Conference Session I

Moderator:  Martha Ronish

ELLEN HARRIS, Homage to Howard:  A Newly-Discovered Stock Account in Handel's Portfolio

GRAYDON BEEKS, "O Sing unto the Lord a New Song":  Performances of Handel's Cannons Anthems in the Eighteenth Century

TERENCE BEST, Radamisto II:  The Making of a Libretto

THOMAS MCGEARY, The Politics of Handel's Operas

Friday, May 4, 9:00 AM
Room 2200, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

 

American Handel Society Board of Directors Meeting

Friday, May 4, 12:15 PM
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Concert I:

Conference Session II

Moderator:  Lowell Lindgren

ELLEN ROSAND, In Handel's Time

ROBERT KETTERER, Prolegomena to the Study of Handel's Scipione

DAVID VICKERS, Identifying Handel's Partenope

RUTH SMITH, Thomas Morell and his Letter about Handel

EVA ZOELLNER, Handel's Oratorio Series Under the Management of John Christopher Smith, John Stanley, and Thomas Linley, 1760-1784

Saturday, May 5, 9:00 AM
Room 2200, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

American Handel Society Membership Meeting

Saturday, May 5, 2:00 PM
Room 2200, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Howard Serwer Lecture*

American Handel Society Dinner

Saturday, May 5, 7:00 PM
Chasen Family Room, Inn and Conference Center, University of Maryland University College

Conference Session III

Moderator:  John H. Roberts

ANTHONY HICKS, A Context for Handel's Comus:  Further Information on the Entertainment at Exton

DAVID HUNTER, The Dublin Audience for Handel and his Works, 1741-42

ANNETTE LANDGRAF, Pyramids in Germany:  The German Reception of Handel's Oratorios in the 18th and 19th Centuries

DONALD BURROWS, Who does what, when?  On the instrumentation of the basso continuo and the use of the organ in Handel's English oratorios

Sunday, May 6, 9:00 AM
Room 2200, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

 

Pre-Concert Roundtable Discussion

Concert II, the Lectures and the Conference sessions are free to the public.

Program and artists subject to change without notice.

To purchase tickets, call (301) 405-7847.

The University of Maryland Campus is easily accessible from Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia via I-95, the Capital Beltway (I-495), and Route 1.

The Maryland Handel Festival is supported in part by grants from:

For more information on the Festival call (301) 405-5571 or write to the Maryland Handel Festival, School of Music, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

For information on the Conference contact Richard King, Conference Coordinator, at 301-405-5523; rk111@umail.umd.edu