Word: handels
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Selections from the Lowell House Opera "Acis and Opera "Acts and Galatea," by Handel will be broadcast today at 5 o'clock in the Campus of the Air program of Station WEET...
Actors from the University and actresses from Radcliffe and Wellesley have been chosen to play in Handel's pastoral opera, "Acis and Galatea" to be presented by the Lowell House Musical Society in Lowell House Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, March...
George Friederich Handel, one of the greatest of Thorough Bass composers, made an important advance in the development of the concerto. In this period it was more common for composers to write a concerto grosso, a form of music in which a group of solo instruments are heard against a full orchestra, instead of the concerto where the contrast is made with a single instrument. But Handel needed relaxation between the sections of his Oratorios, so he turned to the Concerto, which in its contemporary state proved to be too heavy. Either some new form was needed, or some...
...contrast to the graceful organ style of Handel, is that of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose organ music is more of a religious nature. He seems to think of the organ as a sacred instrument. The music he composes for it is inborn. While Handel0 adapted to the organ many ideas which he used in other forms of music, making it easier for the listener to understand, Bach treated the organ as an instrument whose great resources offered new ideas for music...
...program includes works by Mozart, Handel, Randall Thompson, and Walter Piston, but the feature of the concert is a group of works written by Giovanni Gabrieli for the Church of St. Mark in Venice...