London Pro Musica Choir - "Handel's Messiah"

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Event type: All Ages / Licensed

London Pro Musica Choir is led by Paul Grambo (artistic director) and accompanied by Hayoon Kim. We are pleased to present Handel's Messiah with strings and soloists: Sonja Gustafson, soprano; Kyle Guilfoyle, alto; Joseph Adams, tenor; Alastair Smyth, bass.

London Pro Musica Choir was founded in 1970 as a chamber choir, organized and run by its members. LPMC was the first, and remains the oldest, unaffiliated concert choir in London with a current membership of approximately 40 singers.

Handel's Messiah has been described by the early-music scholar Richard Luckett as "a commentary on [Jesus Christ's] Nativity, Passion, Resurrection and Ascension", beginning with God's promises as spoken by the prophets and ending with Christ's glorification in heaven. In contrast with most of Handel's oratorios, the singers in Messiah do not assume dramatic roles; there is no single, dominant narrative voice; and very little use is made of quoted speech. In his libretto, Jennens's intention was not to dramatize the life and teachings of Jesus, but to acclaim the "Mystery of Godliness", using a compilation of extracts from the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible, and from the Psalms included in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.

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