Going solo at Handel and Haydn
The chorus of the Handel and Haydn Society.A sad shadow seemed to linger over Handel and Haydn's season opener, Bach's Mass in B Minor (now some three weeks in the past!), as the orchestra had recently borne a double blow: the deaths of two of its mainstays, timpanist John Grimes and horn player Richard Menaul. Likewise the Mass itself seems somehow connected to Bach's own passing (he died only a year after it …