Handelian
Americanadjective
noun
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Handelians
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It was funny, if not terribly Handelian, but pushing limits is what the ONE Festival is all about.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2018
The performance was formal, conveying little overt sense of rich Handelian theater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2015
Never beset by false modesty, Schoenberg stated that his quixotic, Handelian re-arrangement, Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, was "mainly intent on removing the defects of the Handelian style".
From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2013
On a Handel Web site Mr. Vickers dismisses Mr. Jacobs’s CD account of Handel’s “Saul,” calling the conductor “neither a natural Handelian nor an honest crusader of the quest for ‘authentic’ performance.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2011
She could think of no tunes but dances—andantes turned scherzi, the Handelian largo became a Castilian tango.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
Isabel Bayrakdarian was a thrilling soloist, and the Seattle Symphony played under the leadership of one of the leading Handelians of our time, Nicholas McGegan, a conductor whose concerts are never less than exhilarating.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2011
Ho declined, saying with great sang froid, "You know we are Handelians."
From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More
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