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...late summer of 1741, Composer George Frederick Handel, plagued by ill health and spurned by a once-adoring public, isolated himself in his London house to work on a new oratorio. Falling into an almost trancelike state, he slaved feverishly day and night with little food or sleep. At one point a servant found him at his desk, tears streaming down his face. "I did think I did see all Heaven before me," Handel cried, "and the great God himself!" After 23 days Handel emerged with his monumental Messiah, the profoundly moving testament of Christian faith that has be come...
Nowhere is the Messiah tradition more cherished than in Boston, where the Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest active choral group in the U.S., has sung the oratorio every Christmas for the past 146 years. This season's uncut performance at Symphony Hall was sold out, attracting a devoted cross section of Bostonians to whom the Messiah is as integral a part of Christmas as the Beacon Hill bell ringers or the oyster stuffing for the turkey...
This season marks the 150th anniversary of the Handel and Haydn Society. It will be celebrated in March with the world premiere of The Passion According to St. Luke by American Composer Randall Thompson, and again in October with a week-long international choral festival to be held in Symphony Hall. Among the participants: Britain's Huddersfield Choral Society, Vienna's Singverein of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir...
...striped silk sari, and painted the papal coat of arms on the plane. The Indians, as might have been foreseen, discouraged any extensive visits to the poor as an uncalled-for stress on the country's poverty. The Vatican sent along cardinals and priests and supplied tapes of Handel and Vivaldi to be played on the plane. Photographers crowded the plane, and made part of the trip a chaos of flashbulbs...
CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS. A rock-'n'-roll number, I Wanna Hold Your Handel, spoofing the composer and the Beatles, is one of the highlights of this revue imported from the campus on the Cam. The fun flows as seven manic but unassuming Britons set out to tickle a rib rather than wash a brain...