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David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

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The Dallas Bach Society's annual performances have mainly followed Handel's late versions of the oratorio, as collected and edited by the late English musicologist Watkins Shaw. First published in the ...

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 ...

“Messiah,” George Frederic Handel’s great oratorio, has become a ubiquitous part of Christmas celebrations worldwide — and yet it was written for Easter. Only the first third of “Messiah” is about the ...

There isn’t much call for harpsichord music these days. In fact, Spencer Baker knows of only four of the piano-like, stringed-keyboard instruments in the entire Las Vegas Valley. One of them is at ...

For many, Christmas wouldn’t quite be Christmas without a chance to be a part of George Frideric Handel’s moving “Messiah,” complete with its Hallelujah Chorus. In the spirit of this musical tradition ...

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. One of my fondest memories of Handel’s “Messiah” is a school trip to New York City to participate in the annual “Messiah Sing-in” at Lincoln Center. My ...