LONDON – LONDON (AP) — They were both immigrants in Britain who changed the face of music — one with a harpsichord and a composer's pen, the other with an electric guitar. George Frideric Handel and ...

But perhaps England’s most famous composer is not British at all: the German-born George Frideric Handel. And unlike many composers who moved around a lot (think Mozart and Beethoven), Handel liked to ...

On Handel in London: The Making of a Genius, by Jane Glover. The letters he left behind are relatively few, and these are sparing in personal detail. Vigilantly he steered clear of controversy, the ...

One of the worst things about attending an English boarding school in the late 1960s — the so-called Swinging London era — was being deprived of pop music. All around us, it seemed, people were ...

LONDON — They were both immigrants in Britain who changed the face of music — one with a harpsichord and a composer’s pen, the other with an electric guitar. George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix ...

2 PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT Will Hit The Road In 2026 With Kevin Clifton, Adèle Anderson, And Nick Hayes Handel's Berenice returns to Covent Garden in a new co-production by The Royal Opera and ...

Most people who experience George Frideric Handel’s operas do so as spectators, taking in the music and drama onstage from a comfy, velvet-wrapped seat in the audience. Conductor Jane Glover, however, ...

The young Handel wrote Aci, Galatea e Polifemo as a “serenata” entertainment to celebrate a grand society wedding in Naples in 1708 (a decade later, with entirely different music, he revived the story ...

LONDON, UK – Classical composer Handel and rock icon Jimi Hendrix usually are not mentioned in the same sentence, but the two musical geniuses are linked together at a small museum in London. The ...