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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...
...lines from Shaw's 1925 essay "This Baseball Madness," and added them to his impersonation. Wielding his unlikely prop, Fletcher-Shaw muses: "As far as I can grasp it, baseball combines the best features of primitive cricket, lawn tennis, puss-in-the-corner and Handel's Messiah...
Many Israelis hope that such pressure from modern-minded young Orthodox Jews will eventually bring some modifications of these Shemittah observances. "We really have no solution," admits one officer of the rabbinate."Maybe it's best to be quiet about it and wait for the Messiah to come and put things right...
...followers in the sect for his spiritual zeal against the impieties of the age. Time and again he was jailed for trying to halt traffic in Jerusalem's main streets on the Sabbath. Blau even refused to recognize the existence of Israel, on the ground that only the Messiah could restore the Promised Land; he never handled Israeli money or submitted the fiery pamphlets he edited to government censorship...
...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...