About this episode
<p>Why does an 18th-century Christian oratorio lend such comfort to our own turbulent times? Stephen Dubner sets out for Dublin to tell the story of George Frideric Handel’s <i>Messiah.</i> (Part one of “<a href="https://freakonomics.com/making-messiah/">Making <i>Messiah</i></a>.”)</p><p> </p><ul><li><strong>SOURCES:</strong><ul><li><a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RiHwAAK/charles-eldon-king">Charles King</a>, political scientist at Georgetown University.</li><li><a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/handel-s-messiah-the-advent-calendar--3261710">Katrine Nyland Sørensen</a>, Danish broadcaster, host of <i>Handel's Messiah - The Advent Calendar.</i></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-risinger-011b3659/">Mark Risinger</a>, teacher at St. Bernard's School.</li><li>Michael and Aileen Casey, Dublin conservationists.</li><li><a href="https://www.musicintervals.com/">Proinnsías Ó Duinn</a>, conductor and music director of Our Lady's Choral Society.</li><li><a href="https://musicforgalway.ie/artist-profile-stuart-kinsella/">Stuart Kinsella</a>, tenor soloist and consort singer.</li></ul></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><strong>RESOURCES:</strong><ul><li><a href="https://amzn.to/48jWkm8"><i>Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah</i></a><i>, </i>by Charles King (2024).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/opinion/handel-messiah-holiday-hope.html">Two Men Wrote ‘Messiah.’ You Know One of Them.</a>" by Charles King <i>(New York Times,</i> 2024).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.dublininquirer.com/on-fishamble-street-family-lives-among-four-centuries-of-relatives-keepsakes/">On Fishamble Street, family lives among four centuries of relatives’ keepsakes</a>," by Zuzia Whelan <i>(Dublin Inquirer,</i> 2018).</li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/4rGiQgS"><i>Hallelujah: The Story of a Musical Genius & the City That Brought His Masterpiece</i></a><i>, </i>by Jonathan Bardon (2016).</li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/4asLICM"><i>George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends</i></a>, by Ellen Harris (2014).</li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/4pN7Xbd"><i>Handel: The Man & His Music</i></a><i>,</i> by Jonathan Keates (2010).</li><li>"<a href="https://lnk.to/HandelMessiah">Handel's Messiah</a>," performed by The London Symphony Orchestra (2007).</li><li><a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/handel-s-messiah-the-advent-calendar--3261710"><i>Handel's Messiah The Advent Calendar</i></a>, podcast series<i>.</i></li></ul></li></ul><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>