Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The baroque composer was passionate about food and music, as celebrated at the refurbished Handel & Hendrix in London museum reopening this month It was in a Georgian house in London 300 years ago ...

THE early spring of 1685, two centuries ago, brought into the world two unsurpassed musicians. Bountiful indeed was the good genius of humanity in giving birth that year to both a Handel and a John ...

George Frideric Handel (at age 64 in 1749) produced works, including Messiah that dazzled even the musical titans who would succeed him. AGE Fotostock George Frideric Handel's Messiah was originally ...

At Carnegie Hall, the English Concert made a case for “Hercules” as a strikingly modern dramatic oratorio of psychological and musical depth. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim The first part of Handel’s ...

George Frideric Handel and His Messiah: The Perfect Holiday Collection article by C. Michael Bailey, published on December 26, 2005 at All About Jazz. Find more Bailey's Bundles articles ...

“I would uncover my head and kneel on his grave,” Ludwig van Beethoven once remarked about George Frederic Handel. And even as Beethoven lay dying, he venerated Handel as the greatest composer who ...

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 ...

My wife and I always begin Christmas by attending a performance of Handel's Messiah. This Christmas, my son John gave me a new book, "Messiah - The Composition and Afterlife of Handel's Masterpiece" ...