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...HANDEL: MESSIAH (3 LPs; Angel). Octogenarian Otto Klemperer has produced a Messiah that is spacious and well-ordered, yet moving and mysterious. He probes the emotional depths of Christ's story with perhaps more power than he uses to scale the jubilant heights. The Philharmonia...
...music-appreciation texts (Music for Fun), remembered by radio and vaudeville audiences of the 1920s and 1930s as the razzle-dazzle "Tune Detective" who blithely traced the ancestry of I'm Always Chasing Rainbows to Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu and Yes, We Have No Bananas to Handel's Hallelujah Chorus; of an intestinal hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...most memorable moment of the evening, though, was James Jones's solo in the "Glory to God" from Handel's Joshua. Mr. Jones gave a strong, well-intoned and highly musical performance, supported ably by the Glee Club. And our football songs were, of course, superior to their football songs...
MAUREEN FORRESTER SINGS ARIAS OF BACH AND HANDEL (Vanguard). So splendid and secure is Maureen Forrester in this performance that Kirsten Flagstad is the closest and best comparison. In the sorrowing arias, such as "Es ist vollbracht" near the end of Bach's St. John Passion and "He was despised" from Handel's Messiah, she conveys grief and compassion with darkly shaded tones and a seemingly endless vocal line...
...Handel & Champagne. That step-after 14 years of quarrelsome negotiations-took place in Tokyo, where the Foreign Ministers of Japan and South Korea marched into the chrysanthemum-decked ceremonial hall of Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's official residence. There, the beaming officials signed a "normalization" treaty and 26 related documents that make the two nations political and diplomatic equals for the first time in modern history. Then, to the sonorous strains of Handel's Toll for the Brave, Sato and the Foreign Ministers toasted one another in French champagne...