Comments on: OT: a long Hallelujah recitative

By: Abayomi

Abayomi — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:26:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing these, they are great.,Odelia

By: Fareeha

Fareeha — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:25:45 +0000

I really enjoyed this blog.,Odelia

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:28:05 +0000

44 hallelujahs in the chorus! With everybody singing different parts, it’s almost like convention style singing.

By: TN

TN — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:52:43 +0000

#27, To answer your question…sure, I’ll take more. Seriously, I’m always up for a bit of sarcastic humor. Thanks for your original A. H. comment. I needed that…Seriously!

By: steve

steve — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:06:36 +0000

#26, YOU WANT MORE?

By: TN

TN — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:20:15 +0000

Steve (#20), OucH!!! Funny guy! I’m gigglin’ and I can’t stop!

By: cdguy

cdguy — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:49:57 +0000

Thanks, Buick. I new it wasn’t right, but spelchek didn’t help, either.

By: BUICK

BUICK — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:35:24 +0000

Schizophrenic

By: cdguy

cdguy — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:59:27 +0000

Ben, as a musical purist, you should realize Handel, in addition to his own compositions, did some re-arranging of other composers’ works. Also, it might be pointed out that many old hymns have had a word or 2 changed here and there, over the years, which made for better songs. And those changes were done so long ago, we wouldn’t realize, unless we went back to their earliest manuscripts.

Matt G #17 — I think your question about why we do then entire work at Christmas, when much has nothing to do with His birth, was answered in post #16. The virgin birth was only part of the story. It’s not much without the death & ressurection.

I’m so glad to see classical fans are also fans of s/g, and vice versa. Maybe some of us are what Bill Gaither calls “musical scytsophrenics”(sp?).

By: ITF

ITF — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:27:34 +0000

I don’t know, I’ve seen that approach taken to extremes, I tend to think “not necessarily always.”

I say let some room for artistic interpretation.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:35:26 +0000

I’ve played this entire oratorio many times during my college years and into my professional life as a working musician. I’ve NEVER heard it performed correctly.

Handel did NOT write a ritardando or fermata at the end-so why do we incessantly hear it performed “Ha-LAAAAYYYYY-LOOOOO-YAAHHHHH.

Maybe I’m a cranky purist about music, but I think it ought to be performed as the composer wrote and intended it.

What say you? Do you believe music ought to be performed to the composers intentions?

By: steve

steve — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:52:56 +0000

#9, Are you Angie Hoskins?

By: Rod

Rod — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:05:45 +0000

I’m Bacccckkkk!! He He…Hey Mr. Averyfineline…Miss me?

By: Rod

Rod — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:04:46 +0000

I personally like the compositions of Larry The cable Maestro guy.

By: Matt G.

Matt G. — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:19:56 +0000

Here at good old Olivet Nazarene University, the entire music department combines every Christmas to perform nearly the entire Messiah. Why we do so much when not all of it’s Christmas? I still haven’t figured it out. I do know this, from 4 years of performing it under the same director. Accent the third syllable not the fourth!!!