Pilgrim's Pint is a casual and engaging lecture series exploring the relevance of a Christian worldview in our modern context.

Handel’s Messiah: From Secular To Sacred

Are you an opera fan? Neither was London in the 1730s. As the musical tastes of the time shifted away from the opera , so too did the career of George Frederic Handel. You might know him best for his composition of Messiah, a perennial favorite during Advent, but you might not know that he started out his career writing secular music in smoky Italian opera houses. So how did he go from the modern day equivalent of a Taylor Swift mega tour to... well... to Handel's Messiah? Join us on Mon, December 10 at 7:00pm as Dr. David Rox brings to life the story behind one of our most cherished pieces of Christmas music and illuminates how this monumental work has taken on a life of its own. Clips from Messiah will most certainly be played.