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	Maulbronn Monastery Edition - G.F.Haendel: Oratory Samson (in english) - 2 CDs
		G.F.Haendel, Oratory SAMSON (2CDs,DDD), A Concertrecording in english with S.Pratschke, M.Chance, M.LeBrocq, R.Nolte, D.Thomas, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Baroqueorchestra, Conductor Juergen Budday, K&K Verlagsanstalt Edition Monastery Maulbronn George Frideric Handel SAMSON An oratorio in three movements A concert recording from the convent church in Maulbronn (1999) in english and performed in a historical setting.
		The work starts one year after the capture and blinding of Samson, when the priests of the pagan god Dagon are celebrating their greatest triumph.
		In his last struggle Samson, accompained by his father Manoah and his friend Micah, has to stand the temptations of the seductress Dalila and the giant Harapha, which are both followers of god Dagon and his priests.
	www.kuk-verlagsanstalt.com /English/Maulbronn/SetSamson.html (605 words)

	Oratorio
		As at present understood, an Oratorio is a musical composition for solo voices, chorus, orchestra, and organ, to a religious text generally taken from Holy Scripture.
		Although the name oratorio was not applied to the new form until sixty years later (Andrea Bontempi, 1624-1705), there is an unbroken tradition connecting the exercises established by St. Philip with the period when the new art-form received its definite character.
		The "Samson and Delilah" of Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-) may be performed either as an oratorio or as an opera; as opera it has attained the greater favour.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/o/oratorio.html (1698 words)

	Samson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samson or Shimshon (שִׁמְשׁוֹן "Of the sun" (perhaps proclaiming he was radiant and mighty) or "[One who] Serves [God]", Standard Hebrew Šimšon, Tiberian Hebrew Šimšôn) is the third to last of the Judges of Israel mentioned in the Tanakh.
		Samson is said to have lived during the period when the Israelites were oppressed by the power of the Philistines.
		While there Samson became so infatuated with a Philistine woman of Timnah that, overcoming the objections of his parents who didn't realise that it was the will of the Lord, he married her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samson (2372 words)

	Samson (oratorio) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samson is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel.
		It was based on a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton, who based it on Milton's Samson Agonistes, which in turn was based on the figure Samson in Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges.
		Samson is usually performed as an oratorio in concert form, but on occasions has also been staged as an opera.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samson_(oratorio) (149 words)

	Oratorio (Catholic Encyclopedia) - BibleWiki
		Although the name oratorio was not applied to the new form until sixty years later (Andrea Bontempi, 1624–1705), there is an unbroken tradition connecting the exercises established by St. Philip with the period when the new art-form received its definite character.
		A third oratorio, "Ritorno di Tobia", on a Biblical text, has not the same importance, nor does Mozart (1756–91), in his only oratorio, "Davidde penitente", attain the artistic level of most of his productions, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) wrote one oratorio, "The Mount of Olives", which shows him at his best.
		The "Samson and Delilah" of Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-) may be performed either as an oratorio or as an opera; as opera it has attained the greater favour.
	bible.tmtm.com /wiki/Oratorio_%28Catholic_Encyclopedia%29 (1676 words)

	Samson Summary
		Samson or Shimshon (שִׁמְשׁוֹן "Of the sun" (perhaps proclaiming he was radiant and mighty) or "[One who] Serves [God]", Standard Hebrew Šimšon, Tiberian Hebrew Šimšôn) is the third to last of the Judges of the ancient Children of Israel mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
		Samson is something of a Herculean figure, utilizing massive strength to combat his enemies and perform heroic feats unachievable by ordinary men: wrestling a lion, slaying an entire army with nothing more than a donkey's jawbone, and tearing down an entire building.
		Samson again displays his wrath by lighting the tails of three hundred foxes on fire, leaving the panicked beasts to run through the fields and vinyards of the Philistines, burning all in their wake.
	www.bookrags.com /Samson (3368 words)

	ipedia.com: Samson (oratorio) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Samson is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel.
		It was based on a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton, who based on Milton's Samson Agonistes, which in turn was based on the historical figure Samson in sixteenth chapter of the Book of Judges.
		Samson is usually given as an oratorio in concert-form but upon occasion it has also been staged as an opera.
	www.ipedia.com /samson__oratorio_.html (195 words)

