MCANA Members attending:

• James Bash                            
• Daniel Hathaway                      
• Bill Littler                               
• Sarah Bryan Miller                
• Don Rosenberg                      
• Adeline Sire                                                    
• Jean Ballard-Terepka             
• Heidi Waleson                        
• Gregory Isaacs                                   
•  Marvin Ward

Friday, March 27

Tour Handel and Haydn Bicentennial exhibit at the Boston Public Library

Symposium at the Boston Public Library

            “The Handel and Haydn Society:  Past, Present and Future” Moderator: Jeremy Eichler, Boston Globe Classical Music Critic.  Guest panelists: music writer Jan Swafford, H+H Executive Director and CEO Marie-Hélène Bernard, Early Music America Editor Donald Rosenberg

Introductory Session with writing workshop participants led by Heidi Waleson

Dinner at Lucca Back Bay hosted by the Handel and Haydn Society

H+H’s performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at Symphony Hall

Saturday, March 28   

MCANA Institute Symposium;

            “The Mainstreaming of Early Music:  How the Historical Performance Movement Has Impacted Vocal and Orchestral Music in Concerts and Conservatories”  Moderator:  Heidi Waleson, Wall Street Journal and other publications.  Guests: Judith Malafronte, singer and teacher of Historical Vocal Performance at   Yale; a member of the Handel and Haydn Society Period Instrument Orchestra; guest musicologist

Writing workshop with Heidi Waleson at H+H Offices

Dinner hosted by the Boston Symphony Orchestra

BSO program of Andris Nelsons conducting Gandolfi world premiere and Mahler 6