King's new book, "Every Valley" (Doubleday), gives us the backstory of "Messiah" and its "Hallelujah Chorus," which comes about two-thirds of the way through Handel's oratorio. "It's not the finale!" ...

Though in popular culture the “Hallelujah” chorus has come to signify any kind of jubilant celebration. In Handel’s Messiah it is specifically a celebration of Christ’s ultimate ...

Though many in number, together they produced a sometimes weakly pallid sound in Handel’s many demanding choruses ... the tenor’s aria just before “Hallelujah.” Both St. Thomas and ...

Most music lovers have encountered George Frideric Handel through holiday-time renditions of the Messiah's 'Hallelujah' chorus or his Music for the Royal Fireworks. Life and Music Handel was born in ...

Handel’s Messiah for Our Time is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...

Handel’s Messiah was one of the very first concerts that I went to as a child with my parents, and it’s a work that my Welsh grandmother sang in a choir. So I am shouting Hallelujah to the ...

After the king’s death in 1727, Handel was commissioned to compose Zadok the Priest for the coronation of George II. The anthem has been sung at every British coronation ever since. Handel’s ...