Some Chicagoans came to appreciate “Messiah” as a piece of music with appeal that extended beyond its Christian themes.
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*This episode originally aired December 8, 2015. Handel's Messiah is possibly the most famous and popular piece of classical music of all time. Yet it's full of secrets and surprises — it wasn't ...
NEWBURYPORT - The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues at 1 p.m. with a special compilation broadcast: “Handel at the Met.” It features highlights from the Met’ ...
One of London’s quirkiest museums is the Handel Hendrix House, adjoining Georgian townhouses that two of the world’s greatest musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix, used to call home. The ...
I recall walking through the lobby of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel around 1978, when TVs were blasting the Israeli broadcast premiere of Handel’s “Messiah.” Sung in Hebrew and played by the Israel ...
Happy 330th birthday to George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) – or is it George Frederick Handel, or Georg Friedrich Häendel? Whatever you call him, he’s certainly one of the greatest Baroque Era ...
One of the moments I think I became aware that Handel is a great dramatic composer was when Christopher Hogwood’s recording of Messiah came out in 1980 while I was at university: suddenly there seemed ...
Fact-check: Handel claims Obama flew $2 billion to Iran, admitted it is being used to fund terrorism All politics might be local but foreign policy dominated the open of the televised debate in the ...