Esteemed Italian conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini joins the Handel and Haydn Society for the award-winning organization's performances of Bach's Easter Oratorio. The Gramophone award winner and Grammy ...
“Messiah,” George Frederic Handel’s great oratorio, has become a ubiquitous part of Christmas celebrations worldwide — and yet it was written for Easter. Only the first third of “Messiah” is about the ...
Charles King, a professor of international affairs and government at Georgetown University, is the author of “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah.” ...
Next weekend, central Ohio classical music lovers will have a reason to exclaim “Hallelujah!” Next Sunday at the McCoy Center for the Arts, the New Albany Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will perform ...
With Easter come some staples: Peeps, egg hunts and, for churchgoers, George Frideric Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. It's the five-minute piece often sung at the end of the service on Easter. The music ...
Nicole Ault’s lament of our culture’s policy of giving no more than one holiday per year to any given oratorio—even George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah”—fails to note that this leaves room for other ...
“Messiah,” George Frederic Handel’s great oratorio, has become a ubiquitous part of Christmas celebrations worldwide — and yet it was written for Easter. Only the first third of “Messiah” is about the ...