And before you know it, the school auditorium fills with the triumphant sound of one of the most beloved musical works of the season: Handel’s Hallelujah chorus. But what does hallelujah mean ...

"It shows the speed that he wrote. It's so messy!" McClellan laughed. "He really was concerned with getting his ideas onto paper as fast as possible." For the "Hallelujah Chorus," Handel wrote the ...

its famous “Hallelujah” is by no means the only Hallelujah chorus Handel wrote. Nor was it the first. Saul was one of Handel’s earlier oratorios—first performed in 1739, three years before ...

In his memoir of surviving the brutal apartheid prison Robben Island, South African activist Sedick Isaacs recalls an extraordinary event about which little has been recorded - "the creation and ...