’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-03T07:29:53Z The apartment was next door to where the composer Handel had resided well over 200 years prior, at 25 Brook Street. A Jimi Hendrix Experience in London 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z WC: I think there was simply a return to the antiquarian movement, the revival of interest in figures like Handel or Bach. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z But Saturday's performance demonstrated that Handel's other Marys still need attention. Bach Collegium San Diego gives Handel's 'La Resurrezione' life 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Karen Handel was the prime instigator of this effort, and she herself personally came up with investigation criteria. The tyranny of pink 2012-05-30T11:45:00Z The first time we met, I started playing the “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” by Handel. Jeremy Irons Is Transported by Renzo Piano and a Dog Named Smudge 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Sams’s original libretto, with witty recitative, is set to music lifted from operas and other works by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau and other Baroque composers. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:06:12Z He ended with an exuberant, commanding account of Brahms’s formidable Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. Emanuel Ax Concert Pairs Brahms With New Works 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Handel's 1744 musical drama spun the source, Sophocles' play "The Women of Trachis," into a proper Enlightenment oratorio that ends, neatly and happily, with the chorus extolling "liberty's immortal song." 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z When he updates a classic work, he helps us to imagine ourselves capable of the spiritual growth that Handel proffers his Caesar and Mozart his Count. Mozart in Trump Tower, and the art of getting political onstage 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z In songs and arias by Dowland, Handel, Purcell, Monteverdi, Pergolesi and Bach, Ms. de Niese’s voice is sweet but brittle, her interpretations game but low impact. Classical Recordings : Danielle de Niese?s ?Beauty of the Baroque? ? Review 2011-12-22T15:23:48Z Lots of them — the grander, the better — along the lines of the monumental coronation anthems Handel had written for the crowning of George II in 1727. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z “Everyone brought their fabulously weird game,” added Mr. Handel, whose “Aphrodisiac” boasted the Lewinsky character. 13P Theater Collective Set for Its Last Production 2012-07-12T20:33:45Z The opera — like Handel’s famous version a century later — takes its plot from a slice of the Italian epic “Orlando Furioso.” Review: The First Opera by a Woman Dances Out of Obscurity 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Outbursts of Full-Bodied Joy Lovers of Handel’s “Messiah” who look forward to taking in a holiday performance each year have lots of choices in New York. Music Review: Musica Sacra in Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-21T22:47:06Z Somewhere in between is “Semele,” a dramatic work that Handel described as “after the manner of an oratorio.” Review: A ‘Semele’ Bound for New York Takes Its First Bows 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z In our survey of the city’s many versions of Handel’s masterpiece last year, my colleagues called Trinity Wall Street’s “perhaps the essential New York ‘Messiah,’” and they weren’t wrong. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z R. B. Schlather’s production of Handel’s “Orlando” opened on Sunday for a two-evening run, but the performance really started almost three weeks ago. Review: Handel’s ‘Orlando,’ the Second Part of a Trilogy 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Vivaldi’s is a melding of stories familiar from two Handel operas: “Alcina” and “Orlando,” though Vivaldi’s was actually written first, in 1727. Music Review: On Paris Stages, Intriguing Vivaldi and Novel Wagner 2011-03-15T12:30:07Z The Handel pieces, radiating good cheer, were smoothed over, lacking in contrast; there was more color and range of mood in the 35-minute Rameau suite Ms. Haïm compiled, but also no sustained flair or danciness. Review: A Baroque Start to the New York Philharmonic’s Holiday 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, Handel’s runs and ornaments challenged the soloists, and both Ms. Krull and the tenor Randall Bills sometimes sacrificed richness of timbre to keep up with the notes. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra Performs Handel Rarities 2014-03-22T02:05:28Z Selections from Debussy, Handel and Strauss also featured in the data. Mozart tops list for callers on hold 2013-09-23T14:03:45Z In Milan, La Scala’s orchestra played Handel’s “Largo,” the last piece he had led, from the pit as his hearse paused outside the theater. A Conductor’s Career, Cut Short, Still Blazes on Recordings 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z David Halls, the cathedral’s music director, said he had started by playing famous classical pieces from the likes of Bach, Mozart and Handel. An Organ Recital, With a Coronavirus Shot 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z The expressive opportunities Handel gives singers constrained rather than liberated some of the other performers. Review: Handel’s ‘Serse,’ With Yuks and Exquisite Playing 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Handel’s music is set to words from parallel but antithetical Milton poems, “L’Allegro,” the extroverted spirit of action, and “Il Penseroso,” the introverted spirit of contemplation. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-06T22:07:00Z In director Chas Rader-Shieber, the company engaged a prolific veteran with a certain kind of tongue-in-cheek slickness that he’s applied to many operas, and Handel operas in particular. Wolf Trap Opera, Castleton Festival launch unevenly but laudably on same weekend He always started with an apéritif — a Handel sonata, to warm up the stomach. Amit Peled, Cellist, Walks in the Footsteps of Pablo Casals 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Ms. Brown performed the work on Sunday afternoon at the Frick Collection, during a concert by the London Handel Players, who were making their New York debut. Music Review: Handel Players Make Their New York Debut at the Frick 2012-01-30T23:38:11Z This performance had inexorable, tense momentum through Handel’s violent mood swings. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ at St. Thomas and Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z Brahms’s other great set of variations, the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel for piano, on the other hand, poses no problems of lineage. Gerald Robbins Plays Bargemusic’s Masterworks Series 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z In the first of a three-part series on Italian opera, Pappano traces its roots in ducal palaces before looking at work by Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart and Rossini. Panorama: A Very British Hero 2010-05-24T05:45:00Z Handel discovered Beard as a boy, when he sang in the composer's oratorio, Esther. The original three tenors 2010-10-21T21:25:00Z Handel had written “Esther” early in his career, but when he tried to produce it later at the theater where his operas were performed, clerics objected to the staging of a biblical narrative. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Those who love opera might fantasy-cast her in repertory standards, and Ms. Mitchell is working with her on a production of Handel’s “Theodora” for a coming season at the Royal Opera. ‘This Is Who We’ve Been Waiting For’: A Diva on the Precipice 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z ‘ORPHEUS’ The New York City Opera has played no small part in the Handel opera revival of recent decades. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z That is the oratorio Handel wrote before “Israel in Egypt,” about a powerless people fleeing the subjugation of an oppressive state. Review: An Unexpectedly Relevant Oratorio at the Philharmonic 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Nothing could dethrone Handel’s oratorio, but worthy alternatives in choral music are out there. John Adams and David Lang: Masters of the Modern Holiday Oratorio 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z He begins with an exhilarating account of Brahms’s daunting Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, which does not sound all that daunting as it is played here so effortlessly. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, Harrison Birtwistle and More 2014-04-30T18:49:23Z Perhaps, he suggests, it was “a three-way collaboration: Charles Jennens, Mr. Handel and deity.” The Making of Handel’s 'Messiah,' on BYUtv 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z A highlight of several recent Carnegie seasons has been the English Concert’s ongoing progress through operas and oratorios by Handel. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z “Water Music” is best known for the various suites drawn from it — which, for me, more effectively show off the allures of the music and the rich intricacies Handel subtly folded into each piece. Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z In 2013, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg presented him with the Handel Medallion, New York City’s highest award for achievement in the arts. Harvey Lichtenstein, Who Led Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Rebirth, Dies at 87 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Shai Wosner frames his disc with Schoenberg's Suite and what he regards as Brahms's first mature large-scale piano work, the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. Brahms: Fantasies Op 116; Handel Variations and Fugue Op 24; Schoenberg: Six Little Pieces Op 19; Suite Op 25 2010-08-26T21:32:00Z In contrast to Handel’s “Messiah,” a work so popular that ladies were asked to refrain from wearing hoop skirts to a performance to avoid overcrowding, “Theodora” proved unsuccessful. Music Review: ‘Theodora’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-03T07:29:53Z But if Handel can be so problematic, why start so audaciously? After Five Years of Bach, Trinity Church Takes On Handel 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z When Handel sets these rage arias, I get the sense that he understood that also. Meet the People Who Can’t Bring You ‘Messiah’ This Year 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Great composers, including Handel, Beethoven and Mozart, wrote for it. The enchanting history of Ben Franklin’s glass armonica — ‘the first musical instrument ever invented by an American’ 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Gary Handel, the founder of Handel Architects, said that experience has mellowed Mr. Arad. How the 9/11 Memorial Changed Its Architect, Michael Arad 2011-09-04T04:19:38Z This was more purely instrumental Handel: the Musette from the Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 6 Complex, but with a dominant mood of wistful solemnity, it fitted the occasion perfectly. OAE/Christie – review 2013-06-05T17:39:34Z Handel and Jennens begin Act III with a prophecy, delivered by the Ghost of Samuel, that Saul and Jonathan will meet their ends on the field of battle. Handel’s ‘Saul’ at Twelfth Night Festival 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z However surprisingly, the old-fashioned oratorio has survived into the 21st century as an American musical medium just as apt for confronting our moral and social issues as it was for Handel in his time. West Coast premiere of 'Anthracite Fields' by L.A. Master Chorale mines the depths of American music 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z In the fall he’s singing the role of David in Houston’s fully staged production of Handel’s oratorio “Saul.” A high-voiced rising star at 25 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Egarr compared this trait in Handel to a certain ungainliness in Brahms’s writing for piano. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z It seemed to me that a play was the ideal way to represent Handel. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z At 11, he made his London debut with a Giornovichi concerto between the first two parts of Handel’s “Messiah.” The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z She commanded the stage during the great Act II finale, when Alcina summons her powers, and nothing happens, an uncanny exploration by Handel of mental and psychic confusion. Joyce DiDonato Sings ‘Alcina’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z On Saturday at the Eisenhower Theater — a space certainly better suited to Handel’s scale than the Kennedy Center Opera House — we got a lot of good, slightly overearnest singing. Review | Strong women take the lead in Washington National Opera’s ‘Alcina’ 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Among the enormous marble monuments is one of composer George Frederick Handel, whose likeness was taken from a death mask. Centuries of history come to life on a verger tour of Westminster Abbey 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The problem is that “Serse,” even though Handel mingled comic and tragic elements in a way unusual at the time, remains a rather silly story. Review | The In Series adapts an opera about a crazy, juvenile ruler to the standards of our time 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Best of all, though, is Lucy Crowe, who gets to sing Gentle Morpheus, Son of Night, one of the most beautiful things in Handel's entire output. Handel: Alceste – review 2012-07-12T20:52:01Z This won't tell you about Handel's aria form or Verdi's orchestrational technique but it will provide you with the best-ever context for the way both those composers' music was received in their own time. Howard Goodall's top 10 music books 2013-02-06T13:47:13Z The museum is run by the Handel House Trust, which opened a small museum about Handel life’s and musical output at the site in 2001. Handel Museum Opens a Hendrix Half 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z If her refreshing impetuousness introduced a little roughness into her sound, it hardly mattered: She is a Handel singer to be heard. Review: Handel’s ‘Serse,’ With Yuks and Exquisite Playing 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z In Handel’s “Agrippina,” running through March 7, the conductor Harry Bicket’s triumph is the richness he draws from the Met Orchestra. Review: ‘Così’ at the Met, as Mild as a Coney Island Morning 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Two songs by Michael Nyman, composed for the score of a 1995 film, put these ancient instruments into a pleasing pop-ballad idiom, contrasted with a more operatic idiom in arrangements of Handel arias. Review | Countertenor Iestyn Davies and Fretwork revive music old and new at Library of Congress 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Composer George Frideric Handel lived next door in the 18th century, and Hendrix's former home is now part of the Handel House Museum. Hendrix items on show in his former London home 2010-08-16T16:01:00Z Danced to an orchestral arrangement of the music from the opera “Serse” often known as “Handel’s Largo,” it was a bland exercise in supported adagio. Dance Review: Australian Ballet at the Koch Theater 2012-06-13T22:18:36Z What Handel is good at doing is creating amazing emotional contrast. Meet the People Who Can’t Bring You ‘Messiah’ This Year 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z But when Wagner’s epics still hold the stage and opening up standard cuts in Handel operas is a healthy pastime, duration is a poor excuse for neglect. Music Review: A Return to Rossini?s Days of Yesteryear 2011-07-10T21:37:45Z Among the large number of pieces by Lou Harrison that lift the spirit is a short movement titled “In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel.” A centennial tribute to 'The Divine Mr. Harrison' 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z The story is basic tabloid fare, and Handel treats it almost entirely as interior drama. How we made: Peter Sellars and William Christie on Theodora 2012-08-27T18:00:03Z But, judging by their enthusiastic ovation, the audience seemed happy to go along for the entirety of Handel’s musical river ride. Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The building was acquired only in the early 1990s when the Handel House Trust was set up. ArtsBeat: Anna Nicole, Jimi Hendrix and Handel in London 2011-02-15T18:00:32Z But, excuse me, women sing the title role of Handel's Julius Caesar all the time, so what's the difference? Andreas Scholl and Philippe Jaroussky: pushing the envelope for countertenors 2010-12-06T21:31:00Z The suggestion came from Balanchine himself, who just before his death thought the pair should work together on Brahms’s “Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel.” 39 Dance Performances to See This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z There will also be events in meaningful places throughout the city, like the church where Handel was baptized, and a cathedral where he was an organist. A Year of Cultural Celebrations in Europe 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z In this case the play was to be about Handel, and the musicians were the Brook Street Band, who specialise in the music of Handel and his contemporaries. