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Excerpt from The Christmas Oratorio: For Chorus, Soli and Orchestra
The Christmas Oratorio is of a nature, speaking of the music, to take quicker and firmer hold of popular attention than could the Passion, since it not only contains the joyous element which is entirely absent from the other, but also possesses far greater variety and contrast. A portion of it was publicly performed in 1868 at a concert of the Royal Academy of Music, under the di rection of Mr. W. G. Cusins, and a por tion also at one of the Concerts of Ancient and Modern Music at another period, under Herr Schachner's direction. (parts I and II were sung at Boston, Mass, by the Handel and Haydn Society, in It was first offered to a London audience in a shape approaching completeness, at a Concert of Mr. Barnby's Choir, which he conducted, on the 1sth of December, 1873, when its reception warranted the above sur mise, and gave fair ground to expect that it may become here a great and permanent fa vourite. The world must be the better and the wiser for familiarity with this noble music, and the double opportunity to hear it and to read it is most propitious to a true and wide knowledge of its beauty.
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