| 40903 | ACIS AND GALATEA: Sinfonia |
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| Handel, George F. (Arr. LaJoie, Thomas) |  Score
 mp3 audio
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| Category: String Orchestra |
| Grade: Medium |
| Duration: 3:00 |
| Instrumentation: str=8.8.5.5.5 |
| Comments: cello/bass |
| Description: Handel's career began as an opera composer before transitioning to oratorios. Acis and Galatea is one of these operas. Acis & Galatea debuted in 1718 as a one-act pastorale, or semi-opera, in the gardens of Cannons, with only five singers. Acis and Galatea are Greek mythological figures. Galatea loves Acis, a shepherd boy. However, envious Polyphemus - a petty god – smashes Acis with a boulder, and the bereaved Galatea turns him into a stream. |