Handel's Messiah [videorecording] : a soulful celebration / Warner Bros. Records. c1992.

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Handel's Messiah [videorecording] : a soulful celebration / Warner Bros. Records. c1992.

A look at an upcoming album featuring an African American interpretation/arrangement of Handel's Messiah with commentary by executive producer Gail Hamilton. Includes footage of a performance of Handel's Messiah by the Boys Choir of Harlem and a studio session by a choir of world famous African American musicians conducted by Quincy Jones for the album.

1 videocassette (9 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

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Warner Bros. Records

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Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759

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Most material is from the oratorio; see Callno. 7087. This arrangement 1943.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphonic suite no. V : the triumph of Truth : based on / Handel ; free arrangement by Zoltan Fekete. c1943. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 50064356 From the opera in three acts, librettist unknown. Composed 1707 or 1708.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Dance of the sailors : from Rodrigo / G.F. H...

Boys' Choir of Harlem.

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Jones, Quincy, 1933-....

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An impresario in the broadest and most creative sense of the word, Quincy Jones' career has encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, television producer, record company executive, magazine founder and multi-media entrepreneur. As a master inventor of musical hybrids, he has shuffled pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, classical, African and Brazilian music into many dazzling fusions, traversing virtually every medium, including record...