Handel Week Festival

From the Artistic Director

Warmest of WELCOMES to the Handel Week Family! We, the artists, board, volunteers and listeners here at Handel Week prize Baroque masterpieces of music and especially the music of Handel. We present world-class readings of music in an opulent acoustic, all in a room with tremendous sight lines! We surround these in-person and virtual concerts with informative lectures, fascinating program notes and festive receptions. We reach out to young singers to learn what it is to be a professional musician through our Wells Choral Scholar program and we engage young Conductors to hone their craft with our Mark and Randi Ravitts Woodworth Award for young conductors. Welcome to our website and read here about our upcoming musical offerings!
To Handel and his Music!

Dennis Northway

Handel Week People's Choice

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Newsletter #13 - LATE SUMMER HANDEL READING!

True Handelians might like these two suggestions of very interesting reading to prepare for our gala 2027 season! First, enjoy EVERY VALLEY: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that made HANDEL'S MESSIAH by Charles King. A fascinating reconstruction of the people and influences that came together to create and Oratorio like no other! Strongly recommended!! And further, enjoy Jane Glover's HANDEL IN LONDON: The making of a Genius. Here you will find the ordered and disciplined portion of Handel who would, each time a work was re-presented in concert, would write new material for the new singers. An amazing book! Finally, enjoy Handel as Orpheus: Voice and desire in the chamber cantatas by Ellen Harris. You will find a frank assessment of the characters behind the commissioning of these amorous, secular works. A deep dive.