HALLELUJAH CHORUS, GOSPEL STYLE cont.
Comments(0) [follow up on an item I posted November 5, 2007]
This notice came in an email service from “Crain’s Chicago Business” suggesting things to do over the weekend.
MUSIC
“Too Hot to Handel: The Jazz-Gospel Messiah”
50 E. Congress Pkwy. Chicago
(312) 902-1500
www.auditoriumtheatre.org
7:30 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday
Tickets: $30-$59
This is Handel’s “Messiah,” only not exactly as you may remember it. The 150 voices of the Too Hot Choir and a 45-piece orchestra fill the hall of the Auditorium Theatre with a soulful gospel and R&B version that is sure to get the audience moving. Depending on the performance, tenors Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young or Victor Trent Cook may lead the choir in this after-Christmas show in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.
How the mind delights in imagining how Handel would receive it!
