“A VIEW of the FIRE-WORKES and ILLUMINATIONS at his GRACE the Duke of RICHMOND’S at WHITEHALL and on the River Thames on Monday 15 May 1749. Performed by the direction of Charles Fredrick Esq.” The ...

Handel's jubilant Music for the Royal Fireworks is music fit for a king - George II, in fact, who attended the first performance on the River Thames in 1749. Handel composed his Music for the Royal ...

After a long drumroll of anticipatory programming, the Handel and Haydn Society finally arrived at the official opening Friday night at Symphony Hall of its bicentennial season. On Christmas Day 1815, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A mid-September night in the Cahuenga Pass may be warm or cool, but ...

Artistic Director Antoine Plante and Mercury perform Handel’s iconic Music for the Royal Fireworks, followed by a live fireworks display in celebration of Mercury’s 15th anniversary season. Brimming ...

Celebrate! with this glorious album of Baroque music performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Handel specialist Graham Abbott. Written by Handel in 1748 to accompany a fireworks ...

Handel’s Fireworks music, which helped start a conflagration and a crowd panic at its premiere in 1749, is still inspiring conductors to extravagant displays. Stokowski plays it with an orchestra of ...

Mark Lowther joins Andrew McGregor to compare recordings of George Frideric Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks and makes a personal recommendation, live from the Free Thinking Festival at Sage ...