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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, December 2,1976
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There’s more news from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra again this week as the
traditions of Christmas unfold at Symphony Hall when the Ochestra, the ASO
Chamber Chorus, soloists, and Maestro Shaw conduct the Symphony’s audiences
into a musical remembrance of the true meaning of Christmas by performing
Handel’s “Messiah” on Friday, and Saturday, December 3 and 4, at 8:30 p.m., and
Sunday, December 5, at 2:30 p.m.
The Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus are a group of select artists who have
been chosen by Robert Shaw, Music Director and Conductor of the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra, to perform in the much smaller vocal ensemble, the Atlanta
Symphony Chamber Chorus.
The Chamber Chorus is
used when performing works
that do not require as large of
a chorus as the entire Atlanta
Symphony Chorus. Although
“Messiah” has been
performed with innumerable
sizes of choruses and
orchestras from the chamber
size groups to the annual
Carnegie Hall “Messiah Sing
Along,” Mr. Shaw perfers to
perform the work as it was
intended to be done by
Handel.
In speaking upon the
importance of authentically
re-creating Handel’s
“Messiah” Shaw said, “I
believe uncompromisingly
that we cannot expect to
discover Handel’s ‘spirit’
without re-creating insofar as
possible the number, nature
and disposition of his musical
forces. This is precisely the
opposite of basing a
performance on the proposal
of ‘what he might have
written had he had today’s
grand symphonic and vocal
forces.’ A composer’s
meaning is not to be
separated from the sound he
‘heard’ in his inner ear and
prescribed.
“If our labor is valid - the
result should be that
“Messiah” sheds its
ponderous, sanctimonious,
morbid musical and religious
pomposity and become again
what Handel certainly
intended it to be - a light,
bright, chamber oratorio,
celebrating with a secular
deftness a remote, but
responsive religious
mystery . . .”
Handel passionately and
dedicately went to work on
the Messiah. Aroused by
religious ardor that had
always smoldered deep within
him, he completed this
massive work in only 25 days.
After his huge task was
completed, and all his music
was on paper, he remarked
simply, “I think God has
visited me.”
Handel’s “Messiah” is
among the massive artistic
creations of Western man.
From its stately overture to
the affirmative pages of
“Worthy Is The Lamb” - its
closing chorus - Handel’s
Messiah ranks as a moving
anthology of music for the
human voice joined
magnificently to the
expressive forces of an 18th
Century Orchestra.
The “Hallelujah Chorus,”
“He Shall Feed His Flock.”
“For Unto Us A Child Is
Born,” “Every Valley Shall
Be Exalted,” “He Was
Despised” ... to hear the
titles is to hear in the mind’s
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ear Handel’s glorious
celebration of the Messianic
gift that makes for the
underpinning of Christian
belief.
Yet the music reaches
beyond denominational limits
- touching universal in its
texts, underlining them with
its music. It is a work that
never seems overly familiar -
each hearing reveals a new
level of beauty, of musical
genius. The ear anticipates
the excitement of the score,
its drama, its beauty, its
tranquility. The total range of
emotion is embodied in
Handel’s score -- the fury of
“And He Shall Shake”; the
ineffable resignation of “He
Was Despised”; and the joy of
“Thou Who Tellest Good
Tidings.”
It just wouldn’t be
Christmas without Handel’s
“Messiah.” For tickets call
the Symphony Box Office at
892-2414.
THE ACADEMY LAB
THEATRE announces casting
for the upcoming productions
“Women At The Tomb” and
“Lord Halewyn,” two
one-acts by Belgian
playwright Michel de
Ghelderode. Opening
December 3, the plays will
run Friday, Saturday and
Sunday at 8 p.m. through
December 12. Nancy Hager
will direct both plays.
Assisting with direction will
be Pamala Rose.
“Women At The Tomb”
opens with a Layer-Out of
the Dead (Julie Harris) and a
Midwife (Carolyn Dunn)
seeking refuge in an
abandoned house in
Jerusalem on the day of the
Crucifixion. Then, one by
one, as if in a mystical spell,
modern-day characters enter,
having taken the identity of
Biblical characters
Magdalene (K.T. Barkley),
the sisters Martha and Mary
(Cile Purcell and Janet
Metzger), Veronica (Sheila
Shaw), The Woman Cured
(Sue Ferguson), The Woman
Taken in Adultry (Susan
Pearce), Pilate’s Wife (Mimi
Edwards), Yoehabeth (Kathy
Hasty), John (Jay M.
Kinney), and The Old Woman
(Catherine Del Papa).
In the second play of the
evening the Duke (Hugh
Gibert) and Duchess (Heather
Reed) of Ostrelande govern a
Flanders plain where terror
has gripped the hearts of all
because Lord Halewyn (Ron
Kirk), a handsome but
fiendish lord casts spells on
young maidens and lures
them to their death. On this
night Lord Halewyn’s mother
Edwigga (Gerri Igarahi)
forewarns him, but armed
with his cutthroats (Jack
Wilkes, Lee Martin and David
Haimbach), he goes off to
pursue the perfect
16-year-old virgin,
Purmalende of Ostrelande
(Lori Hager) who is going
mad with thoughts of love.
