Composed in just three weeks, Handel’s Messiah remains a beloved classic nearly 300 years on. Its origin story is marked by ...

Classical music fans often hear a signature piece by George Frideric Handel each December. Handel’s famous oratorio “Messiah,” and its beloved “Hallelujah” chorus, is a favorite during Christmas ...

I’ve been immersed in one of my all-time favorite pieces of music, George Frideric Handel’s magnificent “Messiah.” It all began on a Tuesday when I was subjected to an MRI, magnetic resonance imaging, ...

Friday, on the eve of Colin Powell’s visit to Egypt, Los Angeles Opera brought Egypt to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The secretary of state’s trip is important business and so, too, should be Handel ...

For years, Robert Butts, the music director of the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey, has wanted to perform Handel's "Giulio Cesare," ("Julius Caesar"), one of the most appreciated of the composer's ...

Andrea Asuaje is a senior radio producer with “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley.” Prior to her work at GBH, she was a senior producer and show runner at Rococo Punch; and a reporter, producer and ...

Linda Wertheimer talks to Nicholas McGegan, music director of the Gottingen Festival in Germany. He will conduct Gloria in Excelsis Deo, a composition for soprano and strings by George Frideric Handel ...

You might not think George Frederick Handel would suddenly find a new relevance in the era of MeToo. Yet his 1749 oratorio Susanna fits the bill. It tells the biblical story of a woman who fights off ...

Around the Bay Area, it’s the tech startups that get all the attention. But the entrepreneurial spirit is just as vibrant in the arts. Take, as just one example, Black Box Baroque, a fledgling company ...