Jephtha

Old Testament Brimstone

October 11, 2016Sydney Boyd

A really rare performance of Handel’s Jephtha is happening this weekend. Read my preview of it at Houstonia Magazine. It’s hardly ever performed because it’s straight up technically hard, not because it’s difficult to listen to (like many, many other so-called hidden… Continue Reading →

Ars Lyrica Ars Lyrica, Derek Chester, Handel, Jephtha, Matthew Dirst, Sofia Selowsky

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Sydney Boyd is a critic in Houston, TX. She studies how music shapes narrative temporalities in 20th-century literature in the English PhD program at Rice University, and, occasionally, returns to her origins as a violinist.