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Quartet trials to determine, which 70 of Radcliffe's Choral Society will sing with the Harvard Glee Club in its presentation of Handel's "Messiah" December 1 ended yesterday after every member of the club had been tested...
Moody Mystic. An example of the bad news filtering into Republican headquarters came from Minnesota, where Minneapolis Tribune polls showed moody Senator Joe Ball lagging 12 points behind his Democratic opponent, Minneapolis' glib, gregarious Mayor Hubert Humphrey Jr. Plugging away like a tired messiah, obviously uncomfortable at grass-roots campaigning, gangling Joe Ball was fighting for his political life...
...Handel: Messiah (Elsie Suddaby, soprano; Marjorie Thomas, contralto; Heddle Nash, tenor; Trevor Anthony, bass; Luton Choral Society and Special Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 42 sides). Sir Thomas has here equaled-and the recording has surpassed-his great performance of the Messiah recorded over 15 years...
...scholarly George Frideric Handel, His Personality and His Times had just been published in the U.S. (Scribner; $6); the late Romain Rolland's Essays on Music (Allen, Towne & Heath; $5) had a fat chapter on him. Handelian Robert Manson Myers had written a book-Handel's Messiah, a Touchstone of Taste (Macmillan; $5), out next week-on his greatest oratorio. Handel was not always so well treated...
Tears of Appreciation. Through all those troubled years, Handel worked furiously. He could turn out operas, cantatas and oratorios in a matter of days. Refusing sleep and food, weeping copious tears over the beauties of his own inspiration, he composed the Messiah in 24 days...