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From:  leskayc@a...
leskayc@a...
Date:  Mon Dec 3, 2001  4:34 pm
Subject:  MESSIAH question


Last night I sang in the chorus of Handel's Messiah for the umpteenth time
in my life......a privilege for me as I believe this to be a divinely
inspired work that seems new to me each time I sing it, which is every
year..........:-)

However, in rehearsal last week I (goofing off while the tenors took a
chewing) was reading the preface of the Watkins Shaw edition and noticed on
one page where it says "words selected from Holy Scripture by Charles
Jennens." Now I know Handel did not write this in English, but are the
scripture passages that we sing the same ones that Handel used? Or am I
totally confused and did he only write this music and someone else put the
words to it?

Just curious,
Leslie


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15652 Re: MESSIAH question LYNDA313@a...   Mon  12/3/2001   2 KB
15654 Re: MESSIAH question leskayc@a...   Mon  12/3/2001   2 KB
15663 Re: MESSIAH question sopran@a...   Mon  12/3/2001   2 KB
15666 Re: MESSIAH question Karen Mercedes   Mon  12/3/2001   3 KB
15670 Re: MESSIAH question - musicological gossip Tako Oda   Mon  12/3/2001   2 KB

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