Month, Day: 181, Honour, Words (Beauty)
This is the report, directly copied from Wikipedia (the links should work).
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's stay in Edinburgh was covered by The Scotsman newspaper.[171][172][173][174] The newspaper coverage lead to a stream of visitors and speaking engagements on 8 Jan; he spoke at the Edinburgh College of Art, and the North Canongate School.[nb 7] Later in the evening he spoke at Rainy Hall, which is part of New College, which was followed by a viewing of Handel's Messiah in St Giles' Cathedral. Visitors again came on the 9th, and in the evening he gave a talk with the Theosophical society hosted by David Graham Pole. That night and or early the next morning ʻAbdu'l-Bahá wrote a letter to Andrew Carnegie.[178][179] The letter commented on reading The Gospel of Wealth.[180][181] ʻAbdu'l-Bahá again sent a letter to Carnegie in 1915.[182]
Reading about this was a nice surprise for me. In fact, it was in England where the Master first witnessed a dramatic arts event which was a story of Christmas.
But, Handel's work? I heard it the first time in my late teens in the early '60s with two superb performers. The first was the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performing in the major auditorium in downtown Los Angeles. They were backed up by the LA Philharmonic. The striking thing was that they had added extra Basses which gave more than the usual resonance to me, having been a brass player: Baritone and Sousaphone.
Remarks: 01/05/2025
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