Handel

April 9, 2013

Lawmakers are heading home after three months in Annapolis.  While there, they created a gas tax, banned the death penalty, and created new gun laws. We talk with two reporters about the 2013 legislative session.

We visit the oldest continually operating blacksmith shop in the country, G. Krug and Son, located in downtown Baltimore.

Melinda O'Neal has been directing Baltimore's Handel Choir since 2004.  Now, as she finishes up her final season, we talk about her tenure as conductor.

Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland students are holding rallies this week under the banner, “My Generation Will be Free.” They want to end human trafficking, which is a major problem in Maryland, and getting worse for minors. We talk to one of the students hosting the events, and to the director of an organization that helps victims of trafficking.

How to best reforest western Maryland’s strip-mined land.

A review of Centerstage's production of "The Whipping Man," directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah.

On the March edition of Choral Arts Classics, a look at the genius of George Frederick Handel.  Known for centuries as the composer of great oratorios like Messiah, this program will concentrate on Handel's work as a young man, when his tremendous talent and unique voice was just being developed.  Historian and popular lecturer Ray Sprenkle returns to Choral Arts Classics to talk with Tom about Handel's early career, and we'll share with you a performance of his first major work, the cantata Dixit Dominus.