Damian Thompson Damian Thompson

Is Handel’s Messiah anti-Semitic?

Baroque scholar Michael Marissen thinks so, but Damian Thompson doesn’t buy it

Handel's statue in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner. [Photo: Getty] 
issue 19 July 2014
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