Having not found any large venues in the corridor region of Eastern Iowa hosting performances of Handel’s oratorio, Messiah, this holiday season, I thought, instead, I could present a history of the ...

The centuries-old tradition has returned to community theaters after a pandemic hiatus. If you attend this year’s performance of Handel’s Messiah by the Des Moines Community Orchestra, you’ll walk ...

Sacred music has endured for centuries with transcendent performances every holiday season. The National Philharmonic performs George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” at Strathmore in North Bethesda, ...

The Tabernacle Choir & Orchestra at Temple Square perform "Hallelujah," from Messiah. Handel wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741. The ...

Marissen says that Handel's audience would have understood those passages as referring to the Jews. And when they heard the "over-the-top triumph" of "Hallelujah," they would have seen it as a ...

Join the Village Community Chorale on Dec. 8 and Dec. 9 for the holiday classic Handel’s Messiah. The 80-voice choir will perform the “Christmas” portion of Messiah along with the Hallelujah Chorus, ...

Every Valley, The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah; By Charles King; Doubleday; 337 pp., $32.00 What is behind its staying power? Exploring that question is the subject of ...

Live Arts Maryland presented Handel’s “Messiah” and a Celebration of Christmas featuring the Annapolis Chorale, Annapolis Chamber Orchestra and guest soloists Sunday at St. Anne’s Episcopal Church.

Thanks for joining us as we enter the Christmas Season anticipating the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ — except in Bethlehem, where (newsflash) Christmas has been canceled. To compensate, let’s ...

Aisslinn Nosky wants her violin to sing. And she means that almost literally. As the concertmaster of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, Nosky spends a large chunk of every late fall and early ...

Its composer, George Frideric Handel, was born in 1685 in what is now Germany. Although his family discouraged him from a musical career, his astonishing natural talent proved unstoppable. Acquiring a ...

Close to three centuries old and performed umpteen times — everywhere, mostly around Christmas — Handel’s “Messiah” remains the most beloved oratorio around the world. Why? First, because it’s ...