With over 25 years of performing and recording experience, Passacaglia brings the music of the baroque era to life with a ...

Because classical music seasons tend to run from fall to spring, rather than across the calendar year, you might think it a challenge to find enough 2025 concerts to single out. But no worries.

Dr. King is a professor at Georgetown and the author of “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s ‘Messiah.’” When Charles Jennens, a wealthy art collector ...

(Courtesy of Doubleday and Mary Fecteau) Host Scott Tong gets the behind-the-scenes story of the creation of George Frideric Handel's "Messiah" with Georgetown professor Charles King, author of ...

It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near continuous performance from 1742, when it premiered, all the way up to the present," said author ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The story of George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah”—its composition, premier and gradual rise to worldwide popularity—has been told many times. Charles King’s innovation in “Every Valley ...

Die EU-Kommissionspräsidentin lobte dann noch den Handel zwischen der EU und der Türkei, der auf Rekordniveau gestiegen sei. Kein Wunder, dass Erdoğan gut gelaunt ist. Denn im schlimmsten Fall ...

No, crudel!” from Handel’s “Rinaldo.” The hopeful note sounded by Handel was shadowed by a suite of songs by Strauss: “Allerseelen” (or “All Souls’ Day”), “Morgen!” ...

When Charles Jennens sent his friend George Frideric Handel a new libretto for him to set to music in summer 1741, he was at first met with a long silence. Winter was approaching by the time ...

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. One of my fondest memories of Handel’s “Messiah” is a school trip to New York City to participate in the annual “Messiah Sing-in” at ...