(adv. & a.) In the smooth and melodious style of an air; ariose.
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Oratorio
Definition:
(n.) A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted.
(n.) Performance or rendering of such a composition.
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(1) The Milliner (@MillinersTale) @GdnSocialCare Great program, shows need for high quality training & ongoing support, also vital role of preparation & matching June 8, 2015 The Milliner (@MillinersTale) @GdnSocialCare Also shows how introducing a new foster child ( sibling or not) to a fledgling placement can cause huge damage June 8, 2015 Oratorio (@oratorio_silver) @JerryLonsdale1 it showed the reality of a lack of carers, training and resources.
(2) Laura Barton A Child of Our Time – Michael Tippett Tippett's oratorio never fails to make me weep.
(3) Over the past year or so I have been talking about these things on and off with the composer Sally Beamish ; she has been setting some poems of mine (sonnets, again) for a new oratorio called Equal Voices, that the London Symphony Orchestra will premiere at the Barbican next month .
(4) I can be relied on to cry listening to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's recording of As With Rosy Steps the Morn from Handel's oratorio Theodora – the emotional intensity invested in this apparently simple aria by Hunt Lieberson, a great artist who died cruelly young, is staggering.
(5) One carving, of Mary sheltering a crowd of tiny penitents under her cloak, created a scandal in the 1850s when it was taken from its original place, over the door of an oratorio in Venice (which survives, the stone still showing the scars from the removal of the sculpture) and sold to the V&A soon after the museum opened, in 1852.
(6) The composer who wrote our finest coronation anthems and our favourite oratorio, was Georg Friedrich Händel from Halle near Leipzig.
(7) And now it gets another different sort in Sally’s oratorio (she prefers to call it that, and not a requiem, because, she says: “It deals essentially with the (damaged) living, and also perhaps because I have attempted to create a vision for the future.” As I write this, I haven’t heard a note of the score.
(8) Messiah Among the many performances of Handel’s oratorio across Britain at this time of year, those by John Butt and the Dunedin Consort always stand out for their combination of scrupulous stylishness and limitless exuberance.
(9) An Easter programme will explore Handel's oratorio Messiah.