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    Release Date: October 6, 2009
    About Handel’s Messiah Rocks:

    This studio album of Handel's Messiah Rocks is the culmination of an ambitious and exciting collaboration, featuring Tony Award® winner LaChanze, Tony Award® Nominee J. Robert Spencer, MiG Ayesa of Rockstar: INXS, and the Boston Pops conducted by Keith Lockhart, to bring the Western world's most famous oratorio to contemporary audiences through the power of rock music. The blending of George Frideric Handel’s original 1742 work for orchestra, choir, and soloists with the modern vernacular of jazz vocals with a five-piece rock band illuminates the Messiah’s journey for our own era. Handel’s Messiah Rocks can speak to the very best in each of us, no matter what our relationship to faith may be.


    Track Listing Handel’s Messiah Rocks

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    Overture
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    Comfort Ye
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    He'll Come In Glory
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    He Is Fire
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    Rejoice
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    Behold the Lamb of God
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    He Was Despised
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    He Trusted You
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    King of Glory
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    He Is My Son
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    How Beautiful
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    Hallelujah
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    A Child Is Born
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    Credits Handel’s Messiah Rocks

    SOLOISTS:
    LaChanze: The Woman
    J. Robert Spencer: The Baritone
    MiG Ayesa: The Tenor
    CHOIR
    Coordinator: Jason Paige
    Melinda Bass, Shoshana Bean, Jessica Carter, Victoria Cave, Shannon Darin, Jeffrey Doornbos, Ramona Dunlap, Rona Figueroa, Aly French, Rachel Hausner, Jeffrey Marshek, Mike Messer, Jason Paige, Kathryn Raio, Daniel Robbias, Heather Rolff, Henry Shead, Monique Staffile, Darryl Winslow, James Zanelli
    THE CHILDREN:
    Kirilee Berger, Phoebe Costello, Sophie Hoyt, Noah Pelty (solo), Estella Zacharia
    THE BAND
    Guitars: Alex Skolnik
    Drums: Nir Z
    Bass: Richie Hammond
    Keyboards: Jason Howland
    Additional Guitars: George Lynch, Bernd Schoenhart
    Violin solo: Antoine Silverman
    ORCHESTRA
    Conductor: Keith Lockhart
    Violins: Abe Appleman, Sean Carney, Barry Finclair, Pauline Kim, Shinwon Kim, Carol Pool, Richard Sortomme, Carol Webb
    Cellos: Stephanie Cummins, Arthur Fiacco, Ted Mook
    Trumpets: Antony Kadleck, Jeff Keivit
    Horns: Brad Gemeinhardt, RJ Kelly
    Trombones: John Fedchock, George Flynn
    Orchestral Percussion: James Saporito
    Bass: David Finck

    Music adapted from George Frideric Handel’s Messiah by Jason Howland
    Libretto adapted from Charles Jennens by Dani Davis
    Executive Producers: Jason Howland, Dani Davis and Ken Gentry