Although George Frideric Handel’s oratorio “Judas Maccabaeus” has come to be associated with Chanukah, it actually never touches on the miracle that the holiday commemorates: that a single ...

Botstein, President of Bard College, decided that this year’s holiday presentation would be Georg Friedrich Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus from 1746, performed on Thursday December 14.

Judas Maccabaeus emerges as the leader of the Jews. Parts 1 and 2 of the oratorio convey the ups and downs of the war, told with Handel’s engaging music.

Judas Maccabaeus was a hero and Saratoga Voices wants to tell his story.On Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m., at Universal Preservation Hall, Saratoga Voices is performing a […] Skip to content All Sections ...

You’ll hear selections from Handel’s heroic Judas Maccabaeus oratorio on Sunday Baroque this week, starting at 7 a.m. on 91.1, 107.5 and our all classical stream and at 10 a.m. on 89.9.

"Judas Maccabaeus," which the Oratorio Society will sing at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday evening, Feb. 20, under Frank Damrosch's direction, is one of the several choral compositions written by Handel ...