Handel’s Messiah is one of the great pieces of Baroque oratorio music. George Handel, though born in Germany, became a ...

Dennis E. Northway decided over a quarter century ago that if Evanston could have an annual Bach Week Festival at an Episcopal church, Oak Park could have a Handel Week Festival at an Episcopal church ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s sacred music is a form of prayer. George Frideric Handel, a more worldly fellow, a composer of operas, wrote sacred music to entertain. Bach’s sacred music is easy to admire; ...

Follow the music to the rehearsal rooms of the Southwest Symphony Orchestra and you will hear what many consider some of the most celestial sounds of all time: Georg Friedrich Händel’s “Messiah.” If ...

Kathleen Battle’s status as music’s bad girl has been overplayed. If talent warrants, performing artists should be given wide space for personal temperament. Battle’s talent warrants. This collection ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s sacred music is a form of prayer. George Frideric Handel, a more worldly fellow, a composer of operas, wrote sacred music to entertain. Bach’s sacred music is easy to admire; ...

Better known for instrumental virtuosity, Antonio Vivaldi was also a prolific composer for the voice. In a well-designed program, Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society celebrated Vivaldi ...

“Messiah” performances are held throughout the Christian world, from Boston to Boise to Los Angeles to Philadelphia to New York and numerous cities in between — including a number of cities in Utah.