I originally titled this post “2020: A Year in Review”, but quickly thought better of it. It’s been quite a year, to be sure, but I’m pretty sure I would just delete anything that came my way with such a title; it’s a year that I’d rather not relive in its entirety, and even all…
Month: December 2020
Messiah, Part 3
This Advent season, I’m running a series of the text (libretto) to Messiah by George Frederic Handel. You’ll find below the biblical text (King James Version, of course) used in Part 3, whose theme is “A Hymn of Thanksgiving for the final overthrow of Death”, broken up by musical section according to the 1959 Novello…
Messiah, Part 2
This Advent season, I’m running a series of the text (libretto) to Messiah by George Frederic Handel. You’ll find below the biblical text (King James Version, of course) used in Part 2, whose theme is “The accomplishment of redemption by the sacrifice of Christ, mankind’s rejection of God’s offer, and mankind’s utter defeat when trying…
Messiah, Part 1
As I mentioned last week, this Advent season I’m running a series of the text (libretto) to Messiah by George Frederic Handel. You’ll find below the biblical text (King James Version, of course) used in Part 1, whose theme is “The prophecy and realization of God’s plan to redeem mankind by the coming of the…
Advent
Advent. It’s basically synonymous with waiting, right? As a kid, it meant candy every day, as well as some other miscellaneous activity; for much of my adult life, it has meant stress, decisions, and crowds. At both times, it meant waiting and preparing, with varying degrees of anticipation and dread, for the “main event”, for…