	Oratorio - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		An oratorio is a large musical composition for orchestra, vocal soloists and chorus.
		Most oratorios from the common practice period to the present day have biblical themes, but a number of composers, notably George Frideric Handel, wrote secular oratorios based on themes from Greek and Roman mythology.
		Whether religious or secular, the theme of an oratorio is meant to be weighty, and can include such topics as the creation of the world, the life of Jesus, or the career of a classical hero or biblical prophet.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Oratorio (240 words)

	George Frederick Handel
		It was followed by " Samson," " Joseph," " Semele," " Belshazzar," and " Hercules," which were also successful ; but even in the midst of his oratorio work his rivals did not cease their conspiracies against him, and in 1744 he was once more a bankrupt, For over a year his pen was idle.
		The oratorio of " Samson " was written in 1741, and begun immediately after the completion of " The Messiah," which was finished September 14 of that year.
		Other oratorios may be compared one with an-other; the "Messiah stands alone, a majestic monument to the memory of the composer, an imperishable record of the noblest sentiments of human nature and the highest aspiration of man.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles31n/oratorio-10.shtml (5685 words)

	Kenangan Lagu Lirik Samson Terindah
		Samson is a simple shepherd with the strength of a titan and the destiny to fight the Philistines and General Tariq.
		Samson (oratorio) - Samson is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel.
		Samson (band) - Samson was a heavy metal band formed in 1977 by guitarrist and vocalist Paul Samson.
	re51.netpage-ues.com /kenanganlaguliriksamsonterindah.html (632 words)

	samson - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		His parents objected to the alliance (Judges 14:3), but Samson's motive in marrying her was that he "sought an occasion against the Philistines" At the wedding feast Samson propounded to his guests a riddle, wagering that if they guessed its answer he would give them 30 changes of raiment.
		But Samson arose at midnight and laid hold of the doors of the gate and their two posts, and carried them a full quarter of a mile up to the top of the mountain that looketh toward Hebron (Judges 16:1-3).
		Three times Samson deceived her as to the secret of his strength, but at last he explains that he is a Nazirite, and that his hair, which has never been shorn, is the secret of his wonderful power.
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?word=Samson&action=Lookup&x=19&y=15 (1945 words)

	O&A Cover Story: C.V. Oratorio Society production of "Samson" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Oratorio was the way he could bring the drama of opera to the sacred texts.
		Samson’s father visits him and is saddened to see him in such a deplorable state.
		At first, Samson refuses the giant’s entreaties on the grounds that the God of Israel forbids him to enter the place where the Philistines are gathered.
	www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/04_1999/04151999o1.htm (596 words)

	Samson - Handel
		The characters introduced are Samson; Micah, his friend; Manoah, his father; Delilah, his wife; Harapha, a giant of Gath; Israelitish woman; priest of Dagon; virgins attendant upon Delilah; Israelites, friends of Samson; Israelitish virgins; and Philistines.
		Samson's wrath subsides in the recitative ("My genial Spirits droop"), and the first act closes with the beautifully constructed chorus ("Then round about the starry Throne"), in which his friends console him with the joys he will find in another life.
		Samson rebukes "her warbling charms," her "trains and wiles," and counts "this prison-house the house of liberty to thine" ; whereupon a highly characteristic duet ensues ("Traitor to Love").
	www.musicwithease.com /handel-samson.html (1058 words)

