Happy Easter, Christians! "Thou shalt break them", From Handel's Messiah. (Try it, You'll Like it)

[Kurovski]

"He is risen!"

A really hot version of this aria...

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I think this is John Ainsley?



EDIT: and we may as well go for the big finish...

Hallelujah - Choir of King's College

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[Le Taz Hot]

1. I like this tenor.

And what would Handel be without the endless runs? It's so, well, Baroque. (As an aside, my senior solo in HS for the Christmas concert was "Rejoice" from the same oratorio. I was a Mezzo back then.)

[Kurovski]

2. A singer, you say! Terrific. I stink at it, and love folks who can do it up.

Handel makes my brain so happy. it's like some kind of hootch.

And the passion level is nutso.

Ain't it grand?

[Le Taz Hot]

3. Years ago, in one of his comedy routines,

Steve Martin declared that you just can't be sad when listening to the banjo. I say the same thing about music from Baroque period. It's my favorite music to study by. Nice and orderly.

I'm not singing much nowadays and, at 57, I don't have those chops anymore, but I can still pick up a gitfiddle and warble out a few tunes here and there.

[Kurovski]

4. Kick

for all you suckers with nowhere to go today and are stuck here arguing with each other.


I kid, I kid.