Handel News

With American Independence Day falling on the first Saturday of the Cheltenham festival, the Smith Quartet's triptych of American quartets was aptly chosen and proved an potent antidote to the usual notions of star-spangled banner flying.

The opening classical concert for the 9th Frome Festival is to be given by the Vallis Chamber Orchestra in Holy Trinity Church, Frome, tomorrow at 7.30pm. The programme includes works by Handel, Telemann, Albinoni and Haydn.

Mezzo soprano Bernarda Fink, under Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico, explores different composers' approaches to the role of the Virgin Mary in Christian theology.

Preceding their release of Handel's Ezio , reviewed last week, Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco rang in the Handel anniversary year with a long-awaited recording of Alcina .

My father discovered classical music accidentally, while turning on the polka station on the family radio earlier than usual one Sunday morning.

Mamane Barka POP GARETH SAGER: SLACK SLACK MUSIC **** CREEPING BENT, A 13.70 THIS may be the first time Gareth Sager has put his own name to an album but music lovers of a certain vintage will revel in the signature post-punk echoes of his former bands The Pop Group and Rip Rig & Panic.

In addition to being fine music and a lot of fun, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra's summer tour program offers those who have engaged with the classical repertoire opportunities to see how themes can weave together a diverse assortment of both popular and serious pieces.

Performances of Handel's choral music tend to focus on Messiah, perhaps his most popular work, together with renditions of Zadok The Priest.

Pauline Sullivan will perform classical and modern vocal music. Pauline Sullivan June 25, 2009 Sacred River of Song, a concert, will be presented at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 28, at the First United Methodist Church, 175 N. Main St., Ashland.

Marking the return of award-winning director Deborah Warner and conducted by leading Handelian Laurence Cummings, Messiah features top tenor John Mark Ainsley, as well as a major role for the incomparable English National Opera, London Chorus.

Twenty-three years ago, author Jonathan Keates wrote a biography about the composer George Frideric Handel.

From Perthshire in the heart of Scotland, host Fiona Ritchie brings together the ancient traditions and new beats of Celtic music around the world.

What's Playing Now? Classical Music With Ward Jacobson Written By: David Roden on June 19th, 2009 Royal Fireworks The War of the Austrian Succession sapped Europe's prosperity and will from 1840 to 1848.

This was the last concert of a successful season - and what a flourish to end with! As a lifelong admirer of the great Jacques Loussier, , I was going to be hard to impress.

HANDEL with care. This year the Bank of Scotland Fireworks again features the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

DELAWARE - Former Marion resident Andrew Bogard, a student in his junior year at The Juilliard School in New York City, will present a vocal recital on Sunday at 4 p.m. in Delaware.

The 250th anniversary of Handel's death has meant a spate of new recordings, several of them from Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco.

For every Susan Boyle and Sanjaya Malakar in the spotlight, many other singers don't worry about gaining fame.

It's hard to imagine a more quintessentially English way to spend a summer evening than picnicking in palace gardens before a performance from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

IF you're into choral music, then you're in luck over the next week or so! This Saturday, June 6, there's a chance to top-up on Messiah, when amateur singers from South East Cornwall come together under the baton of Roy Wilton for a performance of Handel's ever-popular oratorio at Liskeard Methodist Church at 7.00pm. Soloists are Rosemary Turner, ...