Retail has Black Friday. Classical music has “Messiah” and “Nutcracker” season, and perhaps no classical music organization in the country is so entwined with “Messiah” as Boston’s own Handel and ...

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No Christmas season, it seems, would be complete without a performance of "Messiah," an oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel in 1741, and which has been popular with audiences ever since.

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 ...

Find a book excerpt here. Last December, host Scott Tong got the “behind the scenes” story of the creation of George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” with Georgetown professor Charles King, author of the ...

Two hundred and eighty-four years is plenty of time for something to go out of style or be swept under the rug of history. But don’t tell that to George Frideric Handel, who composed a bit of musical ...

Now that the Christmas season is here, people in Winston-Salem will be able to enjoy two traditional performances of George Frederick Handel’s oratorio, “Messiah.” The Mozart Club’s 82nd performance ...

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 ...

NPR broadcast a live performance of Handel's "Messiah" last weekend from Philadelphia. Our excerpts from that broadcast come from the Christmas portion of the oratorio, performed by the Philadelphia ...