For nearly a century and a half, voices have rung out in Chicago each December, proclaiming: “Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!” The German-British composer George Frideric ...

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

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

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 ...

Meet the unlikely characters who defined this musical classic. Handel’s Messiah is one of the most popular classical compositions played at the holidays. Filled with biblical passages and soaring ...

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 ...

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 ...

Along: 7-9:30 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, 815 E. 16th St., Loveland. The Kalos Arts Foundation sing-along features the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Writer Nick Drake has recently returned from Cop26, where his latest work, The Farewell Glacier, was performed. Based on the poetry collection he wrote after a journey around the Svalbard archipelago ...

George Frideric Handel's Messiah shows no signs of slowing down 273 years after its debut in Dublin on that cool Irish Friday, 13 April 1742. This current year's batch of recordings includes a ...