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Belshazzar
Belshazzar (6th century BC) Son of Nebuchadnezzar and last king of Babylon. According to the Bible (Dan. 5), he was killed in the sack of the city and his doom was foretold by writing which appeared on the walls of his palace at a great banquet. In inscriptions and documents from Ur, however, he was perhaps the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar and the son of Nabonidos, last king of Babylon, and did not himself reign.
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Powerful 'Belshazzar' performances a must-hear
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 4/17/2007; ; 600 words
; ...scale performance of the composer's "Belshazzar." Saturday's concert, which repeats...same librettist, Charles Jennens), "Belshazzar" is based on the Old Testament tale...downfall of the kingdom and the death of Belshazzar at the hands of the Persians. The score...
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KIMMEL CONCERT TO FEATURE STONE IN 'BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST'
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/23/2006; 609 words
; ...Orchestra and Combined Choirs perform Belshazzar's Feast at Temple's fifth annual...faculty last year, Stone described Belshazzar's Feast as "a goose-bump piece...Grammy Award-winning album in 1990. "Belshazzar's Feast is truly a tour de force for...
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HANDEL: Belshazzar
Magazine article from: Opera News; 10/1/2004; ; 664 words
; HANDEL: Belshazzar Auger, Robbin; Bowman, Rolfe Johnson...budget reissue of this compelling 1990 Belshazzar proves doubly welcome, since the only...0630-10275), is hard to find. Belshazzar, with a libretto by the same Charles...
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Music; A Bracing `Belshazzar'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/8/1994; ; 652 words
; George Frideric Handel called his "Belshazzar" an oratorio because this tag allowed...And by any name, the performance of "Belshazzar" Sunday at the Maryland Handel Festival...army that captured Babylon and killed Belshazzar, and one of its episodes is the diversion...
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`BELSHAZZAR' HAS MODERN RELEVANCE AND MUSICAL RADIANCE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/15/2006; ; 637 words
; Handel composed his oratorio "Belshazzar" in one month in 1744. The Biblical...into character. The music in "Belshazzar" is abundant, varied, profound...way, exciting. The chorus warns Belshazzar a cappella; then, at the name...
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BYU singers, musicians set 'Belshazzar's Feast'
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 11/8/2007; 424 words
; PROVO -- William Walton's "Belshazzar's Feast" -- a concert piece...by the BYU School of Music, "Belshazzar's Feast" is an oratorio first...after the miraculous downfall of Belshazzar and the Babylonian kingdom. The...
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A STIRRING 'BELSHAZZAR' BY CANTATA SINGERS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/23/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...director, in a performance of Handel's "Belshazzar" in Jordan Hall Saturday night. For...oratorio about the fate of nations, "Belshazzar." Our new leaders would have been...the demands of her religious faith; Belshazzar, the cheerful hedonist; the saintly...
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'Belshazzar': Brilliant concept; soloists a letdown
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 5/9/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...s performance of Handel's oratorio Belshazzar proved that the Handel renaissance is...Theresienstadt. It is the inmates who stage the Belshazzar, a story with a universal message in...incompetent tenor Gunter Neuman to sing Belshazzar. The two Persians were exceptions...
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Album reviews: Belshazzar's Feast: The Dream of Gerontius
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 4/27/2003; ; 308 words
; BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST: THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS Various...barnstorming recording of Walton's Belshazzar's Feast and the careful rendition...the exiled Jews, and the wrongness of Belshazzar, to perfection. Meanwhile, Vernon...
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Walton: Belshazzar's Feast, Henry V, 2 Pieces for Strings, Partita for Orchestra. (Leonard Slatkin, London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Thomas Allen) (sound recording reviews)
Magazine article from: Consumers' Research Magazine; 6/1/1993; ; 468 words
; Walton: Belshazzar's Feast, Henry V: 2 Pieces for Strings, Partita for Orchestra...Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin. RCA Victor CD 60813 2. The major work, Belshazzar's Feast, premiered in 1931. It stands as a milestone choral work...
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Belshazzar
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Belshazzar In the Old Testament, the son of Nebuchadnezzar...Babylon . The Book of Daniel relates how Belshazzar organized a great feast during which...archaeological investigations identified Belshazzar with Bel-shar-usur (d.539 bc...
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Belshazzar's Feast
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Belshazzar's Feast. 1. Cantata by Walton for bar., ch., and orch. to text compiled from biblical sources by O. Sitwell, comp...
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Belshazzar's feast
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Belshazzar's feast the feast made by Belshazzar, the son of Nebuchadnezzar and the last king of Babylonia, at which his doom was foretold by the writing of Chancery , interpreted by Daniel . Belshazzar was killed in the sack of Babylon by Cyrus in 538 bc .
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Walton, (Sir) William (Turner)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...1931 Leeds Fest. by dramatic cantata Belshazzar's Feast . In 1934 1st Sym. was perf...much of the film mus., and parts of Belshazzar's Feast , but the finest of his works...1st Sym., the Hindemith Variations , Belshazzar , The Bear , and parts of Troilus and...
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Walton, William
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...of the Viola Concerto, the cantata Belshazzar ’ s Feast (1930-31) exudes...1978; Ivor Novello Award, 1982. Belshazzar ’ s downfall, Walton uses...was not easy to repeat the success of Belshazzar ’ s Feast. Composing his...
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