One year for Christmas, I gave my sister the score of the entire Messiah, we sang from it so much in high school. Since then I’ve sung much of Part 1, the section associated with Advent/Christmastime, at least a half dozen times. Continue reading Fridays in Lent: Handel Messiah, Part 2
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Treadmill of my own design
I mentioned recently that I performed in a concert on Sunday, November 18, singing with my church choir a bunch of songs about St. Cecilia. Then a concert on Sunday, November 25, with people who had sung with organist Don Ingram in the past, singing the Christmas section of Handel’s Messiah in honor Don’s 80th birthday, a benefit for his church’s organ fund.
So the logical thing to do on Sunday, December 2 would have been to do nothing. Instead, Continue reading Treadmill of my own design
Hallelujah (Chorus)
The Roches, 1982
Flash mob, November 2010
Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Christmas 2010
Though Hallelujah (Chorus) is technically in the Easter section of the Handel Messiah, it’s often sung at Christmas as well. Continue reading Hallelujah (Chorus)