Handel wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741. The first part of the oratorio foretells the Savior’s coming while the last part ...

It's probably the most-heard piece of classical music on Earth, the most sung, and the most recorded. It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near ...

However, Handel himself only wrote the music for “Messiah,” and Charles Jennens assembled and arranged the text. King says Jennens was a wealthy landowner and proto-industrialist in the English ...

While legend declares that this accelerated fervor resulted from divine inspiration, it was certainly helped by the fact that in some parts of Messiah, Handel recycled his own music. The well ...

The pieces so powerful that you’ll be out of your seat, air-conducting to the full force of an imaginary orchestra, or ...

And they were treated to Handel’s brilliant music storytelling, performed beautifully, and after standing for the “Hallelujah” Chorus, rewarded the musicians with sustained raucous applause. But ...

Opposition to Christian music in one school in Finland resulted in the cancelation of Handel’s “Messiah” in another, Finnish media reported. In Hämeenlinna, a child had objected to songs ...

The concerts will be at The Auditorium, 50 E. Ida B Wells Drive, on January 11 and January 12. Tickets, starting at $39, are now on sale at www.auditoriumtheatre.org or calling The Auditorium's ...

Since its formation in 2017, the Piccadilly Sinfonietta have become a regular feature on the UK concert scene, giving over 200 performances a year in some of the country’s most beautiful and ...