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...offers easy-to-picture faith healing rather than such tricky feats as loaves and fishes and water-walking. Then he lets his whole drama turn on the raising of Lazarus from the dead, a much-debated episode that he underscores with the Gloria-in-excess of Handel's Messiah. Handel nonetheless seems an improvement over the sepulchral strains of Composer Alfred Newman's background meditations. The Last Supper, prior to the Crucifixion and Resurrection at Jerusalem, ludicrously borrows its table setting from Leonardo da Vinci in order not to disturb the public mind with a single fresh conception...
...knowledge. The concept of the Trinity in the Christian religion will be important today, Pike said, "if the church will start bring to the people and stop trying to be a successful generation." Jesus Christ, Pike said, "was a free man and he his own decision to be a Messiah and to be crucified. I believe Christ was an obedient servant of God, but obedient to his own free will...
Nowhere is the Messiah tradition more cherished than in Boston, where the Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest active choral group in the U.S., has sung the oratorio every Christmas for the past 146 years. This season's uncut performance at Symphony Hall was sold out, attracting a devoted cross section of Bostonians to whom the Messiah is as integral a part of Christmas as the Beacon Hill bell ringers or the oyster stuffing for the turkey...
...coming for more than half a century, but confessed that she couldn't "tell how good this year's performance was because my hearing-aid batteries went dead." More fortunate were the audiences who last week listened to a taped performance of the society's uncut Messiah over 45 educational TV stations across the country...
Though the society boasts a repertory of some 100 choral works, many New Englanders know it simply as the "Messiah Society." The complete Messiah, in fact, was given its U.S. premiere (1818) by the society, as were many of the great choral works, including Haydn's Creation (1819), Handel's Solomon (1855) and Mendelssohn's Elijah (1848), a coup that was achieved only after the society's president sought out Mendelssohn in London and convinced him that Boston was culturally ready for the work...