Word: handels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swankest of the arts in 18th-Century London was Italian opera. Periwigged courtiers, who could not understand a word of it, raised their lace cuffs to applaud the ornate trilling of swivel-voiced prima donnas. Fashionable composers like Handel had to write their librettos in Italian. The Caruso of the period was the Italian eunuch-Francesco Bernardi Senesino, whose misfortunate voice earned fabulous sums at London's Royal Academy of Music. Lustier London wits like Henry Fielding began poking fun at this artificial art, inveighed against London's "wanton, affected fondness for foreign musick," with its "squeaking recitatives...
...musical program will include organ preludes by Zipoli and Handel, compositions by Gallus and Peerson...
Under the auspices of the Pierian Sodality of 1808, the University Orchestra will present a concert featuring the works of Back and Handel in Paine Hall at 8:15 o'clock tomorrow night. Malcolm H. Holmes with G. Wallace Woodworth, acting as guest conductor, will lead the orchestra...
...program: Handel's Concerto Gresso No. 24 (F major), Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Bach's Sonatina from "God's Time is Best," Bach's Concerto for Harpatchord and Strings and Handel's Overture to "Ottone...
...other works of Bach on the program are the F minor Harpsichord Concerto and a Sonatine from the cantata, God's Time is Best. Two Handel compositions--the Concerto Grosso number 24, and the Sinfonia to Ottone--will also be played. All of these works are unfamiliar to us and probably to the majority of concert-goers. The Handel concerto is interesting, for the two movements of which it is composed are really sketches for the well-known Water Music and will show the seeds of some of Handel's loveliest musical ideas...