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Re: Handel and Joy to the World
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John Dalmas <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:28:42 -0500
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Kim Patrick Clow wrote:

>I know that the Christmas Carol: Joy to the World comes from an Handel
>Opera with "Antioch" in the title.

AFAIK, there is no Handel opera with "Antioch" in the title.  The carol
was put together in 1839 by Lowell Mason, who took lyrics written 120 years
earlier and put them to a tune that had been around for some time and which
has about as much to do with Handel as the song "I'll Be Seeing You" has
with Mahler.

John Dalmas
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