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Oratorio Society A Handel Festival The Phipps Oratorio Society will present A Handel Festival, a concert commemorating the 250th anniversary of the death of composer George Friderich Handel. The concert will be a collection of exuberant examples of Handel’s music, including a few arias from operas and oratorios, a piece for orchestra, and the featured work, the Dettingen Te Deum. Featured soloists for the festival are Maria Jette, soprano; Susan Druck, alto; Rick Penning, tenor; and James Bohn, baritone. Each of them will perform an aria from a Handel opera or oratorio. They are also soloists within the Te Deum. The Dettingen Te Deum contains eighteen solos and choruses of a brilliant and martial character. “The music is very joyful and energetic” says Thomas Dahle, Music Director of the Society. Sung in English, the Te Deum text had its origin within the church around the 6th century. The text is frequently employed as a thanksgiving hymn at consecrations, ordinations, and following military victories. The Dettingen Te Deum had its origin when, on the 27th of June, 1743, the British army and its allies, under the command of King George II and Lord Stair, won a victory at Dettingen, in Bavaria, over the French army. Upon the King's return to England, a day of public thanksgiving was proclaimed, and Handel, the “Composer of Musick to the Chapel Royal,” was commissioned to write a Te Deum (“We praise Thee, O God”) for the occasion. Sunday, March 29, 2009 at 2 p.m.
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