Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

But perhaps England’s most famous composer is not British at all: the German-born George Frideric Handel. And unlike many composers who moved around a lot (think Mozart and Beethoven), Handel liked to ...

Soprano Jeanine De Bique joins Baroque specialists B'Rock in a 20th anniversary celebration concert featuring the music of Handel, Rameau, Zelenka and Purcell.

Handel? The guy who wrote ‘Messiah’? There’s a festival built around that guy? Yes, George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) is that guy, but he was also an opera guy, a cantata guy, an oratorio guy, a ...

Picture this: two ambitious young Turks at the Hamburg Opera on Dec. 5, 1704. Johann Mattheson, age 23: tenor, harpsichordist, conductor, composer. George Frideric ...

Most people who experience George Frideric Handel’s operas do so as spectators, taking in the music and drama onstage from a comfy, velvet-wrapped seat in the audience. Conductor Jane Glover, however, ...

One of the giants of Western music died 250 years ago Tuesday. George Frideric Handel, for his time, lived a good, long life. He was 74. Handel has been called the first classical music superstar. His ...

The baroque composer was passionate about food and music, as celebrated at the refurbished Handel & Hendrix in London museum reopening this month It was in a Georgian house in London 300 years ago ...

George Frideric Handel and His Messiah: The Perfect Holiday Collection article by C. Michael Bailey, published on December 26, 2005 at All About Jazz. Find more Bailey's Bundles articles ...

No one today knows the name of one of the great, unsung heroes of the classical music canon — the composer George Frideric Handel’s tailor. Without the garment-maker, the world would never have ...

One of London’s quirkiest museums is the Handel Hendrix House, adjoining Georgian townhouses that two of the world’s greatest musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix, used to call home.