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 ...

The year 1685 was certainly good for music. After all, Johann Sebastian Bach, composer of St. Matthew Passion and B Minor Mass, was born in that year, but, if that ...

The so-called Handel opera revival has prompted the disinterment of so many treasures from the Baroque master’s once-buried trove of The so-called Handel opera revival has prompted the disinterment of ...

Classical music fans often hear a signature piece by George Frideric Handel each December. Handel’s famous oratorio “Messiah,” and its beloved “Hallelujah” chorus, is a favorite during Christmas ...

Its composer, George Frideric Handel, was born in 1685 in what is now Germany. Although his family discouraged him from a musical career, his astonishing natural talent proved unstoppable. Acquiring a ...

A musical rite of the holiday season, the Baroque-era oratorio still awes listeners more than 250 years after the composer’s death Jonathan Kandell George Frideric Handel (at age 64 in 1749) produced ...

Making her H&H debut, conductor Laurence Equilbey cannily paired Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” with Farrenc’s Symphony No. 3 ‘She’s a French composer from the 19th century, around the time ...

Frenchman Henri Casadesus wore several hats: composer, violist and skillful musical mimic. In 1924, Casadesus (1879-1947) unveiled what he claimed to be a long-missing work by George Frideric Handel ...

Our core charitable and artistic objectives for the Festival are to explore the full repertoire of Handel, to bring the composer’s music to broader audiences and to continue his tradition of nurturing ...

Handel House was reopened in 2001. Shown here are musicians practicing on period instruments. Ben Fisher / Handel House Trust The house in which George Frideric Handel lived and worked for nearly 36 ...