Just about any holiday season, you can hardly turn around without bumping into multiple performances of Handel’s “Messiah.” But there are more than a few other worthy Handel oratorios audiences don’t ...

Or it would be if choral groups had an equal-oratorio policy with Handel. Such a policy, in addition, would give us regular airings of another 23 Handel oratorios, all late works (the composer turned ...

FOR the past twenty-three years, the only Handel oratorio to be heard in town was the “Messiah,” which was produced annually not so much as a musical offering but rather as a Christmas devotion. Now, ...

Classical music fans often hear a signature piece by George Frideric Handel each December. Handel’s famous oratorio “Messiah,” and its beloved “Hallelujah” chorus, is a favorite during Christmas ...

Messiah, the most famous oratorio ever written, is quite unlike Handel's other ones, let alone those by most earlier and later composers. A German who initially made his fame writing Italian operas ...

Dallas Opera music director Graeme Jenkins (left) conducts during a rehearsal for "Theodora" at the Murchison Performing Arts Center at the University of North Texas. Graeme Jenkins is a very busy man ...

Evergreen of Evergreens, Oratorio of Oratorios, forever and ever! Would Handel’s “Messiah” be as ubiquitous if the composer had, in summer 1741, been handed a different biblical life to set to music, ...

About six years ago, on one of my many trips to London, I took the Underground to Bond Street, walked down South Molton to Brook Street, and arrived finally at the former residence of 18th-century ...

George Frideric Handel (at age 64 in 1749) produced works, including Messiah that dazzled even the musical titans who would succeed him. AGE Fotostock George Frideric Handel's Messiah was originally ...