Princeton University is set to host the biennial American Handel Society Conference Feb. 21 through 24.
The university’s music department scheduled several public events for the conference including an exhibition in the Eighteenth-Century Room of the Firestone Library, featuring the library’s newly acquired scribal copy of Handel’s Berenice from 1737.
Princeton University Concerts is set to present The English Concert 8 p.m. Feb. 21 in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, with a pre-concert talk my Temple University professor Steven Zohn at 7 p.m. The English Concert was founded in 1973. It is currently led by Harry Bicket and performs in the US, Europe and the Middle East.
The program features Prucell’s Suite from King Authur, Telemann’s Concerto for Viola in G Major, Bach’s Concert for Niolin No.1 and Handel’s Concerto Grosso Op. 3 No. 2 and Watermusic Suite.
Tickets range between $5 and $40 dollars.
Princeton University Chamber with guest choir Kantorei from Westminster Choir College is set to perform 7:30 Feb. 22 om Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall. The program includes Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater and Handel’s Let God Arise and Dixit Dominus.
Tickets are $15 for general public and $5 for students.
Princeton University Glee Club is set to perform 3 p.m. March 3 in Richarson Auditorium at Alexander Hall. The program includes Handel’s Israel in Egypt, which George Frideric Handel wrote when he was 22 years old.
Tickets are $15 general and $5 students.
Tickets for these concerts can be purchased through University Ticketing, princeton.edu/utickets or (609) 258-9220.
A lecture titled Handel: Opera and Ritual is set for 4:30 p.m. Feb. 22 in McCormick Hal. Professor Reinhard Strohm, of Oxford University, winner of the 2012 International Balzan Prize will give the keynote address.
A panel discussion titled The Baroque Pasticcio in the 21st Century: The Metropolitan Opera’s Enchanted Island is scheduled for 4:10 p.m. Feb. 23 in McCormick Hall. Panelists were involved with the creating of The Enchanted Island, which was performed at the Metropolitan Opera on New Year’s Eve in 2012.
The Enchanted Island was based on the plots of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest with music by Rameau, Vivaldi and Handel. Panelists will discuss the creation and and performance of the project.
Panelists include Paul Cremo, dramaturg at The Metropolitan Opera and for Enchanted Island, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Countertenor, Ferdinand and Prospero in Enchanted Island, Ellen Rosand, musical advisor for Enchanted Island, Bradley Brookshire, continuo for Enchanted Island, Lawrence Manley, Yale University English professor and Wendy Heller of Princeton University.
More information is online at music2.princeton.edu/AHS.
