We mark the first performance on April 13, 1742 – 278 years ago today – of George Frederick Handel’s “Messiah” in Dublin, Ireland.

Music History Monday: Hallelujah!

Exploring Music History with Professor Robert Greenberg one Monday at a time. Every Monday Robert Greenberg explores some timely, perhaps intriguing and even, if we are lucky, salacious chunk of musical information relevant to that date, or to … whatever. If on (rare) occasion these features appear a tad irreverent, well, that’s okay: we would do well to remember that cultural icons do not create and make music but rather, people do, and people can do and say the darndest things.

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