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z Whatever you do, don't miss what promises to be the Handel celebration of a lifetime. Handel in Seattle: Major festival shows there's much more to the man than 'Messiah' 2011-03-05T00:39:01Z You know the Do-It-Yourself Messiah, where you and your neighbors get onstage and sing Handel? Celebrating Tax Day 2011-04-15T17:28:00Z The performances, involving 18 instrumentalists in works by Matthew Locke, Henry Purcell, Thomas Arne and Charles Avison as well as Handel, were excellent. Music Review | Juilliard415: Juilliard415 Is Attuned to the Baroque at Tully Hall 2010-04-04T21:47:00Z Nobody writes concerti grossi any more, which is a pity, as there is much vitality to the baroque form perfected by Handel, Corelli and Bach, whose Brandenburg Suites are concerti grossi in all but name. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair 2010-06-07T21:20:00Z Tradition dictates that the musical calendar year ends, for most concertgoers, with Handel’s “Messiah.” After a Decade, a Monteverdi Masterpiece Flies Free 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z A vital part of Mr. Schlather’s project at the Whitebox Art Center on the Lower East Side, in this “Orlando” and Handel’s “Alcina” last September, is demystifying opera and its creation. Review: Handel’s ‘Orlando,’ the Second Part of a Trilogy 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z “Semele” was a hybrid, adapted from an existing opera libretto by William Congreve, though Handel stipulated that it be presented at Covent Garden in the manner of an oratorio. Review: The English Concert Brings a Marvelous ‘Semele’ 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z All around the country, choirs are singing hallelujahs in Handel’s “Messiah” and Scrooges are learning to replace bahs with blessings. Onstage, It’s Finally Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Again 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z In a remarkable quartet that follows, Handel seems to anticipate where opera as a genre was heading. Review: The English Concert Brings a Marvelous ‘Semele’ 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Handel moved into what is now 25 Brook Street in 1723, lived there for 36 years and died in the property in 1759. UK show explores Hendrix's links to Handel 2010-08-24T15:05:00Z By now Ms. DiDonato can conjure a world in a word, as she does at the start of “Morirò, ma vendicata,” heard on “Furore,” her Virgin Classics CD of Handel arias. Joyce DiDonato, Standing on Her Own Just Fine 2010-03-20T04:45:00Z George Frideric Handel's oratorio, "La Resurrezione," is among his most underrated and seldom performed works. Baroque Band ends season with a special performance of Handel 2011-06-03T17:05:20Z At the very least the Boyce and Handel works needed serious selling in this context. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra Plays Bach at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-28T23:05:18Z Harry Bicket and the English Concert are annual visitors to Carnegie Hall, and their series of Handel masterpieces is a continuing revelation. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z At Trinity, Handel’s “Messiah,” too, becomes an act of communal affirmation. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street’s ‘Messiah’ 2013-12-08T22:27:39Z Intended to show the influence of the master’s pioneering concertos for multiple instruments, it also offered concerti grossi by Corelli and Handel. Review: Venice and Vivaldi, Center Stage at the Metropolitan Museum 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z As Clifford Bartlett, the editor of the Oxford edition, noted in his introduction to the score, the soloists in Handel’s time likely sang the choruses as well. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z In 1861 he composed a brilliant set of variations on a theme of Handel. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Handel’s “Messiah,” with orchestra; Gregory Hopkins, music minister. Hallelujahs Everywhere 2010-12-10T05:30:00Z The score was donated by Handel, one of the hospital’s major benefactors, who gave benefit concerts there and even composed an anthem for his first one. London Tours Explore the Worlds of Opera and Classical Music 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Handel understood that subsequent ensembles would amplify the orchestration; he took part in some performances that added instruments to the scoring. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York?s ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-20T21:59:08Z And as if to drive the point home, the veteran pianist and pedagogue Gerald Robbins played that work in an attractive program at Bargemusic on Friday evening, preceded by keyboard suites of Handel. Gerald Robbins Plays Bargemusic’s Masterworks Series 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Like Handel, he was another German who had a huge impact on British music. BBC Proms 2010 2010-07-16T05:44:00Z She lives there with her husband, the filmmaker Sam Handel, a son, 11, and a daughter, 5. Lauren Ambrose Finally Gets Her Musical 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Handel’s “Messiah,” Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, with Matthew Halls conducting; more performances 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. Hallelujah! Seattle Symphony and Chorale deliver an energetic, nuanced ‘Messiah’ 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z A superb cast, orchestra and chorus put a human face on war's awful truths as they work across the vast emotional trajectory of Handel's music. 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z The first version, which probably dates from 1718 and may have been performed as a masque, is effectively lost, and Handel made a total revision and expansion of the score in 1732. Handel: Esther ? review 2012-05-17T21:35:01Z Under Ms. Glover, the Orchestra of St Luke’s and the Riverside Choral Society Chamber Singers often make Handel’s music sound as if that, too, is still in its youth. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-06T22:07:00Z Like many Handel operas, “Radamisto” involves lots of women playing men — roles often written for castrati, men who were castrated before their voices changed at puberty, giving them a distinctive, powerful high soprano. Review | The small Opera Lafayette proves its mettle, pulling off its first Handel 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Highlights include Handel, Haydn and Mozart, to be sure, but there’s also Verdi, Smetana and even Gershwin. Gift Ideas for Classical Music Fans 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z That was most unfortunate for Gene Hill Sagan’s “Suite en Bleu,” a balletic work set to Bach and Handel. Review: At SummerStage, Philadanco and TU Dance Produce Fancy Footwork Across Vastness 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Arad agreed with Mr. Handel that the process and the years have changed him. How the 9/11 Memorial Changed Its Architect, Michael Arad 2011-09-04T04:19:38Z Though the baroque revival has forced a major reappraisal of much of Telemann's colossal output, his operas remain unknown quantities, and Classical Opera's Orpheus at this year's London Handel festival was to be welcomed. Orpheus – review 2013-03-20T18:33:58Z An A student who planned on becoming a doctor, like his grandfather, Cousins also sang in Holland’s competitive choir, Living Hope, whose repertoire drew from such works as the musical “Wicked” and Handel’s “Messiah.” Is Kirk Cousins capable of greatness? 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The piece was first presented in Hamburg to great success in 1705, when Handel was just 19. Music Review: Operamission Performs Handel’s ‘Almira’ at Gershwin Hotel 2012-05-30T22:29:39Z The choir’s plans for its 2014-15 season include an actual Handel oratorio as well. ArtsBeat: Had Enough of Handel’s ‘Messiah’? Try Eric Idle’s 2014-05-12T15:31:51Z The dancers wore adaptations of seventeenth-century dress and danced in harmony with the fountain’s arcing progressions, accompanied by Handel and others. The Shoes of Le Nôtre 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Over the next seven years, Handel wrote or rewrote several roles and arias for Guadagni. Guadagni: the first modern singer? 2012-07-19T13:13:24Z And, by the way, the helpful receptionist at the Handel House was intensely curious about “Anna Nicole.” ArtsBeat: Anna Nicole, Jimi Hendrix and Handel in London 2011-02-15T18:00:32Z After all, he's got Bach and Handel writing them for him. Readers recommend: songs about Jesus – results 2013-06-13T15:01:36Z But in 1962 that’s what a ticket cost to see a performance of Paul Taylor’s work “Aureole,” set to the music of Handel. ArtsBeat Blog: Paul Taylor Adds a Performance With a 1962 Price 2012-01-05T17:50:26Z Based upon Longfellow's poem, it was first performed in 1886, and became second only to Handel's Messiah in popularity in Victorian England, when it was regarded as the greatest of Sullivan's serious works. Field Day, Haim, Metz: this week's new live music 2013-05-25T05:00:12Z When I returned home, I built Handel’s oratorio into my holiday ritual, listening to my parents’ Neville Marriner recording while wrapping presents or decorating the tree. A Critic Gives Prizes for 5 ‘Messiah’ Concerts in New York 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Its senior vice president of public policy, Karen Handel. The tyranny of pink 2012-05-30T11:45:00Z Wagner said that Brahms's Handel variations, which McCawley played before the interval, showed what could still be done with old forms by someone who knew how to use them. Leon McCawley ? review 2010-12-03T22:30:00Z To make a dance to some of Handel’s “Water Music” and title it simply “Water” is just the kind of joke you would expect from Mark Morris. Mark Morris Dance Group Debuts ‘Water’ in Its Element 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z A strong cast moved easily through Handel’s florid da capo arias and vigorous choruses. Music Review: Finding Many Ways to View One Myth 2011-04-05T20:52:21Z After each performance, Mr. Costanzo would work through the night on “Glass Handel.” Handel and Philip Glass, but Make It Fashion 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z “R. & B. runs are always treated like they’re not sophisticated. But when you listen to Handel . . . It’s, like, ‘He Shall Purify’ is all runs!” he told me. Serpentwithfeet‘s Sensual Ode to Drama 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z None Linn Records Esther is well known to have been the first of Handel's English oratorios, but exactly when it was first heard, and in what form, remains uncertain. Handel: Esther ? review 2012-05-17T21:35:01Z He also figured prominently in debates over how music from the early modern period — such as the work of Mozart, Bach and Handel — should be played in the present day. Neville Marriner, Prolific Musician and Acclaimed Conductor, Dies at 92 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix also shared an address, living 200 years apart in adjoining 18th-century London houses. Jimi Hendrix, George Handel: On the street where they lived (in London) 2010-08-25T23:00:00Z The program includes the Christmas portion of Handel’s “Messiah,” as well as Britten’s “A Ceremony of Carols.” The Season of Joyful Noises 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z While much of America prepared to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday, an equally enthusiastic crowd of Handel lovers gathered in Carnegie Hall to listen to “Theodora,” a three-and-a-half-hour oratorio about Christian martyrs. Music Review: ‘Theodora’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-03T07:29:53Z Keates would like his readers to believe that although the “Messiah,” and indeed Handel, was never entirely forgotten — particularly in his adopted home, England — his immense output, and especially his operas, suffered neglect. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The other unusual twist on the program was that each of the three remaining pieces -- all standard fare from Bach and Handel -- was preceded by a meditative prelude. Bernard Labadie's welcome return to Disney Hall 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z If I remember correctly, Handel was the first "recognized" time-beater.--yep, just keeping time by banging a staff on the floor. With James Levine Fired, Should We Rethink Maestro Worship? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z As Shaw observed: "Sheridan wrote for the actor as Handel wrote for the singer." The School for Scandal – review 2012-07-12T16:51:56Z Handel, both born in 1685, were quickly forgotten after their deaths in the 1750s. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Bach is revered here, and past seasons have included Vivaldi concerts and works by Handel, Telemann, Corelli and others from the Baroque Top 10. Music Review: Exploring the Intricacies of the 17th Century 2011-07-31T21:56:33Z We know nothing about what Handel got up to, except that he ate and drank a great deal. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z We have arrived at that point in the holiday season when it seems as though you could attend a different performance of Handel’s “Messiah” every few days. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Another candidate for this list was also born in Germany the same year as Bach: Handel, who lived nine years longer. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z Christmastime is associated with Baroque music — “Messiah,” the “Brandenburg” Concertos — and the orchestra was happy to oblige, with a program of Handel and Rameau at David Geffen Hall. Review: A Baroque Start to the New York Philharmonic’s Holiday 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Mark Morris Dance Group goes for baroque with a classic piece set to the music of Handel on a new edition of "Great Performances." TV This Week March 22 - 29: Katy Perry Concert on EPIX 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The company had been planning to stage Handel’s “Julius Caesar,” with the role of Cleopatra going to Ms. Curtin. Phyllis Curtin, American Soprano Who Championed New Music, Dies at 94 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The group, whose men wore fuchsia socks with their black trousers, also offered spirited renditions of selections by Scarlatti and Handel. Music Review: Joyce DiDonato Sings Baroque Opera at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-20T22:43:06Z She built up her voice with a steady diet of Mozart and Handel. After a Soprano’s Crisis, a Brünnhilde Is Born 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z But he played the Handel from scores and the Brahms from memory, and the difference showed. Gerald Robbins Plays Bargemusic’s Masterworks Series 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z "He once claimed to have seen a reflection of Handel's face in his shaving mirror," said Martin Wyatt, deputy director of the Handel House Museum, which has mounted an exhibition about Hendrix's London years. Jimi Hendrix, George Handel: On the street where they lived (in London) 2010-08-25T23:00:00Z Starting on Sept. 22 at the Barnes Foundation, the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo will perform in “Glass Handel,” an art installation that fuses the music of Handel and Philip Glass. Ambitious Opera Philadelphia Announces Its New Season 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z A young generation of opera singers is adept at shuttling between ancient and modern styles: Witness Anthony Roth Costanzo’s “Glass Handel” or Kate Lindsey, assured in both Monteverdi and Kurt Weill. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Handel’s original orchestra for “La Resurrezione” consisted of about 45 players. It’s Handel; It’s Not What You Think 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z She jettisoned the Mozart and Handel fare she had made her name with for heavier Strauss and Wagner roles that felt right. After a Soprano’s Crisis, a Brünnhilde Is Born 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z It will never rival Handel’s “Messiah” for sheer ubiquity in New York, though there was an unusual bumper crop of prominent performances last month, of which I heard two but missed a third. Music Review: Christmas Oratorio at St. Paul’s Chapel 2013-01-06T22:28:27Z He said he had been introduced to Mr. Daniels and Mr. Walters by a friend, and had attended the final night of Handel’s “Xerxes” and the cast party afterward. Singer Accuses David Daniels, Leading Opera Star, of Rape 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Instead, he honored Handel by giving the piece an up-to-date sound. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York?s ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-20T21:59:08Z Handel’s “Messiah” plays no part in the Christmas memories of my childhood in Brussels. A Critic Gives Prizes for 5 ‘Messiah’ Concerts in New York 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z “Conducting some ensembles in ‘Dead Man Walking’ was very much like conducting Handel, because the emotional effect was entirely dependent on tempo. Jake Heggie Makes ?Moby-Dick? an Opera 2010-04-24T02:46:00Z From Seething to Earnest, a Work Raises Passions Handel’s “Messiah” may be the only sure thing in classical music. