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 ...

Every Valley, The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah; By Charles King; Doubleday; 337 pp., $32.00 What is behind its staying power? Exploring that question is the subject of ...

Having not found any large venues in the corridor region of Eastern Iowa hosting performances of Handel’s oratorio, Messiah, this holiday season, I thought, instead, I could present a history of the ...

Handel wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741. The first part of the oratorio foretells the Savior’s coming while the last part focuses on ...

The journalists who bring you The Rundown blog were debating last week what gift we could give you, our loyal readers, for the holidays. One thing sprang to mind that is almost universally enjoyed ...

The centuries-old tradition has returned to community theaters after a pandemic hiatus. If you attend this year’s performance of Handel’s Messiah by the Des Moines Community Orchestra, you’ll walk ...

The Symphony Choir of Cape Town will once again perform Handel’s Messiah, the uplifting English-language oratorio, in the intimate venue of Christ Church, Constantia on Saturday 22 December at 19:00.

I recall walking through the lobby of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel around 1978, when TVs were blasting the Israeli broadcast premiere of Handel’s “Messiah.” Sung in Hebrew and played by the Israel ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...