LECTURE SERIES: 'HANDEL IN DUBLIN'

LECTURE SERIES: 'HANDEL IN DUBLIN'

April is, very much, Handel month in Dublin. The anniversary of the première of Messiah premiere (13 April) on Fishamble Street, beside Christ Church, is marked annually by the Irish Baroque Orchestra’s HandelFest at Dublin Castle. To frame this, a series of free lunchtime lectures will take place on Thursdays 9, 16, 23 and 30 April at 1.10pm, upstairs in the chapter house of nearby Christ Church Cathedral on the subject of ‘Handel and Dublin’.

Delivered by four leading researchers, these include Triona  O'Hanlon (9 April), who gained her doctorate on key links between charitable bodies and music-making. Adrian Le Harivel (16 April) will remind attendees of the nine months Handel spent in the city, including two concert series of oratorios. Stuart Kinsella (23 April) underlines the important role of the vicars choral and choristers from both cathedrals,l and Michael Lee (30 April), editor of the Journal of the Society for Musicology, offers a lecture on the wider context of the music of Irish and Italian composers in eighteenth-century Dublin.

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Thursday 9 April (A fringe event beginning the HandelFest weekend)

MUSIC & CHARITY IN HANDEL’S DUBLIN

Tríona O’Hanlon, Independent Scholar

Thursday 16 April

HANDEL’S NINE MONTHS IN DUBLIN

Adrian Le Harivel, Art & Music Historian

Thursday 23 April

SINGING THE FIRST MESSIAH IN 1742: THE DUBLIN CATHEDRAL CHOIRS

Stuart Kinsella, Cathedral Research Advisor

Thursday 30 April

HANDEL & MUSIC IN 18TH-CENTURY DUBLIN

Michael Lee, Musicologist