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 ...

George Frideric Handel ... in Messiah. "The feelings of joy you get from the Hallelujah choruses are second to none," says conductor Cummings. "And how can anybody resist the Amen chorus at ...

King's new book, "Every Valley" (Doubleday), gives us the backstory of "Messiah" and its "Hallelujah Chorus," which ... showed me a replica of Handel's original score. "It shows the speed that ...

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 ...

The Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah is stirring, emotional and unmistakable. The Alzheimer's Society runs a group called 'Singing for the Brain'. It's for people with dementia or Alzheimer ...

While performances of Handel’s oratorio Messiah have been a long- standing Christmas tradition for two centuries, its famous “Hallelujah” is by no means the only Hallelujah chorus Handel wrote.

“Messiah” premiered in Dublin, Ireland, in April 1742. George Frideric Handel, a German emigre in London, had fallen on relatively hard times as his style of opera gradually lost favor. But ...

Story goes, George Frideric Handel ... prophecy of the Messiah’s coming; the second by the sufferings and death of Christ and ends with the famous and rousing “Hallelujah Chorus”; and ...