Reception
M242 (Simon Center) | 6 pm
Howard Serwer Memorial Lecture, followed by Paul Traver Memorial Concert
Ford-Crawford Hall (Simon Center) | 7 pm – 9 pm
Ellen Harris, Chair
Nathan Link (H.W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Professor of Music at Centre College, KY), “Narrative and Drama in Handel’s Operas”
Concert Repertory:
- Suite #8 in F minor, HWV 433 (Heejin Kim, harpsichord)
- Sonata in B minor, HWV 367b (Kathie Stewart, traverso; Jaap Ter Linden, cello; Hangyuan Zhang, harpsichord)
Academic Panel I
Ford-Crawford Hall (Simon Center) | 9 am – 12 pm
Instruments
Kenneth Nott, Chair
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 Panel II
Ford-Crawford Hall (Simon Center) | 3 pm – 6 pm
Opera
Alison DeSimone, Chair
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)”
Baroque Orchestra (Historical Performance Institute)
Auer Hall (Simon Center) | 8 pm
Academic Panel III
Ford-Crawford Hall (Simon Center) | 9 am – 12 pm
Oratorio
Mark Risinger, Chair
Minji Kim (Andover, MA), ““Curtain’d with a cloudy red”: The Sunrise Metaphor in the Aria “Thus When the Sun” of 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”