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The story behind Handel's 'Messiah'

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Last December, host Scott Tong got the “behind the scenes” story of the creation of George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” with Georgetown professor Charles King, author of the book “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah.” We revisit that conversation.

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