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I do not know what you know about Handel

The occasion was a stage performance Handel's Saul in the year 1937

A man playing David

At the end of the ouverture

And then the chorus sings

Thou shalt bring them in

If they get good editors

He was a funny old boy

He was not obviously rude to singers

He did not normally produce operas

I heared Beecham

Beecham had a brass playing in the second recitative

Handel was a master of the orchestra

Sir Arthur Bliss

I said to Sir Arthur

I went to two Salzburg Festival before the war

I remember the italian one had a wonderful cast

Falstaff was marvelous

They set a standard

The only production I had a little say in

In Handel's time the curtain never fell during an act

We must not pauses between

We rehearsed the entire recitatives

James Bowman (Cesare) and Felicity Lott (Cleopatra)

After the war there was a stage production of Solomon

And when the queen of Sheeba came over in the last act

A friend of mine, who was a music teacher, called Philip Radcliffe

His personality

He was notorious for eating and drinking a lot

He was a man who liked his food

But JB Bach died in his sixties

The nons found him playing the organ

Lots of letters from Lord Shaftsbury

A profound dramatic thinker