Word: handeled
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...following evening, at Mary Baldwin-College for Women, Staunton, Virginia, the Sodality will present as its main feature Debussy's "Blessed Damozel." Winding up its tour on Wednesday, at Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia, it will join the Sweet Briar and Duke Glee Clubs in a presentation of Handel's "Messiah...
...Atonal music is prohibited; Handel's Judas Maccabeus has become Hero and Work for Peace. Artists who have painted a family group showing fewer than four children may not use the word "family" in the title-which puts the Holy Family in its place...
There was Bach and Handel on the program, but the Bach came out of a mouth organ, and the Handel was background for the clickety-clicks of a tap dancer. This recital in Philadelphia last week was given by Harmonicist Larry Adler, a young man who resembles Eddie Cantor, and Tap Dancer Paul Draper, who looks like a blonder Franchot Tone. They had deserted the nightclubs for a joint concert tour...
...wooden tube, and out comes sweet, soft, sad music. The recorder is easier to learn, easier on the neighbors, than the piano, fiddle, saxophone, for which ten easy lessons are never quite easy enough. It is decidedly less corny than the mandolin, banjo, accordion. Bach and Handel, and many another before them, wrote fine, easily negotiable recorder tunes...
...much closer than does the Handelian form. Unlike operas of the type of Acis and Galatea, Venus and Adonis is unmarred by the intrusion of spoken dialogue. Blow has managed to weld its short airs with the recitatives to produce a work of extreme simplicity, the very opposite of Handel's elaborate de capo arias which alternate with stretches of dreary dialogue. And in passages like Adonis' death scene, he rises into the front ranks of composers. For musical humor and simplicity, listen also to the duet of Venus and Adonis beginning "Adonis will not hunt today," and to Cupid...