The Messiah
On Tuesday evening, December eleven I attended the 68th annual rendition of The Messiah in Zeeland. It was performed by the Zeeland Civic Chorus along with soloists Betsy Archer as the soprano, Cammille Zoet De Boer as contralto, Matthew Lehman as tenor, and John Scheid as the bass. The chorus was made up of about 75 individuals. They met together once a week for 8 weeks before the performance, giving them little time to prepare for the production. This performance was conducted by Richard Cory. The instruments used were the organ, played by Mark Steigenga, and the trumpet, played by Bruce Forsma.
In the Messiah there is a mix of singing from the chorus and the soloist. In the soloist portions they would either sing recitative or aria. Recitative is where the soloist's would sing straight through the words of a bible passage with no exact way it was to be preformed and was always homophonic. When the soloist's sang aria they would also be singing a portion from the......

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