Composed in just three weeks, Handel’s Messiah remains a beloved classic nearly 300 years on. Its origin story is marked by ...

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 ...

The Dallas Bach’s Society’s 2024 performance went back to the original 1742 manuscript, in several numbers quite different from modern norms. This year, by contrast, artistic director James Richman ...

The performance began with the two male soloists, tenor Orson Van Gay and bass-baritone Shyheim Selvan Hinnant, singing in ...

Handel’s “Messiah” — by far the finest and most sophisticated of any Christmas staple, whether carol, ballet, poem, painting, cartoon or Jimmy Stewart movie — has always been a people’s musical ...

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What: Honor Handel’s most outstanding work with joyous refrains and exultant arias, including the iconic “Hallelujah” chorus. Conducted by James Lowe and chorale director Dr. Meg Stohlmann, featuring ...

And Redpath’s solo turns were indeed among the highlights of Thursday’s performance of “Messiah” by the SPCO and local choir ...

Messiah, the most famous oratorio ever written, is quite unlike Handel's other ones, let alone those by most earlier and later composers. A German who initially made his fame writing Italian operas ...

The Augustana Oratorio Society will perform Handel’s “Messiah” on Feb. 22 at Augustana College’s Centennial Hall with guest soloists and orchestra.

The Community Messiah Sing-Along Organizing Committee, in collaboration with St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, is set to host the ...

Crisp, brisk, and almost frantically presented, this Czech performance of Messiah stands as one with the greatest velocity on record, competing with both McCreesh (Archiv, 1997) and the Scholars ...