The Boston Globe, October 22nd, 2001
Word has it that when the Handel & Haydn Society's new music director, Grant Llewellyn, finished his first rehearsal for Haydn's "The Creation" with the chorus, the singers burst into applause. On the evidence of yesterday's performance, no other response would have been rational. Boston has not lacked for first-rate performances of Haydn's glorious hymn of grateful celebration - it was a specialty of one of Llewellyn's H & H predecessors, Thomas Dunn; David Hoose has led the Cantata Singers in wonderful performances; James Levine had Renee Fleming and Rene Pape and the Boston Symphony Orchest...
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