Her maid-servant Barbara
(Kathy Hasty) cannot stop
her from running to Halewyn
to consumate her need.
Others in the cast include Jay
M. Kinney, Jim Walsh,
Robert Louis Stewart, Peggy
McGrath, Reva Solomon and
Pamala Rose.
Performances will be at the
new Academy Second Space
behind the Academy
Theatre’s main building, 3213
Roswell Road in Buckhead.
Tickets are $2. For
reservations and information
call 261-8550.
A 45-MINUTE
DOCUMENTARY on the
Arts Festival of Atlanta will
air on December 10 at 9 p.m.
on WETV (Channel 30).
Filmed during the 1976
Arts Festival in Piedmont
Park, the program traces the
origins of the 22-year-old
event from a backyard
exhibit to the present
potpourri of visual and
performing arts.
Highlighting the program
are performances by the Ruth
Mitchell Dance Company and
the Atlanta Ballet, excerpts
from the Festival Awards
Ceremony, and a
demonstration of how the
Festival is actually built.
Viewers will also see the
Crafts and Winners buildings,
the Open Show booths, the
concession booths and the
people who staff them, and
interviews with both judges
and those Atlantans who have
played key roles in the
Festival over the years.
The documentary is being
shown in conjunction with
the Winter Festival of WETV.
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por Gabriel Figueroa con Lucha Villa. Es un drama
hermoso de la vida mejicana campesina.
Funciones seran a las 2:00 en la Biblioteca Publica de
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ORLANDO (TERRY BEAVER)
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the ardent lovers in the magic forest of
Arden in William Shakespeare’s “As
You Like It” now at the Academy
Theatre in Buckhead. Frank Wittow
directs this favorite Shakespearean
comedy with performances on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
evenings at 8:30 p.m. thru December
18.
Advent-ure
BY FATHER JERRY HARDY
The Adventure of Advent is a simple one:
It is a coming home to ourselves, a four
week wait watching for simple signs and
everyday wonders that say we’re closer
than before;
a getting on track, God’s track, listening
closely to catch the sound of His
well-travelled love vibrating in the rails of
our Christmas rushing;
a coming home to ourselves that reminds
us of what really counts, who we really
are, why a Christmas would come at all.
“Coming home to ourselves” . . . just a
catchy phrase like the “Bring us
together” of some earlier political
partying?
No —
Rather a reality rooted in our history as a
people, in the record of the dealings our
God has had with us.
It seems He was always giving hints of
how it would be, in long distance love
letters spelled out in the sand of desert
wanderings, in promises that kept
creeping down through the ages of
prophets and kings — all pointing to this
God’s having a house in our land, so that
all would know Him, not as an itinerant
preacher riding the revival circuit of our
history, but as a permanent resident of
our days: a neighborhood God, always
just next door.
Solomon and David labored mightily that
it should be so, and the Advent-ure took
on new drama.
But the reality of God’s dwelling came
only later, with Old Testament tents and
temples being but the early warning
system telling how close our God would
come.
Like blades of grass waiting to receive the
morning dew, we wondered about all of
this ... An un-named something stirred
our suspicions about what was up and
down at the Heart of things.
And then it happened: this God dismissed
our suspicions with the velvet thunder of
His Spirit rolling over the holy ground of
a certain Mary who was wholly His; and
He spoke to our wonderings a gentle
wonderful word: Jesus.
As at daybreak, light enlarged the
landscape of our understanding: we saw
no divine house, no gleaming shrine; we
saw only ourselves and Jesus:
Emanuel . . . God-with-us.
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As at high noon, a warmth enveloped us
and we knew this exquisite truth: while
we had wanted to,build our God a house,
He had wanted only a home, and the only
home He wanted was us.
And so it was, and is. But though it is so
Shadows of space and time can still
purple the horizons of our hearts, and
Bethlehem can get lost out there in the
nightfall of doubt, drift, problem,
preoccupation.
Advent is for that, for now. It is time to
watch wait wonder all over again in the
sometimes tangible darkness that gathers
round the feet of our modern day faith
which is not yet fully grown.
It is time for prayer and fasting as means
of being with our deeper selves that lie
beneath the folds of our comfort and
complacency.
It is time for questions so large that they
render our usual replies inadequate and
send us back to our sources, not for
answers, but for adoration.
It is time for speaking the honest word,
the loving word, the faithful word, the
healing word, the strengthening word, for
that Word will be spoken to us before
many more nights light our lamps.
It is time to get our night vision, waiting
in the dark just as we once did before we
were born the first time, so that we can
welcome His Light when it comes upon
us, appreciate the poetry of His passing
among us, penetrate the miracle of His
staying with us, so that we can
understand Christmas, Advent’s child, as
the home-building of our God.
It is a time for coming home to ourselves
for we are to be the place of His birth.
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