Since its premiere in 1742, George Frideric Handel's "Messiah," a 3.5-hour work for chorus, soloists and orchestra that includes the "Hallelujah Chorus," has become one of the most-heard pieces of ...

That will probably be even more the case this year, for one big reason. The “Messiah” was born of — and built for — a world awash in political turmoil, social unrest and fear about the future.

How the Ivy League broke America, a Japanese boxer on death row, Nick Cave, and the dark origins of Impressionism. Plus building a Palestinian state, Jimmy O. Yang, Lucy Calkins, Handel's Messiah ...

The story of Handel's "Messiah" 07:42 It's probably the most-heard piece of classical music on Earth, the most sung, and the most recorded. It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George ...

That “Messiah” was first performed in Dublin, where Handel had been invited to give a series of concerts in the winter of 1741-42—and not in London—is itself suggestive of a waning career.

Nicole Ault’s lament of our culture’s policy of giving no more than one holiday per year to any given oratorio—even George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah”—fails to note that this leaves ...