Word: handels
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...from is only one of the difficulties involved with taking up the complex instrument. The harp, with its 46 strings and seven foot pedals, has only existed in its modern form since the late nineteenth century, so only a limited supply of old music is available. Some masters, like Handel and Mozart, have composed music for a more primitive version of the harp, but Benet explains that repertoire can be a problem because "a lot of composers write their token harp concerto and that...
Virtually any building could be considered as accessible to the public and thus subject to the commission's rulings on any complaints, said gay activist Jonathan L. Handel '82, who helped write the ordinance...
Because no state or federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, however, the city would be the final authority for those cases, Handel said...
...council's 6-3 vote for the ordinance came several months after it was proposed. Handel said a similar Boston law passed this spring helped inspire the Cambridge rule...
...production is essentially a vehicle for Home, in a title role composed for a castrate. The outlines of Handel's opera are preserved in the plot, which concerns the struggle for the Holy Land between the Crusaders, led by Rinaldo, and the Saracens, under Argante (Ramey) and the sorceress Armida (Soprano Edda Moser). But Martin Katz, Home's longtime accompanist, has conflated the 1711 and 1731 versions, trimming the recitatives, shortening some arias, shuffling others and even adding a duet from Handel's Ad-meto. It may be argued that Katz is only following a convention...