Schedule
- Preliminary Event (not included in conference registration):
- The Princeton Early Keyboard Center presents "Soft Delights - Music of George Frideric Handel"
- Performance by John Burkhalter (English & small flutes), Gavin Black (Harpsichord), David Black (Cello)
- Christ Congregation Church, 50 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ
- Sunday, February 10, 2013, 4pm
- Tickets $15 (general), $10 (students and seniors)
- For tickets and information on this event, please contact pekc@pekc.org or call 732-599-0392
Festival Schedule and Conference Program (details subject to change)
- Thursday, February 21. 2013
- 5:45 PM Welcome Reception, Woolworth Musical Center Lobby
- 7:00 PM Pre-concert talk by Steven Zohn (Temple University) - free to all ticket holders
- 8:00 PM The English Concert, Harry Bicket, Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall**
- http://www.princetonuniversityconcerts.org/concerts/concert/the-english-concert
- **Please note: tickets for this event are no longer available through the registration website. To purchase tickets, please call university ticketing at 609-258-9220 or visit http://www.princeton.edu/utickets
- Friday. February 22, 2013
- 8:00 AM Breakfast and Coffee, McCormick Hall
- 8:30 AM-12:05 AM Paper Session I: Response and Reception (McCormick 101)
- Chaired by Robert Ketterer (University of Iowa)
- 8:30- 9:10 AM Luca Della Libera (Conservatorio di Musica di Frosinone/ Università di Roma Tor Vergata):
- “Renaissance roots and baroque “affetti” in the sacred music of Alessandro Scarlatti”
- 9:10-9:50 AM Evan Cortens (Cornell University):
- “The Legacy of the Hamburg Opera in the Cantatas of Christoph Graupner”
- 9:50-10:30 AM Michael Burden (Oxford University):
- “When Giulio Cesare was not ‘Handel’s’ Giulio Cesare”
- --Coffee break--
- 10:45-11:25 AM Todd Jones (University of Kentucky):
- “Handel in Early America and the Politics of Reception”
- 11:25-12:05 PM Stephen Nissenbaum (University of Massachusetts):
- “How Handel’s Messiah Became a Christmas Tradition”
- Lunch (provided for conference registrants)
- 1:00-3:00 PM Paper Session II: Compositional Issues (McAlpin Rehearsal Hall, Woolworth Center)
- Chaired by Terence Best (Hallische-Händel-Ausgabe)
- 1:00-1:40 PM Fred Fehleisen (The Juilliard School):
- “Musical Figures, Thematic Parallelisms, and Phrase Rhythm in Handel’s
- Grand Concerto in G Minor, Op. 6, no. 6"
- 1:40-2:20 PM Amanda Babington (Manchester, UK):
- “Sketches for Messiah: pre-autograph activity”
- 2:20-3:00 PM Donald Burrows (The Open University):
- “Milton from the Lego Box: Handel’s performing versions of L’Allegro & Il Penseroso”
- 3:10-4:00 PM Lecture Demonstration (McAlpin Rehearsal Hall, Woolworth Center)
- Nicholas Lockey & John Burkhalter (Princeton University):
- “A Mirror of Changing Tastes: New Light on Miss Baring’s Keyboard Manuscript”
- --Coffee break--
- 4:30-6:00 PM Howard Serwer Memorial Lecture (McCormick 101)
- Reinhard Strohm (Oxford University):
- "Handel: Opera and Ritual" (This event is free and open to the public.)
- Dinner (on your own)
- 7:30 PM Princeton University Chamber Choir directed by Gabriel Crouch**
- Handel: Dixit Dominus
- (Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall)
- http://www.princeton.edu/music/events/viewevent.xml?id=622
- **Please note: tickets for this event are no longer available through the registration website. To purchase tickets, please call university ticketing at 609-258-9220 or visit http://www.princeton.edu/tickets
- Saturday, February 23, 2013
- 8:30 AM Breakfast and Coffee, McCormick 101
- 9:00 AM-12:00 PM Paper Session III: Archival Research (McCormick 101)
- Chaired by John Roberts (UC Berkeley)
- 9:00-9:40 AM Triona O'Hanlon (Dublin, Ireland):
- “The Mercer’s Hospital Music Collection: An Analysis of Eighteenth-century Handelian Sources
- Extant in Trinity College, Dublin”
- 9:40-10:20 AM Joseph Darby (Keene State College):
- “The Demographics of Subscription Concertos in Eighteenth-Century Britain:
- Handel and His Contemporaries”
- --Coffee Break--
- 10:40-11:20 AM Ellen Harris (MIT):
- “Taking the Oaths: The Directors of the Royal Academy of Music Swear Allegiance
- to King and Country”
- 11:20-12:00 PM Ruth Smith (Cambridge University):
- “New Perspectives on Charles Jennens’”
- Lunch (on your own) and AHS Board Meeting
- 2:00-4:00 PM Paper Session IV: Performance & Production (McCormick 101)
- Chaired by Lowell Lindgren (MIT)
- 2:00-2:40 PM Richard King (University of Maryland):
- "Who does what? On the Instrumentation of the Basso Continuo
- in the Performance of Recitative in Handel’s Operas and Oratorios”
- 2:40-3:20 PM Matthew Gardner (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg):
- “An English Singer of Italian Opera: Handel and Anastasia Robinson”
- 3:20-4:00 PM Geoffrey Burgess (Eastman School of Music):
- “Behind Handel’s Terpsichorean Muse: Prévost, Sallé and the Setting of Dance to Poetry”
- 4:10-5:45 PM Panel Discussion (McCormick 101)
- Chaired by Wendy Heller (Princeton University)
- The Baroque Pasticcio in the 21st Century: The Metropolitan Opera’s Enchanted Island (2012)
- (This event is free and open to the public)
- Paul Cremo (The Metropolitan Opera and Dramaturg for Enchanted Island); Anthony Roth Costanzo (The Metropolitan Opera, Ferdinand and Prospero in Enchanted Island); Ellen Rosand (Yale University and Musical Advisor for Enchanted Island), Bradley Brookshire (Purchase; CUNY; Continuo for Enchanted Island); Lawrence Manley (Department of English, Yale University); Chair, Wendy Heller (Princeton University)
- 6:15 PM Cocktails, concert, and dinner (Chancellor Green) for conference registrants (additional fee)
- Sunday, February 24, 2013
- 9:00 -10:20 AM Brunch and Paper Session V: Oratorio
- Chaired by Nathan Link (Centre College)
- 9:00-9:40 AM Kenneth Nott (University of Hartford):
- “Psalms and Psalm Genres in Handel’s Old Testament Oratorios”
- 9:40-10:20 AM Joyce Irwin (Princeton, NJ):
- “Saul, David, and the Power of Music”
- 11:45 AM Busses leave for Carnegie Hall (with box lunch)
- 2:00 PM Radamisto at Carnegie Hall (return to Princeton via Newark Airport c.5:00 PM)**
- http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2013/2/24/0200/PM/The-English-Concert/
- **Please note: Tickets for this event are no longer available for purchase through the registration website. Please contact Carnegie Hall to purchae any remaining tickets.
- Additional Festival Event (not included in the conference registration):
- Handel: Israel in Egypt
- Princeton University Glee Club, directed by Gabriel Crouch
- Sunday, March 3, 2013, 3pm
- Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
- Tickets: $15 (general), $5 (students)
- To purchase tickets, please call university ticketing at 609-258-9220 or visit http://www.princeton.edu/utickets