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In reply to the discussion: I'm struggling. [View all]soldierant
(6,836 posts)the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Tennessee. I occasionally hear performances by them on "Performance Today" on public radio (but also streamed from its website.) And it recods for Naxos.
I'm sure there are many individual people in Tennessee who have never heard of Handel, but then, that's probably true anywhere, even in New York City.
I just looked up covers of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day," words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in 1863 with the Civil War in full swing. If he could hope, I can hope. The cover I found was recorded by The Carpenters (with a choir), and I won't deny I was weeping. But some tears are healing. The middle three verses were not sung (I don't think they ever are) but it's powerful without them also.