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Handel’s Messiah is as much a Christmas tradition as pantomime

Handel’s Messiah is as much a Christmas tradition as pantomime

17 December 2022

9:00 AM

17 December 2022

9:00 AM

It was 9.45 p.m. and yellow light beamed from the church windows into the rainy night. As I opened the door the last bars of the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ reverberated from the chancel. This was a rehearsal by the London Docklands Singers.

‘Everyone knows the “Hallelujah Chorus”,’ said the conductor, Andrew Campling.

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