I’ve been on a bit of a Handel kick in the last month.
Friend Todd suggested I listen to the Freakonomics podcast series on Messiah, and I gulped that down at Christmastide. Then on the drive home from seeing family I listened to Messiah in the glorious Sir Colin Davis recording.
An interview on Freakonomics with Jane Glover fed a desire to read her book Handel in London: the making of a genius. And so I did, finishing it this last weekend. (This is my first completed book of 2026.)
And then Monday I listened to the entirety of Handel’s “Ode to St. Cecilia” and a concerto grosso.
More Handel is in the mix for this semester, including some of his operas and oratorios with which I am less familiar.
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