It was almost a full house in the auditorium of Bartley Christian Church, where many gathered to attend the annual concert of the Hallelujah Oratorio Society. The house lights dimmed, the string ensemble was ready in front, the choir walked onstage, and the stage lights came on. It was Showtime….
*Part of this article will be published in Music and Friends, a quarterly journal by the Hallelujah Oratorio Society **Part 1 of this series was written by Benjamin Ho and published in the January edition of Music and Friends “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also…
“You can’t play Rachmaninoff on a harpsichord,” said a cellist-composer friend of mine, explaining why modern instruments are here to stay (and will be a permanent problem for historically-informed enthusiast). True, but Mendelssohn had his own way of doing combining the old and the new. He wrote Elijah, an oratorio,…