The Boston Globe, October 16th, 1993
HANDEL & HAYDN SOCIETY Christopher Hogwood, artistic director At: Symphony Hall last night. (Concert repeats on tomorrow afternoon) The Handel & Haydn Society opened its 179th season last night with an anemic, inexact and unworthy performance of Handel's setting of John Dryden's "Alexander's Feast." The trouble with Christopher Hogwood and H & H is that they seem unwilling and unable to rattle the cage, and there's nothing that Dryden and Handel enjoyed more. Over the last few seasons Hogwood and H & H have been surveying Mozart's Handel orchestrations in connection with a recording project fo...
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