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Show ,42nd Annual Presentation of "The Messiah" Slated for Presentation Sunday at 8:15 p. m. The 42nd Performance of Georg Friodrieh Handel's "The Messiah," Mes-siah," will be presented at the College of Southern Utah Auditorium Audi-torium Sunday evening, Dec. 11 at 8:15 p. m. The production will be under the direction of the CSU Music Department with the cooperation of the community. Conducting will be Dr. Blaine Johnson with Prof. Roy L. Halversen, director of the orchestra. The 150 voice chorus will perform per-form the world reknowned Christmas Christ-mas works and it will be accompanied accom-panied by a 90 piece orchestra. Soloists Named Soloists for the production will include Ralph Hafen, Forrest the "Hallelujah Chorus" is sung. This stems back to the first in-introduction in-introduction of the works in London Lon-don on which occasion King George II rose to his feet and stood during the entire selection. The audience, seeing the King rise, had to rise too and remain , standing as long as their monarch mon-arch did. What began as a spontaneous spon-taneous gesture became a tradition. tra-dition. Since then it has been habitual for audiences to rise during this number. "The "Messiah" annually draws an audience from throughout through-out the southern Utah area. It has become as traditional as the Yuletide season itself. Hunter, Marilyn Clarke, Floyc Rigby, Christine Winterrose, Sandra San-dra Robb, Janice Olson, Virginia Stephenson, Bert Carpenter, Kent Myers and Sharon C. Bauer. Admission to the annual performance per-formance is free and the public j is invited to attend. I No musical work has had such long, continuous and enduring popularity as Handel's "Messiah" nor has any other so materially aided the cause of charity throughout the world. Much of the veneration with which it Is regarded is, doubtless, owing to the subject, but much also must be attributed to the splendid music, some of which the stirring "Glory to God", the stupendous "Hallelujah," and the magnificent "Amen," is not for any age, but for all time. A Tradional History The "Messiah" has many traditions, tra-ditions, one of which is the custom cus-tom of the audience rising when |
