Word: messiahs
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...little disconcerting on Christmas to watch a Russian official refer to the Jews as "Christ killers," or a gang of creepy gentiles boot Tevye and his fellow villagers from the only home they've ever known. Motel the Tailor complains, "We've been waiting for the Messiah all our lives. Wouldn't this be a good time for him to come...
...jolly old Saint Nick. But in its truest, most Christian sense, the holiday is about hope, and hope not in the midst of success and triumph, but hope in the midst of darkness and despair. It offers what has been termed a "sign of contradiction" to the world--a messiah who takes on the form of a weak, helpless infant and who brings light to the dark of the year...
...years, Harvard University Professor of Music Thomas Forrest Kelly has guided undergraduates through the debut performances of Monteverdi's Orfeo, Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in his popular core course, First Nights: Five Premiere Performances. This fall, Kelley made a debut of his own when his book, First Nights: Five Premiere Performances, was published by Yale University Press. Prof. Kelley recently sat down with The Crimson to discuss books, music and cybersex...
...think that any of these pieces got their best performance at their premiere. And they've now been performed in many different ways. There are jazz versions of Handel's Messiah, there are Christian Rock versions also. Things become a masterpiece by subsequent people acknowledging them as such. Other things are masterpieces because you can just look or listen and say, "This is a masterpiece." The Rite of Spring was hated at its premiere. But it was still a masterpiece then, in absolute terms...
...Handel's Messiah is sung every year at the House, and Dunster Opera was started under their tenure. For each opera production, the Liems give up part of their residence for rehearsal and backstage space, for three weeks...