Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Hendel's Messiah PRINT The decisive moments in life

The decisive moments in life are those pivot points when we’re called on to push past our fears and act with strength

At center stage is Handel himself

his political failures

The Space Window is perhaps the Cathedral’s best-known stained-glass window

and so much more

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Hendel's Messiah PRINT The decisive moments in lifeGeorge Frideric Handels Messiah is arguably the greatest piece of participatory art ever created. Adored by millions, it is performed each year by renowned choirs and orchestras, as well as by audiences singing along with the words on their cell phones. But this work of triumphant joy was born in a worried age. Britain in the early Enlightenment was a place of astonishing creativity but also the seat of an empire mired in war, enslavement, and