As Handel once remarked when congratulated on the success of a “Messiah” performance: “I should be sorry if I only entertained them – I wish to make them better.” The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, in its ...

North Dakota State University Music will present a holiday performance featuring Part I of Handel's "Messiah" and the Bach "Magnificat in D" at 2 p.m. Dec. 13 in Festival Concert Hall. Tickets are $15 ...

The Handel and Haydn Society (H&H) and Artistic Director Harry Christophers announce the 2012–2013 Season, featuring the Period Instrument Orchestra and Chorus performing works of the masters of the ...

No matter how many times you hear Handel’s “Messiah,” the great oratorio still inspires wonder. How did Handel possibly turn out such a masterpiece in just over three feverish weeks in 1741? The 265 ...

The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra presents its annual performance of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah, Part One and Hallelujah Chorus at St. Anthony of Padua Church in New Bedford at 3 p.m. Saturday, ...

As the celebrity University Challenge teams were much slower to identify this Magnificat as Bach’s than was my six-year-old grandson, a new recording may be a good place to start the year. Vox Luminis ...

The pairing of Bach’s E flat Magnificat and Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum resonates surprisingly on several levels, although these giants of north German music never met. Both are occasional festive works ...