All concerts at Peabody are now FREE!
All concerts at Peabody are now FREE!
including:
• Peabody Conductor’ s Orchestra Wednesday, November 30 at 7:00 pm
with graduate conducting students under the instruction of Marin Alsop including works by Brahms, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky
• Peabody Concert Orchestra, Peabody Singers, and Peabody-Hopkins Chorus Tuesday, December 6 at 8:00 pm
with conductor Edward Polochick including works by Ralph Vaughn Williams and Dvořák
Reserve seats at peabody. jhu. edu / events or by calling 667-208-6620.
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Messiah was introduced to the world in Dublin, Ireland on April 13, 1743, during Holy Week.
Listening to Messiah Messiah’ s heroic journey is divided into three parts. Part I revolves around the Old Testament prophecies( emphasizing the Book of Isaiah) of the Messiah’ s coming and culminates with his birth as told in the Gospel of Luke. Indeed more of Messiah’ s text is drawn from the Old Testament than the New, and, apart from the Nativity story, the Gospel histories are seldom used. Thus, the emphasis falls on the broader meaning of Christ’ s redemption of the human race rather than on the details of Jesus’ life.
Part II meditates on human sinfulness, the Messiah’ s rejection and suffering, and his sacrifice to redeem humankind; it concludes with that famous song of praise and triumph, the“ Hallelujah” Chorus. Finally moving into the New Testament, Part III tells of the Messiah’ s vanquishing of death and the promise of everlasting joy for the believer.
Handel did not leave behind a definitive version of Messiah. Instead, he reworked numbers and re-assigned arias to different voice categories depending on the soloists available for each performance. Messiah’ s solo sections are divided between recitatives, which place greater emphasis on delivery of the words, and arias, in which musical values and the showcasing of the singer’ s technical prowess take precedence. The tenor’ s two opening numbers are a
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