Recent George Frideric Handel News: George Frideric Handel: Hercules - Sat, 21 Jan 2012 The venue for this special set of performances is Koerner Hall (capacity over 1000), just a few blocks from the orchestra's usual venue, the Trinity-St Paul Centre, a church seating about 770. Handel's drama, originally presented in oratorio form, is semi-staged under the direction of Marshall Pynkoski, co-director of Opera Atelier which in recent years has employed the Taflemusik Orchestra ... GSO handles three centuries of music -- flawlessly - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 Oh, what a musical night! Perfect, from the opening statement of George Frideric Handel 's "Water Music," the performance of the Greenwich Symphony took its audience on an aural voyage across three centuries and three distinct periods of musical composition. Richard Egarr conducts the Philharmonia Baroque - Sun, 29 Jan 2012 The 18th and 19th centuries were not illustrious times for the world of English music. Between the death of Henry Purcell in 1695 and the rise of Edward Elgar in the 1890s, the only composer of real achievement in England was George Frideric Handel - an... PU Orchestra Vocal Competition Winners Perform Well in Concert of Handel's Music - Wed, 18 Jan 2012 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.
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