[AMS-announce] CONF: American Handel Festival, meeting of American Handel Society, Princeton, April 19-21 2007

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The American Handel Society and the Department of Music at Princeton
University invites you to the 2007 American Handel Festival and
Meeting of the American Handel Society to be held at Princeton
University, April 19-21.

The conference portion of the festival includes an international and
interdisciplinary roster of scholars who will consider a variety of
issues concerning the music of Handel and his contemporaries,
including Handel and Judaism, music, myth, and allegory, the
reception of Handel, performance practice, Handel’s instrumental
music, vocality, heroism, and masculinity.  We are delighted to
announce that the Howard Serwer Memorial Lecture will be given by
Andrew Porter.

The Festival opens with “Britannia’s Invitation:  The Life and Music
Times of George Frederick Handel as seen through contemporary eyes,"
featuring the Richard Baroque Chamber Players,  directed by Nancy
Wilson, violin, with soprano Laura Heimes, countertenor Daniel
Gundlach, bass Curtis Streitman, harpsichordist Gwendolyn Toch,
narrated by Nathan Randall and Judith Pierce.  Friday evening at 6 PM
University organist Eric Plutz will present an organ recital at the
University Chapel, and the Festival will conclude with a performance
of Handel’s Hercules by the Princeton University Glee Club, directed
by Richard Tang Yuk, with professional soloists and orchestra.

The Firestone Library will also be featuring a special exhibit of the
James S. Hall Handel Collection, curated by Paula Matthews.

For more information on registration, concert tickets, and
accommodations, please see the conference website.


<http://silvertone.princeton.edu/Handelfestival/>http://silvertone.princeton.edu/Handelfestival/

We look forward to seeing you in Princeton in April! 
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