	Georg Frideric Handel
		Handel was very economical in the re-use of his ideas; at many times in his life he also drew heavily on the music of others (though generally avoiding detection) - such 'borrowings' may be of anything from a brief motif to entire movements, sometimes as they stood but more often accommodated to his own style.
		The wide range of expression at his command is shown not only in the operas, with their rich and varied arias, but also in the form he created, the English oratorio, where it is applied to the fates of nations as well as individuals.
		But above all he had a resource and originality of invention, to be seen in the extraordinary variety of music in the op.6 concertos, for example, in which melodic beauty, boldness and humour all play a part, that place him and J.S. Bach as the supreme masters of the Baroque era in music.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/handel.html (1091 words)

	grrrl meets world: Biblical suicide bomber?
		The philharmonic choir in Victoria, BC is presenting Handel's Samson oratorio as a suicide bomber in 1946 Jerusalem.
		The oratorio has the familiar music written in 1741 by George Frideric Handel with the same words, but the time and setting have been changed.
		Samson is an examination of a political and personal struggle, but updated to make it more relevant to modern audiences by drawing parallels with ongoing conflict in the Middle East, he said.
	grrrlmeetsworld.com /2007/03/biblical-suicide-bomber.html (342 words)

	Samson (oratorio) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Samson is an (A musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text) oratorio by (additional info and facts about George Frideric Handel) George Frideric Handel.
		The (The first public performance of a play or movie) premiere was given in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London on February 21, 1743.
		Samson is usually performed as an oratorio in (A performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging) concert form, but on occasions has also been staged as an (A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes) opera.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/samson_(oratorio).htm (184 words)

	Torpid 'Samson,' Finding Strength in Its Performances
		It is generally well cast -- with Arlington-bred tenor Carl Tanner as Samson, mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina as Dalila, and numerous smaller roles fulfilled with sensitivity and style -- and, on opening night, it was conducted by WNO General Director Placido Domingo in the most assured orchestral performance I've yet heard from him.
		Because Saint-Saens wrote "Samson" without bothering to include much stage action, any director who would take it on is required to interpolate things for the characters to do over the course of three acts.
		She is more steely than sexy and seemed less likely to seduce Samson on the desert sands than to conquer him, in the Northern manner of a Viking or a Valkyrie, and throw him on the back of her steed.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/15/AR2005051500929_pf.html (642 words)

	Mefistofele
		Originally conceived as an oratorio (a work for chorus, soloists, and orchestra on a religious theme), the opera is based on the Old Testament story recounted in the Book of Judges, chapters 14—16.
		Samson’s numerous attempts to conceal the secret of his strength are not included in the opera, and the crucial revelation by Samson that his strength resides in his hair occurs offstage.
		The opera portrays the two main characters more as conventional operatic characters than as representatives of two warring ethnic groups in the context of the oppression of one group by the other, and the motivations operate at the level of individual psychology, with the characteristic dramatic themes of seduction and betrayal.
	www.concertoperaboston.org /samson%20et%20dalila.html (1130 words)

	About the Performance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Samson was one of Handel’s two incomparable masterpieces that he composed in 1741, the other being his Messiah.
		Handel’s Samson, recounts the betrayal, the remorse and the victory of Samson, the Israeli army commander, whose power grew with his hair.
		In his last struggle, Samson, accompanied by his father and a close friend, has to withstand the temptations of the seductress Dalila and the giant Harapha, both followers of Dagon.
	www.labsoftware.com /FCChorale/Samson/about_the_performance.htm (238 words)

	bible.org: ISBE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His parents objected to the alliance (Jdg 14:3), but Samson's motive in marrying her was that he "sought an occasion against the Philistines" At the wedding feast Samson propounded to his guests a riddle, wagering that if they guessed its answer he would give them 30 changes of raiment.
		But Samson arose at midnight and laid hold of the doors of the gate and their two posts, and carried them a full quarter of a mile up to the top of the mountain that looketh toward Hebron (Jdg 16:1-3).
		Samson differed from his contemporaries in that he was a hero of faith (Heb 11:32).
	www.bible.org /isbe.asp?id=7619 (1981 words)

	Samson - Oratorios And Masses
		The part of Manoah is particularly clear throughout the work; Delilah is portrayed in all her treacherousness; Samson is strong of character as well as frame ; the music of the worshipers of Dagon holds a pagan sensuousness in antithesis to the nobler ideals of the Israelites.
		At the opening of the oratorio we are invited to the spectacle of Samson overwhelmed with the double humility of blindness and captivity.
		Samson, alone save for the attendant who guides the faltering step such a little while ago a fearless stride, muses on the bitterness of the fact that the day of relief from toil means that the Philistines are celebrating in the temple of their god Dagon their deliverance from him.
	www.tribalsmile.com /music/article_215.shtml (1657 words)

