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Vast Confusion. The Handel and Haydn Society was the outgrowth of a chorus assembled in 1815 for a Peace Jubilee celebrating the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, word of which took 52 days to reach Boston. The society grew rapidly, until by the late 1850s it was more than 700 voices strong. Not a historical event passed in old Boston that the society did not commemorate with a concert, featuring such speakers as Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Nowhere is the Messiah tradition more cherished than in Boston, where the Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest active choral group in the U.S., has sung the oratorio every Christmas for the past 146 years. This season's uncut performance at Symphony Hall was sold out, attracting a devoted cross section of Bostonians to whom the Messiah is as integral a part of Christmas as the Beacon Hill bell ringers or the oyster stuffing for the turkey...
This season marks the 150th anniversary of the Handel and Haydn Society. It will be celebrated in March with the world premiere of The Passion According to St. Luke by American Composer Randall Thompson, and again in October with a week-long international choral festival to be held in Symphony Hall. Among the participants: Britain's Huddersfield Choral Society, Vienna's Singverein of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir...
Though the society boasts a repertory of some 100 choral works, many New Englanders know it simply as the "Messiah Society." The complete Messiah, in fact, was given its U.S. premiere (1818) by the society, as were many of the great choral works, including Haydn's Creation (1819), Handel's Solomon (1855) and Mendelssohn's Elijah (1848), a coup that was achieved only after the society's president sought out Mendelssohn in London and convinced him that Boston was culturally ready for the work...
ORCHESTRAL: A triumphant beginning to the Boston Symphony Prokofiev series is the big, wartime Fifth Symphony, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf. Leonard Bernstein fired up the New York Philharmonic for Liszt's Faust Symphony and cooled them down for a lapidary performance of Haydn's Symphonies 82 and 83 (Columbia). Haydn (in Symphonies 95 and 101) also got the benefit of Fritz Reiner's accumulated wisdom and inborn precision in his last recording, made two months before his death (RCA Victor...