[MusicTlk] Accessible Score for Handel's Messiah

[Andrew Vega]

Hi Chris,
Speaking from experience of currently being in a choir, I unfortunately
don’t have many suggestions for braille scores, since I mostly have mine
electronic or prefer to just use lyric sheets with tonal matching.

As far as the part recoding goes, have you brought this up with the
director yet? They should be able to help you get one recorded as
reasonable accommodation, but some directors are different and may not be
willing to do this. It’s definitely worth trying, if you haven’t already,
since it should t take them more then a few minutes to prepare even
something as simple as recording it on their phone and sending it to you.

Those are my only suggestions at the moment. Good luck in your performance!

Kind Regards,
Andrew Vega

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On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 6:42 PM Chris Nusbaum via MusicTlk <
musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi Friends,
>
> I've been invited to participate in a new community choir that is
> performing a "Messiah Sing," which as I understand it is a performance of
> Handel's "Messiah" where the audience is invited to sing with the choir in
> the choral pieces. I would love to do it, but at this time I don't know
> where I'm going to get the music. The director has specified that she wants
> everyone to have the Watkins-Shaw edition of the score, though I don't know
> what separates that edition from any other version of the score. I checked
> today and it's not available on BARD. Does anyone have any ideas on where I
> can get the music either in Braille or in individual voice part recordings?
> I'd prefer having both, but will take the recordings if Braille isn't
> available. Unfortunately, they only have 3 rehearsals scheduled and we're
> expected to come to the first rehearsal with music prepared, so recording
> the part at the rehearsal doesn't seem to be an option here.
>
> Thanks in advance for your ideas!
> Chris Nusbaum
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