[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Maestro! Had not heard that before, but it makes perfect sense to me. Along the same lines, some of the best performances of Messiah I have heard are sung by a choir of 16 rather than a large choir.

"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

This is the Arabic character "nun" – the first letter of the word "Nazarene." I post it as my avatar in solidarity with people of all faiths suffering persecution at the hands of Islam. Many of them are members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, dating from the days of the Apostles. They endure cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors they, and we, are all "Nazarenes."

[Publius]

On the night of the 24th, I'll be doing my annual "Messiah" with Christopher Hogwood's 1982 version with small chorus, period instruments and correct Baroque performance practices. All of that is explained and analyzed in my post.

We lost Hogwood three months ago, and that's a real blow to people like me.

[ConorMacNessa]

Wachet Auf Ruft Uns Die Stimme

Cantata 140, BWV 140 No. 2
"Er kommt, er kommt, der Braut'gam kommt!"
Johann Sebastian Bach
Choir Of King's College Cambridge
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This is the Arabic character "nun" – the first letter of the word "Nazarene." I post it as my avatar in solidarity with people of all faiths suffering persecution at the hands of Islam. Many of them are members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, dating from the days of the Apostles. They endure cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors they, and we, are all "Nazarenes."