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ at St. Thomas and Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z Though he would return to playing Handel on Sunday, he was, for the moment, appreciating Avicii’s artistry. A Church Remembers Avicii, With Hits Instead of Hymns 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Building on the gracefully modulating chord progression at the start of the work’s Andante Larghetto, the players produced a lush sound that painted Handel as an early avatar of English pastoralism. Music Review: Proving That Early Music Can Contain Startling Shifts 2011-03-08T22:00:11Z Trumpeter Kris Kwapis joins the orchestra for “Baroque Celebration!,” a program of trumpet sonatas by Corelli and Handel as well as works for strings and harpsichord and selections from SBO’s new Vivaldi CD. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week of Dec. 23 2012-12-20T00:49:36Z He was the artistic director of the King's Lynn Festival and Boston's Handel and Haydn Society. Conductor Christopher Hogwood dies 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z He was a scholar, collector, Shakespeare editor and the man who probably brought the first piano into England, on which Handel performed after dinner. Handel House honours Charles Jennens, librettist of Messiah 2012-11-27T17:55:20Z Most prominent 17th- and 18th-century composers — like Monteverdi, Handel and Vivaldi, Gluck, Haydn and Mozart — assembled or contributed, knowingly or not, to pastiches. ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z Handel’s original orchestration was modest: just strings and continuo with trumpets and kettledrums called for sparingly. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York?s ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-20T21:59:08Z So there had to be a certain frisson for that black-tie, first-night crowd encountering Bach, Vivaldi and Handel against a semi-psychedelic backdrop. The connection between Gordon Davidson and Neville Marriner, and what it means for modern-day L.A. 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Christian Curnyn, who recently made a notable debut at New York City Opera conducting Handel's " Partenope," leads what is billed as the first professional staging of Handel's " Tolomeo" in the United States. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z The Adelaide Gallery, for example, paired performances of Handel's "Messiah" with fantastical electrical displays, giant projections of microscopic beings, or demonstrations of laughing gas. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Among them is the Handel Festival in Halle, May 25 through June 10, a Baroque homage to the German-born composer in and around the city where he was born. A Year of Cultural Celebrations in Europe 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z It is the O.J. trial treated in the musical style of a Handel opera. '60s organist Anthony Newman continues to perplex and astound 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Handel was for Beethoven the greatest of all composers, and music’s finest dramatist. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Those used to the dazzling solo virtuosity of Handel’s operas may find the aria parts in “Solomon” a tad sedate. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Most of the “Enchanted Island” score is drawn from the operas, oratorios and cantatas of Handel, with a few of his hit tunes offset by more obscure excerpts. ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z Foss takes on nothing less than the great European heritage in his zany deconstructions of works by Handel, Scarlatti and Bach. Review: American Symphony Orchestra’s George Perle Centennial Tribute 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Later that year the company staged its milestone production of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” with Beverly Sills as Cleopatra, a breakthrough performance that finally made her a major star. Music: Julius Rudel, Still Keeping Tabs on City Opera 2010-03-17T21:03:00Z The music for this finale is lifted from the “Hallelujah” chorus that concludes Handel’s oratorio “Judas Maccabaeus.” Music Review: ?The Enchanted Island? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2012-01-01T22:56:22Z Mark Morris’s new staging of Handel’s “Acis and Galatea” will have its New York premiere this summer as part of the 48th Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. ArtsBeat: Mark Morris Bringing a Handel Work to Mostly Mozart Festival 2014-04-09T14:00:52Z Bringing freshness, let alone novelty, to a performance of Handel’s “Messiah” is a challenge. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York?s ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-20T21:59:08Z Handel was generous with some of the secondary roles, too, giving fine arias to both the First Israelite and the Israelite Boy – opportunities Thomas Hobbs and Rachel Redmond seized enthusiastically. Esther – review 2013-04-28T14:55:01Z From Friday through March 27, Seattleites will have their best opportunity in years to test that judgment when The American Handel Festival comes to town. Handel in Seattle: Major festival shows there's much more to the man than 'Messiah' 2011-03-05T00:39:01Z His most recent outings were in San Francisco, first as a last-minute replacement conducting the San Francisco Opera’s new production of Handel’s “Partenope,” and then in a planned debut with the Philharmonia Baroque. A polymath in D.C.: The long ascendancy of conductor-composer Julian Wachner I have several times suggested that the Brook Street Band ought to get a proper actor to play Handel. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z The London home of composer George Frideric Handel is holding an exhibition about its other famous resident - Jimi Hendrix. Exhibition looks at Jimi Hendrix's London years 2010-08-24T11:47:00Z In just the first few arias, Handel shows us, one by one, who these characters are. Review: Joyce DiDonato Is Wrenching in Handel’s ‘Ariodante’ 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z In the 1730s, as Handel’s London audiences gradually broadened into the middle class from the aristocracy, they lost much of their interest in his Italian-language operas, which had thrilled the cognoscenti for years. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z “Pieces like this in Handel’s day were endlessly adaptable — nothing precious at all, everything rewritten, numbers put in, things taken out,” he said. The Metropolitan Opera Revives ‘The Enchanted Island’ 2014-02-24T23:05:14Z Next up: Handel’s “Solomon” — in only 10 months’ time. Review: Handel’s ‘Serse,’ With Yuks and Exquisite Playing 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z And Brahms’s Handel elaboration is a high-water mark of the variations form. Review: Inon Barnatan Soldiers Through Hallowed Works at 92nd Street Y 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Handel oratorios have been big in New York in recent months. Review: New York Youth Symphony and the Choir of St. Luke in the Fields Perform 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The cavernous theater is a hindrance, admittedly, but Gluck and Handel ought to be mainstays, not rarities. The Met Opera Is Struggling. How Can It Fill Those Empty Seats? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Tonight's Prom, for example, features the period instrument Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment playing Handel. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z There Carlo Grante, an Italian pianist, played all of Brahms’s variations for solo piano, the grandest being the Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The two nightingales, though removed from each other, dance a question-and-answer duet that corresponds to the dialogue Handel composes here for soprano and flute. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-06T22:07:00Z To close the year, Noseda will lead the orchestra in pieces from Handel’s “Messiah” as well as Bach’s “Magnificat.” Perspective | Best classical music of 2021: Noseda reunites with the NSO, ‘Fire’ lights up the Met 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The operas of Handel are similar in some ways but very different in others from those of Rameau, Charpentier and the rest of the French Baroque composers. Baroque Operas, Under Reconstruction 2012-07-27T14:43:55Z If you eat up Baroque shtick, as I do, the English Concert’s presentation of Handel’s “Serse” at Carnegie Hall on Sunday was probably right up your alley. Review: Handel’s ‘Serse,’ With Yuks and Exquisite Playing 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Her family said she was still teaching until three weeks before her death Wednesday, and the final piece of music she listened to was the last soprano aria of Handel's "Messiah." Pioneering soprano Helen Boatwright dies at 94 2010-12-02T21:07:00Z Hendrix in Britain is at the Handel House Museum from 25 August to 7 November. Jimi Hendrix experience at Handel museum 2010-08-24T16:50:00Z Director Oskar Eustis sounded as though he was after something similar to what Sellars was up to with Handel and Mozart, using Shakespeare’s tragedy as a mirror to nature, often revealing “disturbing, upsetting, provoking things.” Mozart in Trump Tower, and the art of getting political onstage 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Few directors are as responsive as Mr. Schlather to Handel’s disorienting swerves of feeling. Review: Handel’s ‘Orlando,’ the Second Part of a Trilogy 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z While many of the movements are based on traditional Baroque dance styles, only in the Suite No. 4 does Handel adhere to the typical structure of allemande, courante, sarabande and gigue. Classical Recordings: ‘Handel: Keyboard Suites’ by Lisa Smirnova 2012-09-29T23:03:03Z After graduating, Orlinski headed to Juilliard, then returned to Europe and began to pick up recital and opera work, making a name for himself in Handel, a composer he reveres. He Break Dances. He Pole Dances. He Sings Like an Angel. 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Composed in 1741 when Handel was 56 and shaken by the box-office failures of his most recent operas and oratorios, the “Messiah” emerged in the space of 24 inspired days. Seattle Symphony audiences have never heard a ‘Messiah’ production quite like this season’s 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z A renowned contralto known for performances of works by Mahler, Handel and Bach, Stutzmann began her conducting career only about a decade ago. A Female Conductor Joins the Ranks of Top U.S. Orchestras 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z The Hendrix exhibition, which runs to Nov. 7, is a bit of a shock next to the muted gray walls, oil paintings and harpsichords of the rooms devoted to Handel's life. Jimi Hendrix, George Handel: On the street where they lived (in London) 2010-08-25T23:00:00Z A recent concert directed by Nicholas McGegan featured a high-powered Handel evening. Essential Arts & Culture: Deciphering Civil War telegrams, summer of Shakespeare, a conductor's fiery performance 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z At the time, I knew virtually nothing about Handel. My first ‘Messiah’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z And where Monteverdi went, generations of composers followed, such as Handel, whose London operas are peppered with extravagant and powerful women. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z It watched as its conspicuously conservative vice president for public policy Karen Handel resigned in the wake of the scandal. Why did Komen for the Cure give Nancy Brinker a 64 percent raise? 2013-05-06T14:27:00Z In 1723, Handel, then 38, took a lease on a new house on 25 Brook Street, moved in and remained there until his death in 1759. ArtsBeat: Anna Nicole, Jimi Hendrix and Handel in London 2011-02-15T18:00:32Z Though Mr. Rolfe Johnson was most closely identified with early-music composers, including Monteverdi, Bach and Handel, his portfolio ranged through Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and on to modernity. Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Operatic Tenor, Dies at 69 2010-07-27T05:28:00Z Huffman’s love of music was nurtured by singing Bach and Handel in a church choir. American Directors Bring Fresh Visions to Europe’s Opera Stages 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z A pioneer in the study of period performance practices, Mr. Mackerras was also known for his renditions of Gluck and Handel operas as well as a broad range of other repertory. Charles Mackerras, a Wide-Ranging Conductor, Dies 2010-07-15T13:33:00Z The point is to show audiences that Handel doesn’t have to be scary, despite the fact that his operas basically consist of long strings of arias in ABA form, sung one after the other. Wolf Trap Opera, Castleton Festival launch unevenly but laudably on same weekend Mr. Sams took pieces by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau and others; wrote new English lyrics; and wove them around a story that marries Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The Metropolitan Opera Revives ‘The Enchanted Island’ 2014-02-24T23:05:14Z According to the musicologist Stanley Sadie, “counterpoint, in Handel, is almost invariably virtuous”; thus the Christian choruses feature strikingly contrapuntal music and the Roman heathens are given simpler fare. Music Review: ‘Theodora’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-03T07:29:53Z “Every time Handel uses the trumpet, it’s on the side of what’s right,” he said. In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Composer George Frideric Handel lived and died in 25 Brook Street while, 200 years later, Hendrix lived and died next door in number 23, now used as administrative offices for the museum. Jimi Hendrix experience at Handel museum 2010-08-24T16:50:00Z She gave a nice turn to the little aria “A voice within my heart,” which Handel reused and which became a street song at the time. It’s Handel; It’s Not What You Think 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Patrick Summers, the artistic and music director of the Houston Grand Opera, conducted some of her earliest successes in Mozart and Handel. A Soprano Survived a Vocal Crisis. The Met Found Its Brünnhilde. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z “It was the expanding of the repertoire — both backward, toward Handel and Monteverdi, which he directed and became famous for, and forward, toward so much contemporary opera. He’s a real impresario.” A Behind-the-Scenes Eminence Shapes a Festival’s Future 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z "Hendrix was convinced he was living in Handel's house — but actually he was living next door." Jimi Hendrix, George Handel: On the street where they lived (in London) 2010-08-25T23:00:00Z As he talked about “truth trees” and “belief boxes,” the dancer Ashley Handel, with a determined and mischievous expression, assumed kneeling and straddling poses on the ground. Rakiya A. Orange and Alex Rodabaugh Works at Gibney Dance 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The rethought opera harks back to the days before texts were considered sacrosanct, when composers like Handel, Verdi and Puccini continued to tinker with and transform their finished works over the years. Revisiting the Opera ‘Appomattox,’ in the Course of Human Events 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Handel and Haydn Society, a Boston orchestra under Harry Christophers, will perform Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 in the Temple of Dendur. MetLiveArts Series Features Podcaster as Artist in Residence 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z But its artistic director, Lourdes Lopez, always has a treat in store: This year it’s the company premiere of “Brahms/Handel,” the 1984 choreographic collaboration between Twyla Tharp and Jerome Robbins. 39 Dance Performances to See This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Handel referred to the suites with the English term “lessons,” signifying their suitability for domestic use and possibly as pedagogical material. Classical Recordings: ‘Handel: Keyboard Suites’ by Lisa Smirnova 2012-09-29T23:03:03Z He carefully crafted the group’s repertoire, which grew to include pieces by Vivaldi, Handel and Chopin. Ward Swingle, musician who made Bach swing, dies at 87 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z But she was particularly praised for her singing of operas by Handel and 19th-century Italian composers. Family: Soprano Joan Sutherland has died, age 83 2010-10-11T17:50:00Z Handel himself was initially accused of sacrilege in some orthodox quarters for transposing the biblical text. A ‘Messiah’ for the Multitudes, Freed From History’s Bonds 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Actual settings of “Hallelujah,” by Handel, Bach, Johann Schein, Mozart and Mussorgsky are skillfully folded into the score by Mr. Eotvos, who integrates the borrowings into his own atmospheric, modernist language. A Salzburg Festival Rich With Dreams and Power 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z These people were a part of Handel's personal universe, and belong naturally in any play about him. