{"id":2133,"date":"2023-04-13T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2023-04-13T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T10:02:07","slug":"the-anniversary-of-handels-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2133","title":{"rendered":"The Anniversary of Handel\u2019s Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/the-anniversary-of-handels-messiah\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/the-anniversary-of-handels-messiah\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Today marks the anniversary of when George Friderick Handel&#8217;s famous opus \u201cMessiah,\u201d was first performed in seventeen forty-two. The composition includes the &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221; chorus which is sung in churches across the United States at Easter and Christmas. The sacred oratorio received its world premiere at a concert hall in Dublin, Ireland. Handel composed the music in just twenty-four days, after having received the lyrics from Charles Jennens, who drew almost exclusively from the King James Bible. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>How about this for a family dinner conversation?\u00a0 Kids need to know the great composers and their enduring musical contributions. Handel\u2019s \u201cMessiah\u201d is worth not just recognizing but also understanding its message\u2014 the birth, the death, the burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Messiah. Handel signed the work SDG\u2014Soli Deo Gloria\u2014\u201cTo God alone the glory.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/the-anniversary-of-handels-messiah\/ Today marks the anniversary of when George Friderick Handel&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}