This video was made at a work-in-progress event in Berkeley, California in January 2010.

A tenor is getting ready for a performance of Handel's "Messiah." As we watch him dress and warm up vocally we are hearing all the voices in his head.

Credits...

The Man: Ross Hauck
The Voices: Steven Hoffman, Katherine Howell, Kali Wilson
Harpsichord: Phebe Craig
Cello: David Morris
Audio Engineering and Sound Design: Gregory Lenczycki
Video: Jeff Warrin
Video editing: Kyung Lee
Music: Georg Frideric Handel, Ben Bernstein and others
Written and Directed by Ben Bernstein

Produced by Ben Bernstein and The Singer's Gym.
SingersGym.org

(c) 2010 Ben Bernstein. All rights reserved. This work may not be used or distributed without the written permission of the copyright holder.

This work was supported by generous donors and grants from the East Bay Community Foundation, The Zellerbach Family Fund and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

The piece will be receive its world premiere in four performances at the American Handel Festival, a three week international event in Seattle in March 2011.
sweetbirdclassics.org/handel-in-seattle/

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