Moreover, the “Messiah” is a piece of modern music built out of very old words, but what it offers is not blind faith in them. It is instead the working out in song of a purposeful ...

The leaner, swifter Messiah turns out to be far more exciting. But tradition (often defined as the memory of the last bad performance) dies slowly. “There is this custom that any music dealing ...

It's probably the most-heard piece of classical music on Earth, the most sung, and the most recorded. It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near ...

But it is also a tribute to the overwhelming effect of the Messiah, which is a feat of sustained inspiration arguably unsurpassed in the canon of Western classical music. “Comfort ye ...