Word: hallelujahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Handel's Opus 8 we heard concerto No. 3, with its remarkable Andante jugato. In addition. Mr. Bodky introduced a little known work, "Concerto interpolated into the Oratorio Alexander's Feast." The theme of its first movement bears a close resemblance to the "Hallelujah" theme of the Messiah. Especially noteworthy is the concerto's delicate and subdued final movement. It brought the evening to a quiet close but, needless to say, in no way restrained the enthusiastic applause which followed...
...Hallelujah! It's about time TIME did something about that stupid Texas myth...
...there ever such a lovely morn as this? Misery melts and frustration is finished. Mr. Attlee at last has named the day. The joyful day. The day of Socialism's funeral. The day when six years of miserable misrule will be gone forever ... Glory, glory, hallelujah...
...last week looked like ordinary small-town kids about to see a western. They wore ankle socks and saddle shoes, sweat shirts outside their trousers, hair-ribbons, skull caps. But it was not a western they had come to see. Suddenly, some of them began to hum "Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!" In clear, young voices, the whole 5,000 took it up, and the auditorium was transformed into a meeting house...
Every hundred years, it appears, the British have a festival. One century ago they set up the Crystal Palace and opened it with a mighty singing of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. Crammed with inventions and works of art, the Crystal Palace managed to impress the contemporary world, and eventually inspire a traditional lecture at Harvard, Professor Owen's on the oddities of mid-Victorian taste. This year the British have an exhibition going again but it's unlikely that there'll be much fun making at its expense...