Ruth Smith
speaker
216 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 May
Ruth Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, I know I've tried and tested these other works.
Let's see how they go down in the concert series.
If they go really well, I'll do Messiah as a standalone thing, which is what happens.
But, you know, had there been trouble about getting sufficient choir and so on, he would already have done these other works and could then go home much richer than when he came to Ireland.
And certainly in the mythology about Handel, it becomes absolutely, as you say, rock bottom for Handel.
And, you know, he's ill, wrong.
He's broke, wrong.
And, you know, he goes without food for the three weeks that he's composing it.
You know, that's the myth.
And it's very attractive.
There you go.
That's exactly the source.
Yes.
Perhaps it's worth going in here that the flash mob Hallelujah Choruses, do we know what flash mob choruses are?
Exactly, in shopping malls.
So if you look on YouTube at flash mob hallelujah choruses and count up the number of views that the main ones have had, it comes to over 70 million, which is more than the population of Britain.
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