Klarinet Archive - Posting 000550.txt from 1999/09

From: Matt Johnson <matt@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Forwarded for Abe
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:20:05 -0400

In article <005701bf02a6$299c5080$0100a8c0=sneezy3>, Mark Charette
<charette@-----.org> writes
>>From Abe Galper (who had some trouble posting this morning):

[snip]

>It was King George II that stood up in Handel's Messiah for the Hallelujah
>chorus, thereby starting a tradition. The audience to this day stands up for
>that chorus.
>
>This story says that he was slightly deaf and may have mistaken it for God
>save the King. I asked my wife and she said that the sovereign does not
>stand when they play the anthem. So its possible that King George got up for
>another reason. We'll never know why. And to this day, for the Chorus of
>Hallelujah, the audience stands up.

The "current" thinking is that the sovereign's posterior required some
movement after having sat on an uncomfortable chair for the one and a
bit hours of the oratorio before the chorus! (And, if the King stands,
everyone must stand...)

--M
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Matt Johnson <mailto:matt@-----.uk>

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