Re: za daigaku

On 7/27/05 3:30 AM, "jwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" typed:

> Sean <notsean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
>> On 7/26/05 8:04 PM, "jwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" typed:
>>> Then you have cases like Handel's most famous work: "Messiah".
>>> Many people can't resist adding an article and calling it
>>> "The Messiah", but that's not its name, according to the
>>> guys who wrote it.
>
>> Guys? More than one wrote it? What was the other guy's handle?
>
> Yep: Words by Charles Jennens (based mostly on the 旧約聖書)
> Music by George Frideric Handel, as he called himself in
> Pomgolia.
>
> A lot of work went into the words of Messiah. Many think it's straight
> out of the book, but in fact it's a heavy rework, as English law
> regarded it as blasphemous to have people actually performing
> the roles of Biblical characters in such settings. Hence things
> had to be changed to reported speech, etc. etc. Bach could never have
> written his Passions in England. Fortunately the Lutherans weren't
> as anal-retentive as the CofEs.
>
> Speaking of Handel, the first concert I ever went to in Japan was
> a recital in 1981 given by the violinist Koji Toyoda. The program
> said there was a work by ヘンデル. I was painfully teaching myself
> katakana at the time, so I puzzeled out: he n de ru. Who the hell is/was
> Henderu? The penny dropped when Toyoda walked onto the stage and
> started playing the Handel D major sonata.

I've already reported my confusion when, in a discussion about music, my
interlocutor suddenly started talking about a Mexican peninsula.

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