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CONFERENCE SESSION 1
Handelian Constructions of Women
Saturday, November 7, 1998, 9:00 A.M.
ROOM 1109, INN AND CONFERENCE CENTER
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Chair: Suzanne Cusick
Speakers: Susanne Dunlap, Wendy Heller,
David Hurley, Kenneth Nott, Ken McLeod
Coordinator: Richard G. King
DAVID ROSS HURLEY, "Hercules in Drag"
SUSANNE DUNAP, "The Magic of Alcina: Transformations of Sorceress from Caccini to Handel"
KENNETH NOTT, "Injur'd Queen, L'indegna usurpatrice: The Portrayal of Athalia in Eighteenth-Century Oratorio"
KEN MCLEOD, "Masculine Anxiety in Handel's Semele"
WENDY HELLER, "The Pleasures of Self-Sacrifice: Handel's Admeto on the Journey from Venice"