HANDEL,Frederick C., Jr. Frederick C. Handel Jr., 68, of East Hampton, beloved husband of Judith (Tapar) Handel, died peacefully Saturday (May 25, 2013) at St. Francis Hospital. Born in Hartford on ...

THE early spring of 1685, two centuries ago, brought into the world two unsurpassed musicians. Bountiful indeed was the good genius of humanity in giving birth that year to both a Handel and a John ...

George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) wrote his oratorio “The Messiah” in 1741 over a period of 24 days, using as his musical source a light Italian duet he composed shortly before beginning work on ...

You might not think George Frederick Handel would suddenly find a new relevance in the era of MeToo. Yet his 1749 oratorio Susanna fits the bill. It tells the biblical story of a woman who fights off ...

In the late summer of 1741, Composer George Frederick Handel, plagued by ill health and spurned by a once-adoring public, isolated himself in his London house to work on a new oratorio. Falling into ...

The English Concert, under the conductor Harry Bicket, returned to Carnegie Hall with one of Handel’s greatest hits. By Arya Roshanian R.B. Schlather’s vibrant staging of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare,” ...

If ever an artist was at odds with his work it was George Frederick Handel, composer of the sublime and soothing Water Music yet a corpulent glutton who succumbed to blindness, paralytic attacks, ...

Controversy simmered behind the writing and performance of one of the best-known musical works of the classical period, George Frederick Handel’s oratorio “Messiah.” At least, that’s the premise of ...

Meredith Monk’s “Cellular Songs,” a Kurt Weill rarity and a new take on Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” are among the highlights. By The New York Times The English Concert, under the conductor Harry ...