Messiah at the Foundling Hospital

[@vicjones3992]

I watched this wonderful documentary on its first airing on TV......I return to it often - particularly when I need to restore a sense of balance and purpose in my life❤

[@johncampbell643]

I totally agree with your comment about why you watch it often - that's how I feel about it as well. When I feel in need of inspiration I always return to listen to this while I'm working at my office.

[@kennethlapointesongwriter3330]

Bravo. Handel and his Messiah pulled all the strands of these loose elements together finally---art, charity, the rich, the poor, adults, children---to be known and seen in real life and in the Bible---a wonderful cohesion and adhesion of MUSIC and WORDS for humanity.

[@robertlittlebury1316]

Ah, at last I have found the programme. I recall seeing it when first broadcast.

[@GlamRockCowboy]

Handel died at his home in Brook Street, London, on May 24, 1759, just after attending a performance of "Messiah." He was 74 years old. He was buried, with full state honors, at Westminster Abbey in London, with over 3,000 mourners in attendance.

[@will8026]

Of course, Venice and the other Italian States had been operating fabulously successful, happy and productive State funded orphanges for centuries before the Foundling Hospital. These would have been well known to any of the nobles who subscribed to the London Foundling Hospital ptoject because they would have visited these Italian "Ospedali" on their "Grand Tours" and heard superb music performed by the young girls who lived in them. What's incredible is how long it took for England to establish their own version of the same sort of institution.

[@rubenlaracuente8991]

HANDEL'S MESSIAH BROUGHT ME SO MANY DAYS OF JOY AND SADNESS IN MY TEENAGE YEARS ❤ I AM SO LUCKY TO SEE HANDEL'S MESSIAH PERFORMANCE EVERY YEAR AT LINCOLN CENTER NEW YORK ❤

[@marshaprice8226]

A wonderful and inspiring presentation! It gave me new insight to what the words and music meant to those present in that place: Comfort Ye My People, The People That Walked in Darkness, Unto Us a Child Is Born!

[@GlamRockCowboy]

A sad footnote: Thomas Coram died less than a year after this historic performance, on March 29, 1751, at the ripe old age of 83. Nevertheless, despite the controversy which had resulted in his removal from its Board of Governors, Coram lived long enough to see his visionary charity become successful beyond his fondest hopes. Today, Coram Charity, as it is now known, is the oldest and largest organization of its kind in all of Great Britain.

[@cecilialiebenfelss8827]

Great and Most beautifully!!!

[@donaldgeorge3717]

Fabulous.Thank you so much.

[@alanrobertandrews6493]

Wow Handel, Kidnes to Children, Wow my-Friend, Bye for now love Alan

[@rosslewchuk9286]

Musically inspiring, historically focused, and concisely informative. Bravo all around!

[@rubenlaracuente8991]

TO BE AN ALTRUIST IN THIS ERA IS AMAZING ❤❤❤ THESE MEN WHERE SAINTS 😢

[@philquota7405]

It's good work. But no. Just need to do what the paper says. The greatest duty is to love.

[@florencerouiller9259]

Absolument passionnant de découvrir une oeuvre sous un angle différent et original.

[@Clanshort]

Great programm and a great performance of Trinity Boys Choir.

[@titicoqui]

incredibly uplifting production thank you

[@skyblueuk]

Brilliantly presented program.....i have now decided to find somewhere to see this live.

[@SandraGarcia-yt4dn]

I was blessed to be able to do the Foundling Hospital Anthem which is really rarely done. It includes the Hallalujah Chorus. I do wish I could find this performance of Messiah. Please share if you find it.

[@alanrobertandrews6493]

Ah-Handel - Hogarth - Thanks to corum--I grew up on Handel And Rachmaninoff, Bye for now love Alan 👨‍🏫️

[@alanrobertandrews6493]

MY BROTHER JOHN SAID TOMASH CORAN FOUND THE ANSWER HANDEL - Bye for now love Alan - Happy New year

[@QuentinStephens]

As a bit of (horrible) context, exposure / abandonment was the pre-modern form of birth control going back thousands of years. Just remember the tale of Oedipus. Or Moses.

[@bingeltube]

Highly recommendable! Private, voluntary welfare and charity beats and preceded the government run welfare state anytime!

[@GRIMSBONIAN13]

It was a terrible place for any child to grow up. Basically they were trained to supply cheap servants for the wealthy. Yes I realize that it saved the lives of many of the children who would have most likely died but I am sure that a lot of these children could have been much more then cooks or maids.

[@bingeltube]

@@GRIMSBONIAN13 how do you know? Your comment is like Marxist kitchen table analysis

[@GRIMSBONIAN13]

@@bingeltube my great grandmother was raised there they were trained as servants

[@GRIMSBONIAN13]

@@bingeltube she was born out from wedlock. Her mother was not poor I have no idea why she was given up but she was. My great grandmother died in 1918 from the influenza. Not much was said that I remember except she was about 12 when she started apprenticing but that was perfectly fine at the time child labour. How many of the children that grew up in the Foundling hospital went on to something other then cheap labour?

[@bingeltube]

@@GRIMSBONIAN13 do you have evidence to backup your story? Assuming you can prove your story, was your great grandmother ever mistreated at her job? What did she think about her job?