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...music between 1685 and 1759 were annihilated except the work of Bach and Handel, the ordinary music lover would miss nothing." So wrote Edinburgh University's famed Musicologist Sir Donald Francis Tovey before World War II. and at the time many a music lover would have agreed. The baroque music of the late 17th and early 18th centuries appealed only to a few long-hair devotees, and it was the rare chamber music group that included works of Italian baroque composers...
...score for Midsummer Night's Dream. But the festival was dogged by bad luck and bad weather, last summer had to close up shop in midseason. This summer, operating from a new site, it has come back stronger than ever. Last week, with the first Eastern performance of Handel's Semele and a performance of Pizzetti's Murder in the Cathedral (TIME, March 17, 1958), it had the look and the ebullient sound of the healthiest summer festival in the land...
...Summer School Chorus is preparing for its annual concert on Thursday, August 13th. This year's program will include choruses from Handel's oratorio Solomon, motets and madrigals of the Renaissance and the Twentieth Century, the Solemn Vespers by Mozart, and the Ode to St. Cecelia by Norman Dello Joio...
Greater Than Mozart? An ungainly giant of a man ("No land, nor clime, nor age/ Have equaled this harmonious boar," wrote one acquaintance in reference to his overeating), Germany's Handel became a symbol of beefy British solidity. Since his death, he has often been thought of as a kind of stodgy musical ecclesiastic, partly because of the ceremonial repetition of his Messiah, partly because of Handel's own susceptibility to mawkishly awkward texts-most notably in the numerous bird songs like "Hark! 'Tis the linnet and the thrush" in Joshua...
...modern ears, Handel's more successful operas-Rodelinda, Ottone, Giulio Cesare-have proved more appealing than his oratorios. German Handelians have already dusted off and scheduled eight operas, including an unexpectedly witty production of Deidamia, a featherweight tale of Achilles in girls' clothing. "He is the great melodist of all times," glowed Conductor Sir Arthur Bliss in London last week. "Greater even than Mozart. This festival will give some idea of his grandeur...