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 ...

Jeff Spurgeon: From Historic Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan, this is a live broadcast of Handel's oratorio Messiah, performed by the choir of Trinity Wall Street and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra.

The 2024 Messiah Palm must go to Dame Jane, whose tirelessly energetic leadership of her Trinity forces (she’s 75!) made Handel’s long-familiar work sound fresh and new with her commandingly ...

For more than three centuries, German-British composer George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” has been a staple of the classical canon during the holidays. It’s a vaulting oratorio, in English, of the ...

It’s like a “Messiah” every Sunday. Classical music lovers gather each December for an annual ritual of music writ large, ...

(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 ...

The symphony had done it with a chorus, and the choral has performed in the past, but it’s been about 10 years since someone has done the full Christmas portion of Handel’s ‘Messiah.’” One of the ...

I’ve been immersed in one of my all-time favorite pieces of music, George Frideric Handel’s magnificent “Messiah.” It all began on a Tuesday when I was subjected to an MRI, magnetic ...

Led by Assistant Professor of Music and Director Troy Robertson, the first Messiah rehearsal will be January 26. The first ...

Charles King's new book "Every Valley" tells the backstory of "Messiah," a staple of the Christmas season widely considered George Frideric Handel's masterpiece. Then, musicologist Martin Clarke ...

In what church leaders hope will be a yearly event, Emmanuel Episcopal Church in La Grange staged a performance last week of George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah.” The oratorio, written in only ...

The symphony had done it with a chorus, and the choral has performed in the past, but it’s been about 10 years since someone has done the full Christmas portion of Handel’s ‘Messiah.’” ...