Handel Week Festival

04/02/2026

Well it is a WRAP! After three splendid concerts, three WONDERUL critical reviews and standing ovations, the 27th Annual Handel Festival is history. We hope you enjoyed it. STAY TUNED for information about our 28th GALA SEASON!

02/24/2026

Please join us this Sunday at 3:00 (pre-concert lecture at 2:15) for a concert of the music of Handel composed at the express request of the Royal Family.

The link for concert information is here:

https://go.reachmail.net/v/ms/c507e8ab-ad9f-4cec-80a8-a89300140b32

02/16/2026

Friends please join us for a wonderful chamber concert of sublime vocal and instrumental music on Sunday 22 February at 3 pm at Pilgrim Church in Oak Park. The link below gives you all the details! SEE YOU THERE!

https://go.reachmail.net/v/ms/69b0105d-2fb5-ed11-80c4-b083fed06a4f

03/24/2025

Well it is a WRAP! Three concerts and three standing ovations! Handel Week 2025, our 26th anniversary season was a resounding success thanks to YOU! See you next year for our 27th GALA SEASON! Stay tuned here!

02/25/2025

Please join us Sunday to hear your new FAVORITE Handel Oratorio, L'Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato, sung in ENGLISH!!

Although L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato has an Italian title, it is actually an English work with texts from the famous poet John Milton as adapted by the librettist of Messish, Charles Jennens. It is one of Handel's most imaginative and delicious works, full of unexpected felicities and sur...

02/18/2025

Please join us this Sunday for a marvelous afternoon of chamber music!

02/18/2025

We received a good review on our musical offering from Sunday. Please enjoy!

Yet for some reason concerts devoted to music of Handel—apart from the inescapable Messiah—are less thick on the ground. Considering his inexhaustible fount of melody and prolific achievements across several genres, too much of Handel’s music remains unexplored, at least on the local scene.

02/16/2025

Please join us this afternoon for a concert of vocal and keyboard pyrotechnics! Pilgrim Congregational church, Oak Park, IL at 3:00 with a pre-concert lecture beginning at 2:15!