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Grove's new chief is Stanley Sadie, 50, a specialist in 18th century music, author of books on Mozart and Handel, editor of Musical Times and critic for the Times of London. Sadie appears to have a firm grip on two vital facts: that culturally as well as commercially this is an age of internationalism, and that the rapid growth of music can no longer be interpreted by one person. Grove 6 acknowledges this with a systems approach that employs computers, a team of advisers and editors and an army of 2,300 contributors (20% of them British...
...usual 106 musicians -all that would fit on the church stage -played an expansive, brassy program well suited to the occasion. To show off the 125-voice chorus (65 from the church's own choir, the rest from other Harlem groups), there were several selections from Handel's Messiah, two of them featuring Tenor Seth McCoy. To give the church's five-manual, 4,000-pipe organ a workout, Organist Leonard Raver and the orchestra galloped through the finale of Saint-Saëns' Symphony...
...music curriculums in public schools [Dec. 17] are imposing a strict interpretation of carols as a form of worship, and are denying children the right to study their own culture in a school setting. Would the ban extend to other musical and artistic works inspired by religion, such as Handel's Messiah or Michelangelo's Pietá? Or to mythology and art from other religions? Religion is a part of the human experience...
Gradually the Fiedler formula evolved: lilting semiclassics, what he called gumdrops, or popular tunes, and some serious music: Stravinsky, Handel, concertos. The idea spread to other symphonies, but Fiedler's popularity was patented. Critics called his concerts "the classiest jukebox in the world." Retorted Fiedler: "A Strauss waltz is as good a thing of its kind as a Beethoven symphony. It's nice to eat a good hunk of beef but you want a light dessert too. That's what the Pops is." He had an uncanny ability to gauge the tastes of the times. He orchestrated...
...only a few companies with digital recording capability; Soundstream, Inc., is probably the best known in the U.S. Its classical records are available mostly in the kind of audio stores the owners like to call salons. A couple of these hybrid records-like The Cleveland Symphonic Winds lighting into Handel, Bach and Hoist (Telarc Records)-played at decent volume on a quiet evening could clear an entire neighborhood. "These hybrid records are not as good as full digital recordings," says Telarc's Jack Renner, "but they are a great deal better than conventional recordings...