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...Lying. The recorder derives its name from the archaic meaning of the verb "record," that is, "to sing like a bird." Its origins have been traced to the 12th century, but its heyday came in the late 17th and early 18th century, when Bach, Purcell, Telemann, Vivaldi and Handel wrote a wealth of music for it. Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton and Pepys celebrated its endearing combination of solemnity and sweetness, and King Henry VIII was an avid noodler on his collection of 77 recorders. As orchestras grew larger, however, the gentle voice of the recorder was replaced by the stronger tones...
...What Kansas City needs culturally," declared Mrs. Cynthia ("Cindy") Kemper, the energetic president of the city's Performing Arts Foundation, "is a kick in the pants." Trouble was, Cindy, 36, kicked too hard. To bankroll the foundation's initial production of Handel's Julius Caesar last year, Kemper & Co. put the muscle on some 50 well-heeled friends to raise $140,000. The opera was a widely acclaimed success, but local cultural groups resented Cindy's steamrolling fund-raising tactics, and especially the insinuation that no other cultural enterprise in the city measured...
...Opera HANDEL: SERSE (Westminster; 3 LPs). One of the greatest boons of the expanding recorded repertoire was the debut last year on vinyl of Handel's Rodelinda; now comes his tragicomic opera Serse, or Xerxes, which begins with the famous aria Ombra mai fu, generally called Handel's Largo, a song of praise to a plane tree. The deep, dark, mellifluous voice of Alto Maureen Forrester as the Persian king is set off by the light, bright vocal acrobatics of Lucia Popp, a rising young Czech soprano. Brian Priestman is the conductor, using the Vienna Radio Orchestra...
...trip to Kenya instead, not even the caterers will care. Weddings still have the traditional trimmings, including white lace and tears, but many couples now insist on writing their own wedding service or at least varying the hallowed music; the customary wedding marches have begun to give way to Handel's Water Music, Haydn's St. Anthony Chorale, or even Spanish guitar tunes...
...white silk gown with a 15-ft. train, a huge diamond brooch, and the same pearl-and-diamond diadem that her grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina, had worn, she was first married to Claus in a private civil ceremony by Burgomeister Gijsbertus van Hall. Then, to the strains of Bach and Handel, the couple exchanged rings and "I do's" before 3,000 guests at the Westerkerk. Holding hands, both were so relaxed that they burst into giggles at one point during the sermon...