| Details | George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is a work of triumphant joy, born in an age of anxiety: Britain in the early 18th century, a time of war, political conspiracy, enslavement, and conflicts over everything from the legitimacy of government to the meaning of truth. Historian Charles King draws on his new book, Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel’s Messiah, to unearth the backstory to a beloved classic and the tortured lives and times that made a musical monument to hope. |
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