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2 unusual facts about Jonathan Keates


Jonathan Keates

Keates was educated at Bryanston School and went on to read for his undergraduate degree at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Messiah Part II

What they say is given to the chorus as a strict fugue in C minor: "He trusted in God, that He would deliver Him, if He delight in Him." Jonathan Keates observes that Handel depicts the mocking, menacing crowd here, comparable to the turbae in Bach's Passions.



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