Handel News

What's the saying - the more things change, the more they stay the same? It seems that's how it goes in the ways we make music.

Handel is always as much about the singer as about the music with the distinctiveness and personality in the voice on the same plane as tastefulness of interpretation.

Last week the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported that transit officials have started to play Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Strauss and Handel at the Lake Street light rail station in an effort to dissuade criminal behavior.

The Claremont Trio performs the first public concert in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's new Calderwood Performance Hall, recorded on Jan.

Handel and Haydn Society will present Classical Salon, led by H&H principal bass Rob Nairn and featuring sublime soprano Amanda Forsythe.

A senior official for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a leading breast-cancer charity, has resigned over a dispute concerning the foundation's decision to stop providing grants for breast-screenings to Planned Parenthood, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

The adjectives "ravishing" and "ethereal" often arise when critics try to capture the beauty and purity of Daniel Taylor's voice.

The Downey Symphony regaled an intimate and enthusiastic audience at its first concert of the new year this past Saturday night with a program that was superbly chosen to display its strengths as a string ensemble.

Jeffrey Thomas, Music Director of the American Bach Soloists, returned to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music last night to teach another Handel Arias Master Class.

Tim Albery directs a sober, severe production and his vision, like Handel's, is at its most concentrated in solo arias Was Handel meant for regional opera companies? Certainly not.

Each year, the Oakwood University Aeolians have a remarkable collection of young voices that make up the choir.

Hot pants on the Nile: James Laing, left, and Sarah Tynan in Opera North's new Giulio Cesare.

Beethoven lived with bipolar. So did Mahler, Schumann, Handel, and no end of composers and songwriters and musicians.

Lace up your skates and take part in the free ice skating and hockey clinics at the Radio Disney and Rink Side Family Fun Day at the Rink Side Family Entertainment Center in Gurnee.

A Concert of Chamber Music will be presented on Sunday, Jan. 29 at 3:00 p.m. at Church of Our Saviour, 9th and Main Streets in Fond du Lac.

At 7:30pm on Thursday, February 16, Gil Morgenstern's celebrated Reflections Series continues the 2011-2012 season in its intimate home, WMP Concert Hall .

The Princeton University Orchestra treated its audience to a warm winter musical treat this past weekend with a concert dedicated entirely to the music of George Frideric Handel.

Most opera companies now post promotional videos on their websites, which can betray some of the creative differences that may have arisen in rehearsal.