Maybe Christmas would come without Handel’s Messiah, but nobody dares risk it. Among the most spectacular of the area performances is Chicago’s Do-It-Yourself Messiah, founded by the late Al Booth in ...

Of course, everyone knows the Hallelujah Chorus. At last night’s performance of The Messiah by The Sixteen, the audience dutifully, if hesitantly, stood at the appropriate point. Legend has it that ...