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
