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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 01:22:49 -0500
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- From: Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
- Subject: Messiah
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- Speaking of "goofing off" -
- This afternoon I went to a sing-along concert of the Messiah by
- Tafelmusik, a youngish Toronto-based baroque orchestra, with the
- old master, Papa Handel himself, conducting in period style (signed
- on an exclusive North American contract with Tafelmusik, as the
- program cheerfully proclaimed...).
-
- A sing-along concert sounds like a prescirption for chaos, but it really
- worked rather well and we did a rousing encore of the Hallelujah chorus. It
- was a lot of fun, with a lot of - dicreet - hamming by a grumpy Papa
- Handel for the benefit of the many children present, but also a lot of
- exquisite music - produced, in part, by the audience, seated by voice
- parts - as well as the professional choir. The score was on sale on
- site at a fairly reaasonable price. This was the sixth annual
- sing-along Messiah concert by Tafelmusik, who also do a formal
- version, which is usually sold out months ahead of time - along with
- the very formal concert of same by the Toronto Symphony/Mendelsohn
- Choir. But unlike the others, Talemusik's - whose humble
- beginnings are still rather recent - singlalong version is singularly
- charming and unpretentious, not to mention reasonably priced.
-
- If you come across anything like this, I can heartily recommend it.
- And also brushing up on your - er, music sightreading, not to mention,
- ahem, voice production. I, for one, sure have to scurry back to the basics.
- But that should be fun, too (if i can find some time, that is).
-
- Every year I try to get to the Messiah and /or the Nutcracker. Last
- year it was Mozart's version of Handel's Messiah, which, I felt, loses
- quite a bit in the Mozartian translation. `The Messiah' with the
- Mozartian 'lilt', for lack of a better word - or should that be
- 'tilt'??? ...it lacked that special quality that we associate with
- this Xmas classic.
-
- >A<
- wishing all a merry Xmas - and just now - to all, a good night
-