https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:28:29 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg https://anitamathias.com 32 32 https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/03/handels-vision-of-heaven-and-the-composition-of-the-messiah/ https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/03/handels-vision-of-heaven-and-the-composition-of-the-messiah/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:54:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/12/03/handels-vision-of-heaven-and-the-composition-of-the-messiah/  My father had trained and worked as a Chartered Accountant in England in the forties and early fifties. When he returned to India, he brought with him some precious possessions—among them LPs of Beethoven, Mozart….and Handel’s Messiah, conducted by Malcolm Sargent. He used to sit, rapt, listening to Mozart’s Fortieth Symphony or Beethoven’s Fifth. I […]

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