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 ...

PRINCETON — The pages sit there, looking somewhat faded and fragile. Several of them contain musical staves, with notes splashed across in dark black ink. One clue as to the genius within this rare ...

Among the pedestaled titans of Western music, George Frideric Handel was the first composer whose work not only quickly became celebrated in his own time but has been heralded ever since. Before ...

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Two hundred and eighty-four years is plenty of time for something to go out of style or be swept under the rug of history. But don’t tell that to George Frideric Handel, who composed a bit of musical ...

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 ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The church’s urgent and eloquent version of Handel’s classic oratorio remains an inspired communal rite. By Zachary Woolfe The ...

Every December, choirs from around the world come together to perform Messiah by 18th-century composer George Frideric Handel. In Australia, there is at least one performance in most capital cities.

Performers onstage for the Dallas Bach Society's 2024 performance of Handel's "Messiah." L to R, soprano Kara McBain, mezzo-soprano Dianna Grabowski, conductor and artistic director James Richman, ...