Going solo at Handel and Haydn by Thomas Garvey

The chorus of the Handel and Haydn Society.A sad shadow seemed to linger over Handel and Haydn's season opener, Bach's Mass in B Minor (now some three weeks in the past!), as the orchestra had recently borne a double blow: the deaths of two of its mainstays, timpanist John Grimes and horn player Richard Menaul.  Likewise the Mass itself seems somehow connected to Bach's own passing (he died only a year after it …

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