The Eureka Symphony’s “Divine Inspiration – Handel’s Messiah Concert” — dedicated to the memory of Siddiq Kilkenny, Eureka Symphony board member and chorus member — will be performed Dec. 6 and 7 at 7 ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. Photo: Jenny Kane/AP/Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP/Jon Elswick/AP We wouldn’t ...

Nicole Ault’s lament of our culture’s policy of giving no more than one holiday per year to any given oratorio—even George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah”—fails to note that this leaves room for other ...

This year marks the 340th anniversary of Handel's birth and the 225th anniversary of First Baptist Church. First Baptist Church in Savannah will perform the Easter portion of "Messiah" on Palm Sunday, ...

LA GRANDE — Watching or listening to Handel’s “Messiah,” which chronicles the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, is a deeply emotional experience for many people. The audience attending this ...

Sacred music meets the theatricality of opera in Handel's oratorio Messiah, here conducted by Laurence Equilbey and performed by the Insula Orchestra, Polish artist Jakub Józef Orliński and the Chœurs ...

Don Densmore of Perry Village has been part of the Messiah Chorus of Lake County for 67 years. He’s now the oldest of the singers in the 150-member group. Its 75th presentation of Handel’s “Messiah” ...

Charles King, a professor of international affairs and government at Georgetown University, is the author of “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah.” ...

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Handel's Messiah premiere in Dublin, Apollo 13 space crisis, Edict of Nantes, and more historical events shaping culture and science.