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z Before the release on Friday of her album, “Handel,” here are three tracks, available for the next two days only. Exclusive Tracks From Sonya Yoncheva’s New Handel Album 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z But it’s not just the settlements stemming from an allegation that perpetuate secrecy, says entertainment lawyer Jonathan Handel, a contributing editor at the Hollywood Reporter. How NDAs kept the lid on harassment scandals — and why that might be changing 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z He would be as eager to argue with a friend or colleague on authenticity in performing Handel as in discussing the relative merits of the opera of Janacek. Charles Mackerras 1925-2010 2010-07-15T10:55:00Z She later became one of City Opera’s most bankable stars, headlining specially created productions of Douglas Moore’s “Ballad of Baby Doe,” Handel’s “Semele” and Strauss’s “Daphne.” Elizabeth Futral at Lincoln Center Festival and Glimmerglass 2012-07-18T21:49:41Z At times he has used adventurous ornamentation to make his points, and in some cases — a notable 1985 recording of Handel’s “Messiah” for example — he has found reason to experiment with idiosyncratic ideas about scoring. The Week Ahead 2012-03-09T19:52:13Z In contrast, Trinity’s Handel Project, a new multiyear survey of Handel’s oratorios, shapes up as a more improvisatory affair, to judge from its opening concert last Wednesday. After Five Years of Bach, Trinity Church Takes On Handel 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z After all, Handel’s “Messiah,” the ultimate Christmas oratorio, was originally considered Easter music. ‘Nutcracker’ in May? The Virus Postpones a Christmas Tradition 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Though Mr. Asawa was best known as a Handel specialist, he cast a musical net that spanned centuries. Brian Asawa, Celebrated Countertenor and Pathbreaker at the Met, Dies at 49 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z And we like sheep, as Handel says repeatedly in “The Messiah,” but we don’t want to be one. Comma Queen: A Grammarian’s Xmas 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z If you were near the front during the Handel works, warm strings simmered under the glorious sound the massed choirs produced. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra at St. John the Divine 2010-04-26T22:41:00Z A: First and foremost, Handel's "Messiah" is a truly great piece, as is so much of his music. It's 'Messiah' season in Seattle 2010-12-01T23:52:00Z Handel and his collaborator Thomas Morell updated the Old Testament story of Jephtha for their oratorio, “Jephtha,” adding a happy ending to the parable about a father who sacrifices his daughter to God. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z For Handel, as for Bach, that theologically indispensable miracle rather than the birth of Jesus represented Christianity’s essence. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z On this occasion, it has chosen a more conventional location for its concert presentation of Handel’s “Rinaldo.” Classical Music Listings for June 10-16 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The Cleopatra ballet will join a long list of dramatisations of her myth - from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and an opera by Handel to the lavish 1960s blockbuster starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Cleopatra reborn 2011-02-24T10:41:18Z Lully’s score serves Philippe Quinault’s elegant text above all, with clear melodies and dialogue that is both otherworldly in its precision and disarmingly natural, with few of the fireworks of Handel and Vivaldi. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z Theodora is one of Handel’s most compelling and sympathetic heroines, a Christian racked by doubt over her life choices. Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z New York audiences accustomed to seeing him in Metropolitan Opera productions of Handel’s “Rodelinda” and the Baroque pastiche “The Enchanted Island” will get a more intimate Handel in “Aci, Galatea e Polifemo.” Anthony Roth Costanzo Exists to Transform Opera 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Costanzo nabbed the guest spot and prepared a Handel aria, but he was also keen to join voices on “Summertime.” A Cabaret Star and an Opera Star Walk Onto a Stage … 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z Bach, Mozart and Handel, among many other composers, wrote sacred music for churches that is typically played now in secular settings. Preview: Sacred Music Foundation celebrates religious music's classical roots 2010-07-26T22:58:00Z In some classical music, as in the perennial December favourite, Handel's "Messiah," a countertenor will sing the alto solos — more usually sung by a woman. Falsetto: The enduring love affair with the soaring male voice 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z But though a drumstick may hold up well under Handel and Haydn, he said in the same interview, “a man in green pants and purple hair breaks it in one rimshot.” Vic Firth, Who Gave Drummers Their Sticks, Dies at 85 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z In opera the resurrections of Handel and Rossini over the last half century suggest different possibilities. Celebrating an 18th-Century Composer, Carl Loewe 2012-02-24T21:05:38Z Hearing him conduct Handel’s “Messiah” in December has become a holiday tradition in the city. Kent Tritle Conducts ‘Messiah’ at Carnegie Hall 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z Think of the “period” or historically informed performance movement, and the mind probably turns to Monteverdi, Bach, Handel. The Conductor Transforming Period Performance 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Less than a decade younger than Bach, Roman sounds considerably more modern, more even than Handel. Music Review: Norwegian Ensemble Flaunts Its Bows and Body English 2011-03-24T22:04:24Z The program opened with Mr. Magloire’s new “Symmetry,” set to Handel violin sonatas. Dance Review: 104 Degrees of Spirited Dancing 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z But along with the expected Bach, Suzuki's Disney visit made rare forays into Vivaldi and Handel. Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan's impeccable taste shows at Disney Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Handel liked the myth of Acis and Galatea so much that he set it to music twice, and did plenty of tinkering with both versions. Music Review: Finding Many Ways to View One Myth 2011-04-05T20:52:21Z The program also features several instrumental excerpts by Handel. The Week Ahead: April 3 ? 9 2011-04-02T03:12:49Z Her gifts were perfectly suited to the Handel repertory in which she was celebrated throughout her career. Classical Recordings 2011-05-25T21:34:45Z Suzuki’s approach brought to mind his conducting of Handel’s “Messiah” with the New York Philharmonic in December, when the players conveyed the music’s general shape without filling in the details. Review: Bach Collegium Japan Returns With Chamber Music 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Davies managed to act naturally even in the postmodern hodgepodge of Handel’s “Partenope” at New York City Opera last year. Music Review: Iestyn Davies at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-17T01:09:20Z It's not the easiest of Handel's oratorios to bring off. Susanna – review 2013-06-13T16:52:40Z Bach and Handel, born the same year, are both classics, and yet they are not exactly standard orchestral fare — apart from ubiquities like the annual “Messiah.” Review | We think Bach is basic. For an orchestra, it’s a departure. 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z You go to Handel for the music, of course, not the history, which is typically jumbled. An Early-Music Ensemble Gives a Handel Opera a Period Punch 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z While an anthem, the various parts of the work recall the Lutheranism of Caroline and Handel, featuring quotations of that faith’s music. What Music to Expect at Queen Elizabeth II’s Funeral 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z That practice taps into a grand musical tradition: Baroque composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel often reused material from earlier works in new settings. Happy birthday, Pierre 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Raised on Long Island, Ms. Goerke overcame her self-doubt to achieve success singing Mozart and Handel. A Soprano Survived a Vocal Crisis. The Met Found Its Brünnhilde. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The church is generally agreed to have been the site of the first American performances of this Handel favorite, in 1770, although as it turns out, only excerpts were sung on that occasion. Music Review: ?Messiah? Season, in All of Its Hues 2010-12-16T16:27:17Z The late-afternoon concert concluded with a passionate, prayerful choral piece from Handel. Orchestra presents first concert since founder George Shangrow's death 2010-10-11T19:33:00Z Cecilia Bartoli will sing the title role in a production of Handel’s “Alcina” that will first be presented in the spring at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, where she is the artistic director. The Salzburg Festival is Planning a Mythic Summer 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z And yes, it’s “Messiah” season already: starting on Tuesday, and continuing through next Saturday, Gary Thor Wedow conducts Handel’s perennial favorite, with soloists including the countertenor Iestyn Davies. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Dec. 12-18 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The booklet notes point to possible Handel borrowings from Croft’s Overture in the “Music for the Royal Fireworks.” CD Reviews: Praising Peace and Ignoring Calendar Details 2010-08-19T15:31:00Z What followed was an epic social media failure, a quick retreat from its proposed course of action and the resignation of its politically conservative senior vice president Karen Handel. The sad decline of Komen for the Cure 2013-06-07T14:57:00Z Mr. Costanzo, 36, has just released “ARC,” a recording that bridges the Great Countertenor Gap, finding common ground between the music of Handel and Philip Glass. Handel and Philip Glass, but Make It Fashion 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The repertoire for these singers was once limited mainly to baroque composers like Monteverdi and Handel, who wrote roles for male castrati. A high-voiced rising star at 25 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Yoko Ono was among those who wandered in off Broome Street over the past few weeks to watch a bit of “Orlando,” Handel’s glorious 1733 tragicomedy of competing loves. Review: Handel’s ‘Orlando,’ the Second Part of a Trilogy 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z As an experiment, he and the group’s manager, Milton Goldin, staged the first complete performance in the United States of the Handel oratorio “Esther” at Town Hall in April 1961. Johannes Somary, Conductor of Neglected Works, Dies at 75 2011-02-08T06:59:21Z Many assume that Hendrix knew nothing of the Handel connection: in fact he was charmed when he learned of it, and bought recordings including The Messiah and The Water Music. Jimi Hendrix and Handel: Housemates separated by time 2010-05-16T16:27:00Z In February he brings his own old-instrument band, the English Concert, to Carnegie Hall for a concert performance of Handel’s “Radamisto.” Harry Bicket, Conducting Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z Photograph: The Art Archive/Corbis The years 1650 to 1750 were a period of feverish invention and technical ingenuity in music that reached an apotheosis in Handel's sublime oratorios and Bach's cantatas and Passions. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z Guadagni's early distrust of virtuosity was a matter of aesthetics rather than technique, and Davies includes some of the showstoppers written for him by Handel and Arne, delivering them with wonderful finesse and flawless tone. Iestyn Davies: Arias for Guadagni – review 2012-06-07T21:55:01Z Handel had learned about composing for the violin from Corelli, and used to send botanical specimens to Telemann. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z Beyond bel canto, Dame Sutherland's repertory ranged from Handel and Mozart to Verdi and 19th-century French operas. Obituary: Soprano Joan Sutherland was opera legend 2010-10-12T03:18:00Z So Handel presented the piece in concert form — accidentally inventing the English oratorio. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Yet it seems unlikely Weinstein would sue his accusers — a step that would be unlikely to repair his image, Handel said. How NDAs kept the lid on harassment scandals — and why that might be changing 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Manze drew a warm-bodied and agile performance from the Philharmonic players that brought out the rich textures and contours of Handel’s score. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘Messiah’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-12-19T23:38:51Z The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s concert at Carnegie Hall on Saturday evening was mainly mellow and mellifluous, with lovely works by Handel and Mozart, and even subdued for a time, with Irving Fine’s “Serious Song.” Music Review: Martin Frost, Clarinetist, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 2013-12-09T21:54:32Z The concert program was odd: a bit of this, a bit of that in the first half; a lot of Handel in the second. Music Review | Juilliard415: Juilliard415 Is Attuned to the Baroque at Tully Hall 2010-04-04T21:47:00Z The Handel and Haydn Society of Boston asserts that it gave the American premiere of the complete work in 1818 at King’s Chapel in Boston. Music Review: ?Messiah? Season, in All of Its Hues 2010-12-16T16:27:17Z On a Handel Web site Mr. Vickers dismisses Mr. Jacobs’s CD account of Handel’s “Saul,” calling the conductor “neither a natural Handelian nor an honest crusader of the quest for ‘authentic’ performance.” Ren? Jacobs?s Harmonia Mundi CDs and DVDs 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z Both concerto and divertimento were written in Mozart's teens, barely after the end of the Baroque era, a scant generation after the deaths of Handel and Bach. Guest conductor lends expert touch to SSO Mozart program 2012-05-04T17:02:04Z Handel is a Republican who opposed abortion as a candidate for Georgia governor. Former Susan G. Komen executive has book deal 2012-08-13T16:51:55Z On Wednesday she joins the English Concert, a noteworthy period instrument group directed by Harry Bicket, for a program including instrumental works by Vivaldi and songs and arias by Dowland, Monteverdi and Handel. The Week Ahead: Oct. 10 ? 16 2010-10-08T13:44:00Z Trinity doled out Handel’s solos to the members of its choir. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Soon listeners around the world were discovering Ms. Hallenberg in the title roles of “Ezio” and “Tolomeo,” and on a whimsical disc accompanying “Handel’s Bestiary,” a charming book by Ms. Leon. Is This the Best Opera Singer You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Its offering, “Amor and Psyche,” presents the music of a baker’s dozen of composers, including Handel, Dowland and Porpora. | Oct. 17 ? 23 2010-10-15T16:51:00Z Sopranos, on the other hand, were as difficult as they are now, and Handel once threatened to throw Mme Cuzzoni out of a window if she continued to refuse to sing an aria from Ottone. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z Yet she had a full-bodied upper voice and could sing passagework in Handel arias with agility. Maureen Forrester, Canadian Contralto, Dies at 79 2010-06-18T03:55:00Z While keeping Handel’s string parts he added to and enriched them, and included woodwinds, brass and timpani. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York?s ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-20T21:59:08Z But wait: there's an undercover cop on her trail, himself posing as a musician – he's in the orchestra, strumming fiercely on a guitar, an instrument that may surprise Handel scholars. Requiem for a Killer – review 2012-06-14T21:10:01Z Forty years after his death, the American rock legend, who performed, recorded and lived in London, will be reincarnated through the “Hendrix in Britain” exhibition at the Handel House Museum, starting Aug. 25. When Hendrix Met Handel at a London Flat 2010-08-22T10:00:00Z Vivien Schweitzer Fans of Handel’s sublime operatic music — with its achingly beautiful arias and anguished outbursts — are in for a treat on Sunday at Carnegie Hall. The Week Ahead: April 3 ? 9 2011-04-02T03:12:49Z Handel, he explained, was a more awkward writer for the keyboard than Bach. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z While it is true that “Acis and Galatea” is mostly Handel, it is partly Mozart. ArtsBeat: Mark Morris Bringing a Handel Work to Mostly Mozart Festival 2014-04-09T14:00:52Z “Spieglein,” another premiere by Mr. Magloire, a solo for Victoria North to a Handel violin sonata, was rather too stagey in its evocation of a woman surrounded by reflections of herself. Dance Review: Miro Magloire and His New Chamber Ballet at City Center 2012-02-13T22:39:23Z One role that offers a happy medium, with lyric phrases and elegant ornamentation, is the heroine of Handel’s “Rodelinda.” Ren?e Fleming With the Met and Chicago?s Lyric Opera Company 2012-01-27T19:30:47Z These forces have perhaps been best known for their annual performances of Handel’s “Messiah”; in 2018, The Times credited Mr. Wachner with leading “the best ‘Messiah’ in New York.” Trinity Church Fires Conductor After Misconduct Accusation 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” opened its three-week run on Tuesday in the Eisenhower Theater, and the National Symphony Orchestra is performing Handel’s “Messiah” Thursday through Sunday in the Concert Hall. Kennedy Center cancels first 15 performances of ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ because of covid outbreak among company 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z He sang his Handel aria with such inspiration and poise that a Met coach asked him to write out the ornaments of improvisation he’d added. