What's new

Welcome to our new look newsletter. As you may have noticed, we have developed our website and refreshed our name to ‘Handel & Hendrix in London’. It is an exciting time and we look forward to continuing our work at Handel House exploring George Frideric Handel’s life in 18th century London and introducing the Hendrix Flat where Jimi Hendrix lived and called ‘my first real home of my own’. Read on for booking details, news and events taking place this month.

Handel in Mayfair

Watch our latest film which accompanies our current exhibition Handel: A Life with Friends. Presented by exhibition curator and Handel scholar Dr Ellen T Harris explores Handel’s friends who lived nearby. Watch it now.

From our Friends

Blood
5 November 2015 – 28 February 2016
Jewish Museum London
Don’t miss this cutting edge exploration of what unites and divides us. This provocative exhibition examines how blood is an essential part of life and rituals about food, sex, and circumcision.

Handel’s Athalia
17 November, 7pm
St John’s Smith Square, London
Whitehall Choir conductor Paul Spicer introduces one of Handel’s great oratorios Athalia in this short film. Watch now.

l’Ospedale
10-21 November, 7pm
Wilton’s Hall
Solomon’s Knot baroque collective presents the modern staged premiere of a ‘lost’ Italian opera, l’Ospedale, based on a libretto by Antonio Abati and set to music by an unknown seventeenth-century composer. Tickets: £15 – £25

London Resounding
LSO St Luke’s, Old Street, London
Explore the musical world of 17th- and 18th-century London in this autumn series of BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts at LSO St Luke’s, featuring performances by early music specialists Fretwork and Musica ad Rhenum.