by David Hunter NOTE: Dr. Hunter’s work has been featured in recent weeks on BBC (“In Search of the Black Mozart,” 2 June 2015) and in the New Statesman (Antonia Quirke, “In Search of the Black Mozart: A Revealing Look at Handel’s… Read More
by Teresa M. Neff March 24, 2015, proclaims the Mayor, is H+H Day in Boston, just one part of a year-long celebration of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Handel and Haydn Society in 1815. Today is also the opening of the… Read More
The second of our video interviews reflecting on American musicology features Ellen T. Harris, who became president of the American Musicological Society in November 2014. Cuepoints: 00:22 on Handel and his friends 05:20 on archives and historical narrative 09:30 Handel as informant to Hanover 11:30 musicology old… Read More
by Ellen T. Harris In my book George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends (W. W. Norton, 2014), I look at Handel’s music and life in relation to the lives of six identifiable friends: Joseph Goupy and James Hunter, who are… Read More