Although we will, increasingly, be aiming at making it through all of our Messiah choruses at each rehearsal, I will try to find the right balance of rehearsal for 1) correct pitches and rhythms, 2) performance details, diction, and ensemble, and 3) run-through for continuity.
Assuming the room is available, we will again have sectionals on the Amen, on Let Us Break Their Bonds, and He Trusted in God. We will also continue to work on intonation, bland, balance (and memorization!) for Since by Man and spend some time on Behold and the Surely, Stripes, Sheep choruses.
One of my favorite Handel quotes:
"I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better."
James Beattie, letter of May 25, 1780, published in William Forbes An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. (1806) p. 331. In reply to Lord Kinnoull, who had complimented him on his Messiah, "the noble entertainment which he had lately given the town". Beattie had this on the authority of Kinnoull himself.
This is, of course, the precise intent and meaning of the term "edification."
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