Word: handel
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...ordinary carols were presented at Gardner Museum, in Boston, Sunday, and last night at Memorial Church in the Yard. They will be repeated this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock and this evening at 8:15. Included in the program are some Bach choral preludes, the Pastoral Symphony from Handel's Messlah, and old French, German, and English carols...
Since its first performance at Dublin in 1742, Handel's "Messiah," although recognized as one of the greatest pieces of church music, has, only through its association with Christmas, survived the fate of his other works so long relegated to the limbo of forgotten music. Only Bach has escaped the dense fog of obscurity that surrounds almost every composer before Haydn. It is lamentable enough that such acknowledged masters as Palestrina, Scarlatti, Corelli, Vivaldi, Purcell, and Boccherini should be worshipped from afar but rarely heard in American concert halls...
...more unfortunate that a composer of Handel's immense stature should be the author of only one work which has "lived." His prolific and unfailing genius produced, in a lifespan of 74 years, an amazing amount of organ and harpsichord music, 46 operas, and such oratorios as "Israel in Egypt," "Semele," and "Judas Maccabaeus," all of which have been almost completely neglected. Perhaps even "The Messiah" would have disappeared had it not become an accustomed ritual of Christmas...
...Boston's Handel and Haydn Society opened its one hundred and thirty-first season with its annual Christmas performance of "The Messiah" before a large and enthusiastic audience at Symphony Half Sunday might...
...gold standard of music, has undergone a heady inflation in the past 100 years. The august London Philharmonic Society in 1813 tuned for its first concert from an oboe-sounded A set at 847 vibrations a second, two vibrations above the century-old tuning fork of George Handel. Then at the Congress of Vienna, military bands discovered that by raising the pitch of their instruments they could ring out sharper fortissimi during the day and crisper waltzes at night. By 1846 the London Philharmonic was trilling Bach fugues after tuning to an oboe A of 905 vibrations. In 19th-Century...