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Show MUCH INTEREST M THE MESSIAH' Popular Since First Pro-; duced in Dublin Nearly 200 Years Ago. "The ladies are requested to come without their hoops and the gentle-j men without their swords" This was tho announcement in connection con-nection with tho first performance I of Handel's oratorio, "The Creation," j ISO years ago in Dublin. Tho announcement was made be-I be-I cause of Handel's great populailty land the management needed the room taken up by swords and hoops to take caro of tho crowd desirous of hearing the work. This famous oratorio will be sung at New Year's by tho Ogden taber-f taber-f naclo choir with a symphony orchSs-tra, orchSs-tra, under the direction of lesier I Hinchcliff. Roth orchestra and choir are rehearsing the numbers. In describing the oratorio Mr. Hinchcliff said. ' The Messiah's popularity Is basen chiefly upon the subject itself ana tho Infinite sympathetic .Jjntlmacy of the text and the music' Prom thd prophecy of Hg coming, through His passion. His glorification and His resurrection the music is ever as pci- feet a companion to the text as tiio 1 Holy Ghost is to the righteous." |