CFP: American Handel Festival, Princeton Univ., Feb. 2013

Call for Papers – American Handel Festival 2013 at Princeton

The 2013 American Handel Festival will take place at Princeton University on February 21 – 24. The American Handel Society invites submission of abstracts for papers to be given in the academic sessions. Any topic connected with Handel's life and music is welcome, including seventeenth-century antecedents, Handel’s contemporaries in Germany, Italy or England, and the reception of Handel’s music. Abstracts of no more than 500 words may be sent by September 1, 2012 to Robert Ketterer, AHS Program Chair. Decisions by the programcommittee will be communicated by mid October of 2012.

In addition to the academic panels and lectures, festival events will include a performance of Handel's Dixit Dominus and Alessandro Scarlatti's Stabat Mater by the Princeton University Chamber Choir, conducted by Gabriel Crouch, and a concert by Henry Bicket and the English Concert. There will be an option onSunday, February 24th to hear Bicket conduct a performance of Handel’s Radamisto at Carnegie Hall.

Electronic submissions are preferred, and may be sent to robert-ketterer at uiowa.edu. Surface mail maybe sent to Prof. Robert Ketterer, Department of Classics, 210 Jefferson Building, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52245.