Millenium Orchestra * Handel: Theodora [New CD] 4/28/15 paternal panic

paternal panic

Laced Records

'A Time Once Forgotten' is an acknowledgement and a summation of everything that has led Kai Craig to where he is today

Includes the band's mind-bending take on legendary Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten's "Shake Sugaree" and a new original by Jesse Sykes and Dave Alvin

Nuala Kennedy

Millenium Orchestra * Handel: Theodora [New CD] 4/28/15 paternal panicThe oratorio Theodora was first performed at the Covent Garden Theatre on 16 March 1750 and clearly took Londoners by surprise. Handel had, after all, made a one hundred and eighty degree turn in his choice of subject. The grandiose episodes of the Old Testament, the glorious struggles of Solomon, Saul, or Judas Maccabaeus are no more: the young martyr Theodora leads neither a community nor troops into battle. In a work far removed from the grand