Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Messiah in a Year

Watching a new blog here: Messiah in a Year.

Here's the idea behind it:
Here is the plan: to present all the music from Messiah this year. Not in a concert, but in worship, and spread thematically throughout the liturgical year.

Not necessarily in a sequential way, either- we are not simply singing the three parts on three different Sundays. There will be large excerpts, of course, in Advent, on Christmas Eve, Holy Week, Easter Sunday... but there is a LOT of Messiah. 53 movements, to be exact and many liturgically unique Sundays to program. What might we sing for Pentecost? Ascension? Good Shepherd Sunday?
Check it out.

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