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...else on earth. That explains, for instance, why in rural Kenyan villages thousands of children, plus many cats and roosters and even hotels, are named John Paul. Charisma is the only conceivable reason why a CD featuring him saying the rosary -- in Latin -- against a background of Bach and Handel is currently ascending the charts in Europe. It also accounts for the dazed reaction of a young woman who found herself, along with the thousands around her in a sports stadium in Denver, cheering and applauding him: "I don't react that way to rock groups. What is it that...
...most American cities, is less a religious feast than a mercantile festival, whose motto could be "Buy now, pray later." Many retailers rely on this season for fully half their sales and profits. Similarly, performing-arts organizations use holiday chestnuts like Amahl and the Night Visitors and Handel's Messiah as surefire crowd lures. The New York City Ballet's production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker plays to more than 100,000 people each Christmas and earns the company a fat $5.6 million. For regional theaters, A Christmas Carol is an even bigger cash cow. "It pays the bills...
...last Thursday's production of "Halos in Reverse" by the Demetirys Klein Dance Company, in residence at the Harvard Summer Dance Center. Last night, the building saw its first concert in many years--people gathered outside ahead of time to see the Harvard Chamber Orchestra perform Bach, Bartok, Handel and Stravinsky...
...First Nights: 5 Performance Premieres"will examine the debut presentations of fivefamous pieces of music, including Handel's"Messiah" and Beethoven's "Symphony...
According to Brinkmann, the subjects of study would be works by Monteverdi, Handel, Beethoven, Berlioz, and Stravinsky. "I think that Tom isgoing to discuss the circumstances and historiesof some central pieces," he said." He's going totry to mix aesthetic, historical and socialapproaches to music...