Quiz we've All Been Waiting for: My load is easy and my burthen is light

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After three* Messiah Sing Alongs AND watching the San Francisco Symphony REHEARSAL of the Messiah , I've now thoroughly reviewed this work and am ready for the quiz. Go ahead you dottahs of Zion.... Shoooouuutttt!

Quiz Answers

- King George V, No it was the III'rd that went mad

- 24 days

- Choruses

- Nobody cared in the old days if you pre-pended 'the' it's only modern showoffs who feel obligated to make a fuss

- It varied

- In the Spring

- Oratorio

- 1741

- Squire Charles Jennens

- Kettledrums and a pair of trumpets

Oh sure you know the questions. Because you sat next to that know-it-all whose goes to every Sing-Along-Messiah in the city and memorized Peter Jacobi’s The Messiah book : The life & times of G.F. Handel's greatest hit

Now if I could just add in the Hallellujah at the Food Court next year.... I would love to participate in this in 2011 :-)

* Symphony Silicon Valley

* Stanford University

* Schola Cantorum, Mountain View

Just One More Daughter outta' Elysium, Singing in Beethoven Ninth Symphony

I studied Russian and Romance languages in school and had no appreciation for the emphatic first syllables of the German language, before I first sang in Beethoven's 9'th. Though the words to this music are gorgeous, performing this work with a mass of other voices goes beyond words. Luckily for me, the Stanford Summer Chorus* is singing it this summer. Every Tuesday night I can hop on my cruiser bike, pedal on over and become a part of the vocals behind it. No matter what else is going on, once I get there, Alle Menschen once more werden Brüder. And pedaling home through the darkness of a California summer night, I'm just one more daughter outta' Elysium.

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Freude, schöner Götterfunken Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum! Deine Zauber binden wieder Was die Mode streng geteilt; Alle Menschen werden Brüder, Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt. * Peninsula Cantare is my normal chorus

Joy, beautiful spark of divinity Daughter of Elysium, We enter, drunk with fire, Into your sanctuary, heavenly daughter! Your magic reunites What custom strictly divided. All men become brothers, Where your gentle wing rests.