"Messiah is unique in the canon of Western music," writes Maestro Richman. "Performed every year since its premiere in 1742 to ever-growing audiences, its appeal knows no boundaries." The first ...

Asking a flutist to play violin portions of Handel’s “Messiah” is a bit tricky since, among other things, flutists need to breathe during long, rapid-fire passages. It’s also an adjustment for the ...

Performers onstage for the Dallas Bach Society's 2024 performance of Handel's "Messiah." L to R, soprano Kara McBain, mezzo-soprano Dianna Grabowski, conductor and artistic director James Richman, ...

Spire Chamber Ensemble will perform Handel’s “Messiah” on Dec. 18. Andrew Schwartz For lovers of Handel’s “Messiah,” Kansas City is a great place to be in December. Not only do you get a big, ...

The climax to the Proms' Choral Day could only be George Frideric Handel's majestic Messiah. This 1789 arrangement by Mozart was performed by The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, joined by an ...

Two hundred and eighty-four years is plenty of time for something to go out of style or be swept under the rug of history. But don’t tell that to George Frideric Handel, who composed a bit of musical ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Two performances, at Trinity Church Wall Street and the New York Philharmonic, were similar yet showed how beauty emerges in ...

Dr. King is a professor at Georgetown and the author of “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s ‘Messiah.’” When Charles Jennens, a wealthy art collector, first heard ...

Curious twists of observance announced the arrival of the 2024 Christmas season. Despite efforts of retailers to launch advertising campaigns weeks if not months before Black Friday, families were ...