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01.12.2024 22:00
Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah review – hallelujah! A fresh take on the composer’s much-loved work By revealing the murky circumstances in which it was created, Charles King’s fascinating history of the oratorio shows it in a new lightI love the amorous mayhem of Handel’s operas, but have always had my doubts about his oratorios, especially the Messiah. First there’s the bossy compulsion to stand during the “Hallelujah” chorus, just because a spurious tradition says that King George II did so in 1743; once hoisted upright, you have to fidget through endless awkwardly mis-accentuated iterations of “for ever and ever”. I’m also puzzled by the quirks of the biblical text, which are underlined by musical repetition. The soprano rhapsodises like a fetishist about the “beautiful feet” of those who preach the gospel, and the tenor prophesies that “every valley shall be exalted” by the saviour: will salvation really reflate those sagging hollows in the landscape?But after reading Charles King’s Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah, I have been converted. King doesn’t exactly explicate the phrase he takes for his title, but he points out that Martin Luther King often quoted it in his orations about civil rights, so I probably shouldn’t quibble. More importantly, his book humanises the work’s exalted creators and demonstrates that the Messiah is not a pompous manifesto of faith but a troubled, often desperate quest for consolation. Despite those hectoring hallelujahs, what moves King is the oratorio’s prescription for overcoming personal misery. Continue reading... ...

01.12.2024 22:00
Former Tesco boss wants to send power from Morocco to Great Britain using subsea cable Dave Lewis says the near-constant stream of clean electricity could supply the grid as early as 2030In the south-west of Morocco, a sprawl of wind and solar farms stretching across an area the size of Greater London could soon generate the green electricity powering more than 9m British homes.This is the unflinching vision of Sir Dave Lewis, the former Tesco boss who is hoping to build the world’s longest subsea power cable in order to harness north Africa’s renewable energy sources and power Britain’s clean energy agenda. Continue reading... ...

01.12.2024 22:01
Dozens hospitalised in third night of pro-EU protests in Georgia PM denies European integration has been halted after decision to suspend negotiations on EU accessionA third night of protests in the Georgian capital against the government’s decision to suspend negotiations to join the EU left 44 people hospitalised, officials said on Sunday.Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the parliament on Saturday night throwing stones and setting off fireworks, while police deployed water cannon and teargas. Continue reading... ...

01.12.2024 22:11
Putin may have wanted Skripal poisoned over what he knew, UK officials believe Ex-spy had information about Russian president’s ‘embezzlement’ of profits from metals production, intelligence official saysVladimir Putin may have ordered the assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal because the former Russian spy harboured secret information about the Russian president’s “criminal embezzlement” of profits from metals production, the UK government believes.A leading intelligence official on Russia has said he took “at face value” Skripal’s assertions that secrets he knew about how Putin may have made money led to the nerve agent attack on him in Salisbury. Continue reading... ...

01.12.2024 22:16
Six people pulled from rubble alive after explosion destroys Missouri home Six people were pulled alive from the rubble of a Missouri home Saturday morning after an unexplained explosion mangled the residence, authorities said. Some of the six were treated at the location for smoke inhalation, the department said, others with more serious injuries were taken by helicopter to hospital.