1、The orchestra and chorus performed an Easter oratorio.

2、We would to thank God for this opportunity and privilege to perform this oratorio.

3、Its creation works widely have symphony, composition for instrument, sound music, oratorio and so on.

4、The next hall was full of gongs and drums, and the oratorio began.

5、Haydn wrote his oratorio the Creation and another equally splendid work for voices, the Seasons.

6、At the end of the first part of the oratorio and throughout the second part, sumptuous refreshments were served.

7、As an old man, Haydn wrote his oratorio the Creation and another equally splendid work for voices, the Seasons.

8、Haydn, an excellent choral composer, wrote an oratorio called The Seasons (1801) that was based on pastoral poetry.

9、In an oratorio, soloists take the roles of characters in a loosely constructed story while the chorus adds detail and responds to the action.

10、Several developments of that time brought music close to its modern forms actually: They are the birth of the opera and the oratorio.

11、The oratorio is not staged like an opera, but oratorios, even sacred ones like Messiah, have been heavily influenced by opera.

12、"For the viewpoint of content, Western music may be classified as sacred music, secular music, concert music. Concert music comprises the entire field of vocal and instrumental music. Its peaks are the symphony and the oratorio."

13、In Viron, Southern Belgium, last August I reenacted an oratorio that gathered 500 participants on the occasion of the anniversary of a battle that killed 27000 people during War War I.