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Celebrate the season with these specials from WKAR

Messiah 1742: The Sound of the Dublin Premiere

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Wed Dec. 21 at 7PM on 90.5 FM & STREAMING | This is a guided tour of how Handel's Messiah would have sounded at its premiere over 250 years ago.

Many 21st-century performances of Handel's Messiah have over a hundred people in the chorus, but when Messiah was first performed in 1742, the chorus probably had more like 15 people.

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