Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

ATLANTA — Abortion-rights groups invested heavily and lost in Tuesday night’s runoff special election for a Georgia House seat, and pro-lifers maintain the outcome proves the futility of the ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Handel’s “Messiah” is performed every Christmas season around the world. Originally composed in 1741, the English-language oratorio, almost entirely made up of text from the King James Bible, is as ...

IT is a remarkable fact, and one not very creditable to the musical public of England, that the works of Mainwaring, Hawkins, Burney, and Coxe should remain for almost an entire century after the ...

The 2025 record price for George Frideric Handel was for Classical Bisque Porcelain Bust of George Frideric Handel The 2022 record price for George Frideric Handel ...

This striking, luminously illustrated compendium from artist Nabil collects Palestinian folklore from Jerusalem’s Old City. The tales, many of them first-person encounters with Continue reading » ...

At first, I was pretty skeptical of spending almost my entire weekend at a life-coaching workshop in New York. I expected it to feel either cultish or boring. And of course, any event dedicated to ...

When the Handel and Haydn Society began in 1815, America was still four decades away from abolishing slavery. H+H would play concerts to support the Union Army, celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Handel wrote two Easter oratorios. One is the “Messiah,” taken over by Christmas, the extravagant “Hallelujah” chorus so well suited to the season. The other is in every conceivable way not the ...