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Pop the champagne cork because it’s time to ring in the New Year on Monday night. With an effervescent mood in the air, the turn of the year is an auspicious time to turn away the old year and face the new one. New Year’s Day is the oldest and most universal holiday. The earliest recording of a New Year’s Eve celebration is thought to have taken place in Mesopotamia, c 2000 B.C. The origins of the first day of the year can be traced to the Romans who were the first to observe New Year’s Day in...
Patrons at the sold-out, acoustically-magnificent Walt Disney Concert Hall gave a standing ovation with thunderous applause after Los Angeles Master Chorale maestro Grant Gershon gave the final wave of his hand to end one of the most famous of all compositions, Handel’s Messiah. Composer George Frideric Handel (and his librettist, Charles Jennens) made this world a heaven-on-earth when he composed Messiah in 1741 at the age of 56. Originally, the annual performance of Messiah took place in sprin...
