Without that button, Handel might have not have lived for another 37 years to write “The Messiah,” which contains arguably one of the most famous song ever written. “You could take two ...

The leaner, swifter Messiah turns out to be far more exciting. But tradition (often defined as the memory of the last bad performance) dies slowly. “There is this custom that any music dealing ...

US prog metal quintet Dream Theater have shared a tour diary style video for brand new track Midnight Messiah.

Opposition to Christian music in one school in Finland resulted in the cancelation of Handel’s “Messiah” in another, Finnish media reported. In Hämeenlinna, a child had objected to songs ...

Dream Theater have released the single "Midnight Messiah" featuring the first lyrics from drummer Mike Portnoy since 2009. Stream the song.

However, Handel himself only wrote the music for “Messiah,” and Charles Jennens assembled and arranged the text. King says Jennens was a wealthy landowner and proto-industrialist in the English ...

Alastair Stout, the church’s minister of music of eight years, led the vocal soloists, Rutland Area Chorus and Festival Orchestra, in Part I (Christmas) and the “Hallelujah” Chorus from “Messiah.” But ...

moving the music and story along while providing the emotional framework for the piece, making this oratorio unique among similar works of its kind. Handel wrote “Messiah” in 1741, and it was ...

Allo Maadjoa joined Sarkodie and Kweku Flick's Messiah dance challenge, sparking mixed reactions online. His performance ...