Day 9: 1741. · 4:55pm Dec 9th, 2017
Today is the last day from the Baroque period, but nevertheless, I've chosen a piece that is widely known and still performed. Handel's Messiah. While we tend to look at this music as a strong tradition of Christmas, charity and divine pieces as something that came from God himself, the truth is that it wasn't always seen like that. If anything, before Handel could premiere it for the first time in London, it was controversial even before anyone heard a single note of it. This was not only due to the subject matter, but the fact that it was at first played and sung at a theater, a place where actors didn't have the best reputation. If anything, the fact that it is still being played at all is a miracle. Now since to my ears that there is no such thing as a perfect recording of Messiah, I can however show you all the highlights and videos from different performances. So here is all sixteen videos of the highlights of Messiah.
It is said that King George II stood up to stretch his legs during the Halejuah Chorus and the audience stood up to respect the King,
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Considering that the performance itself is in total of about three hours, so who among us could blame him?