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 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 ...

The latest recording from Pygmalion, Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” and works written for Anne-Sophie Mutter are among our selections. At Carnegie Hall, the English Concert made a case for ...

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 ...

George Frederic Handel, the famous composer, is buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, with a monument on the wall above. He was born at Halle in Saxony in 1685, son of Georg and his ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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" ...