Larry Zazzo

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In Our Time · Handel's Messiah · 7 May 2026 podcast

And this is what I think is the most wonderful thing about Messiah and Handel in general.

The very human and the very sublime right next to each other.

Absolutely.

I think it's always been viewed that way and still is to some extent.

Really interesting, one of the original reviews, someone kind of wrote into the newspaper and said, what a profanation of God's name and word is this?

David said, how can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

But sure, he would have thought it much stranger to have heard it sung in a playhouse.

So the context where it was performed really incensed people of Christian faith.

I'm going to fast forward and I'm going to talk a little bit maybe about the soulful celebration, the Quincy Jones, Mervyn Warren version.

I will contextualize it in that Mervyn Warren had said that they were going to do a version of the trumpet's cell sound with Dizzy Gillespie and Wynton Marsalis.

One of the great what ifs of history would have been if that happened.

And Wynton Marsalis said, I don't want to do this because I don't want to desecrate the Messiah.

So it was very interesting, even from someone from a jazz tradition, the Messiah is seen in so many ways as this great sacred cow.

It is unique in Handel's oeuvre in the sense that it is all sacred words, right?

It is not just an opera manquet.

It's not just a Bible story.

But Ruth, you have something.

Ruth Stein.

I'm trying to remember, Donald, can you tell us when it started to become associated with Christmas?

Dublin.

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