“Too much of a good thing is wonderful,” Mae West said. Even I wasn’t around when West immortalized that line in 1932. Even so, it’s a motto of mine, for better or for worse – be it pizza, Gatorade or ...

Handel's Messiah: The Live Experience at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on 6 Dec 2022 will launch a new style classical music concert experience centred on the most famous works ever written. With ...

There’s plenty of George Frideric Handel’s 1742 “Messiah” to go around in Seattle this December. Pacific MusicWorks and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra have scheduled back-to-back programs of Handel ...

Georg Friedrich HandelL’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il ModeratoGabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh (director), Signum Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato from 1740 is not another ...

Here's a Purim present nobody can refuse. Until now, Handel's great oratorio "Esther," written in 1718 (shortly after the famous "Water Music"), has been missing from the repertoires of the Bay Area's ...

Handel's brief Italian period was crucial to his musical development, lasting from 1706 to 1710, just before his arrival in London. Stefano Russomanno's booklet essay to this superb anthology suggests ...