If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period—with a possible exception in the case of The Creation.


New York Post, 1924; As quoted in: An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music (1978), Nat Shapiro (ed.)

Ernest Newman Quotes

If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period—with a possible exception in the case of The Creation.

If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period—with a possible exception in the case of The Creation.

If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period—with a possible exception in the case of The Creation.

If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period—with a possible exception in the case of The Creation.