The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 140, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 5, 1968 Page: 17 of 21
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The day was April 13, 1742, and an audience
of TOO persons assembled in a hall in Dublin,
Ireland, designed to hold only 600 to hear the
first performance of George Frederick Handel’s
“Messiah.” 1
Room for the additional persons in the audi-
ence was made through the cooperative re-
sponse of those attending to a newspaper notice
requesting that ladles have their hoops at home
and the gentlemen their swords.
“Messiah”
With styles as they are today, this space-sav-
ing technique won’t be necessary Sunday after-
noon when an all-city choir presents its annual
Baytown performance of Handel’s now famous
oratorio.
But, nevertheless, all seats at St. Mark's
Methodist Church are expected to be Filled for
the presentation, which has become a Christmas
tradition in Baytown. The 1968 performance
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marks the 21st year that “Messiah’ ~™.
presented here. Time for the performance is
3 p.m.
Traditions seem to go hand-in-hand with pres-
entations of “Messiah” (as Handel himself
called it instead of “The Messiah” frequently
used today.) The most famed tradition, of
course, is that of the audience standing when
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stand to hear the remainder.
Although the words for the oratorio come
from the Bible, It is celebrated not for hallowing
the dogmas of Christianity as much as the
^hTtender recitatives and arias speak poig-
nantly of the frailties of men, but underscoring
each Is the joyful promise of God’s deliverance
from suffering through a Savior.
But what has made “Messiah immortal is
as much the remarkable texturing of the mu-
sic as the inspirational Scriptural words.
Together, they faithfully record man s aliena-
tion from a loving father and the father’s cree-
tk>n of a supreme miracle to bring the errant
hTto perhaps verbose to note the holy gift is
as much for 20th-Century man as it was for he
who lived 2,000 years ago.
Man today suffers the same agonies, enjoys
the same triumphs, shows the same courage, to
sustained by the same faith. Evidence of this is
Shown in the pictures on the lower half of
this page - taken from the pages of The
Baytown Sun during 1968.
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 140, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 5, 1968, newspaper, December 5, 1968; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1044046/m1/17/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.