WEDNESDAY, NOV.7, 2001
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Composer honored in London museum
The Associated Press
LONDON — The 18th-century house where George Frideric Handel composed Messiah and other great works has become the first museum in London devoted to a composer.
Restorers have converted the upper floors at 25 Brook Street in the smart Mayfair district to its condition when Handel lived there for 36 years until his death.
it is a tall, narrow house with a basement kitchen, a front and back room on each of three floors and garrets for the servants at the top. Fashionable Bond Street is close by, as is Claridge's hotel, Grosvenor Square and the United States embassy.
To get details of the building and fabrics right, the restorers worked from Handel's will, an inventory of his house after his death and other houses in Brook Street built at the same time. 1717 to 1726.
Beginning tomorrow, visitors
can wander through the main rooms of his house, which are quite small, and see where he composed operas, oratorios, concertos, the coronation anthems and music for the royal fireworks.
They can see Handel's bedroom, paintings, prints and memorabilia associated with him and his friends and more in the house next door. No. 23, where Jimi Hendrix lived in from 1968 to 1969. The Handel House Trust also acquired it for exhibition space and educational activities.
Stanley Sadie, editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, said he had the idea for the museum in 1959. But it was only a decade ago that he and his wife Julie Anne made the first moves to set up a trust and establish a museum in the house.
The museum project cost $7.4 million,paid for by more than 3,000 supporters,notably the National Lottery and the insurance company which owns the freehold.
Changes in TV program inspired by tragedy
The Associated Press
Billy Ray Cyrus recalls recording "SomeGaveAll"—his tribute to a Vietnam veteran—in January 1991 when "someone runs in the studio and says, 'The Gulf War just started. Turn on the TV.'"
Recently he was shooting an episode of his PAX-TV series Doc — an episode based on that song — when "somebody runs in and says, 'New York's just been attacked.'"
"We start watching this whole thing develop across the United States of America and pretty soon it's evident that thousands have given their all, that millions of hearts would be broken," Cyrus said.
The show — set to air at 8 p.m. EST on Sunday, Veterans Day — was written last summer. But the events of Sept. 11 produced new
heroes, and the network asked the show's co-creators, Dave and Gary Johnson, to expand it.
"We said, 'Yup,'" Dave Johnson says. "We put in another small story that dealt with a firefighter."
The show, which stars Cyrus as Dr. Clint Cassidy, is set in New York.
Mark Taylor plays Johnny, a cousin of Cassidy's neighbor Nate (Richard Leacock) who overslept and escaped the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, leaving him stricken with "survivor guilt."
Interviews with survivors of past wars, as well as the terrorist attacks, are woven into the program, along with an acoustic remake of "Some Gave All."
The 40-year-old Cyrus, who attends church with his family when he gets home to Tennessee, says the show's not preachy.
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