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Amateur singers begin preparing for “Messiah”
Continuing an 81-year-old holiday tradition, the first rehearsal for this year’s staging of “Messiah” was held Sunday afternoon at First Baptist Church on Fifth Street. “Messiah” is an oratorio, a large musical number performed by a chorus and soloists, composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. It follows the biblical story of Jesus from the […]