Graydon F. Beeks

Publications

“Coriolano Transformed: The Early History of Ariosti’s First royal Academy Opera,” Händel-Jahrbuch, Jg. 70, 2024

“The Pre-Publication Circulation and Scoring of Handel’s Op.2 Trio Sonatas,” Händel-Jahrbuch, Jg. 69, 2023

“Performances of Handel’s Cannons Anthems and Te Deum in his Lifetime,” in D. Vickers, ed., New Perspectives on Handel’s Music: Essays in Honour of Donald Burrows, 2022

“Jenny Lind, Händel und Halle,” in K. Musketa, ed., Feuerwerk und Halleluja. 100 Jahre Händel-Festspiele, 2022

“An Interesting Late Source of Handel’s L’Allegro ed il Penseroso,” Händel-Jahrbuch, Jg. 67, 2021

"'Thy Hand, Dalinda': Characterization, Contrast and Maturity in Ariodante," Händel-Jahrbuch, Jg.66, 2020

"John Langshaw as a Handel Copyist," Newsletter of The American Handel Society, xxxv/1, Spring 2020

“Sir George Smart’s Performances of Messiah,” Händel-Jahrbuch, Jg. 65, 2019

Edition of George Frideric Handel’s “Cannons” Te Deum in B-flat Major, HWV 281, Hallische Händel Ausgabe, Ser. 3 Vol. 7, 2018

Featured Performances

Conducted the Pomona College Band with oboe soloist Francisco Castillo, Pomona faculty, in a concert of music by Robert Russell Bennett, Harry Berman ’24, Carolyn Bremer, Chen Yi, Ron Nelson, Michael Praetorius, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Henry Schmidt and William Grant Still in Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College, April 19 & 21, 2024.

Conducted the Pomona College Band with soprano soloist Melissa Givens, Pomona faculty, in a concert of music by Raymond Burkhart, Tom Flaherty, James Reese Europe, Percy Grainger, Roger Nixon, Philip Sparke, and Germaine Tailleferre in Bridges Halle of Music, Pomona College, November 10 & 12, 2023.

Conducted the Pomona College Band in a concert of music by Leroy Anderson, Michael Colgrass, Gustav Holst, Karl King, Karl Kohn, Gordon Jacob and Philip Sparke in Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College, April 21 & 23, 2023.

Conducted the Pomona College Band in a concert of music by George Botsford, Viet Cuong, Adam Gorb, Percy Grainger, Gustav Holst, William P. Latham, Alex Shapiro and John Philip Sousa in Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College, November 10 &12, 2022.

Conducted the Pomona College Band with euphonium soloist Becca Blyn, HMC ’22, in a concert of music by Antonio de Cabezón, Gustav Holst, Karl Kohn, Pierre Leemans, Bennie Moten & T. Hayes, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William F. Russell, Robert Schumann and Ralph Vaughan Williams in Bridges Hall of Music Courtyard, Pomona College, April 22 & 24, 2022.