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z His last major performances with the choir and Concert Royal were of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” in March and Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” in May. John Scott, Organist and Choirmaster, Dies at 59 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Armed with hot lines to the long-departed souls of Mozart, Handel, Bach and all earlier composers, they told you how this music had to go. Harry Bicket, Conducting Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z St. Matthew’s Music Guild Annual holiday concert features works by Bach and Corelli, plus Handel’s “Messiah,” Part I, followed by an audience sing-along on the “Hallelujah” chorus. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Dec. 3-10: Angel City Chorale, Pacific Opera Project and more 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z When he finally completed it, Jennens' contribution was considered so important that Handel wrote to him of the triumphant first performance in Dublin in 1742, referring to "your oratorio Messiah". Handel House honours Charles Jennens, librettist of Messiah 2012-11-27T17:55:20Z Most of the music is by Handel, whom Ms. van Kampen called “the greatest Baroque artist.” Mark Rylance to Return to Broadway in ‘Farinelli and the King’ 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z So as a new campaign for Komen to oust Handel was picking up steam across Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday, she stepped down. The tyranny of pink 2012-05-30T11:45:00Z Trained in London, at Yale and in New York, her fingers rarely erred in a recital inspired by the influence of Handel on Beethoven, heard at the Phillips Collection on Sunday afternoon. Pianist Tanya Bannister at the Phillips Collection Fabri had also worked extensively for Handel in London, singing several operatic roles that placed a premium on agility, grace and flourish. The original three tenors 2010-10-21T21:25:00Z That is shocking, and Handel was out to shock.” In the Met Opera’s ‘Agrippina,’ the Roman Empire Never Ended 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z We were criticised for not doing Handel, or something from the Old Testament," she recalls, "but so what? Terez?n: music from a Nazi ghetto 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z The crowd probably came to gawk at the famous adulteress as much as to hear the new Handel. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ at St. Thomas and Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z Written when its composer was just 24, his “Messiah” still three decades in the future, “Agrippina” shows Handel the precocious master. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Cohen said in an interview at the War Memorial Opera House, where he was finishing a June run of performances as Medoro in Handel’s “Orlando.” A high-voiced rising star at 25 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z After receiving thorough musical training in Germany, Handel learned the ways of Italian opera in Italy. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z LUCERNE, Switzerland — By now many music lovers, having heard critics grouse for years about the glut of Handel “Messiah” performances at Christmas, know that the work was written for Lent. Music Review: A Generous Opening to the Lucerne Easter Festival 2011-04-11T17:51:16Z In the early 1980s, a young director made a name for himself by staging a daring production of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare.” Mozart in Trump Tower, and the art of getting political onstage 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z In a perceptive program note, the scholar Ruth Smith suggests reasons Handel’s audiences would have been baffled by the piece. Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Wachner kept them so quiet, his hands almost never came above his waist while he conducted; by contrast, he practically danced through Handel’s spirited Dixit Dominus in the evening’s second half. John Adams and David Lang: Masters of the Modern Holiday Oratorio 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Purcell, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel … baroque, basically, though Howard's not going to call it that. Howard Goodall's Story of Music; Being Human; Borgen – TV review 2013-02-04T07:00:06Z Ms. Graham said that she was delighted that the flexibility of the pasticcio form would allow her to sing Handel at the Met for the first time. The Metropolitan Opera Revives ‘The Enchanted Island’ 2014-02-24T23:05:14Z Today, both homes of the famed musicians are on display at Handel & Hendrix in London. A Jimi Hendrix Experience in London 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Handel lived next door in the 18th century, and Hendrix's former home is now part of the Handel House Museum. Exhibition looks at Jimi Hendrix's London years 2010-08-24T11:47:00Z Her performance of “He was despised” from Handel’s “Messiah” comes across as a fully lived-in experience. Marian Anderson: A Voice of Authenticity and Justice 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Handel even gives us a mad scene in this opera. Classical Playlist: Handel, George Benjamin, David Lang and Others 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z But of Handel’s 17 English oratorios, this was his favorite. Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z It is surely good that pianists are no longer scolded for playing Bach, Handel and other Baroque masters on their modern instruments. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Terrain’s Handel says that in most climates, the fiber coir, which is made from the husk of a coconut, is best for exterior doormats that are exposed to the weather. The best doormats, according to experts 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Handel, himself, couldn’t keep his mitts off it — snipping, scribbling in and rewriting parts to tailor this eternally popular oratorio to the performing forces at hand. Review | NSO presents a muddled ‘Messiah,’ but all is not lost 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z I met with Handel Architects and we took a look at the building, adding a second tower, new porthole windows and a volleyball area with sand. Next for Dream: Boutique Hotels in Belize and Tulum 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Every year, Handel’s “Messiah” is a communal ritual — a glittering parade of recitatives, arias and choruses that binds listeners and performers together in a story of promise, betrayal and redemption. Meet the People Who Can’t Bring You ‘Messiah’ This Year 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The English Concert will continue its popular series of Handel operas and oratorios with a performance of “Orlando” starring the countertenor Iestyn Davies. Carnegie Hall to Commission 125 New Works 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z "He just thought Handel maybe rushed it off too quickly," said Bardwell. Show sheds light on Handel's hidden "Messiah" helper 2012-11-29T23:07:23Z Handel was also an innovator, pioneering the English oratorio. Music in Review: Yale in New York in an All-Handel Evening at Zankel HallMacedonian Pianist Simon Trpceski at Zankel Hall 2012-02-28T23:30:49Z Works such as Handel’s Harpsichord Suite in D minor, Schubert’s Piano Trio in E-flat Major and Bach’s Concerto for Two Harpsichords felt right at home — the pop music of Lyndon’s world. ‘Stanley Kubrick’s Sound Odyssey’ takes audience on an adventure through the auteur’s classical selections 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Baroque music from this orchestra and its principal conductor, Bernard Labadie, who deliver two works by Handel and four by Vivaldi, including two settings of the “Salve Regina.” 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Domingo is back in the production, but with a Handel aria in a later scene replacing one by Rameau. Opera Review: ‘The Enchanted Island’ Returns to Met Opera 2014-02-28T21:08:04Z But it didn’t take long for critics to note that Handel, who was hired just last year, had run for governor of Georgia on a platform of conspicuously anti-Planned Parenthood rhetoric. The tyranny of pink 2012-05-30T11:45:00Z On Tuesday evening, it offered what was billed as the North American premiere of Handel’s “Rodrigo.” Music Review: Handel’s ‘Rodrigo’ at Gershwin Hotel 2013-05-22T20:40:44Z Those dances also feature in Saturday’s matinee performance, which opens with the orchestra’s glittering brass section performing arrangements of music by Handel, Albinoni, Glinka and Bernstein. Classical Music Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z One day the Barbican will give us some Handel that looks as good as it sounds. Semele 2010-07-11T21:46:00Z One of their productions was a version of Acis and Galatea sung to Handel's music in pidgin English. Anne Gee obituary 2011-01-24T18:40:14Z Handel was lucky to get, in Vincenzo Grimani’s gleefully wicked text, that rarity in opera history: a libretto with dramatic focus, ambivalent characters and worldly humor. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z He specialized in Baroque repertory, notably the work of Bach, Handel and Telemann. Maurice Andr?, Star of Classical Trumpet, Dies at 78 2012-03-03T05:12:16Z In quite a few arias, especially those in which one of the female characters break into fury, Handel uses the original Italian text, as if to advertise his music’s nod to the Italian tradition. Music Review: Operamission Performs Handel’s ‘Almira’ at Gershwin Hotel 2012-05-30T22:29:39Z From there the only way to go, as in Handel’s cantata “Armida Abbandonata,” is to the sadness of her being forsaken. Tellings of Armida?s Story, Including Gluck?s at Juilliard 2012-02-03T15:51:38Z Handel’s vocal writing can be fiercely demanding, nowhere more so than in the Angel’s opening aria, “Be unbarred, ye gates of Avernus,” in which Liv Redpath, a soprano, displayed lovely tone and fine agility. It’s Handel; It’s Not What You Think 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Handel's setting of the same text was another matter, displaying Bostridge's reedy tenor – admirably focused and flawlessly tuned – and expressive intelligence to advantage. With tenor Bostridge, rare Baroque arias sound newly minted 2011-05-08T12:35:00Z Here, as in the Handel, there were finger slips, imbalances of voicing and occasional elisions but they counted for less as part of more rounded statements. Gerald Robbins Plays Bargemusic’s Masterworks Series 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z The recorded program includes arias by Puccini and Massenet, plus works by Handel and Korngold. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ and ‘Genius: Aretha’ 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z By and large, when pianists play Bach or Handel, you don’t want to hear an imitation of the harpsichord, much less with Brahms. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z These days, he said, seasoned period-instrument conductors like Nicholas McGegan will instruct the string players to tweak their own intonation to match that of the trumpet in an aria such as Handel’s. In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z In the Handel, McVinnie played both the orchestral and solo parts. A British organist reaches America by way of Reykjavik 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z But what about the musical purists, who might object to saxophones playing Handel? Handel with saxophone is music to conductor Jarvi's ears 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z From the grand opening, through the witty off-kilter rhythms of the Postillions, to the William Tell giddy-up of the conclusion, Koopman filled the room with the vitality of this great compatriot of Bach and Handel. Review: Koopman, SSO go for Baroque 2011-05-14T17:08:05Z During the complex, contrapuntal choruses, like “He trusted in God,” Ms. Glover trusted in Handel, drawing depth and clarity from the chorus and orchestra without interpretive fussiness. Review: Jane Glover Conducts the New York Philharmonic in ‘Messiah’ 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Not that Telemann — a longer-lived German contemporary of Bach and Handel’s who may have committed more music to paper than any other composer — is at all a stranger. Review: American Classical Orchestra Revives a Rarely Heard Telemann Masterpiece 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z He died in 1759 assuming that “Orlando,” like most of his Italian works, would languish, and he wasn’t wrong: It was not until the 1950s that the Handel revival really got going. Review: The English Concert Performs Handel’s ‘Orlando’ at Carnegie Hall 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The countertenor David Daniels, who was later part of the Handel boom that Rudel inaugurated at City Opera, was also ill. Julius Rudel Gala Benefits City Opera Revival Hopes 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z On the face of it, it ought to be impossible to write a play about Handel. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z Etchingham said Hendrix would have been "amused and flattered" at sharing joint billing with Handel. Jimi Hendrix experience at Handel museum 2010-08-24T16:50:00Z It’s not about me being a Baroque specialist as much as it is being an experienced hand at the theatrical side of Handel.” Maestro to embrace the theatrical side of ‘Messiah’ for SSO 2012-12-13T22:15:11Z As we talk, Cleobury biffs out a few chords of the Mozart Requiem and then some from Handel's Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline to suggest that Mozart may have "borrowed" from his predecessor. King's College choir: meet the choirmaster 2012-12-19T19:30:01Z In this regard, the most revealing recording in the new set may be a program featuring arias by Bach and Handel, mostly dating from the mid-1940s. Marian Anderson: A Voice of Authenticity and Justice 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Were Hermann and Käthe able to listen to the following weeks’ broadcasts of music by Mozart, Handel and Strauss? Love and Loss, Set to Music, During the Holocaust 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z But this story, based on Ariosto’s epic poem “Orlando Furioso,” inspired Handel to some bold innovations, including one of the most shattering mad scenes in opera. Review: The English Concert Performs Handel’s ‘Orlando’ at Carnegie Hall 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Just think of Handel, who was a notorious borrower. Will this be the Downfall of remix culture? Don't bet on it 2010-04-29T11:13:00Z The parade of beautiful numbers, the soloist standing up and sitting down, the choir standing up and sitting down — that formalized visual approach is not what Handel was after. Maestro to embrace the theatrical side of ‘Messiah’ for SSO 2012-12-13T22:15:11Z The Handel House has not yet found an owner willing to lend any whole or destroyed Hendrix guitars. Antiques: Jimi Hendrix?s Death Is Recalled at Museums 2010-08-19T21:44:00Z Ms. Haïm gets just three days to prepare the Philharmonic for a program of Handel and Rameau. A Baroque Specialist Gets the Philharmonic to Play From the Gut 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Handel, in a quick succession of recitatives, arias and duets, tells of the god Apollo’s somewhat bullying courtship of the nymph Daphne, who wants no part of him. Review: A Sublime Survey of Baroque Music 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The revival of mainstream interest in Handel and other early operas over the past 50 years or so has been one of the joys of the music world. In the Met Opera’s ‘Agrippina,’ the Roman Empire Never Ended 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z It is a magical moment that leaves no question as to how beautifully Guadagni sang for Handel. Guadagni: the first modern singer? 2012-07-19T13:13:24Z “Happy, happy, happy we,” as Handel would put it in a later work, “Acis and Galatea.” Music Review: ‘Almira’ Ageless at Boston Early Music Festival 2013-06-13T21:05:28Z “It was music that I very much like — Bach and Handel — and he sang it so beautifully.” A Singer Brings His Authentic Self to the Philharmonic 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Here it’s one world, not two, and it’s often less clear whether the mood is Allegro or Penseroso, as Handel’s music pushes the two at times toward convergence. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-06T22:07:00Z Still, Handel’s opera, with an English libretto by William Congreve, can be seen as a cautionary tale of using sex to gain power and explores the mingling of desire and ambition. Review: Handel’s ‘Semele’ Comes With Sumo Wrestlers at BAM 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Other pieces reveal the Italianate influence of Handel and other composers in London. CD reviews: Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s latest Mozart is a missed opportunity 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z In two Handel pieces, florid lines flowed through her left hand with effortless accuracy and flair. Review | Marissa Regni is second fiddle no longer in Kennedy Center Chamber Players’ season finale 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Handel’s joyous “Water Music” becomes tactile in this shimmering cushion by BeatWoven, a British company that has developed an algorithm for turning music into fabric patterns. Gift Ideas for Classical Music Fans 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Making her recital debut at Town Hall in January 1944, she sang a program of Massenet, Handel, Mussorgsky and Brahms. Blanche Thebom, Mezzo-Soprano, Dies at 94 2010-03-28T02:25:00Z Along with Dejanira's music, Iole's meltingly beautiful arias lift "Hercules" well above the musical level of just about any of Handel's English stage works. 