“I can live without an afterlife, I can live without a god,” writes author Sasha Sagan in “For Small Creatures Such as We,” her recently published book. “But not without celebrations, not without ...

This season features a stellar quartet of Boston Baroque favorites—soprano Amanda Forsythe, mezzo-soprano Paula Murrihy, ...

Handel's "Messiah" was so popular in the composer's day that gentlemen had to check their swords at the door and ladies were asked to leave their hoop skirts at home to allow more room. History says ...

Beethoven adored him, calling him "the greatest composer that ever lived," while Tchaikovsky dismissed him as "fourth rate." Despite those mixed reviews, George Frideric Handel lives on as one of the ...

Every Christmas season, classical musicians everywhere carry on the centuries-old custom of performing Handel's Baroque masterpiece. Hear a part... 'Messiah': A Holiday Tradition Transcending Time ...

Handel's "Messiah" and "Hallelujah," a staple of the holidays composed by George Frideric Handel over 280 years ago and still moves audiences around the world - about 30 years ago, the maestra Marin ...

In every classical music writer’s life, there are three great inevitabilities: death, taxes, and writing up Handel’s “Messiah” every December. But as “Messiah” goes, one could do a whole lot worse ...

DANBURY ­-- The Danbury Music Centre will present its annual performance of "Messiah" Dec. 19. The 7:30 p.m. performance will be at St. Peter Church in Danbury. The church is on Main Street, across ...

DANBURY ­-- The Danbury Music Centre will present its annual performance of "Messiah" on Dec. 19 at 7:30 p.m. It will be at St. Peter Church in Danbury. The church is on Main Street, across the street ...

For the first-time Dublin tourist, there are the touchstone attractions - the Viking tour, Kilmainham Gaol, the inevitable pints… and there's no knocking any of the above. But during those rare oul’ ...

George Frideric Handel was a 'lugubrious, heavy-drinking, heavy-eating, very lustful man,' according to Baroque musician Karim Nasr, who plays oboes, bassoons and other wind instruments from the ...