As I sang Comfort Ye from Handel’s Messiah, the fixed star Nashirah which means “bearer of good news” was coming over the horizon. The symbolism fits the piece itself!
Handel's Messiah and the Star Rising
This was an excerpt from a performance I gave over the holidays. It was the Messiah, a piece concerned with the coming of the savior, and the fixed star Nashirah, which means bearer of good news, was rising.