Regardless of where you live, the odds are good that, during the Christmas season, someone is performing Handel’s Messiah in your area. If you’ve never seen a performance of this masterful oratorio, ...

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 ...

For the first time in decades, George Frederic Handel’s most famous oratorio, “Messiah.” will be performed in its entirety in Vermont. “It’s a masterpiece. It’s a great, great piece,” says conductor ...

Meet the unlikely characters who defined this musical classic. Handel’s Messiah is one of the most popular classical compositions played at the holidays. Filled with biblical passages and soaring ...

Boston has been a two-“Messiah” city for some time now, and there’s the temptation to think of Boston Baroque’s as the other one in town. The Handel and Haydn Society, after all, gave America’s first ...

Among the pedestaled titans of Western music, George Frideric Handel was the first composer whose work not only quickly became celebrated in his own time but has been heralded ever since. Before ...

Dr. King is a professor at Georgetown and the author of “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s ‘Messiah.’” When Charles Jennens, a wealthy art collector, first heard ...

Thanks for joining us as we enter the Christmas Season anticipating the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ — except in Bethlehem, where (newsflash) Christmas has been canceled. To compensate, let’s ...

Charles King, a professor at Georgetown University, is the author of “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah.” We will soon be entering “Messiah” season — the ...

No work of western classical music is more closely associated with the Christmas season than German-born composer George Frideric Handel’s Messiah, which premiered in 1742. This was in the wake of ...

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 ...