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 ...

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 ...

When George Frideric Handel first performed his epic oratorio”Messiah” on April 13, 1742, in Dublin, it was presented as afundraiser for the Irish city’s charities. So from the very start,it became a ...

Thanks for joining us as we enter the Christmas Season anticipating the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ — except in Bethlehem, where (newsflash) Christmas has been canceled. To compensate, let’s ...

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 ...

No one today knows the name of one of the great, unsung heroes of the classical music canon — the composer George Frideric Handel’s tailor. Without the garment-maker, the world would never have ...

I recall walking through the lobby of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel around 1978, when TVs were blasting the Israeli broadcast premiere of Handel’s “Messiah.” Sung in Hebrew and played by the Israel ...

Generations of music lovers treasure Handel’s “Messiah,” with its inspired choruses and arias, throughout the year. But it has special status during the Christmas season. “Messiah” performances have a ...

“Why do the nations so furiously rage together, why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed” ...

Charles King, a professor at Georgetown University, is the author of “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah.” We will soon be entering “Messiah” season — the ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. In the 1960s Mary Ellen Rothrock was a grad student in English literature at the University of Wisconsin. In 1998 she wrote ...