Word: handels
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...HANDEL Prince Albert, Sask...
...original was The Beggar's Opera, John Gay's satire on the Italian operas of his day. Gay's comedy turned out to be the smash hit of the 18th century, so popular that it forced London's chief composer of Italian opera, George Frederick Handel, to shutter his own fashionable opera house and ultimately turn to writing oratorios. The Weill version took little but the characters from John Gay, was itself a satire on grandiose German operas. It so inflamed musical conservatives in Berlin that students rioted and stoned the theater where it was playing...
...there was composed by an Englishman. But since the Persians can claim so little in the cultural output known to most Westerners, we ought not to grudge them title to this music any more than the English grudge the Edward Fitzgerald (or we begrudge the English their claim to Handel--for poor old England has produced so few great composers to swell her national pride...
Those who defied snow and reading lists to attend Sunday's concert found an afternoon of enjoyable though not flawless singing. In selections ranging from Handel to Norman Shapiro, Janct Wheeler revealed a voice of power and often great beauty...
...energetic performance can do for songs that are sometimes the deadliest bores of a concert program. Miss Wheeler did not explore the expressive sound of German words as much as she might have, but she colored her voice effectively with the changing moods of the text. In arias by Handel and Mozart, as well as in the Brahms songs, she seemed most comfortable in the middle range...