Conference: Handel at Court
24 November 2012 - 25 November 2012, 10:00 - 17:00
Join us for the biennial conference of the Handel Institute.
Schedule
Friday 23 November, Handel House Museum
18:00 Reception and Private View of exhibition on Charles Jennens at Handel House Museum, curator Ruth Smith
Saturday 24 November, the Foundling Museum
9:15 Registration
10:00 Donald Burrows: The Hanoverians and the Maxwells: George I and II in London Society, and How this affected Handel
10:40 Rashid-Sascha Pegah: London Insights
11:20 Coffee
11:50 Konstanze Musketa: Between the Courts: Handel’s First Appointment as Organist at the Halle ‘Schloss- und Domkirche’
12:30 John Roberts: The Queen’s Anthem and the Emperor’s Madrigal
13:10 Buffet lunch
14:30 Helen Green: Musical Patronage at the Hanover Court during the early Eighteenth Century
15:10 William Summers: Music and Royal Power Struggles, 1716-1721
15:30 Graydon Beeks: Handel at Cannons: Music for a Private Court
16:10 Tea
16:40 Terence Best: Riccardo primo: An Opera for a Royal Occasion
17:20 Liam Gorry: A Golden Throne on One Side: Handel’s Representation of Throne Rooms in his Operas for London
18:30 Dinner at La Strada, Brunswick Centre
Sunday 25 November, The Foundling Museum
10:00 Graham Cummings: Handel and Operatic Rivalry in the London Season 1733/34
10:40 Matthew Gardner: Sourcing Singers for English Oratorio: Handel and his Contemporaries
11:20 Coffee
11:50 David Hunter: In the Court of Public Opinion: Handel, Choice, and the Finite Audience
12:30 Annette Landgraf: Handel amongst the Nobility in German bellettristic literature
13:10 Buffet lunch
15:00 An Arcadian Conversazione: Handel in Rome: A concert given by recent graduates of British conservatoires, organised by Laurence Cummings and David Vickers
For enquiries and admission information please contact handel@foundlingmuseum.org.uk
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