In the early 1700s, the British public couldn’t get enough of Handel. Born George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), the German-British composer spent the majority of his career in London. There, he became ...
“Too Hot to Handel: The Jazz-Gospel Messiah,” the reimagined version of George Frideric Handel’s 1741 oratorio, returns to the Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive, Chicago. The production, ...
Dr. King is a professor at Georgetown and the author of “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s ‘Messiah.’” When Charles Jennens, a wealthy art collector, first heard ...