Advent Calendar Dec. 24: Händel and Jenner's Messiah Voces8 and Academy Of Ancient Music
And He Shall Purify (The Music, The Words, The Healing Power Of This Masterpiece) MERRY CHRISTMAS TRUTH BARRIER FAMILY 🌲
Thank you, Céleste, for this recommendation.
Here is a previous Advent Calendar post I wrote, 2022, about Händel’s Messiah, with a focus on Jennens.
I discovered Santa wasn't real at the age of 4 or 5, then about the same year at Sunday School I asked a question to a religious teacher wearing a habit, "If I act just like Jesus Christ would I be like him?". The answer was a terse,"No", and and a week later my parents told me I didn't have to go to Sunday School anymore!
Have you sung in a concert of the "Messiah"? It is a synergistic happening, where the singing improves within maybe 15 minutes and sounds like a serious choir! Pretty much everybody is in the same key and vocal projection... and most have those "happy wet eyes", where the realization that something larger than oneself has occurred.
PS I don't recall anyone paying attention to the libretto.
Ahhh. Thank you for sharing this beautiful performance.