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 ...
The Handel and Haydn Society will welcome acclaimed soprano Joélle Harvey to join the H+H Orchestra under the direction ...
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Most music lovers have encountered George Frideric Handel ...
George Frideric Handel wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741. While legend declares that this accelerated fervor resulted from divine ...
The composer George Frideric Handel wrote this letter to his friend and librettist Charles Jennens on 19th July 1744. It was written about a year after the London premiere of Handel's great ...
(Courtesy of Doubleday and Mary Fecteau) Host Scott Tong gets the behind-the-scenes story of the creation of George Frideric Handel's "Messiah" with Georgetown professor Charles King, author of ...