Donald Burrows
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first heard May 2026
last heard 7 May
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And then the other was that there was this question about the bishops.
There's a little hint in there about it was not approved by the bishops or whatever.
It may be that it had gone to the inspector of stage plays.
The censor, effectively.
The censor.
And something had happened there.
But when we get to later on, and it's performed at the founding hospital...
Someone writes in his diary, oh, and there were bishops there.
So the hearing of oratorio may sometime be thought of as orthodox.
So the whole question of the church's attitude, this seems to be a few clergy, one sector of the London audience, but it didn't stop Handel doing it.
He treated it in his programmes just like any other work.
He didn't actually do the same work every year.
But if you look at what happens, he didn't stay away from it as if it was something that was too much trouble.
I think there's a little prelude to that.
I mean, I think that the situation was once Messiah was established, it got a regular slot in Handel's programme.
He performed oratorios during the Lenten period and Messiah was always the last one before Easter.
It had a particular place in the programme.
Dublin.
Not quite.
After Handel had gone back to London, the person we referred to earlier, Matthew Duborg, the violinist, he lived sort of half the year in London and half the year in Dublin.
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