With all of this talk about Handel’s Messiah,  I thought it would be fun to revisit this blast from the past.  This is me singing the big recitative and aria from the Advent/Christmas portion of the work:  “Thus Saith the Lord …. But Who May Abide …. For He is like a Refiner’s Fire”  from Luther College’s Messiah performance in the December of 1981 (my senior year.)  The legendary Weston Noble is on the podium. This sure brings back amazing memories of that incredible performance,  which – by the way – featured a lineup of soloists that was entirely from the class of 1982 with one lone exception (a sophomore named Samm Wilson.) The other 13 soloists were all my classmates.  We were quite a group, if I do say so myself!