Janelle Gelfand, music critic for the Cincinnati Enquirer, attended a rehearsal of the Tour Choir and Men’s Glee Club in mid-November, as they were preparing for this weekend’s performances of Handel’s Messiah. You can read the full article here. Here is a link to her blog.
Limited tickets for the concerts [...]
Week 4: The drama of Messiah: words & music
Handel’s Messiah tells a story, and it is worth being acquainted with the narrative in order to follow the action for one very interesting reason: the main character in the drama never actually appears. Jesus’ life and works are related only by scriptural references and events [...]
Week 2: Handel’s life and the background of Messiah
Georg Friedrich Händel was born in 1685 in the town of Halle, in what is now northeastern Germany. His father was the town barber, and wanted Handel to study Civil Law at the local
university. Handel, however, had a different [...]
Week 1: Introduction
It is likely, and I haven’t done any research on this, that there are more performances – at every level – of Handel’s Messiah each year than any other major work in the canon of western music. In Cincinnati alone, there will be at least three performances this year.
Why?
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