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z "They were both great improvisers," he said — Handel on harpsichord, Hendrix on guitar. Jimi Hendrix, George Handel: On the street where they lived (in London) 2010-08-25T23:00:00Z But sharing the stage with a Baroque band, Ms. Coote confined herself to Handel, who provides more than enough gender-bending examples of his own. Review: Alice Coote Sings a Recital at the Brighton Festival 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The program is called “Fire and Folly: Myths of Love and Betrayal” and includes music mainly of Vivaldi but also Handel, Rameau, Duchiffre and Purcell. The Week Ahead: NOV. 21 ? 27 2010-11-20T19:34:00Z "Someone in even a faux-journalist position has a lot of power to influence attitudes and behavior," Handel said. Billy Bush under fire along with Trump for lewd comments 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z “Handel presents directors with a lot of challenges because da capo arias can be seen as repetitious — no plot, all emotion,” Mr. Costanzo said. Anthony Roth Costanzo Exists to Transform Opera 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z While Handel tailored his score for three trusted opera singers, Master Chorale music director Grant Gershon and stage director Trevor Ross treated Alexander's feast as just that. L.A. Master Chorale's 'Alexander's Feast' is a treat for the ears and eyes 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The work is a soundtrack for two people leaving this world that is as chilling as anything Handel ever wrote. How we made: Peter Sellars and William Christie on Theodora 2012-08-27T18:00:03Z Does any other Handel leading lady get to play so much the comedienne, or flirt so unabashedly with the audience? Semele 2010-07-11T21:46:00Z A few days later, on Tuesday, the New York Philharmonic, joined by the Handel and Haydn Society, began a five-day “Messiah” run at its own recently remodeled home, David Geffen Hall. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Purists will argue that Handel's original is about love, infidelity and jealousy, not post-traumatic stress. 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z The other is in every conceivable way not the "Messiah" and all but ignored until recently because Handel was a very naughty boy. Bach Collegium San Diego gives Handel's 'La Resurrezione' life 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z In Handel it’s a different game from that of Strauss — arising from what seems to be the strange preference of 18th-century audiences for heroes with high-pitched voices. Review: Alice Coote Sings a Recital at the Brighton Festival 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z After Handel’s death, Mozart and Mendelssohn rearranged its score. Dance Review: Mark Morris Stages ‘Acis and Galatea’ 2014-04-28T21:20:19Z The past weighs heavily on Pichon, who made a thoughtfully conceived, emotionally precise U.S. debut in a Christmas-themed program with the Handel and Haydn Society here last year. A Rising Conductor Who’s ‘Not Just a Pair of Hands’ 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z He was represented here not only by music from operas devoted to him by Vivaldi, Handel and Haydn but also by a de Wert madrigal. Review: Le Jardin des Voix’s Sweet Italian Menu 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The air for soprano “Gentle Morpheus, son of night,” with its lulling string accompaniment underneath a melody that dips and rises peacefully, is among the most beautiful Handel wrote. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra Performs Handel Rarities 2014-03-22T02:05:28Z The majestic choral/orchestral granddaddy of them all — Handel’s “Messiah” — is a festive holiday tradition with Seattle Symphony, the SSO Chorale and guest soloists. 5 classical-music recommendations for Dec. 9-16 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z In typical fashion, Handel uses word painting to reinforce the message, sending the vocal part through elaborate undulating runs on the word “changed.” In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Four years after moving in, Handel, born in Halle, Germany, became a British citizen. ArtsBeat: Anna Nicole, Jimi Hendrix and Handel in London 2011-02-15T18:00:32Z The Oratorio Society of New York has performed Handel’s “Messiah” more than 200 times in five countries. A New Yorker’s Guide to the Silvery Sounds of the Season 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z In honor of the centennial of her birth, EMI has released her complete recordings on a three-disc set, an impressive showcase of her artistry in trademark works of Bach, Gluck, Handel and Mahler. Kathleen Ferrier and Her Centennial CD 2012-07-08T02:54:24Z Players can join in on Handel's "Water Music" and "Music for the Royal Fireworks." A busy weekend for Seattle Baroque fans, with Handel Festival 2011-03-17T20:02:07Z "La Resurrezione" is a product of Handel's apprenticeship in Rome, where it had its premiere on Easter Sunday in 1708 and immediately offended Pope Clement XI. Bach Collegium San Diego gives Handel's 'La Resurrezione' life 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z From July 18 to Aug. 1, Carmel-by-the-Sea in California will host the 78th annual Carmel Bach Festival, focusing on the composer Johann Sebastian Bach and the musicians he influenced, such as Handel and Mozart. Wednesday’s Travel News and Tips 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z If you close your eyes and listen to Handel's music with attention you will see images. Julius Caesar; Siegfried – review 2012-10-06T23:08:03Z Haydn set to work on “The Creation” in 1796, having been inspired by hearing performances of Handel’s oratorios in London. Music Review: Haydn’s ‘The Creation,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-24T22:38:21Z This recital was originally billed as Handel and His Rivals; by the time it got to the Barbican platform it was Cecilia Bartoli Sings Handel. Cecilia Bartoli ? review 2010-12-10T22:15:00Z Occasional music seldom outlives the occasion it commemorates, except when, say, a Handel work is involved, as with the “Music for the Royal Fireworks” or many another toss-off. Review: Philharmonia Baroque Unearths a 300-Year-Old Rarity 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Oh, the orchestra offered two concerti grossi by Handel on its own, and played them beautifully. Music Review: Philippe Jaroussky Performs at Metropolitan Museum 2014-02-26T22:22:56Z The apartment was next door to the former home of a composer as famous in his day as Hendrix was in the late 1960s, George Frederick Handel. Hendrix and Handel Slept Here: A Museum’s Strange Bedfellows 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z George Frideric Handel lived there for almost 40 years, wrote The Messiah there and died in his first-floor bedroom in 1759. Jimi Hendrix and Handel: Housemates separated by time 2010-05-16T16:27:00Z When Hendrix found out that Handel had lived downstairs, "he went round to HMV or One Stop Records to get Messiah," says Sarah Bardwell. The London years 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z She is currently working — with the New York City-based Handel Architects — on Ray Harlem, a joint venture with the National Black Theater that is to include residential, retail and performance spaces. Met Museum Names a Mexico City Architect to Lead a New Major Project 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z In the paradoxically plaintive and joyous sound of a castrato’s voice channeling Handel’s music, the King has glimpsed a paradise beyond his fractious court and his burdened royal self. Review: Mark Rylance Returns to Broadway as a Mad Monarch to Cherish 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z Nearly all examples of opera seria composed during the first half of the 18th century, including Handel’s, are mostly constructed from “da capo” building blocks. Is This the Best Opera Singer You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Let’s just say that in “The River,” a short film she made with Mr. Handel, she plays a cashier at an organic food co-op with keen familiarity. Lauren Ambrose Finally Gets Her Musical 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z This full-length work, set to Handel’s oratorio of the same name, has humor, humanity and sophisticated musicality, all expressed with what looks like breezy simplicity. Dancing in the Streets of Harlem, and Gathering to Dance, Merce-Style 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z It takes a village to perform Handel’s “Messiah”: a nimble and speedy chorus, an accomplished orchestra, four virtuoso soloists, and a keyboard player who is equally adept at the harpsichord and the organ. Hallelujah! Seattle Symphony and Chorale deliver an energetic, nuanced ‘Messiah’ 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z And the Bay Area happened to be the place to be last weekend for remarkable revelations about the inner nature of two great composers, Mahler and Handel. Hidden code of two great composers deciphered 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Halls played Handel’s “Largo” and Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” for an 80-year-old neighbor who had sent an email asking for his favorites to be played precisely at 10:45 a.m. Organists offer soundtrack to jabs at medieval UK cathedral 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z The Mayfair apartment, at 23 Brook Street, is actually diagonally above the flat that was occupied by the composer George Frideric Handel until 1759. When Hendrix Met Handel at a London Flat 2010-08-22T10:00:00Z Handel, an inveterate recycler, knew a good tune when he had written one. Music Review: Hallelujahs, But Not The Ones You Think 2011-05-26T21:53:41Z The building became the Handel House Museum in 2001, with the rooms meticulously restored to their Georgian paint finishes and furnishings. Jimi Hendrix and Handel: Housemates separated by time 2010-05-16T16:27:00Z There was nothing restricted about a singer whose career embraced operas ranging from Handel's Alcina to Puccini's Turandot and who took Beethoven's Choral Symphony and Noël Coward songs in her stride with equal nonchalance. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z With a period-instrument band of 15 and a chorus of just 12 singers – and that included the soloists – this was as intimate a take on Handel's oratorio as you're likely to get. Dunedin Consort – review 2012-12-21T18:07:41Z There’s another solo concert on Sunday, at 4 p.m., when the pianist Beth Levin takes on Schubert’s late A major sonata, Brahms’s Handel Variations and David Del Tredici’s “Ode to Music.” Classical Music Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Regarding the coloratura contortions of the florid baroque and bel canto repertory she champions, Ms. DiDonato said she learned from performing Handel that “if you don’t infuse meaning into it, it can be superfluous.” Joyce DiDonato Takes On ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Met 2012-12-30T05:03:03Z His mad scene at the end of Act 2 lacks the musical richness of Handel’s comparable scene, but it is highly dramatic. Music Review: On Paris Stages, Intriguing Vivaldi and Novel Wagner 2011-03-15T12:30:07Z A long line of people waited outside Alice Tully Hall on Saturday evening, hoping to get returned tickets for a performance of Handel’s “Theodora.” Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z This concert was all about having some fun, he added, and Handel’s “Water Music” is “the happiest music I know.” Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Then he switched to Handel: the Suite No. 3 in D minor. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z She has previously sung the lighter role of Elektra's sister, Chrysothemis, in this opera, and has also performed in operas by Mozart, Handel and Gluck. Christine Goerke scores as Strauss heroine 2011-10-07T10:50:13Z Thus it is that the part is being played, script in hand, by a certain middle-aged author who does look somewhat like Handel. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z Stopped at customs, he turns up Handel's Messiah on the stereo to try to avert an epileptic seizure and is taken away by the police. The Universe versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence – review 2013-03-15T17:45:01Z Handel wrote the piece in three parts, reusing his funeral anthem “The Ways of Zion Do Mourn” as the first, renamed “Lamentation of the Israelites for the Death of Joseph.” Review: St. Thomas Choir and Concert Royal Perform Handel 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z But even on purely musical terms, Handel’s endlessly inventive and skillfully wrought score deserves a full hearing. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘Messiah’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-12-19T23:38:51Z “Even though he’s incredibly demanding, you don’t feel constricted,” the Handel and Haydn Society violist Jenny Stirling said. A Rising Conductor Who’s ‘Not Just a Pair of Hands’ 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Cattelan, an enfant terrible of the art world best known for his 18-karat-gold toilet called “America,” contributed a hallucinogenic collage set to Handel. Handel and Philip Glass, but Make It Fashion 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Another Adams concern is his relation to classical music's past, his rethinking the likes of Ives, Beethoven, Handel and Takemitsu. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Handel and Charles Jennens arranged the poems, adding “il Moderato,” written by Jennens, as a way to even out the mood. Review: The Sophisticated Simplicity of a Mark Morris Masterpiece 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Handel’s irresistible little English opera “Acis and Galatea,” seemed to be from another world entirely. Opera Review: East Meets West at Macao Festival 2011-10-25T11:30:08Z It was home to composers like the Gabrielis, Monteverdi, Cavalli and Vivaldi, and as the birthplace of commercial opera, it played host to Handel, among many others. Sounds of Venice’s Serene Republic Come to New York 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z His repertoire spanned more than three centuries, from Bach and Handel to Benjamin Britten. Charles Mackerras on CD: five of the best recordings 2010-07-16T09:07:00Z It’s always a nice show of commitment from conductors whose specialty is repertory from a couple hundred years after Handel. Finding ‘Hallelujah’: How to Navigate the ‘Messiah’ Landscape 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Strands of voices slip into passages of fugue, though Handel knows not to push the counterpoint into tangles of complexity. Review: The English Concert Brings a Marvelous ‘Semele’ 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z "I never realised quite how hard he worked," says Sarah Bardwell, director of the Handel House Museum, researching her new charge. The London years 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z Phone numbers were exchanged, and a couple of cassette tapes offered to my brother and sister and me – his own commercially produced recordings of Handel and Purcell. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z German music before Bach and Handel, thoroughly eclipsed by those masters, remains a relatively obscure area. Music Review: Jordi Savall and Juilliard415 at Metropolitan Museum 2013-01-27T23:12:18Z The first movement recalled the Handel suite, too, with its many trills and upward flourishes, while the second movement, recalling Beethoven’s scherzo, was diverting in its metrical shifts and sudden accents. Pianist Tanya Bannister at the Phillips Collection The Match of the Day theme, Handel's Messiah and a "Beatles suite" comprising a quartet of Fab Four favourites also featured in a concert than ran 30 minutes longer than scheduled. Castaways attend BBC Discs Prom 2012-09-04T10:36:08Z On Jan. 27 the director Pierre Audi will mount a production of Handel’s notoriously challenging “Tamerlano,” about a Tatar warrior bent on both psychological and imperial warfare. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Handel doesn’t give us some Christian dogmatist, but rather a liberal-minded Roman officer who advocates tolerance, plaintively sung by Mr. Jaroussky. Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z But Handel's great subversion is to use the techniques of opera to transfer theology into intense human emotion. Bach Collegium San Diego gives Handel's 'La Resurrezione' life 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z I was therefore very pleased when the Brook Street Band gave me an excellent reason for immersing myself in Handel. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z But still, he'd landed in the same city where Handel, one of the most important opera composers of the day, was living. Guadagni: the first modern singer? 2012-07-19T13:13:24Z Handel’s “Messiah” — by far the finest and most sophisticated of any Christmas staple, whether carol, ballet, poem, painting, cartoon or Jimmy Stewart movie — has always been a people’s musical messiah. 