MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Music & the Arts

Variations on Messiah

I’d meant to post this last month but got distracted by a very busy December. For Chorus America’s The Voice, I wrote about some recent approaches to Handel’s Messiah by choral ensembles seeking to engage with wider communities: from the  Saint Paul-based Ahmed Anzaldúa and his group Border CrosSing’s bilingual El Mesías to the choral thought leader Jace Kaholokula Saplan’s Messiah i ka ’Ōlelo Hawai’i.

The article begins on p. 18:

Filed under: choral music, Chorus America, Handel

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