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 ...

Nicole Ault’s lament of our culture’s policy of giving no more than one holiday per year to any given oratorio—even George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah”—fails to note that this leaves ...

It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near continuous performance from 1742, when it premiered, all the way up to the present," said author ...

Reasons for the Messiah’s enduring power are manifold, though certainly they begin with the music itself, which manages to ...

Charles King, a professor of international affairs and government at Georgetown University, is the author of “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah.” ...

Handel’s “Messiah” is performed every Christmas season around the world. Originally composed in 1741, the English-language oratorio, almost entirely made up of text from the King James Bible ...

Handel's Messiah was broadcast on Radio 3 on Christmas Day 2009 at 7pm during Performance on 3. Conductor Laurence Cummings and director Deborah Warner introduce and discuss each part of Handel's ...

The anthem has been sung at every British coronation ever since. Handel’s most famous oratorio is Messiah composed in 1741. When it premiered in Dublin the following year, Handel’s name drew ...

Handel’s Messiah for Our Time is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – Handel’s Messiah is a staple of the Christmas season, and the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra will perform it two times this weekend with an event to emulate the mood ...