PositiveThe Washington TimesBiographer Jonathan Keates enlightens readers to this fact and so much more in his new work, 'Messiah': The Composition and Afterlife of Handel’s Masterpiece ...a quick, delightful read for any season. The book is amply illustrated with portraits and presentations of historic letters, scores, settings and concert brochures. Mr. Keates deftly introduces the reader to a George Frideric Handel with whom the reader may not be familiar, a cosmopolitan man 'who in his younger days once fought a duel with a fellow composer' ... Mr. Keates portrays the man as opposed to the myth behind the popular masterpiece.
