Donald Burrows
speaker
179 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 May
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One is, of course, the big criticism of Messiah, which is always quoted, was one newspaper article.
We don't know how representative that was.
Could have just been one reader.
It could just have been one.
I mean, it's a very eloquent statement of the theatre is not the right place to do this.
And actually, Handler made it worse.
or someone, at the top of the score he writes Messiah and Oratorio.
Unlike some other ones in the predecessors, you often have an Oratorio or sacred drama.
He doesn't do that.
It's just Messiah and Oratorio.
leaving certain things a little bit vague.
And what's worse is that in the newspaper, they thought, well, or whoever put the advert in the newspaper, the very first London performances, they thought, Messiah, that's a bit dodgy.
So there will be performed a new sacred oratorio.
Well, that was worse.
Right, and that's what got the attacks on it, really.
But we don't know, really, how representative the attacks were.
First of all, because Handel then did two more performances.
He didn't cancel Messiah after the first one.
He finished the season giving two more.
That's sort of one aspect to that.
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