THE “ MESSIAH.”
Judging by the excellent rehearsals which the Choral Society is having, the performance of the “Messiah at His Majesty’s Theatre on Monday and Tuesday of next week should be of exceptional merit. Of Handel Samuel Butler wrote - : “It is as a poet, a sympathiser with and Tenderer of all estates and conditions, whether of men or things, rather than as a mere musician, that Handel reigns supreme. There has never been anyone to touch him as an observer of all that was observable, a lover of all that was lovable, a rather of all that was hateable, and therefore as a poet. He is not less lofty than Shakespeare, impassioned, tender, and full alike of fire and love of play he is no less universal in the range of his sympathies, no less a master of illustration and expression than Shakespeare; at the same time he is of a robuster, stronger fibre, more easy, less introspective.” The reserve seat plan open? at the Bristol Piano Company on Thursday morning.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19965, 6 December 1926, Page 10
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