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| Handel As Orpheus : Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas |
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講者：
Ellen T. Harris
MIT Professor of Music
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關於本次演講：
MIT Professor of Music Ellen Harris discusses Handel's chamber cantatas written from 1706-23, from a social point of view, exposing the exclusive and secret homosexual society in which they were created. The compositions were written when Handel lived in the homes of aristocratic patrons, first in Italy and then in Germany and England. Harris concentrates on the texts, including for the first time complete translations of all sixty seven cantatas, and discusses them in terms of their classical meanings, social context, and secret codes and private references.
Musical references on CD:
Veronique Gens, soprano, with Les Basses Reunies: "Haendel Cantates" includes three cantatas for women's voice: "Lucrezia," "Armida abbandonata," "Agrippina condotta a morire" (Virgin Classics 5452832);
Judith Nelson, soprano; David Thomas, bass, with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, conductor: "Apollo e Dafne" (Harmonia mundi 905157)
Jeffrey Gall, countertenor: "Handel's Cantatas" (Centaur 2540)
關於講者：
Ellen T. Harris, MIT Professor of Music. Ph.D., The University of Chicago, is a musicologist working in the area of Baroque opera and specializing in the music of Handel and Purcell and in Baroque vocal performance practice. Her writings include two books for Oxford University Press, Handel and the Tradition (1980) and Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (1987) and articles in American, German, English and Italian publications. She has edited Purcell's Dido and Aeneas for Oxford and Eulenberg (1987) and a thirteen-volume facsimile edition of The Librettos of Handel's Operas for Garland Publishing (1989). Her edition of selected cantatas by Handel is published by Oxford University Press. She has received fellowships from the Council for Research in the Humanities at Columbia University, the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. For the 1995-96 academic year, she was a Fellow at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College at Harvard University; in 1998 she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 1989 to 1996 she served as Associate Provost for the Arts at MIT.
以上資料為本影片上傳至 MITWORLD 網站上當時所獲知的資訊。此影片上傳日為： 2002-02-13.
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