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 opera opens with Scalia carrying on in a clever Handelian rage aria, whereupon he is commanded by the Commentator to investigate why the justice is so unrelenting in his dissenting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2015
Elsewhere there are passages of Bach-like counterpoint, Handelian coloratura, simple lullaby and Modernist astringency, all unified by a stunned, inexorable dramatic momentum.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2013
At times, the repetitions are almost Handelian; but a more relevant comparison was supplied by a friend who invoked TS Eliot's verse fragment, Sweeney Agonistes, once set to music by John Dankworth.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 13, 2012
But when speaking of the rendition of Handelian arias, he evidently uses the term vibrato in the same sense as Sieber does tremolando.
From Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake Alverson
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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