This week on “Sunday Morning” (December 22)

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COVER STORY: The tale of Handel’s “Messiah”
Since its premiere in 1742, George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah,” a three.5-hour paintings for refrain, soloists and orchestra that comes with the “Hallelujah Refrain,” has transform one of the crucial most-heard items of classical track on Earth. Correspondent David Pogue seems to be again at the introduction of this masterwork with creator Charles King and conductor-musicologist Jane Glover, and examines how Biblical passages assembled by way of a rich English landowner affected by doom and melancholy would, within the arms of the German-British opera composer, transform a undying message of hope, and a Christmas custom.

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ALMANAC: December 22
“Sunday Morning” seems to be again at historic occasions in this date.

      
ARTS: In Asheville, N.C., gingerbread homes replicate group spirit
For greater than 3 a long time, Asheville, North Carolina, has hosted the Nationwide Gingerbread Contest, a birthday celebration of Christmas, creativity and carbohydrates. The flooding introduced by way of Storm Helene this previous fall cancelled the competition, however what were a vacation spot match for bakers and spectators has transform an advert hoc birthday celebration of Asheville. 40-one gingerbread creations were positioned round the town to lend a hand deliver vacation cheer (in addition to draw in donations and vacationer bucks) to the suffering town. Correspondent Conor Knight studies.

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MOVIES: Werner Herzog assists in keeping running, predicts: “It’s important to lift me out from a collection ft first”
Visionary director Werner Herzog has made greater than 20 function movies and greater than 30 documentaries. Nevertheless it wasn’t films that brought on the German-born filmmaker to transport to Los Angeles; it was once love. He talks with Turner Vintage Motion pictures host Ben Mankiewicz about his contemporary memoir, “Each and every Guy for Himself and God Towards All”; concerning the epic making of his 1982 vintage, “Fitzcarraldo”; and why he enjoys performing – when he will get to play the villain.

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HEADLINES: Why drone hysteria has taken off
By way of maximum accounts, alleged drone sightings were multiplying exponentially, with greater than 5,000 reported in simply the previous few weeks. However professionals say nearly all of studies about ordinary lighting fixtures within the sky are almost certainly the rest however drones. Correspondent Tom Hanson studies.

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PASSAGE: In memoriam
“Sunday Morning” recollects one of the crucial notable figures who left us this week.

      
WORLD: West Financial institution settlements, and the increasing divide of Israelis and Palestinians
Within the occupied West Financial institution, the Israeli agreement of Karnei Shomron is one among greater than 100 carved into Palestinian land. Lately, upwards of 700,000 Israelis are living in communities scattered throughout the West Financial institution and East Jerusalem, which the United Countries calls unlawful. About 15% of settlers are American citizens. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with two settlers, at the start from West Virginia and Detroit, and with Palestinians within the West Financial institution now residing at the different facet of an Israeli safety barrier.

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COMMENTARY: Bob Dylan’s enduring love affair with the flicks
The long-lasting Bob Dylan has lengthy been a silver display presence – as an actor, an issue of documentaries, and as portrayed by way of Hollywood heavyweights, from Christian Bale to Timothée Chalamet (big name of the brand new biopic “A Entire Unknown”). However as historian Douglas Brinkley issues out, Dylan’s love of flicks has been a ordinary theme in his artwork, and his personality, all his lifestyles.

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Darren Criss
Kelefa Sanneh studies. 

You’ll move the vacation album “A Very Darren Crissmas” by way of clicking at the embed under (Unfastened Spotify registration required to listen to the tracks in complete):

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MUSIC: A Darren Criss efficiency
       

COMMENTARY: Reflections at the messages of Christmas and Hanukkah
Wednesday will mark each Christmas Day and the primary night time of Hanukkah. Mariann Budde, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C., and creator and rabbi Steve Leder, of Los Angeles, be offering their ideas on what the vacation season way to us all.

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MUSIC: Darren Criss plays with the Younger Other people’s Refrain of New York Town
     

NATURE: TBD
     

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Hollywood Legends IV (YouTube Video)
Watch extra vintage “Sunday Morning” interviews with one of the crucial movie trade’s maximum luminous stars. From 2014, Leonardo DiCaprio talks concerning the making of “The Wolf of Wall Side road”; from 2012, Jane Fonda discusses what she calls her “3rd and ultimate act”; from 2015, Russell Crowe talks about his first movie as a director, “The Water Diviner”; from 2010, Harrison Ford describes stardom and his duty to his target audience; and from 2018, Denzel Washington discusses his occupation on display and on level, as he seems in a Broadway revival of the Eugene O’Neill vintage, “The Iceman Cometh.”

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