Thank you. Hearing this always cheers me up. Music at its best. Very noble and inspiring.( And I’m not even Christian.)
My favorite story about Handel’s Messiah was in a speech given by Dr. Ben Carson about operating on conjoined Black twins in South Africa during Apartheid. Dr Carson had operated all day. At10:00 pm he was exhausted and drained. Dr Carson stated he simply could not go on, he was exhausted, he stepped back from the operating table and prayed for God to help him or else the twins would die but he he was so exhausted he felt could not continue. Dr Carson resumed operating. The twins were separated and as the case finished dawn broke and the Hallelujah Chorus to Handel’s Messiah came on an old radio that was playing in the corner. That story still gives me goose bumps.