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Show i ' Discovering Opera Feature Popular "Messiah" In honor of the approaching . Christmas season, Howard L-Levin L-Levin has decided to devote his program "Discovering Opera," Op-era," to the presentation of a complete recording of "The Messiah," George Froderic Handel's oratorio depicting events in the life of the Christ. The oratorio will be broadcast broad-cast tomorrow, Wednesday, ' December 6. at 6:05 p. m. on KCDR, the school FM station, 88 1 mc. Composed in three weeks' time, "The Messiah" was completed com-pleted in September 1742, while Handel was living in England: but the work did not receive its first performance perform-ance until Anril 1742 in Dublin, Dub-lin, Ireland. A number of composers com-posers have rearranged the manuscript through the vears. Wnlfo-ang Amadeus Mo7art added much ornamentation to tbp available manuscripts in 1789. Tbanks to the work of manv d'otpd scholars and musicologists, musicol-ogists, a manuscript rloe to thp nnp performed in Dnblis in 1742 has been reconstructed. reconstruct-ed. Local audiences will hoar a performance based unon this reconstructed manuscrint and nerfnrmod in a church in England. Eng-land. Tinductinr' the orchestra orches-tra will be Walter Susskind who is now one of the directors direc-tors of the Aspen Music Festival Festi-val in Colorado. The soloists i flnd chorus, as well tho or- j choetra. Mr. Levin's broadcast will nresent as complete a Per- i formanco of tho work as has been heard in this area for veire anrl will servo ps a good ! introduction to the livn rior. formanco of "Tho Messiah" to take place in the school auditorium audi-torium on the evening of December De-cember 10. |