History repeats itself at H+H bicentennial concert

With flair and fanfare, Boston's Handel & Haydn Society celebrated its bicentennial on November 21st with a historic concert at King's Chapel. The program featured the same music from the group's inaugural performance at the church on Christmas Day in 1815. In a press review of that first concert, the author declared the chorus' peerless "superiority." Two hundred years later, this commentator is pleased to concur. In her introductory remarks, Rev. Joy Fallon observed that King's Chapel has cha

With flair and fanfare, Boston's Handel & Haydn Society celebrated its bicentennial on November 21st with a historic concert at King's Chapel. The program featured the same music from the group's inaugural performance at the church on Christmas Day in 1815. In a press review of that first concert, the author declared the chorus' peerless "superiority." Two hundred years later, this commentator is pleased to concur. In her introductory remarks, Rev. Joy Fallon observed that King's Chapel has cha…