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December 6, 2019

Hallelujah! Handel's Messiah still has special quality for choristers decades later

The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir performing with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra during the choir’s 125th anniversary concert in October at Koerner Hall in the city’s Royal Conservatory of Music. The choir is performing “Messiah” at Roy Thomson Hall Dec. 17-22.

When Susan Worthington gets home from “Messiah” rehearsals with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir she’s hungry and tired, but her brain is still full of music.

Published in Music News
November 29, 2014

A nearly 300-year-old favourite has aged well

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra performs Handel’s Messiah this year for the 82nd year.

TORONTO - Even after performing Handel’s Messiah with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for almost four decades, Patricia Krueger says the music from this Christmas classic never gets old.

Published in Music News
December 20, 2012

Handel’s Messiah stands the test of time

Ivars Taurins masquerades as composer G.F. Handel during Tafelmusik’s Sing-Along Messiah

TORONTO - Christmas celebrations are heralded by the senses, and none more so than sound, with music at the heart of almost all of our seasonal memories. Think Bing Crosby crooning “God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen” or Judy Garland rending heart strings everywhere with “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” — it doesn’t get more quintessentially “Christmas-time” than that.

Published in Music News