Its composer, George Frideric Handel, was born in 1685 in what is now Germany. Although his family discouraged him from a musical career, his astonishing natural talent proved unstoppable. Acquiring a ...

George Frideric Handel's Messiah shows no signs of slowing down 273 years after its debut in Dublin on that cool Irish Friday, 13 April 1742. This current year's batch of recordings includes a ...

Oh, Handel, you populated your “Messiah” with so many pleasures: the fugues that surge like ocean surf; the shivery gravity of the strings, early on; the rhythms that connote struggle, groping through ...

“Messiah,” George Frederic Handel’s great oratorio, has become a ubiquitous part of Christmas celebrations worldwide — and yet it was written for Easter. Only the first third of “Messiah” is about the ...

For nearly a century and a half, voices have rung out in Chicago each December, proclaiming: “Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!” The German-British composer George Frideric ...

Join the Village Community Chorale on Dec. 8 and Dec. 9 for the holiday classic Handel’s Messiah. The 80-voice choir will perform the “Christmas” portion of Messiah along with the Hallelujah Chorus, ...

‘Messiah’ is a Christian masterpiece known by everyone. It is surely possible to be somewhere in the United States in the Christmas season without ready access to a performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” ...

A Christmas favorite of many is Handel’s Messiah. I have even heard that the opening lines of its Hallelujah Chorus are the most recognizable piece of music the world over. One time I was with some ...

It’s December, so you’re probably starting to hear Christmas music everywhere. “Jingle Bells,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” are all favorites, but what about the Hallelujah ...

It’s December, so you’re probably starting to hear Christmas music everywhere. “Jingle Bells,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Baby It’s Cold Outside” are all favorites, but what about Handel's Messiah? The ...