Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Handel's Opus 8 we heard concerto No. 3, with its remarkable Andante jugato. In addition. Mr. Bodky introduced a little known work, "Concerto interpolated into the Oratorio Alexander's Feast." The theme of its first movement bears a close resemblance to the "Hallelujah" theme of the Messiah. Especially noteworthy is the concerto's delicate and subdued final movement. It brought the evening to a quiet close but, needless to say, in no way restrained the enthusiastic applause which followed...
...Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard Glee Club, under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth '24 will give the Christmas portion of Handel's "Messiah" this December, in conjunction with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Anne Cooke '53, president of the Choral Society, announced last night...
After concerts in Sanders Theatre on December 4 and 5, the chorus will travel to Connecticut Wesleyan to sing the "Messiah" with that college's chorus...
...Posthumous son of the great Mahdi (messiah) whose desert dervishes laid siege to the undermanned British garrison of Khartoum in 1884, hacked to death its famed commander, General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon. Thirteen years later Kitchener avenged Gordon's death by smashing the dervishes at Omdurman. The Mahdi was already dead, but Kitchener ordered his tomb razed, his bones thrown into the Nile...
...drinker and a pavement pounder. I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em." Author Ellison knows all about the mountebanks and charlatans, political and otherwise, who prosper in Harlem, and his examples (especially Ras the Exhorter, who fancies himself as a black Messiah) are richly drawn. The book's final scene, a Harlem riot, has the sweep of an epic nightmare...