Article: Handel holiday festival; A truly classical weekend with both `Messiah' and `Judas Maccabaeus'.(LIVING)

Article: `Judas Maccabaeus' big, powerful, ...
Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA);  December 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Their presentation of Handel's "Judas Maccabaeus" yesterday afternoon brought four ... popular of Handel's oratorios, "Judas Maccabaeus" provides the historical military ... Bush setting his earphones to "Judas Maccabaeus" and finding solace in words like ...

Article: STEPHEN JAY GOULD ON 'JUDAS MACCABAEUS'
The Boston Globe;  October 14, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... Handel performances with the oratorio "Judas Maccabaeus," and Gould has written an essay ... themes. The particular popularity of "Judas Maccabaeus" among Jewish choral societies and ... rationale beyond history's vagaries? 'Judas Maccabaeus' is a great oratorio about a great ...

Article: Cello Sonatas: No. 1-5. Variations on a Theme from Handel's ...
Fanfare;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... No. 1-5. Variations on a Theme from Handel's "Judas Maccabaeus." Variations on Mozart's "Ein Mdchen oder Weibchen ... Flute, and one on a chorus from Handel's oratorio, Judas Maccabaeus, it is no less complete than a number of other sets that ...

Dictionary definition: Judas Maccabaeus
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music;      295 words ...Judas Maccabaeus. Oratorio by Handel to text by Rev. T. Morell based on biblical incidents. Comp. in summer of 1746 on commission from Frederick ...

Article: Grace, skill shine in `Judas ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  November 16, 1997 ;     680 words ... ... but Friday night at Bethel College in Arden Hills, he and his chorus, orchestra and soloists took another look at "Judas Maccabaeus," which he had conducted in 1970, during Plymouth's first season. The performance was lively and skilled. Neither ...

Article: Judas Maccabaeus Liberates Judea
History of the World;      700+ words ...00-00-0000 Judas Maccabaeus Liberates Judea B.C. 165 Introduction The noble-minded Judas Maccabaeus was the hero of Jewish independence ... glorious epoch of Jewish history. Judas Maccabaeus Liberates Judea Now at this time there ...

Article: Sing along with `Judas Maccabaeus'
Chicago Sun-Times;  December 13, 1987 ;     389 words ... ... along of George Frideric Handel's "Judas Maccabaeus," which tells the story of Judah ... in the 6th annual performance of "Judas Maccabaeus." "Musically and dramatically ... mature work with wonderful music." "Judas Maccabaeus" was written as a song of praise ...