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surname .
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Apart from the overture, I suspect Jennens might not have been happy with Handel's injection of humour, even satire, into parts of the work, most famously when he sets the words "All we like sheep have gone astray" by having the chorus imitate the bleating of sheep.
Archive 2006-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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But Jennens wasn't entirely satisfied with what Handel did with Messiah.
Archive 2006-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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Apart from the overture, I suspect Jennens might not have been happy with Handel's injection of humour, even satire, into parts of the work, most famously when he sets the words "All we like sheep have gone astray" by having the chorus imitate the bleating of sheep.
Handel Puts the Fun in Fundamentalism Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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Jennens' aim was to make the case for fundamentalist Christianity, and I'm not using "fundamentalist" as a slur, but just in a descriptive way: Jennens wanted to literally get back to the fundamentals of religion, the basic ideas about who Jesus was and what his significance was.
Archive 2006-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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More than that, Handel's Messiah really doesn't emphasize the doctrinal points that Jennens wanted to emphasize.
Archive 2006-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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Jennens saw Messiah as a way of counteracting all the Enlightenment free-thinking and doubting he saw going on around him.
Handel Puts the Fun in Fundamentalism Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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More than that, Handel's Messiah really doesn't emphasize the doctrinal points that Jennens wanted to emphasize.
Handel Puts the Fun in Fundamentalism Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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But Jennens wasn't entirely satisfied with what Handel did with Messiah.
Handel Puts the Fun in Fundamentalism Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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Jennens' aim was to make the case for fundamentalist Christianity, and I'm not using "fundamentalist" as a slur, but just in a descriptive way: Jennens wanted to literally get back to the fundamentals of religion, the basic ideas about who Jesus was and what his significance was.
Handel Puts the Fun in Fundamentalism Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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Jennens saw Messiah as a way of counteracting all the Enlightenment free-thinking and doubting he saw going on around him.
Archive 2006-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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