Word: handels
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...Duquesne University matched it. Ever since, he has been floating his barge up, down and around the Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio and Mississippi rivers, drawing audiences to the riverbanks for the kind of experience more often enjoyed in the past by kings -notably King George I, who ordered up the Handel Water Music...
...Brattleboro, Vt. As director of the Dessoff Choirs from 1936 until his retirement in 1968, the Swiss-born Boepple was instrumental in expanding American amateur choral singing beyond the traditional repertory, introducing the works of Contemporary Composers Frank Martin and Arthur Honegger, and reviving such once-neglected oratorios as Handel's Israel in Egypt...
...minor members of the Dudgeon family (notably James Cromwell as Dick's nasal and stupid brother Christy), the officer and soldiers, and the Indians all lend welcome color to the production. And where Shaw has called for the offstage sound of the Dead March from Handel's Saul, Ritchard has brought a real costumed band of piccolos, brass and drums right on stage. And he has appended a musical epilogue to Shaw's wildly cheering townspeople. After a performance of "Yankee Doodle," a group launches into William Billings' patriotic hymn "Chester"-a most fitting choice, for Billings was a Bostonian...
Just before the premiere, Mayor John Lindsay presented Balanchine with the city's Handel Medallion in recognition of his cultural contributions to New York. "If we could bottle the New York City Ballet," said Lindsay, "it would be the city's finest export." Then Who Cares? returned the compliment by offering a splendid sampling: Manhattan, oldfashioned, wry and sweet...
...Beverly Sills sings Handel's Julius Caesar at the New York City Opera...