On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:00:31 -0600 "Carl S. Rogers" <mikado3848@j...>
wrote:
> Dear Vocalisters,
>
> Perhaps it is helpful to remember
> Handel's unfamiliarity with the
> small details of setting texts to English.
You're certainly right about that. I think of it whenever I sing "FOR unto us
a child is born"!
Or one of my favorite Messiah choruses, "All we like sheep", both of which
have the word stress all wrong. But I have to hand it to Handel (no pun
intended, I guess)- nobody ever wrote better gone-astray music!
Peggy
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