	Boston Cecilia: Handel's Samson, Program Notes
		Samson is visited by friends, including Micah, and laments his succumbing to Dalila's wiles and the paralyzing loss of strength and sight.
		Samson's indignant refusal is followed by the Israelite chorus's plea to God to arise "with thunder arm'd." When Harapha returns, Samson has reconsidered his position and, urging his friends to remain behind, departs for the feast accompanied by Harapha.
		Samson's body is borne to the square to a Dead March.
	www.bostoncecilia.org /prognotes/handel-samson.html (1559 words)

	Oratorio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An oratorio is a large composition for orchestra, vocal soloists and chorus.
		Most oratorios have biblical themes, but a number of composers, notably George Frideric Handel, wrote secular oratorios based on themesfrom Greek and Roman mythology.
		Whether religious or secular, the theme of an oratorio is meant to be weighty, and caninclude such topics as the creation of the world, the life of Jesus, or the career of aclassical hero or biblical prophet.
	www.therfcc.org /oratorio-50124.html (203 words)

	Leonard Turnevicius: Opera Hamilton's Samson et Dalila
		In Act 1, Samson, the victorious leader of the Hebrews, meets Delilah from the Valley of Sorek.
		In Act 3, an eyeless Samson, shorn of his braids--and hence, God-given strength--nonetheless topples the temple upon himself and the Philistines during their festivities.
		This was a concert performance by Opera Hamilton--singers, chorus, and the orchestra, all on stage in tuxes, concert gowns, and formal footwear as though ready to sing an oratorio by Handel or Mendelssohn.
	jamilton.typepad.com /leonardturnevicius/2007/01/opera_hamiltons.html (875 words)

	Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Milton's Samson Agonistes was the basis for Samson, the biggest of all Handel's oratorios, which he began to write within days of finishing his most famous work, The Messiah.
		Its theme, from the Book of Judges, is the last hours of Samson Agonistes (Samson the Champion, or Strong Man), imprisoned by the Philistines, blind and doubting the doctrine of God's Providence -- and, finally, bringing off a last feat of strength by pulling down his captors' temple.
		At a later performance, in 1753, by which time Handel himself had gone blind, Samson's tragic predicament had gained a sad personal significance, and the Air is said to have reduced many of the audience to tears.
	www.wimbledon-so.freeserve.co.uk /ProgNotes28.htm (274 words)

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		Samson, the scourge of the Philistines, known for his superhuman strength, has succumbed to the entreaties of Dalila, who worms out of him the secret of his strength: his uncut hair.
		In a nice dramatic stroke, Samson and Manoa sang on one side of the stage with the Israelite chorus, and Dalila and Harapha on the other side sang with the Dagonites.
		Samson, feeling his strength returning with his hair, listened intently to the chorus of Israelites as they sang "With thunder arm'd, great God arise; help, Lord, or Israel's champion dies." When Harapha returned with a final demand, Samson agreed to go.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/philbaroque_2_22_05.php (1010 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - DAMROSCH, LEOPOLD: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Trinity Chapel was secured for a study-room, and on Dec. 3, 1873, was given the first concert of the Oratorio Society, with choir numbering 50 to 60.
		By the following May the society was able to produce Handel's oratorio "Samson" at Steinway Hall.
		For five years Damrosch worked gratuitously for the Oratorio Society (at the time of his death it had a membership of 500, and ranked among the leading choruses of the world).
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=25&letter=D (575 words)

	Samson, oratorio, HWV 57
		Samson was staged in direct competition to the opera season at the King's Theatre, and was by far the more successful.
		The aria "Total eclipse!" in which Samson bewails his loss of sight, was known in later years to move both Handel and the London audience to tears, as Handel, spending the last ten years of his life blind, sat unseeing at his harpsichord during oratorio performances.
		The librettist, Newburgh Hamilton, revised the poem to be a dramatic masterpiece for an oratorio.
	online.musicmatch.com /album/work_classical.cgi?WORKID=020667&TMPL=long (703 words)

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