Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since its premiere in 1742, George Frideric Handel's "Messiah," a 3.5-hour work for chorus, soloists and orchestra that includes ...

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 ...

One of the giants of Western music died 250 years ago Tuesday. George Frideric Handel, for his time, lived a good, long life. He was 74. Handel has been called the first classical music superstar. His ...

Among the pedestaled titans of Western music, George Frideric Handel was the first composer whose work not only quickly became celebrated in his own time but has been heralded ever since. Before ...

No one today knows the name of one of the great, unsung heroes of the classical music canon — the composer George Frideric Handel’s tailor. Without the garment-maker, the world would never have ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - George Frideric Handel is best remembered for his beautiful music. But ahead of the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, an exhibition on the creator of "Messiah" looks ...

In 1707 George Frideric Handel, a 22-year-old radical composer working in Rome, startled the Vatican and the public with “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” (The Triumph of Time and Disillusion).

“Too Hot to Handel: The Jazz-Gospel Messiah,” the reimagined version of George Frideric Handel’s 1741 oratorio, returns to the Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive, Chicago. The production, ...

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 book "Every Valley: The ...