George Frideric Handel (at age 64 in 1749) produced works, including Messiah that dazzled even the musical titans who would succeed him. AGE Fotostock George Frideric Handel's Messiah was originally ...

IT is a remarkable fact, and one not very creditable to the musical public of England, that the works of Mainwaring, Hawkins, Burney, and Coxe should remain for almost an entire century after the ...

Meet the unlikely characters who defined this musical classic. Handel’s Messiah is one of the most popular classical compositions played at the holidays. Filled with biblical passages and soaring ...

The publication of the Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia in 2009 marked the 250th anniversary of his death in April 1759. It presents the results of recent scholarship after some forty years in which ...

Andrea Asuaje is a senior radio producer with “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley.” Prior to her work at GBH, she was a senior producer and show runner at Rococo Punch; and a reporter, producer and ...

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. One of my fondest memories of Handel’s “Messiah” is a school trip to New York City to participate in the annual “Messiah Sing-in” at Lincoln Center. My ...

The first part of Handel’s oratorio will be heard at Trinity Church, where it was performed in 1770. By James Barron Meredith Monk’s “Cellular Songs,” a Kurt Weill rarity and a new take on Bach’s ...