Extraordinary Lives and the Genesis of Messiah – Reema Jadeja-Reed

Extraordinary Lives and the Genesis of Messiah – Reema Jadeja-Reed

Religious or agnostic, one would be hard-pressed to find an individual in the Anglosphere unfamiliar with George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. Considered to be the greatest participatory work ever created, it is estimated that 13.7 million western classical compositions have been written since Messiah in 1741, yet it remains the most annually heard and sung work in the entire classical repertoire. Often experienced by mass secular audiences at the …