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...applause started to slacken, a rancher in a sheepskin coat shouted from the balcony: "Keep on clappin' and they'll keep on play-in'!" So they did. When Conductor Maurice Abravanel, 73, and the 85 members of the Utah Symphony Orchestra responded with an encore from Handel's Water Music, the crowd in the renovated movie theater burst into cheers...
...intended to take Jeff Flanders' command to "throw away all the reviews you've seen of it" (Flanders is better equipped to evaluate a film than Reed, Crist, Canby, Kael, et al) seriously, or is it another example of the Crimson's weird, self-serving sense of humor? Are Handel, Bach and Schubert "second-rate music"? Why the duplication of reviews rather than the "dissenting minority opinion" column so thoughtfully given to political issues...
From Cabinet officer to clerk, some 2,700 people filled all the seats in the vast Kennedy Center Concert Hall for a sing-in of Handel's Messiah. The event is regarded as the ultimate offspring of a city that runs on committee hearings, conferences and massed voices of protest or praise. Many of the participants sang off key, of course. But they sang in a singleness of spirit...
Thomas Moore, tenor, accompanied by James Mann, pianist, perform songs of Beethoven, Faure and Strauss; arias of Handel, Verdi and Tchaikovsky. Kirkland...
...Rinaldo, Handel wrote some of his most striking orchestral music. The blazing forth of four trumpets and drums in Rinaldo's last-act aria "Or la tromba "was an effect that dazzled early 18th century audiences, and it still sounds good today. With a chamber orchestra drawn from the Houston Symphony, Conductor Lawrence Foster, the symphony's regular leader since 1972, makes his players key members of the drama. He cannot draw from Sopranos Evelyn Mandac (Almirena) and Noelle Rogers (Armida) the Baroque bravura he gets from Home, but Mandac is an especially lovely singer with a bright...