Handel v Sullivan

The Band is preparing for a forthcoming production of Handel's amazing oratorio Jephtha. I was due to meet the conductor yesterday to take delivery of the parts. Slight change of plan... it turns out he had been sent Arthur Sullivan's arrangement! A little bit of me was disappointed that we discovered this in good enough time to source the correct parts. It could have made for a 'fun' performance , if not historically accurate. Or rather, historically accurate to only one hundred years after Handel's death, the era of the great Crystal Palace Handel celebrations!