On Tuesday 20 November 2012, the first QM Music and Sound Seminar was presented at Queen Mary by Michael Marissen.<\/p>\n
5.15pm, Tuesday 20 November<\/strong> \u201cAnd he shall purify the Sons of Levi\u201d: A Rereading of Handel\u2019s Messiah<\/em><\/strong>. Surprisingly, questions of religious meaning in Handel\u2019s Messiah have been under-explored. This talk will discuss previously unidentified sources for altered readings in the work\u2019s libretto of biblical excerpts, and it will demonstrate how the arrangement of verses and their word choices project Christian schadenfreude toward Judaism. The paper\u00a0 will go on to show how Handel\u2019s music underscores these tendencies of the libretto and adds to them, reaching a euphoric climax in the Hallelujah chorus.<\/p>\n Michael Marissen<\/strong> is Daniel Underhill Professor of Music at Swathmore College and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (Woolf Institute, Cambridge). He has published widely on J.S. Bach, and is the author of The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach\u2019s Brandenburg Concertos<\/em> (Princeton) and Lutheranism, anti-Judaism, and Bach\u2019s St. John Passion<\/em> (Oxford). He is the editor of Creative Responses to Bach from Mozart to Hindemith<\/em> (Nebraska), and co-author of An Introduction to Bach Studies<\/em> (Oxford). He is currently working on Handel\u2019s Messiah<\/em> and Christian triumphalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Tuesday 20 November 2012, the first QM Music and Sound Seminar was presented at Queen Mary by Michael Marissen. 5.15pm, Tuesday 20 November ArtsTwo Building, Room 3.16 Queen Mary Mile End Road E1 4NS \u201cAnd he shall purify the … Continue reading
\nArtsTwo<\/strong> Building, Room 3.16<\/strong>
\nQueen Mary<\/strong>
\nMile End Road E1 4NS<\/p>\n