Two hundred eighty-four years is plenty of time for something to go out of style or be swept under the rug of history.
LIMA — Lima Senior High School alumna LaJoyce Daniel-Cain, an accomplished musician and educator, returned to her roots Monday with a visit to her alma mater. The Lima native will conduct three songs ...
Renowned for his versatility and his musicianship, Peter Hoare has carved his name internationally with spectacular performances of 20th-century and contemporary opera. He has enjoyed a long and ...
TBAAL’s (Texas Black Academy of Arts and Letters) 15th Annual Christmas/Kwanzaa Concert features the choirs of just about every high school in South Dallas and Oak Cliff. Singing teens from Roosevelt, ...
Handel’s Messiah was one of the very first concerts that I went to as a child with my parents, and it’s a work that my Welsh grandmother sang in a choir. So I am shouting Hallelujah to the rafters at ...
Many readers will be familiar with the dawn chorus, the birdsong that can be heard at the break of day, especially in spring. But this performance lends its name to another type of chorus — one of ...
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At Christmas (and despite its Easter-heavy emphasis), Handel’s Biblical drama of prophecy, suffering and salvation clearly carries a sense of the sacred into plenty of far-from-pious lives. The ...
Ton Koopman conducted the New York Philharmonic with soprano Maya Kherani in Handel’s Messiah at David Geffen Hall. Photo by Chris Lee Holiday traditions have to stay the same from year to year, right ...
When I was a teenager in Tennessee during the 1980s, Christmas officially launched the day after Thanksgiving: holly wreaths hung on front doors, shoppers thronging local malls. My father busied ...
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 ...