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Dunster and Mather Houses, coming out for tradition, will host their annual sing-in December 15, presenting the single piece most consistently associated with the Christmas season: Handel's Messiah. It's often forgotten that this glorious oratorio was composed at an entirely unseasonal time of year, and traces the whole life of Christ, not just the Nativity. But who cares--all those baroque flourishes suggest nothing if not Christmas trees, and the chorus praising, "God, who doth make Intercession for us" is as mercifully timely as ever. A Week of Music Back Society Orchestra: Sanders Theatre Saturday 12/11...
...Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabeus chronicles the rise of the revolutionaries to save the Hebrews from Greek and Syrian interlopers in post-Biblical times, it's also a momentous enough piece to knock a chorus and audience out for the rest of the night, what with trumpets bells, and victory chants...
...birth of a child is symbolic of artistic creation and goes on as long as Man is able to create Man's spirit always wishes to give birth to works of art." Bach's "Christmas Cantata." Handel's Messiah, Corelli's "Christmas Concerto," and Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" are among the works of music that were inspired by the holiday...
PROVIDENCE. R.I.--Taking a break from its usual fare of Bach and Handel, the Brown University Chorus last Friday provided harmony for pop singer Barry Manilow, balladeer and superstar for many of the over...
...better retitled David's Greatest Hits. The prophets are especially victimized. Besides large chunks, telling phrases are lost. Consider the felicitous line from Jeremiah: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt." Snip out the last three words. Or this passage from Isaiah, immortalized in Handel's Messiah: "He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities." Away with the second phrase, on grounds of redundancy. So much for poetry...