Handel Week Festival

From the Artistic Director

Warmest of WELCOMES to the Handel Week Family! We, the artists, board, volunteers and listeners here at Handel Week prize Baroque masterpieces of music and especially the music of Handel. We present world-class readings of music in an opulent acoustic, all in a room with tremendous sight lines! We surround these in-person and virtual concerts with informative lectures, fascinating program notes and festive receptions. We reach out to young singers to learn what it is to be a professional musician through our Wells Choral Scholar program and we engage young Conductors to hone their craft with our Mark and Randi Ravitts Woodworth Award for young conductors. Welcome to our website and read here about our upcoming musical offerings!
To Handel and his Music!

Dennis Northway

Newsletter #6 - And a wonderful time was had by all and join us next year for our 25th anniversary!

We, at the Handel Festival are approaching our quarter-century Mark! This year’s concerts were enthusiastically received!! Whether it was the Concerti à due Cori and eight of the most famous Arias and Duets from all of Handel’s music!! Or, our Chamber concert with golden-throated Amy Anderson de Jong singing three of Handel’s magnificent secular cantatas on a program with virtuoso Harpsichord playing by Handel Week favorite, Charlie Carpenter and rounded it off with sonatas for Recorder and Basso continuo, it was a Sunday afternoon concert for the ages! Or, whether it was the witty, charming, delightful and clever music of Henry Purcell’s THE INDIAN QUEEN alongside the FOUNDLING HOSPITAL ANTHEM: Blessed are they that considereth the poor. Our audiences were delighted and our performers were at the top of their game! Thanks, thanks to everyone!

Next year, our 25th anniversary season, we are pulling out all the stops. We will begin with Handel’s Water Music complete along with his recently discovered virtuoso showpiece "Gloria". Our chamber concert will offer three magnificent solo cantatas for Soprano and basso continuo along with music for solo instrument. We will conclude with a full Franz Joseph Haydn Oratorio! We hope you will join us and spread the word!!

Please consider joining us and supporting us with a GENEROUS donation! You will find dates and complete programs on this website. I invite you to explore and to enjoy!

To Handel and His MUSIC!

Dr. Dennis E. Northway, Artistic Director

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