Howard Serwer Memorial Lecture – Nathan Link, Centre College
Ford-Crawford Hall (Simon Center) | 7PM
Academic Panels
Ford-Crawford Hall (Simon Center) | 9AM-12PM
Instruments
Peter Holman (University of Leeds, UK), “Handel’s Domestic Harpsichords”
Tomasz Górny (University of Warsaw, Poland), “Music Book Trade in Handel's Halle”
Blake Johnson (University of Missouri - Kansas City Conservatory), “Handel's Hauboys: A Comparison of Handel's Obbligato Writing for Johann Ernst Galliard (1666-1747) and Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750)”
Graydon Beeks (Pomona College, Claremont, CA), “The Use of Cannons Material in Handel's Op. 2 Trio Sonatas”
Academic Panels
Ford-Crawford Hall (Simon Center) | 3-6PM
Opera
Mark P. Risinger (New York, New York), “"La Francesina" as a Handelian Singer”
Louise K. Stein (University of Michigan), “"An Old Idea Came into Handel's Head": Two Possible Scarlatti-Handel Connections"
Paul G. Feller-Simmons (Northwestern University), “Opera Seria Contrafacts, Handel's Esther, and 18th-Century Dutch-Jewish Cosmopolitanism”
Anushka Kulkarni (UC Davis), “Colonial Encounter in Handel's Poro, re dell'Indie (1731)”
Academic Panels
Ford-Crawford Hall (Simon Center) | 9AM-12PM
Oratorio
Minji Kim (Andover, MA), “'Curtain’d with a cloudy red': The Sunrise Metaphor in Handel’s 'Thus When the Sun' in Handel's Samson”
Fred Fehleisen (Juilliard), “Iniquity, Shame, Spitting, and Some Sketchy Voice Leading: Thematic Connections between Two Distant Movements in Messiah”
Luke Howard (Brigham Young University), “"We Most Heartily Wish to Never Hear It Again": The Falsettist in 19th-Century Performances of Handel's Messiah”
Donald Burrows (Open University), “"Glimpses of Notes Like the Catch of a Song": A Review of the Early Sources for Messiah, Sixty Years On”