Linda Wertheimer talks to Nicholas McGegan, music director of the Gottingen Festival in Germany. He will conduct Gloria in Excelsis Deo, a composition for soprano and strings by George Frideric Handel ...

Andrea Asuaje is a senior radio producer with “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley.” Prior to her work at GBH, she was a senior producer and show runner at Rococo Punch; and a reporter, producer and ...

The coronation of King Charles is tomorrow so today we’re playing regal and royal music of coronations and other imperial activities throughout the day. Including a suite of Handel's "Water Music" ...

In the summer of 1717 George Frideric Handel composed music to keep the King of England entertained on his boat trip down the River Thames. We now call that music Handel’s “Water Music,” and the ...

Perhaps a period of forced introspection is a positive thing if it helps clarify what is truly important and what isn’t. For musicians, whose work is by definition a communal event, it was a strange ...

Dennis E. Northway decided over a quarter century ago that if Evanston could have an annual Bach Week Festival at an Episcopal church, Oak Park could have a Handel Week Festival at an Episcopal church ...

Friedrich Chrysander ran a pickle factory on the side. But for years he lived on little more than rolls and water, and his wife sold flowers in the Hamburg market, to scrape together enough money to ...

The work of Handel has already become the backbone of the orchestra, both in our annual Handel opera or oratorio that we tour all over the world ending in Carnegie Hall, as well as in our recordings ...

When George Frederic Handel wrote his opera Xerxes, he little knew that it would owe its fame not to the stage but to churches all over the world where organists swell out the peaceful first-act aria ...