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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000058.txt from 2003/12

From: Jennifer Paull <jennifer.paull@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] final Messiah
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:53:10 -0500

On Monday, December 15, 2003, at 07:22 pm, Miriam Williams wrote:

> Had final Messiah for the season last night - yay! Unless I get called
> as a
> sub, of course.
>
> Miriam
>

I could play it twice a day 365 days of the year and I'd never get
enough.

I was lucky enough to be playing in the English Chamber Orchestra at the
time of the Charles Macherras recording of the ornamented version. It
changed my life and the way I went about looking at baroque music, and
music in general for ever.

It is because of the Messiah that the word "chastisement" is pronounced
the way it is - that's the way it fitted to the music although our
German,
oboist of a composer didn't know it was not how it was pronounced at the
time.

"Rejoice" in 12/8 - now that IS something!

I'm sorry you've finished :-)

Jennifer

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Jennifer Paull
President
Amoris International
http://www.amoris.com
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