Tag: Ruth Smith
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The Sacred Oratorio
Handel and the King James Bible Deborah Rooke Lecture, 400th Anniversary Celebration of the King James Bible Campbellsville University, September 22, 2011 The accompanied tenor recitative “Comfort ye my people” with which Handel’s Messiah begins is probably one of the best- known musical settings of biblical language (apart from the Hallelujah chorus, naturally!). It gives…