It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer ... music curator Robin McClellan showed me a replica of Handel's original score. "It shows the speed that he wrote. It's so messy!" ...

Handel wrote the music but the original idea and the libretto — “the book” as it would be called on Broadway — belonged wholly to Jennens. “Messiah” has endured for centuries as a ...

George Frideric Handel titled his most famous oratorio simply Messiah, not The Messiah. Indeed it’s not even a single work. He made revisions even between the original manuscript and the April ...

So, he collected Handel's scores. He wrote libretti for Handel ... Jeff Spurgeon: George Bernard Shaw was among those who longed to hear Messiah in its original Baroque proportions. But it wasn't ...

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 ...

(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 anthem has been sung at every British coronation ever since. Handel’s most famous oratorio is Messiah composed in 1741. When it premiered in Dublin the following year, Handel’s name drew ...

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

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 ...