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Forrester confesses that she accepted the role in Julius Caesar because Handel is a special favorite. Her first date with her husband-to-be followed a performance of Handel's Messiah in which she was one of the soloists. Says she: "Ever since, Whenever we hear the Messiah we say, 'Listen-they're playing our song...
...York City Opera's opening production of Handel's Julius Caesar last week was just minutes old when Contralto Maureen Forrester fixed hand to forehead, shuddered "Woe unto me," and fainted dead away. Contralto roles are like that, full of weeping and despair, the tragic counterweights that support the romantic leads. Forrester, making her U.S. operatic debut, flawlessly performed the role of Cornelia, effortlessly pouring out great billows of plum-shaded singing that served as a lush backdrop for the vocal scrollwork of the other principal singers. Where they thrilled, she caressed. Predictably, the heaviest applause went...
Since then, they have put over such unlikely packages as a Christmas series of four different versions of Handel's Messiah, a "Japan Week" featuring the Toho String Orchestra (with Japanese buffet served at intermissions) and a satiric program of baroque music, P.D.Q. Bach (TIME, Jan. 7), which was so successful that it came back twice to full houses, P.D.Q...
...RECORDERS (Mercury). The ancient instrument, beloved by Shakespeare and Pepys, now serves to introduce untold thousands of children and adults to the joys of producing music; so it is all the more dazzling to hear Krainis' virtuoso display as he whistles through concertos by Vivaldi, Telemann and Handel without a tripped note or an empty breath sucked in-like a lark with the lungs of a lion...
Absent Brother. There will be nothing inconspicuous about the event starting at 11 a.m. Saturday, when the National Shrine's 56-bell carillon thunders into a window-rattling medley of works by Handel, Bach, Purcell and a new composition by Dutch-born Johan Franco. During the hour-long tintinnabulation, the principals and their guests will arrive under the unblinking scrutiny of TV. Inside-mercifully beyond reach of electronic peeping-the company and a pool of newsmen will see the father of the bride decked out in the formal regalia, morning coat and striped trousers, that he refused...