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:
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