"Messiah is unique in the canon of Western music," writes Maestro Richman. "Performed every year since its premiere in 1742 to ever-growing audiences, its appeal knows no boundaries." The first ...
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The story of Handel's "Messiah"
It's probably the most-heard piece of classical music on Earth, the most sung, and the most recorded. It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near ...
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Handel’s ‘Messiah’ wasn’t meant to be Christmas music, but it still became a Chicago holiday staple
Some Chicagoans came to appreciate “Messiah” as a piece of music with appeal that extended beyond its Christian themes.
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 ...
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