Early Music Festival gets up a little later

The ninth annual Madison Early Music Festival is pushing the definition of “early” music a few years later.
By featuring the music of George Frideric Handel, all of whose works date after 1705, the festival straddles the cusp of “modernity.” The musicians are playing Handel’s music, but like all the performances at the weeklong festival, they’re playing it on the baroque instruments for which it was written.