'The Messiah' from opposite ends of the economic spectrum 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z When Paul Taylor began working on “Aureole,” a pristine and plotless work set to Handel, his dance company was performing in Paris. Paul Taylor, a Master of Light and Darkness 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The Brahms Handel Variations,” which we made together for the New York City Ballet, blues versus greens. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: Here and Now Forever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z His sense of line through Brahms’s “Handel” Variations, which he played in the finals, showed him to be an intelligent and thoughtful musician. Hail the Amateur, Loved by the Crowd 2011-06-10T14:21:36Z It is not what happens in "La Resurrezione" that Handel reveals but what is felt, especially what the women, so often discounted in the Bible, feel and observe. Bach Collegium San Diego gives Handel's 'La Resurrezione' life 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z But one place he regularly hung his hat was the Brook Street flat he shared with girlfriend Kathy Etchington, next door to the former residence of another musical genius, the 18th-century composer George Frideric Handel. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z He does light and wit too, as his Handel proves. In praise of ? David McVicar 2010-04-28T23:05:00Z Rush tickets are available for Tuesday’s performance of Handel’s “Messiah.” Lincoln Center Works to Attract a Younger Audience 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z It was as a high school exchange student in Pittsburgh that I first encountered Handel’s oratorio, at a “Messiah” singalong where your voice type, rather than your ticket, determined where you sat in the hall. A Critic Gives Prizes for 5 ‘Messiah’ Concerts in New York 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z During intermission at the company premiere of Handel’s “Agrippina” on Thursday, I ran into an acquaintance in the lobby who said that he was enjoying the show. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z It was nearly 200 years between the time George Frideric Handel wrote his 1743 opera “Semele” and the work’s first, full public staging in Cambridge, England. UW music school, Pacific MusicWorks join forces for ‘Semele’ 2014-05-09T19:58:13Z Harry Bicket has become something of a house Handel conductor at the Met — and especially after his vibrant “Agrippina” this season, I’m not complaining. The Met Opera’s New Season: What We Want to See 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The discs also feature her performances of Bach’s Mass in B minor, selections by Handel and Purcell and the complete “Orfeo.” Kathleen Ferrier and Her Centennial CD 2012-07-08T02:54:24Z With witty nods to Bach and Handel, Bizet and Gershwin, the remarkable score subsumes the oversized passions and preposterous romantic plots of classical opera into a lurid spectacle of American pulp fantasy. Trash TV goes highbrow in ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’ 2014-01-14T00:50:22Z His annual performances of Handel’s “Messiah” with the choir and the period-instrument band Concert Royal were invariably regarded as among the finest in the city. John Scott, Organist and Choirmaster, Dies at 59 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z The choir is active throughout the festive season, with events on the four Sundays preceding Christmas, including a concert of Handel’s “Messiah” and open singing for everyone. A Modern-Day Christmas Market, Transylvania-Style 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z So much of the magic is the sheer jubilation that Handel conjures. Meet the People Who Can’t Bring You ‘Messiah’ This Year 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z That was before Bach’s cantatas, Haydn’s and Handel’s and Monteverdi’s operas, and in general the music of the 17th, 16th, 15th and earlier centuries, became part of the living repertory.” Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Handel provides enough of them here to last a week, if not a lifetime, and to do a little unhinging of their own. An Early-Music Ensemble Gives a Handel Opera a Period Punch 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The quartet of soloists includes the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, fresh from a series of ambitious staged performances juxtaposing works by Philip Glass and, happily, Handel. This Is the Best ‘Messiah’ in New York 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Handel is a tough thing to bring off. Review | The small Opera Lafayette proves its mettle, pulling off its first Handel 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Here are some places to enjoy Handel’s masterpiece: Let the ‘Messiah' season begin 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Meanwhile we could do worse than some freshly baked Handel and Vivaldi with a side of Rameau and a dash of Ferrandini. ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z On the international circuit composers like Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Bellini and Strauss have been and will continue to be Ms. DiDonato’s bread and butter, with Donizetti, Berlioz and Massenet increasingly part of the mix. Joyce DiDonato, Standing on Her Own Just Fine 2010-03-20T04:45:00Z Using Handel’s “Messiah” as a template for “Life of Brian” seems as brilliant as it is obvious. ‘Not the Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy),’ by Eric Idle 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Also joining the project are the subsidized housing developer L + M, the architect Frida Escobedo, the firm Handel Architects, and the design firms working on National Black Theater’s space, Marvel, Charcoalblue, and Studio & Projects. National Black Theater Plans Next Act in a New Harlem High-Rise 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z "It is very fitting that Handel House will now be the venue for a celebration of Jimi's life, as he considered our Brook Street flat his true London home," Etchingham said. UK show explores Hendrix's links to Handel 2010-08-24T15:05:00Z Handel's oratorio may yearn for a lost arcadia, yet Morris's triumph is to make us believe that all life is lived, here and now, in his piece. L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato 2010-04-15T20:30:00Z The new production of Handel's "Hercules" at Lyric Opera of Chicago goes well beyond that. 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z In Handel’s generation writers like Swift and Fielding would announce comical or satirical intentions and then proceed to unfold larger, much more serious, ultimately visionary projects.” Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z He bought recordings of Handel's "Messiah," and obligingly gave tours of his apartment to music students who knocked on the door looking for traces of the composer. Jimi Hendrix, George Handel: On the street where they lived (in London) 2010-08-25T23:00:00Z Where Trinity’s choir prizes dexterity, the choristers of the Handel and Haydn Society make evocative use of timbral contrast. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z When tastes shifted and box-office receipts dwindled, Handel found a new career as a revered purveyor of oratorios in English. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z The choir of this church, which presented one of the first American “Messiah” performances in 1770, teams up with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and soloists for its annual, reliably masterful concert of Handel’s oratorio. A New Yorker’s Guide to the Silvery Sounds of the Season 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Though Handel’s “L’Allegro” has no narrative, Mr. Morris’s stage conception floods it with drama; Handel’s “Acis” has a plot, yet Mr. Morris’s version is only intermittently dramatic. Dance Review: Mark Morris Stages ‘Acis and Galatea’ 2014-04-28T21:20:19Z In fine voice, if a little overdressed in reverb, DiDonato channels anguish particularly well, especially in the music of Handel, which dominates the album. CD reviews: Joyce DiDonato looks at war, peace and the Baroque 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The answer finally comes in the Mahler and the Wagner — and the Handel. Joyce DiDonato Wants Music to ‘Build a Paradise for Today’ 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z As part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, Conn., the Mark Morris Dance Group will perform “Acis and Galatea,” a staging of the Handel opera. Escape the heat with gravity-defying dancers 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z For one, its story represented a departure from Handel’s typical biblical oratorio subjects. Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Handel is a former senior vice president of public policy at Komen. Former Susan G. Komen executive has book deal 2012-08-13T16:51:55Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton The London Handel festival seems to be working its way through the composer's operas at the steady rate of one per year. Imeneo – review 2013-03-12T18:56:27Z Handel paid £60 a year rent for the whole house in the 1700s, Hendrix and his girlfriend £30 a week for their attic flat. Jimi Hendrix and Handel: Housemates separated by time 2010-05-16T16:27:00Z Two of the most venerable and reliable of the annual presentations of Handel’s “Messiah” in New York went head-to-head this week. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ Performances by Musica Sacra and St. Thomas Choir 2013-12-13T23:08:04Z As it was with “Lili Handel” the effect of the blood was more touching than frightening. Dance Review: Stage Where the Blood Is Real and Freshly Drawn 2011-05-01T21:14:58Z Energy-wise, the anaemic continuo lines were most problematic; Handel needs drive from the bottom up, and though McGegan doesn't go in for overly quick tempos, things lost steam. RSNO/McGegan review 2011-01-05T21:46:00Z In “Samson,” Handel set a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton, based on “Samson Agonistes” and other poems of Milton, that — like “Elijah” — pits its Israelite protagonist against worshipers of false gods. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra Performs Handel’s ‘Samson’ 2014-03-05T22:05:31Z Bach, Handel and Scarlatti were all born in 1685 and all became famous writing complex, almost mathematical, music with lots of ostentatious ornamentation. From Wonder Boys to Irrational Man: why Hollywood loves a hot professor 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z First performed in 1747, Judas Maccabaeus was among Handel's most popular works in the 18th and 19th centuries, though nowadays we are apt to regard it as among his most controversial. Prom 8: Judas Maccabaeus – review 2012-07-20T11:19:00Z There are no sing-along "St. Matthew" offerings as there are for Handel's "Messiah," no pop-music Bach chorus covers as there are for the "Hallelujah" chorus. L.A. Master Chorale brings sense of community to 'St. Matthew' Passion 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z But these limbs boast high pedigrees, having been created by the likes of Handel and Vivaldi. ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z By keeping it to 10, you are forced to look for reasons to push out, say, Handel or Shostakovich to make a place for someone else. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z But in a brass player’s equivalent of scaling Everest without oxygen, some trumpeters take pride in playing — and meticulously tuning — Handel’s solo on so-called natural trumpets without holes. In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z He served as artistic director of Boston’s venerable Handel and Haydn Society from 1986 to 2001, thereafter holding the title of conductor laureate. Christopher Hogwood, conductor who gave new drive to classical warhorses, dies at 73 In Handel’s Suite from “Water Music,” the addition of impressively confident natural horns and trumpets lit a spark that glowed brightly at the end of a blustery program. Two Juilliard Concerts, Bonded by Weather 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z A Handel oratorio written for the Easter season performed as Christmas approaches? It’s Handel; It’s Not What You Think 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Expect quite a menu of music; Wubbe's piece, "Messiah," is set to music by Handel, of course, while Rocha's piece depicts a hip-hop battle. 13 of Seattle's top entertainment picks for May 6-12, 2012 2012-05-04T03:18:09Z Mr. Bostridge was at his most winning in the two arias from Handel’s “Hercules” that closed the program, especially the shapely, soulful “From celestial seats descending.” Music Review: One Tenor, Three Voices, in Arias From Handel?s Era 2011-05-10T21:10:48Z Starting on Tuesday the Philharmonic presents the first of five consecutive performances of Handel’s “Messiah,” with the early-music champion Andrew Manze conducting the orchestra and the Westminster Symphonic Choir. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 13-19 2013-12-12T23:15:29Z In “Bel piacere,” Handel demands an athletic series of barely prepared leaps, which Ms. York handled so gracefully that she made her ornamentation of the top notes sound natural and comfortable if not necessarily easy. Music Review: Theater of Early Music, Daniel Taylor, Deborah York - Review 2011-11-16T23:05:40Z You will have no troubling stumbling upon a performance of the Handel oratorio wherever you find yourself. Bach times two: Collegium and Master Chorale double the elation 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z The charismatic Mr. Christie exposed him to a sense of the vivid theatricality of French Baroque opera and Handel. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Billy Budd,’ an Unusual Foray for Mark Padmore 2014-02-06T23:28:59Z Then again, Handel’s oratorios are today presented both staged and not; and Thursday was hopefully far from the last dramatic interpretation of “Her Story.” Review: An Oratorio Cautiously Looks Back on Women’s Suffrage 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z “Three years ago, when it became clear this was really going to happen, he got a little more calm and confident,” Mr. Handel said. How the 9/11 Memorial Changed Its Architect, Michael Arad 2011-09-04T04:19:38Z And on April 23, this star mezzo-soprano comes to New York with “Eden,” a staged recital with an eclectic program, including works by Handel, Ives, Gluck and Mahler, among others. Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Festival highlights include Christopher Taylor playing Bach's "Goldberg Variations," a staged production of Mozart's " Don Giovanni" and Nicholas McGegan leading the Academy Chamber Orchestra in an evening of Bach, Handel and Beethoven. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z And since one movement of the Handel suite was an Air with variations, this performance set the table for the second recital, on Tuesday, an ostensibly unrelated event at Alice Tully Hall. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Handel ingeniously folds tragic self-reflection into the music, as the Christians pray to have similar courage in the face of oppression. Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z You don’t have to leave your house to hear an expert take on George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah,” the Christmastime favorite. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Watership Down’ and ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z The museum — now called Handel & Hendrix in London — expects to welcome about 50,000 visitors in its first year, up from 20,000 annually when it was just Handel’s house. Hendrix and Handel Slept Here: A Museum’s Strange Bedfellows 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z With the new project, designed by Handel Architects, 428 rental apartments split into two 15-story towers will obscure almost the entire northern facade of the church, from Amsterdam Avenue to Morningside Drive. A Potential Solution for Developers at St. John the Divine 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Handel draws each character skilfully, colouring in the emotional states of both individuals and groups with detailed imaginative touches. Esther – review 2013-04-28T14:55:01Z Actually, to be more accurate, Hendrix and Handel occupied adjacent homes — Nos. Separated by 2 centuries and one wall: visiting Hendrix’s and Handel’s houses in London 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z He is perhaps best known for his annual performances of Handel’s “Messiah” — in 2018, The Times credited him with leading “the best ‘Messiah’ in New York.” Trinity Church’s Conductor Put on Leave Amid Investigation 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Handel’s eight suites for harpsichord, published in 1720, haven’t always gotten as much attention or respect among performers as the keyboard works of Couperin, Rameau or, especially, Bach. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z With the three acts compressed into two, and substantial cuts to Handel's score, the show runs more than three hours but doesn't feel a second too long. 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z But the great Handel Variations grew increasingly wayward. