Posted by Sigismund on April 14, 2009, at 2:58:26
In reply to Handel, posted by Sigismund on April 14, 2009, at 2:36:47
In support of which I include my incriminating and unresponded to post, far be it from me though it is to complain.
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20090331/msgs/890019.html
Messiah is on again tonight, which is good because heaven is a place where nothing (new) ever happens.
I get a real kick out of the chorus
'O thou who tellest good tidings to Zion
Say unto the cities of Judah
Behold your God' etc etc
and can never hear it without feeling moved, (which is odd, because I have no high opinion of much of Christian theology).The choruses are like a beautiful rainforest, all layered.
He gave the manuscript to St Thomas's Children Hospital and conducted 17 Christmas performances to raise money for the hospital, or something like that.
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