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Date: 21 June 2003 23:47:47
I have just played in a very long concert of a Handel oratorio which consists of mostly music that he used elsewhere. It's the story of Deborah from the book of Judges, and I hadn't realised how bloodthirsty it is. At one point Jael, wife of someone or other - sung by our conductor's motherly-looking wife - describes how she murders Salisa (I think that's his name) by hammering a nail through his head. Family viewing? Well my mum came to hear it, if that counts.