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The first performance of Handel’s “Messiah” attended by this reviewer involved the 90-man symphony orchestra and the massed high school choirs of Richmond, Va. Thanks to the reorchestration by Mozart ...
Much else about Messiah is becoming more diffuse. Handel, never daring to believe that any work of his would enjoy more than one short run, was careless with original parts and early publications. "It ...