We’ve looked at a variety of classical Christmas music over the past few weeks. We considered somber music for a solstice of solitude and little-known Christmas operas such as Hans Pfitzner’s ...
For nearly a century and a half, voices have rung out in Chicago each December, proclaiming: “Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!” The German-British composer George Frideric ...
George Frideric Handel's Messiah shows no signs of slowing down 273 years after its debut in Dublin on that cool Irish Friday, 13 April 1742. This current year's batch of recordings includes a ...
We'll celebrate the season tonight with Christmas choral music presented by the Handel and Haydn Society, America's oldest continuously performing ensemble. Tune in at 8 p.m. on 91.1 and 107.5 FM and ...
Nothing ushers in Christmas like the music of George Frideric Handel’s The Messiah, prophetic Scripture of the promised one set to music in 1741. And though the composition was originally performed ...
The singers of Areté present music from George Frederic Handel’s timeless classic Messiah. Wyant Morton will conduct. Samuelson Chapel will be filled with joyous refrains and exultant arias, including ...