CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL BALANCE
Nowadays in almost any choral performance the singers in the choir far outnumber the players in the orchestra. This was not so during the Jives of the composers of these works, and it is really due to the growth of numbers, in the modern choirs that sing them. The last performance of the “Messiah” in London under Handel’s direction was given by a chorus of twenty-three, and an orchestra of thirty-three. Bach’s choir in St. Thomas’s, ’ Leipsic, for which he wrote his “J’assions” and cantatas, numbered twelve, three to each part.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 June 1931, Page 10
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