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Show Kaysville Messiah Sing-i KAYSVILLE A -Sing-in" of the most performed oratorio ora-torio in the English language, Messiah." will be held in Kavsville Dec. 14 at 8:30 p.m. at 555 N. 100 E. (Fairfield Rd.l. Those attending will sing the choruses. It will be a bring-your-own-score performance with some of the area's leading soloists highlighting the program. LYNEER C.Smith, director of the Weber State Singers, will concuct such leading soloists as Evelyn Harris and Richard Holbrook, as well as the hundreds who will sing in sections designated soprano, alto, tenor and bass. A small community orchestra, orches-tra, backed up by a pipe organ, will accompany them. Dr. John E. Steiner will direct the orchestra. "This is an exciting event for our area," said Charles Turner, chairman. "Sing-ins are definitely increasing in popularity, and we expect a large turnout. LYNEER C. SMITH "A SING-IN is great for singers sin-gers who don't want to be put on the spot, but who like to participate. And it's a thrilling experience for those who just come to listen because that many singers almost literally raise the roof." Sponsored by the Kaysville-Fruit Kaysville-Fruit Heights Cultural and Performing Per-forming Arts Council. "Messiah" "Mes-siah" will feature Evelyn Harris, Har-ris, a leading soprano in the Ogden area, and Richard Holbrook,. Hol-brook,. an outstanding bass soloist who is blind and who has memorized the score. OTHER SOLOISTS will include in-clude Pat Williams of Kaysville, Kaysvil-le, a soprano: Carol Fraley of Syracuse and Becky Jarman of Kaysville, altos: Michael Crain of Clinton, Rick Givens and Marlon Berrett. both of Kaysville, tenors. According to Turner, those who would like to come and sing will hopefully practice on their own. and bring their music. This will be the first known "Messiah" sing-in in Davis County, and the facility has a capacity for 1.200 to attend. THE FIRST "Messiah sing-in sing-in in Utah was held in 1978. and in 1979, a major sing-in was held in Symphony Hall in Salt Lake City. Each year there are at least a dozen "normal"- productions of the oratorio ora-torio along the Wasatch Front . and this year there will be more sing-ins. . . "Messiah" was composed by Georg Frederic Handel during dur-ing a three-week period during the summer of 174 ae- Although Handel aK St,mewasremar SOME BITS and piec J earlier works were rated m it. and someS a.tnbute the comrigj superb craftsmanship others cue Handel's slal regarding the Hallelujah C us: "Id, I think 1 had ee Heaven before me. a great God himself " " Jl dence of inspiration. i v The oratorio includes ih main pans: The prophesv . realization of God's plani0' deem mankind hv the com of the Messiah,.' The J phshment of the redenJ by the sacrifice of the Sav, and mankind's rejection God s ottering, and the u defeat of those trvine oppose the Almiehtv a tha sgwing for the final overthi of death. PERHAPS THE reason the "Messiah's" success o almost two and a half centu has been a flexibility of i formance and general annm This appeal to the conn people, as well as to the mii-v al and "cultured" common i V is described ina 1900 storyll character named Aunt DeK "They sang over an' o'-u "King of kings, an' LorS lords, an' each time on a'V note and hire still, 'til onto the back of the cltfi ahead of me to keep from ri rite up into the air." ' |
