I still can’t say I’ve been to an official event of the Madison Early Music Festival (yes, that’s a major “tsk, tsk”), but at least I attended the Handel Aria Competition. Launched by Orange and Dean ...
It's an aria that became famous because Handel, as he often did, reused the music and some of the words in a later work, in this case, his opera "Rinaldo," which was one of his biggest hits. "Lascia ...
There were many moments to cherish in Kathleen Battle`s recital Sunday afternoon at Rosary College in River Forest, but for this listener one aria offered the very quintessence of the American ...
The label Young Turks threw a big bash in the new age haven of Tulum, Mexico on New Year's Eve. It featured performances from the xx, Grimes, Four Tet, Sampha, Koreless, John Talabot, FKA Twigs, ...
The Northeast Connecticut Community Orchestra, the Concert Choir of Northeastern Connecticut, and guest organist John Nisbet presented “Holidays with Handel” on Dec. 16, at Clark Memorial Chapel in ...
I began and ended my column last week by rhetorically conjuring Handel’s ghost, but had no idea then that his house in Brook Street was actually haunted. A Counterpunch reader informs me that in the ...