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 ...

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, ...

“Messiah” performances are held throughout the Christian world, from Boston to Boise to Los Angeles to Philadelphia to New York and numerous cities in between — including a number of cities in Utah.

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — The Augustana College Department of Music will present George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, at 3 p.m. in Centennial Hall. The performance will feature the ...

Attending an annual performance of Handel’s oratorio Messiah has been part of my life since childhood, and I have tried to pass this tradition on to my own children and grandchildren whenever and ...

Photo provided by Marietta College Jay Dougherty conducts a performance of Messiah in the Basilica Church of St. Mary of the Assumption in Marietta in December 2017. This year will mark the 92nd ...

With its sheer scale and magnificence, there is something compelling about the performance of an oratorio, the combination of full orchestral resources and a mighty choir. The word ‘oratorio’ has its ...

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 ...

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