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We're excited to be a part of the Mayor's Holiday Special Blink! event tomorrow. Join H&H and other special guests at Faneuil Hall for a light and sound show to welcome in the holiday season! H&H is scheduled to perform at 5:30pm.
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Check out our Black Friday sale! Holiday programs are selling fast, so act quickly!
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Thomas Garvey calls Labadie's conduction of Mozart Jupiter a "the kind of home-run that brings a crowd immediately to its feet."
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Handel Messiah and Bach Oratortio listed among @Bostonglobe's holiday picks.
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The H&H Vocal Quartet is visiting Lawrence High School today for a performance and presentation from 10-11. This performance is free and open to the public! true?
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Well, the holiday season is certainly upon us. What #holidaytraditions are you and yours looking forward to this year?
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You've heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but what about Giving Tuesday? Consider giving to H&H one week from today on #GivingTuesday to kick off the giving season. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OO7jxUQXIP4#!
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Today in H&H History: Boston Music Hall, home of the Society until the 1900 construction of Symphony Hall, was dedicated in 1852.
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Today in H&H History: H&H's first performance of Haydn's The Storm.
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Handel and Haydn getting into the Thanksgiving spirit...
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Happy Thanksgiving from the Handel and Haydn Society. Wishing you all a safe, warm, and satiating holiday.
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Don't forget #GivingTuesday next week! Tis the season for giving!
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Check out our Black Friday sale! Holiday programs are selling fast, so act quickly!
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Black Friday Sale! Get $25 tickets to Handel Jephtha, our season-closing concert, with the purchase of a ticket to Handel Messiah or Bach Christmas Oratorio. Our holiday programs are selling fast, so act quickly! Promo Code: BlackFriday, offer valid through Monday. http://www.handelandhaydn.org/blackfriday
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It's #HandelMessiah week! There's still time to make H&H's performance of this beloved oratorio a part of your holiday festivities!
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Happy #CyberMonday. Just a reminder that H&H's $25 ticket offer still stands until the end of the day. LINK
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Our 159th annual performances of Handel Messiah are this weekend! (Ticket update? Buy now?) Did you know: Handel composed the entire 3-hour Messiah in a mere 24 days?
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Tis the season to give!
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Happy #GivingTuesday! Tis the season for giving! Consider giving to H&H this year to help us sustain our educational programming and long-standing tradition of musical excellence.
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Don't forget to participate in this year's #GivingTuesday! Tis the season.
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Check out this ad in the Boston Herald for #HandelMessiah from 1893.
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To stand or not to stand? Etiquette for the #HallelujahChorus is oft debated. What do you think?
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The H&H Vocal Quartet is performing and giving a presentation at Stoklosa Middle School in Lowell today.
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Per a request made at the first Messiah in 1741, H&H asks that patrons attending kindly leave swords and hoop skirts at home in respect for the personal space of fellow audience members.
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November 28, 1863: American premiere of Handel's Ode to St. Cecilia Day sung for the dedication of the great organ in Boston Music Hall.
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Gearing up for this weekend's 159th annual performance of Handel Messiah! #Didyouknow: Handel composed the entire 3-hour oratorio in a mere 24 days?
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With the large turn-out expected at the very first Messiah in 1742, a request was made that those attending leave their swords and hoop skirts at home. H&H kindly asks that patrons for this weekend's performance at Symphony Hall respect this request as well.
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Attention patons attending this weekend's performance of Messiah: Please leave swords and hoop skirts at home to respect your fellow audience members. (Link to info re: Messiah premiere)
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What is your favorite part of #HandelMessiah?
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With the large turn-out expected at the premiere of Handel's Messiah in 1742, a request was made that those attending leave their swords and hoop skirts at home. H&H kindly asks that patrons for this weekend's performance at Symphony Hall respect this request as well.
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Staff are embodying today's theme for Messiah Spirit Week, the aria "How beautiful are the feet," by wearing flashy footwear, What is your favorite part of Handel Messiah?
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It's here! We're so excited for one of our favorite weekends of the year and one of Boston's most beloved holiday traditions. We hope you can join us for H&H's 159th annual performance of Handel Messiah.
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If you're attending a performance of #HandelMessiah this weekend, remember to come early to hear H&H's young singers caroling through Symphony Hall.
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"Here is one item, incident to Christmas, which the irregularities of the elements cannot cause to fail. For the Messiah is, in Boston, as much our festival as the feast. It is, like the first snow or the winter solstice, an institution." from a 1911 review of H&H's Handel Messiah LINK TO VIDEO
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Live tweet from the performance -- crowd, carolers, shop, etc.
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Another successful Handel Messiah weekend at H&H. Thanks to all who joined us for this 159-year-old tradition. Here's to the next 159!
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Couldn't get tickets to this weekend's performance (or want to hear it all again)? Tune in for a live broadcast on...
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On this day in H&H History in 1980: The performance of Messiah was broadcasted from Symphony Hall in the first digital satellite transmission!
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On this day in H&H History: Placido Domingo was the tenor soloist in Messiah in 1985.
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Support H&H and triple your impact! Make a new or increased gift by Dec 31, and it will be matched 2-1 by an anonymous donor. Take advantage of this opportunity to give back and support bringing extraordinary concerts and educational outreach programs to the community.
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A big congratulations to our friends at @ShelterMusicBoston on being named the 2013, and first ever, Classical Music Social Innovator!
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First performance of Il ritorno di Tobia in New England -- 1975
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Lincoln Center debut: Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall
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On this day in H&H History: the Society performed at the State House in Boston to usher in the new century.
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On this day in H&H History: The Society performed for the Emancipation Proclamation celebration with Ralph Waldo Emerson, orator. (1863)
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Purcell's influence on the Who
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First performance of Mozart's Requiem in Boston -- 1857
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1843: H&H performs Boston premiere of Mendelssohn's St. Paul.
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1845: First performance of Handel Samson in America
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Happy Birthday Mozart! VIDEO?
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First performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Boston -- 1853
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On this day in H&H History: the Handel and Haydn Society was Incorporated in 1816 by a Special Act of the General Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. PICTURE ???
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1848: First performance of Mendelssohn's Elijiah in Boston
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H&H performs Boston premiere of Israel in Egypt. http://www.handelandhaydn.org/shop/music/israel-in-egypt
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On this day in H&H History: In 1819, the Society performed the American premiere of Haydn's Creation. PICTURE
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First performance of Handel's Jephtha in America: 1867
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1843: H&H performs the Boston premiere of Rossini's Stabat Mater. **something about last year's performance?
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It's our 198th birthday! On this day in H&H History: The Handel and Haydn Society is founded in 1815 "to promote the love of good music and a better performance of it."
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1829: First performance of Mozart's Missa longa in C, K. 262 in America
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H&H performed at the memorial services for President John Quincy Adams at Fanueil Hall in 1848
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1841: H&H performs at the funeral for William Henry Harrison
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H&H performed at the memorial services for President Lincoln -- 1865
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1833: H&H performed a benefit concert to aid the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument
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On this day in H&H History: In 1817, the Society performs a commissioned work, President Monroe's March for President James Monroe.
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On this day in H&H History: the Society performs at the memorial service for John Adams and Thomas Jefferson held in Boston's Faneuil Hall (Daniel Webster, orator). 1826
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1827: Lowell Mason, noted music educator and editor, is elected President of the Society.
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1830: H&H performs at the 200th Anniversary celebration of the settling of Boston. PICTURE of Boston, 1630
