Judas Maccabaeus

I wanted to sing in the choir with Andrea Bocceli.
So I joined to Southern Nevada Musical Arts society.

We did a concert , Handel's "Judas Maccabeas.
The music was nice and all, but standing there for so long was a little "Hard to Handel."
...get it?
I'm so punny.

But seriously though, we were standing up for almost 5 hours straight, counting the rehearsal and the 7 minute "intermission" which came when there was only 1/4th left in the performance.

The conductor (Douglas Peterson) is 85, and it's his 45th year conducting this thing.
They gave him a commemorative statue and let him have the microphone.

Big mistake...
He talked for about 15 minutes.
My feet and my fellow choir members were not too happy with his impromptu speech, but there you go.

Anyway, the words to these songs have been annoyingly engraved into my cranium.
So much so, in fact, that they made it into my "work of the week."

Yes. I wrote the name of the work using its lyrics.