Audiences applaud Portland Baroque Orchestra's "Messiah" in 2007. (Portland Baroque Orchestra/2007) The "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's "Messiah" is one of those pieces you don't think you ever need ...

For organists, December means stepping out of the choir loft and into the spotlight. “Most people, when they think of a pipe organ, they think of an organ played in church,” says organist Trent ...

Hallelujah! Last week the Opera Company of Philadelphia surprised holiday shoppers at Macy’s in downtown Philadelphia (which many old-time Philadelphians still refer to by the name of the original ...

George Friderc Handel (1685–1759) wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741. The first part of the oratorio foretells the Savior’s coming, ...