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'Too Hot to Handel': A Modern 'Messiah'
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NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
12-23-2006
'Too Hot to Handel': A Modern 'Messiah'
Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time 13:00-14:00 PM
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SCOTT SIMON, host:
Handel's "Messiah" was part of the holiday season before Kris Kringle ever was. The oratorio uses Biblical passages to tell the story of Christ's birth, death and resurrection. Conductor Marin Alsop thought that this imposing composition could w...
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