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Hogwood had a particular affinity for Mendelssohn and was scheduled to conduct the composer’s “Elijah” in March 2015 with the Handel and Haydn Society. Christopher Hogwood, Early-Music Devotee, Dies at 73 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z One of the most significant features of this Handel festival is that it will not include a performance of "Messiah." Handel in Seattle: Major festival shows there's much more to the man than 'Messiah' 2011-03-05T00:39:01Z He and the other performers are part of “Messiah/Complex,” an iconoclastic new production of Handel’s classic oratorio, which draws on biblical texts to form a stylized narrative of suffering, hope and redemption. A ‘Messiah’ for the Multitudes, Freed From History’s Bonds 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z The young musicians will perform works by Handel, Mozart, Palestrina and Carl Orff. A wide-ranging musical homage to Mark Rothko’s paintings 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Christian Curnyn, the conductor, led a buoyant, stylish performance that showed the orchestra’s estimable feel for Handel’s idiom. Music Review: Mozart, Puccini, Handel and Copland at Glimmerglass 2010-08-09T22:43:00Z The Christmas portion of Handel’s “Messiah,” as well as traditional Christmas and Hanukkah songs; Oratorio Society of Queens and the Orchestral Arts Ensemble of Queens; David Close, conductor. Handel, From the Bronx to Brooklyn 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Still, hearing soprano Lucy Crowe's luminous performance of "Rejoice greatly" on French conductor Emmanuelle Haïm's exquisitely phrased new live performance of Handel's oratorio is more than enough reason to rejoice greatly. Holiday music gifts: Leave the best for last-minute 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Handel's oratorios were once a no-go area for directors; now they pose an irresistible challenge. Susanna – review 2012-08-01T17:34:03Z “I wanted to do everything except Handel,” he said. Reawakening the Antichrist (and Other Lost Opera Gems) 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z No soprano these days sings Bellini’s Norma, then Verdi’s Violetta, then Tchaikovsky’s Tatiana, then releases an album of Handel arias, all in a few months. Exclusive Tracks From Sonya Yoncheva’s New Handel Album 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Trinity has long taken pride in its annual performances of Handel’s “Messiah,” not least because it has a historical claim on the work. Music Review: ?Messiah? Season, in All of Its Hues 2010-12-16T16:27:17Z This work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater dresses a big group in colorful skirts, men included, to gesticulate and snap and scream to familiar music by Handel. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival, Program Five, at City Center - Review 2011-11-08T23:05:33Z For many, the throaty mezzo-soprano Maya Lahyani is onstage, singing Vivaldi, Handel or Richard Strauss. Dance Review: A Galaxy of Orbs and Novas 2014-03-21T21:53:37Z Still, at least in the operas, Handel mostly hewed to convention. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z “Aci,” composed in Naples in 1708 when Handel was 23, is a kind of dramatic cantata, commissioned by an Italian duchess to help celebrate her niece’s wedding. Review: A Baroque Opera Muddies Lines Between Him and Her 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z “Aureole,” his 1962 audience favorite set to Handel, is one in particular that causes Mr. Taylor to grimace. Paul Taylor Dance Company Comes to Lincoln Center 2012-03-09T18:58:14Z The house is now a museum where you can visit Handel’s bedroom, the dining room where he rehearsed and gave private recitals, and the basement kitchen. London Tours Explore the Worlds of Opera and Classical Music 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z The towering composers of earlier eras, even Bach and Handel, thought of themselves as artist-practitioners, creating the works their jobs demanded, even recycling existing pieces when pressed for time. Trump Is Wrong if He Thinks Symphonies Are Superior 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z The chorus seized its real opportunity to shine as a whole in the Handel anthem, to glorious effect. Music Review: Hallelujahs, But Not The Ones You Think 2011-05-26T21:53:41Z These collective manipulations lend a creepy element to the recitatives, which were otherwise performed as Handel wrote them. Review: A Baroque Opera Muddies Lines Between Him and Her 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z For Baroque trumpeters, the challenge in Handel’s “Messiah” is to radiate confidence even while negotiating the difficulties of the part. In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z No question, Glimmerglass has been a major force in the Handel revival of recent years. Music Review: Mozart, Puccini, Handel and Copland at Glimmerglass 2010-08-09T22:43:00Z “The arrival of the judge here becomes the Day of Judgment — an important testament to Handel’s faith and a climactic moment in the oratorio.” In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Ultimately, the verities Handel knew and captured so brilliantly in his music leap across time and space in Sellars' inspired update. 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z In Orlando’s mad scene, Handel throws conventions aside. Review: The English Concert Performs Handel’s ‘Orlando’ at Carnegie Hall 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Their next recording, scheduled for release this fall, is a lineup of numbers from Handel oratorios titled “Eternal Heaven.” Lea Desandre Gives a Modern Voice to Early Music 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Though there was wonderful vitality in the performance, Sorrell tapped into the melancholic underside of Handel’s work, even during spirited choruses — sung with rich, robust sound and crisp diction by Apollo’s Singers — and ardent arias. Review: ‘Messiah’ Brings the New York Philharmonic to Church 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Her glamorous appeal stood her in good stead in roles such as Handel's Cleopatra and when performing the Romantic heroines. Evelyn Lear 2012-07-16T12:47:17Z It turned out to be an exact match of the opening three bars of Handel’s aria. In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Handel’s oratorio is not Christmas-centric; It takes us beyond birth to Resurrection, best serving Easter. The miracles of John Adams' 'El Niño' 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Some Handel lovers may be incensed that this production omits the final celebratory chorus in which Apollo announces that the god Bacchus will rise from Semele’s ashes. Review: Handel’s ‘Semele’ Comes With Sumo Wrestlers at BAM 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Robert Carsen's staging of Handel's Rinaldo, new at Glyndebourne this summer, presented the as the daydream of a bullied schoolboy who imagines himself as the crusader and his tormentors as the Saracens. Prom 55: Rinaldo ? review 2011-08-26T10:23:41Z But the inauguration of the Göttingen Handel Festival in Germany, in 1920, propelled a momentum that has resuscitated a flood of pieces from the decades before Gluck and Mozart. Is This the Best Opera Singer You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The Handel biographer Charles Burney described the suites as combining “the profundity and learned art of the Germans with Italian grace and lightness.” Classical Recordings: ‘Handel: Keyboard Suites’ by Lisa Smirnova 2012-09-29T23:03:03Z Handel House Museum, W1, Wed to 7 Nov Bystanding, Cardiff Rather than the passive observation this show's title suggests, the three artists here explore how a peripheral vision can quietly reshape the world. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z It was my teacher, however, who wanted me to have a go at Handel's flute sonatas and made me realise that he was more than the composer of a few greatest hits. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z Photograph: Mike Hoban I had heard Lorraine Hunt singing Theodora in a concert performance, and was overwhelmed by the drama and sheer beauty of Handel's music. How we made: Peter Sellars and William Christie on Theodora 2012-08-27T18:00:03Z So an evening of Bach and Handel by the excellent English harpsichordist Richard Egarr at Weill Recital Hall on Monday was most welcome. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Handel’s ubiquitous “Messiah,” suited for Easter, is the Grinch who stole Christmas from Bach’s “Christmas” Oratorio. Bach times two: Collegium and Master Chorale double the elation 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Alongside Handel, the film looks at his devout, depressive librettist Charles Jennens, and at actress and favorite singer Susannah Cibber, the subject of the aforementioned scandal, whose parts Handel taught her note by note. 'Toy Story,' 'One Child,' Bing Crosby, Neil Armstrong and Handel 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Handel embellished his score when he brought it to London in 1750 so that the star castrato Guadagni could show off his fancy coloratura – which grants modern countertenors the leeway to have some fun. RSNO/McGegan review 2011-01-05T21:46:00Z In the 1970s he was one of the driving forces in the Handel revival, conducting and recording several of that composer’s lesser-known choral works. Music Review: L’Orchestre des Portes Rouges at Church of the Resurrection 2013-01-23T22:02:04Z Glyndebourne's general manager had asked if there was a Handel piece I would like to do. How we made: Peter Sellars and William Christie on Theodora 2012-08-27T18:00:03Z All told, Ms. Hallenberg has quite possibly sung more of Handel’s music than anyone since the 18th century: at least 20 works onstage, in concert or on disc. Is This the Best Opera Singer You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The museum, Handel & Hendrix in London, will re-create Hendrix’s apartment as it appeared when he lived there with his girlfriend Kathy Etchingham in the late 1960s — at the height of his guitar career. Handel Museum Opens a Hendrix Half 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Handel’s 1718 original masque, based on Dryden’s version, was set to words by Gay. Dance Review: Mark Morris Stages ‘Acis and Galatea’ 2014-04-28T21:20:19Z He told Craig Bennett, who plays Monsieur Firmin: “It’s great fun if you can say ‘To hell with Gluck and Handel, have a scandal’ — it’s the inner rhyme, isn’t it? Andrew Lloyd Webber Brings the Music of the Night Back to ‘Phantom’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Handel’s “Messiah,” after all, which was also written for Eastertide, is performed far more often around Christmas. Review: American Classical Orchestra, With an Unseasonal ‘Passion’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z A version of this review appears in print on April 29, 2014, on page C2 of the with the headline: Handel to Mozart to Morris in a Pastoral Tale of Love and Jealous Rage . Dance Review: Mark Morris Stages ‘Acis and Galatea’ 2014-04-28T21:20:19Z Handel and Mozart were artists with great insight into society, and Sellars was instead seeking what light their work — work that has survived centuries — shined on our own values. Mozart in Trump Tower, and the art of getting political onstage 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Indeed, Handel could not possibly have gone rogue on this one and implemented the disastrous decision about Planned Parenthood all by her lonesome. The tyranny of pink 2012-05-30T11:45:00Z Excerpts from Handel’s “Messiah”; works by Rutter and others; and traditional holiday songs. Hallelujahs Everywhere 2010-12-10T05:30:00Z The concert was magnificent - Handel, Mozart, Rossini - and then I believe at the very end there was a very Fellinian situation. Soprano Bartoli: My voice has more colors, shadow 2012-12-27T14:42:49Z English ceremonial tradition is steeped in music, going back to Handel’s day. Perspective | Can Meghan and Harry make you care about Handel? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z This was true in the early eighteenth century, when the German composer George Frideric Handel wrote Italian operas in London. Opera and Brexit in London 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Even if the review process scuttled the tower plan, the cathedral could still build Handel’s apartments. A Potential Solution for Developers at St. John the Divine 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z From the Venetian masters to Bach or Handel to Mozart, Beethoven or Brahms ... they all improvised. At 'Structured Impulse,' expect the unpredictable 2012-02-02T21:16:07Z More likely the ambiguities of “Theodora,” depicting characters caught in moral, religious and civic confusion, may have failed to engage Handel’s original audience. Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Staging oratorios in the opera house is nearly routine nowadays, especially those by Handel; for every “Agrippina,” you’re likely to get a “Messiah” too. Review: A ‘Semele’ Bound for New York Takes Its First Bows 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z As well they might, responding to Handel’s cheerleading and his incomparably vivid tone-painting. Review: St. Thomas Choir and Concert Royal Perform Handel 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Instead of show-piece acrobatics in a foreign tongue, Handel and his singers were connecting in new and daring ways, language being at the forefront. Guadagni: the first modern singer? 2012-07-19T13:13:24Z Without leaving the stage, he performed Brahms’s formidable Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. Review: Roman Rabinovich Plays Bach and More at SubCulture 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z “I know how Handel played continuo,” Mr. Jacobs said. Ren? Jacobs?s Harmonia Mundi CDs and DVDs 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z After centuries of relative neglect, Handel’s operas have come into their own. An Early-Music Ensemble Gives a Handel Opera a Period Punch 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The period orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro performs Handel’s score with irresistible energy and elegance. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The young Finn, who had a brief early career in a rock band, is known for his Mozart and Handel. The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z “Handel lunched with three administrations of corrupt British politicians, royalty, rear admirals, court flacks and power players,” Mr. Sellars adds. Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z “Swell the full chorus to Solomon’s praise,” a very full chorus sings in Handel’s “Solomon,” elegantly performed by the English Concert and Clarion Choir under Harry Bicket on Sunday at Carnegie Hall. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Handel returned to his own version, but most modern performers, Bardwell said, prefer the greater drama of the alternative, which begins with the unaccompanied voice of the singer. Handel House honours Charles Jennens, librettist of Messiah 2012-11-27T17:55:20Z If you’ve ever been to a huge, high-concept fashion party — frantically busy yet somehow empty-feeling — you have an idea what “Glass Handel,” the festival’s shortest but most ambitious event, was like. A Hotbed of Operatic Innovation Wins With Tradition 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Handel’s “Messiah” is never more than an arm’s length away during the holidays, but there are plenty of other seasonal choral works worth catching. How to Spend the Holidays in New York City 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z In that piece Handel’s divine choral works are complemented and countered by Mr. Foniadakis’s raging movement. Dance Listings for March 21-27 2014-03-20T22:42:32Z Starting in 2002 she collaborated with the conductor Christian Curnyn on a series of Handel works for his Early Opera Company. Netia Jones, Making Maurice Sendak’s Creatures Sing 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z This is as much the case with Handel’s “Messiah,” which the chorus Musica Sacra sang on Tuesday at Carnegie Hall, as with “Pride and Prejudice.” Kent Tritle and Musica Sacra Bring ‘Messiah’ to Carnegie 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z It is early and hardly major Handel but characteristic. Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan's impeccable taste shows at Disney Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Flamboyant virtuosity and a toffee-smooth voice encompassing inky low notes are the weapons of choice for this countertenor on an album of dazzling arias by Nicola Porpora, a Neapolitan opera composer and rival of Handel. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z I cannot imagine Handel, the Mr. Showbiz of his day, having any problem with “The Enchanted Island.” Music Review: ?The Enchanted Island? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2012-01-01T22:56:22Z She managed to honour both grandmothers when the “diva” remarried: Vega sang a complete Handel mass at her wedding. Daniela Vega: the transgender star lighting up the film industry 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Instrument design and performing sensibilities have changed radically since the work’s 1742 premiere, and competing performing traditions have arisen, the latest based on the conceit that contemporary musicians can approximate Handel’s sound world. Music Review: ?Messiah? Season, in All of Its Hues 2010-12-16T16:27:17Z Ms. Fleming, in a Playbill interview, calls “Rodelinda” “a Handel opera with 30 arias and no ensembles.” Music Review: Ren?e Fleming Returns in ?Rodelinda? Opera - Review 2011-11-15T22:51:34Z Here Handel’s stately rhythms are woven into silk, wool and gold-coated silver thread, but customers can also commission fabric inspired by a favorite song or a melody. Gift Ideas for Classical Music Fans 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z |
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