READ Chapter 5 in Kelly.
PRINT the questionnaire and fill it out as you LISTEN to the excerpts from Handel's monumental oratorio Messiah.
All selections are from the 2007 recording by The Sixteen chorus and orchestra conducted by Harry Christophers.
Opening of Handel's Messiah (12'58)
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Symphony (3'11)
Recitative: Comfort ye, my people (Mark Padmore, tenor) (3'13)
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem,
and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished,
that her iniquity is pardoned.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness;
prepare ye the way of the Lord;
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Aria: Every valley shall be exalted (Mark Padmore, tenor) (3'35)
Every valley shall be exalted,
and every mountain and hill made low;
the crooked straight and the rough places plain.
Chorus: And the glory of the Lord (3'01)
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together:
for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Isaiah 40: 1-5
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He trusted in God that He would deliver Him;
let Him deliver Him, if He delight in Him.
after Psalm 22:8 and Matthew 27:43
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Hallelujah!
For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
The kingdom of this world is become
the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ;
and He shall reign for ever and ever,
King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.
Hallelujah!
Revelation 19:6, 11:15, 19:16