Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During the Great Frost of 1740, while the Thames froze, Handel was not idle. As though to shut the winter out ...
George Frideric Handel (1685—1759) was a bit of a larger-than- life character whose music, and its importance, could stand a bit of Reason, that period between the 1620s and the 1780s when the social, ...
Twenty-four dancers perform "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato," the resplendent Mark Morris masterpiece that returned to Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall on Thursday night. That number, like just ...
Morris’s glorious production reveals an insightful affection for Handel’s musical responses to Milton’s poems L’Allegro (‘Mirth’) and Il Penseroso (‘Melancholy’), but it is cavalier with the ode’s ...
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