Message from CEO: Last Minute Preparations

The Handel and Haydn Society is taking off early to London tomorrow for our appearance at the BBC Proms. We are frantically making last minute preparations. I just ran to Barney’s to get a dressy outfit for one outing to the Glyndebourne Festival this Sunday. Quite an event!

Personnel manager Jesse Levine has been planning this enormous undertaking like a master. Crisis has not been avoided and one musician finally received his new passport today. We are very excited to be making our London debut this Monday! We all hope that you can tune in online to the BBC website to listen to the live broadcast at 2pm on Monday July 23 (7pm London time). Until then, download our first podcast with John Finney, our chorusmaster, and Susan Trout, one of our fine chorus members, discussing the trip to Proms. Its available as an MP3, too. Just right click the link (Control-click on a Mac) to save it to your computer.

-Marie-Hélène