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 ...

Handel? The guy who wrote ‘Messiah’? There’s a festival built around that guy? Yes, George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) is that guy, but he was also an opera guy, a cantata guy, an oratorio guy, a ...

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 ...

Happy 330th birthday to George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) – or is it George Frederick Handel, or Georg Friedrich Häendel? Whatever you call him, he’s certainly one of the greatest Baroque Era ...

Picture this: two ambitious young Turks at the Hamburg Opera on Dec. 5, 1704. Johann Mattheson, age 23: tenor, harpsichordist, conductor, composer. George Frideric ...

Composed in just three weeks, Handel’s Messiah remains a beloved classic nearly 300 years on. Its origin story is marked by ...

George Frideric Handel’s father was a barber and valet to the Prince of Saxe-Magdeburg. He was in his mid-sixties when his son was born and he hated music. Somehow young Handel managed to learn the ...

One of London’s quirkiest museums is the Handel Hendrix House, adjoining Georgian townhouses that two of the world’s greatest musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix, used to call home. The ...

No one today knows the name of one of the great, unsung heroes of the classical music canon — the composer George Frideric Handel’s tailor. Without the garment-maker, the world would never have ...

FOR THE EARS Go Bach to the Concert Hall and Get a Handel on the Holidays Whil Pro Musica packages its bounty of year-end concerts as a Bach Festival, they have a wider range than the convenient title ...

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Most music lovers have encountered George Frideric Handel ...

He spent years in Italian courts and English country estates where homosexuality was known to predominate (even if the word didn't exist yet). He was notable even in his own lifetime for the ...