Handel was the composer Bruce had in mind for this week's Puzzler. And, as is sometimes the case, he wasn't just thinking of the composer. He was thinking of a specific piece of music. In this case, ...

Sacred music has endured for centuries with transcendent performances every holiday season. The National Philharmonic performs George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” at Strathmore in North Bethesda, ...

Barnaby Smith conducts the VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Baroque Orchestra in this timeless Christmas favourite, the 'Hallelujah' chorus from George Frideric Handel's Messiah, performed as part of the ...

This article was published 12/12/2024 (673 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. As Dec. 25 grows closer, so grows the urge to indulge in Christmas traditions. And 283 years since ...

Composer-commentator Rob Kapilow examines what makes Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" one of the best known — and best loved — pieces in all of... The Pure Power Of Handel's 'Hallelujah Chorus' The ...

The power of music to console and preserve is the underlying story of this new picture book based on the recording by Classical Kids of the same title. The compassionate character of Handel (who ...

The new text was more ambitious. Jennens wrote in a letter to a friend: “I hope [Handel] will lay out his whole Genius & Skill upon it, that the Composition may excel all his former Compositions, as ...

“I would uncover my head and kneel on his grave,” Ludwig van Beethoven once remarked about George Frederic Handel. And even as Beethoven lay dying, he venerated Handel as the greatest composer who ...

The "Hallelujah Chorus," from George Frideric Handel's Messiah, is such an iconic piece of music — and is so ingrained as a Christmas tradition — that it's easy to take its exuberance and its ...

As an endnote explains, George Frideric Handel played a pivotal role in creating and sustaining London's Foundling Hospital, the first orphanage and school in that city; he raised money through ...